Christopher Webster

Christopher Webster (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-webster/0/181/a4b) is current working on scalable web services platform at Intel. Prior to working for Intel, Chris was a Computer Scientist working for the Mission Control Technologies project at NASA's Ames Research Center. Prior to NASA, Chris was a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems serving as lead engineer for Project zembly, the code in the cloud development and transparently scalable deployment environment (for web based widgets including Facebook applications). He has also been the technical lead for the NetBeans XML tools project, a core member of the SOA development team, and was fundamental in getting Java EE support into NetBeans. Chris is an author of the NetBeans Field Guide and Assemble the Social Web With Zembly. Chris also worked as a computer scientist for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, leading an effort to bring atmospheric dispersion modeling and visualization outside the data center as part of the National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center. He is a founder of jexamples.com, a search site dedicated to semantically correct searching for Java code examples mined from open source projects.

Chris currently holds three patents and has more than 7 patents pending. He has been a speaker at Java One, Community One, Sun Tech Days, and the Server Side Symposium. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Baylor University and a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from the University of Hawaii, Hilo.