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Scott Oaks is a Java Technologist at Sun Microsystems, where he has worked since 1987. While at Sun, he has specialized on many disparate technologies, from the SunOS kernel to network programming and RPCs to the X Window System to threading. Since early 1995, he has primarily focused on Java and bringing Java technology to end users; he writes a monthly column on Java solutions for The Java Report. Around the Internet, Scott is best known as the author of olvwm, the OPEN LOOK window manager. He is also the author of Java Security (O'’Reilly & Associates).

Scott holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Denver and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Brown University. Prior to joining Sun, he worked in the research division of Bear, Stearns.