About the Technical Editors

Kittur Ganesh is a Senior Technical Consulting Engineer at Intel, providing consulting, support, and training for more than 7 years on various software products targeting Intel architecture. Previously, for more than 6 years at Intel, Kittur designed and developed software primarily used for fracturing design data of Intel chips. Prior to joining Intel more than 13 years ago, Kittur was involved in developing commercial software in the EDA industry for more than 10 years. Kittur has a M.S. (Computer Science), M.S. (Industrial Engineering) and a B.S. (Mechanical Engineering).

Pablo Halpern is a Senior Software Engineer at Intel Corporation, working in the parallel runtime libraries group. He is a member of the C++ Standards Committee and helped produce the recent C++11 revision of the standard. Pablo is the author of the well-received book, The C++ Standard Library from Scratch and a coauthor of the paper, Reducers and Other Cilk++ Hyperobjects, which was named best paper at ACM SPAA in 2009. He has more than three decades of experience in the software industry, with expertise in C++, language and compiler design, large-scale development and testing, and network management protocols. During this time, he has developed and taught both beginning and advanced courses on C++ programming. He currently lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two children.