An Overview of Guava: Google Core Libraries for Java

This talk will provide an overview of the Guava libraries (http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/), touching on topics such as collections, caching, hashing, primitives support, concurrency utilities, common annotations, string processing, I/O, math utilities, etc. Authors: Iulia Ion Iulia Ion is a PhD student and research assistant at ETH Zurich, in the Institute for Pervasive Computing. Previously, she received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from International University in Germany, and worked in the CREATE-NET research institute, in Trento, Italy. She carried out numerous internships and project collaborations with industry (SAP Walldorf, Nokia Research, Lausanne, Deutsche Boerse Systems, Frankfurt) and academia (University of Cambridge, UK, Carnegie Mellon, Pitsburgh, PA, Université de Provence, Marseille, France). She is currently working on reconciliating usability and security, with a special focus on mobile interactions. Previous work includes extending the Java ME architecture to support and enforce fine-grained security policies. Kurt Kluever Kurt Alfred Kluever is a software engineer at Google in New York City with 9 years of Java experience. Prior to working on Google’s Java Core Libraries team, he worked on backend infrastructure that supported a wide array of products such as Google+, YouTube, Docs, Photos, Ads, and Feedburner.