About the Author

Bruce was raised by wolves in the Oregon wilderness. He taught himself to read at age 3 and calculus before age 12. He dropped out of school when he was 14 and traveled around the US for a few years before entering the University of Oregon as a mathematics major. He eventually received his M.S. in exercise physiology from the University of Oregon and his Ph.D. in neurophysiology from the USD Medical School, where he developed a branch of mathematics called autocorrelative factor analysis for studying information processing in multicellular biological neural systems.

Bruce has worked as a software developer in real-time systems well in excess of 20 years and is a well-known speaker and author in the area of real-time embedded systems. He is on the Advisory Board of the Embedded Systems and UML World conferences where he has taught courses in software estimation and scheduling, project management, object-oriented analysis and design, communications protocols, finite state machines, design patterns, and safety-critical systems design. He has developed and taught courses in real-time object-oriented analysis and design for many years. He has authored articles for a number of journals and periodicals in the real-time domain.

He is the Chief Evangelist^[1] for i-Logix, a leading producer of tools for real-time systems development. Bruce worked with Rational and the other UML partners on the specification of the UML. He is one of the co-chairs of the Object Management Group's Real-Time Analysis and Design Working Group, which is currently examining the UML for possible future real-time extensions. He also consults, trains, and mentors a number of companies building large-scale real-time safety-critical systems. He is the author of several other books on software, including Doing Hard Time: Developing Real-Time Systems with UML, Objects, Frameworks, and Patterns (Addison-Wesley, 1999) and Real-Time Design Patterns: Robust Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Systems (Addison-Wesley, 2002), as well as a short textbook on table tennis.

^[1] Being a Chief Evangelist is much like being a Chief Scientist, except for the burning bushes and stone tablets.

Bruce enjoys classical music and has played classical guitar professionally. He has competed in several sports, including table tennis, bicycle racing, running, and full-contact Tae Kwon Do, although he currently only fights inanimate objects that don't hit back. He and his two sons contemplate epistemology in the Frozen North. He can be reached at [e-mail].