Bob Colburn has 20 years of experience developing oil and gas software, from FORTRAN on the VAX to XWindows/Motif on the Unix workstation to Java on the PC. He has worked for companies such as CogniSeis Development, Aramco, and Schlumberger. He became a Java Certified Programmer in 2002, and is now a Senior Software Engineer for Interactive Network Technologies (INT). He has a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a M.S. from the University of Wyoming, both in Geophysics.