Bruce Krell (Beverly Hills, CA) is an independent software consultant who develops real-time/multithreaded/device driver applications in C, C++, and Java for a variety of companies and government organisations. Krell has extensive Windows teaching experience, conducts hands-on software engineering and programming workshops, and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses at several local universities in the areas of software engineering, computer graphics, operating systems, compiler design, user interfaces including X-Windows and MS Windows, expert systems, and information system engineering. He developed the Java Seminar In A Box (SIB) licensed by Microsoft. Dr. Krell is the co-author of Programming Windows with Visual C++ 6.0, Microsoft Press, and the author of Programming Windows with Java and WFC, IDG Books.