Ralf Lämmel has been an IT professional and computer science academic since 1990, specializing in software development, software languages, and more recently, AI methods in this field. He is currently a full professor at the University of Koblenz in Germany, focusing on software languages and computer science.

Throughout his career, he has held research and development positions at the University of Rostock, CWI Amsterdam, Microsoft USA, and Facebook London, where he worked on AI applications in software engineering. He is also the dean of the computer science department at the newly re-established University of Koblenz.

His research covers topics such as program transformation, metaprogramming, reverse engineering, and software language engineering. Ralf Lämmel has received multiple awards for his contributions and has published extensively in these areas.

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Specialties: Software engineering, object-oriented programming, program verification, formal methods, Eiffel, Design by Contract, concurrent programming, multicore, software testing, software consulting, arbitration, legal expertise on software topics, project management, project rescue

Martin Odersky is a German computer scientist and professor of programming methods at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He specializes in code analysis and programming languages. He spearheaded the design of Scala and Generic Java.

In 1989, he received his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich under the supervision of Niklaus Wirth, who is best known as the designer of several programming languages, including Pascal. He did postdoctoral work at IBM and Yale University.

In 1997, he implemented the GJ compiler, and his implementation became the basis of javac, the Java compiler.

In 2002, he and others began working on Scala which had its first public release in 2003.

In 2007, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

On 12 May 2011, Odersky and collaborators launched Typesafe Inc. (renamed Lightbend Inc., February 2016), a company to provide commercial support, training, and services for Scala.

He teaches three courses on the Coursera online learning platform: Functional Programming Principles in Scala, Functional Program Design in Scala and Programming Reactive Systems.