About the Foreword Writer

Jerome Garfunkel is an international consultant and specialist in learning systems design. In the international commercial information technology (IT) community, he is recognized as one of the leading authorities in the field of programming languages and international computer standards. He has served as a senior technical advisor to the U.S. Department of Commerce. In addition, he sat on several American and international IT industry committees and has represented the United States in both the international and domestic IT standardization community in the ANSI Standards Planning and Requirements Committee, the ANSI Programming Language Study Group, the International Committee on Programming Language Guidelines, the American COBOL Committee, the International COBOL Committee, the CODASYL COBOL Committee, and the Object-Oriented COBOL Committee.

Jerome Garfunkel is a lecturer, an author, a consultant, an educator, an actor, a calligrapher, and a passionate motorcycle rider . As an educator and technologist, he lectures about leading-edge technologies such as the integration of legacy systems with Web-based services. Mr. Garfunkel was awarded the degree of Doctorate, Honoris Causa in Technology from De Montfort University in Leicester, England, for his lifetime contributions to the software engineering community. His collection of technical papers, memoranda, and notes is housed in the Charles Babbage Institute in Minnesota, for historical research. Included is the large body of his writings appearing in books, IT journals, magazines, and newspapers around the world.