About Doug Lea
Doug Lea was an American computer scientist and engineer.
Publications He wrote Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns, one of the first books about the subject. In 2000, a second edition was released. He is also the author of dlmalloc, a widely used public-domain implementation of malloc.
Awards In 2010, he won the senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize.
In 2013, he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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