Troy Downing is a research scientist and programmer specializing in Internet technologies at New York University's Media Research Lab. Troy is also adjunct faculty in the Information Technology Institute of NYU, teaching classes on web server technologies, Java, CGI, and HTML authoring. Troy owns an Internet software development company that specializes in web-based groupware called WebCal LLC that can be found online at: http://www.webcal.com/. He has been a primary force in WWW development at the Media Research Lab and has recently turned his focus to Java, working on porting many of the Media Research Lab's efforts to a Java platform. He has co-authored a number of web-related books, including HTML Web Publisher's Construction Kit and Java Primer Plus. Besides his involvement in Internet technologies, Troy is also an avid mountain biker, homebrewer, and first-time father of his young daughter, Morgan.