Stephen G. Kochan is the owner of TechFitness,
a technology-based fitness company. Prior to that, he was president and CEO of Pipeline Associates, a company specializing in color printing software. Mr. Kochan is the author of several best-selling books on Unix and C programming, including Programming in C. He also acted as series editor for the Hayden Unix System Library.
Patrick Wood is the CTO of the New Jersey location of Electronics for Imaging. He was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories when he met
Mr. Kochan in 1985. Together they founded Pipeline Associates, Inc., a Unix consulting firm, where he was vice president. They coauthored Exploring the Unix System, Unix System Security, Topics in C Programming, and Unix Shell Programming.