Ken is a software developer with AMI Semiconductor, where he designs and implements Eclipse-based software development tools for a line of low-power digital signal processors.

Ed Warnicke bachelors degrees in physics and mathematics from Purdue University and a masters in Physics from Rutgers University. For the last 5 years he has worked in networking and developer productivity.

Mark Melvin graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. He started his career designing automation equipment and quickly realized that developing the code to control these machines was much more entertaining. Having been bitten by the software bug (no pun intended), he joined Dspfactory (now AMI Semiconductor Canada) in 2002 where he began developing in Python, and later, Java. He currently spends his waking hours extending Eclipse to be the standard embedded development tools platform of choice for AMI SemiconductorÂ’s lineup of ultra-low power, ultra-miniature programmable digital signal processors.

Ward received his bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary engineering (electrical engineering and computer science) and his master's degree in computer science from Purdue University. He is a founder of Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc. He has also served as Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principal Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory. He is founder of the Hillside Group and has served as program chair of the Pattern Languages of Programs conference which it sponsors. Ward was part of the Smalltalk community. As of October 2005, he is the Director of Committer Community Development at the Eclipse Foundation. Ward is well-known for a few widely disseminated ideas which he originated and developed. Among these, the most famous are the wiki (originally wikiwiki), and many patterns in the field of software patterns, including the collection of patterns that later became known as "Extreme Programming" or "XP." His most famous quote is probably, "What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?"