Eric Freeman (writer)
Encyclopedia
Eric Freeman is a computer scientist
, author
and constituent of David Gelernter
on the Lifestreaming
concept.
and Bert Bates.
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
, author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
and constituent of David Gelernter
David Gelernter
David Hillel Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale University. In the 1980s, he made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model, as embodied by the Linda programming system...
on the Lifestreaming
Lifestreaming
The term lifestream was coined by Eric Freeman and David Gelernter at Yale University in the mid-1990s to describe "...a time-ordered stream of documents that functions as a diary of your electronic life; every document you create and every document other people send you is stored in your lifestream...
concept.
Authored works
Eric Freeman has publishing accolades for Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML (ISBN 0-596-10197-X) which he co-authored with Elisabeth Freeman, and Head First Design Patterns (ISBN 0-596-00712-4) also co-authored with Elisabeth Freeman, Kathy SierraKathy Sierra
Kathy Sierra is a programming instructor and game developer.She is the co-creator of the Head First series of books on technical topics, along with her partner, Bert Bates. The series, which began with Head First Java in 2003, takes an unorthodox, visually intensive approach to the process of...
and Bert Bates.