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<p><a href="mat_marcus.jpg">
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-<img border="0" src="mat_marcus_small.jpg" xthumbnail-orig-image="mat_marcus.jpg" width="95" height="133" align="left" hspace="10" vspace="5"></a>Mat
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-Marcus is a computer scientist in the Advanced Technology Group at Adobe
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+<img border="0" src="mat_marcus_small.jpg" xthumbnail-orig-image="mat_marcus.jpg" width="112" height="130" align="left" hspace="10" vspace="5"></a>Mat
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+Marcus is a senior computer scientist in the Advanced Technology Group at Adobe
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Systems, Inc. He has been developing software since 1985. In the summer of 2000,
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during a camping trip on the Washington coast, he read Czarnecki and
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-Eisenecker's seminal "Generative Programming" book. This opened up a whole new
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-world of development possibilities for him. His first contribution to Boost
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+Eisenecker's seminal "Generative Programming" book. This opened up a world of development possibilities beyond objects for him, and he hasn't looked back. His first contribution to Boost
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followed soon afterwards; he discovered a way to exploit the properties of the
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sizeof operator to simulate partial specialization (is_pointer, etc. with Jesse
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Jones). </p>
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<p>A mathematician by training, Mat is amused by abstraction. In his spare
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-professional time he is studying algebraic specification, category theory,
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-universal algebra, and philosophy in the hopes of someday understanding and
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-exploiting the answer to the question "What is type?". He is currently active as
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-Adobe's representative on the ANSI/ISO C++ committee. </p>
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-<p>Mat lives with his wife and young son in Seattle. </p>
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+professional time he is studying algebraic specification, category theory, and philosophy in the hopes of someday understanding and
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+exploiting the deep answers to the question "What is a type?". He is currently active as
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+Adobe's principal representative on the ANSI/ISO C++ committee. Mat also enjoys ultimate frisbee, go, bodysurfing, and camping with his family. But above all, he likes to laugh.</p>
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+<p>Mat lives in Seattle with his wife and young son (shown in large photo). </p>
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Beman Dawes
