Joshua J. Bloch (born August 28, 1961) is a software engineer, formerly employed at Google, and a technology author. He led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including the Java Collections Framework, the java.math package, and the assert mechanism. He is the author of the programming guide Effective Java (2001), which won the 2001 Jolt Award,[2] and is a co-author of two other Java books, Java Puzzlers (2005) and Java Concurrency In Practice (2006).
Here he gives us a brief history of the API. Don’t just consume, contribute your code and join the movement: https://github.com/h2oai
User conference slides on open source machine learning software from H2O.ai at: http://www.slideshare.net/0xdata