Books by William Ray

John Ray is an award-winning application developer and security consultant with more than 20 years of programming and administration experience. He has worked on projects for the National Regulatory Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Xerox and the state of Florida, as well as serving as the IT director for a multimillion dollar design and technology firm. A Macintosh owner and programmer since 1984, John has written/contributed to numerous titles including Maximum Mac OS X Security, Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Studio MX 2004 All in One, Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS X and Panther All In One.

William Ray is a mathematician turned computer scientist turned biophysicist who has gravitated to the field of bioinformatics for its interesting synergy of logic, hard science, and human-computer-interface issues. Will is currently a Professor of Pediatrics at the Columbus Children's Research Institute Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and the Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, where he is investigating tools that work at the interface between humans, computers, and information, and working to build a core computational research and training facility for his institute.

Joan Ray (Contributing Author) is a Unix system administrator and Webmaster for the College of Biological Sciences at The Ohio State University. Joan has a degree in French from OSU and is working toward additional degrees in Japanese and geology. When not helping with this or other books, Joan is administering a cluster of SHI and Sun Unix workstations and servers; helping and providing training for users with Unix, Classic Mac OS, and Mac OS X questions; and serving as college Webmaster.