head of the computer science department at State University of New York at Oswego, where he specializes in concurrent programming and the design of concurrent data structures.
On October 22, 2010, Doug Lea notified the Java Community Process Executive Committee he would not stand for reelection.
[2] Lea was re-elected as an at-large member for the 2012 OpenJDK governing board.
[3] He wrote Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns, one of the first books about the subject.
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