H. Mössenböck, University of Linz, Austria
http://www.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/General/Staff/HM/

Hanspeter Mössenböck is a professor for Computer Science at the University of Linz in Austria. From 1988 to 1994 he worked with Niklaus Wirth (the father of Pascal) on the Oberon System at ETH Zurich. Hanspeter has written several books on .NET, C#, Java and compiler construction. His major interests are in software architectures, programming languages, compilers and software tools. He is the author of the compiler generator Coco/R as well as a co-author of an open-source course on compiler construction under .NET (http://dotnet.jku.at/courses/CC).

Don Syme, Microsoft Research Cambridge
http://research.microsoft.com/~dsyme/

Don Syme is a researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge. Since joining MSR in 1998 he has been heavily involved with the design of aspects of the .NET Framework, and most recently has been co-responsible for the design and implementation of "Generics" in the .NET Common Intermediary Language. This design is being used directly by C#, Visual C++, Visual Basic and other languages. Don completed his PhD. in 1998 at the University of Cambridge, and maintains a strong interest in a wide range of issues related to programming theory and practice. He has a broad experience of the software industry in a range of application areas including legal expert systems, compilers, virtual machines, interactive mathematical proof assistants and GIS systems.

Luís Soares Barbosa, Universidade do Minho
http://www.di.uminho.pt/~lsb/

Luís Soares Barbosa is Professor Auxiliar at the Computer Science Department of the Minho University. He is also a researcher in the Logic and Formal Methods group. His research interest includes Theory and Application of Coalgebras, Software Specification and Refinement calculi, Concurrency Semantics. He is the coordinator of the PURe Project. Luis Barbosa completed is PhD in 2001 on algebraic models of software components.

Nuno Rodrigues, Universidade do Minho
http://wiki.di.uminho.pt/wiki/bin/view/Nuno/WebHome

Nuno Rodrigues is PhD student at the Computer Science Department of the Uminho University, studying Generic Software Architecture Slicing. He is also a researcher in the PURe Project, working on software reverse engineering techniques, particulary in the formal specification of software slicing techniques. He is also a teaching assistant of the LMF Group. Nuno is the responsible for the .net Protocol for the whole university. In this context ,its activity is to maintain the .net laboratory and to support software development using Microsoft .net Technology. Nuno graduated in Mathematics and Computer Science at Minho University and had an internship at Sidereus, S.A., developing a Software Component Manager.