About Jiri Soukup
Jiri Soukup is President of Code Farms, Inc., a companypromoting better ways to design software. Its product, the C++Data Object library, has built-in pattern classes and automaticpersistency. Dr. Soukup was one of the key contributors ofseveral state-of-the-art CAD projects: director and a founding member ofCadence Design Systems, manager of AT&T's VLSI layout system, andone of the key developers of a printed board layout systemcurrently sold by IBM.