Consumer Programming Tool

Professor Sinisa Srbljic, Ph.D., is currently a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, and the project leader of the Geppeto project. His career also spans Silicon Valley where he worked on large-scale distributed systems at AT&T Labs. He was visiting the University of Toronto, where he worked on the NUMAchine multiprocessor project, and the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include Web computing, gadget composition, and consumer programming. In teaching, he is involved in the theory of computing, programming language translation, service-oriented computing, and network middleware systems.

Ivan Budiselic, B.Sc. is a computer science Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. He is working on the Unified Translation Memory project. As an intern in the OpenSocial group at Google, he made valuable contributions to the gadget directory project.

Goran Delac, B.Sc is a computer science Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. His current assignment is to aid the final stages of development of Geppeto project.

Ivan Gavran, M.Sc. is an ex-Google intern and worked on machine translation. He is currently a computer science Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. He is working on architectures for distributed translation memory as a part of the Unified Translation Memory project.

Jakov Krolo is a computer science Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. He works on web architectures for composing gadgets as a part of the Geppeto project. Jakov is currently doing internship in Google's New York office as a software engineer in Spreadsheets group.

Miroslav Popovic, M.Sc., is currently a computer science Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. He works on algorithms for optimizing execution of parallel programs. As a Google intern in the machine translation group he worked on scripts for storing internal translation data and visualization of phases of the translation process.

Marin Silic, B.Sc., is currently a computer science Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. He works on web architectures for composing gadgets as a part of the Geppeto project. As a Google intern in the Spreadsheets group he developed a "one-second load" application for Google Spreadsheets.

Daniel Skrobo, Ph.D., is currently a research assistant at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. His research interests are service-oriented architectures and service composition languages. He was a Google intern in the statistical machine translation group where he worked on training translation systems.

Dejan Skvorc is a Ph.D. candidate at School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia. He received his B.Sc. degree in 2003 and M.Sc. degree in 2006, both from School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. During the 2007, Dejan Skvorc spent four months as a software engineering intern in Google's Mountain View office with Google Gadgets group. He is a coauthor and one of the architects of the inter-gadget communication framework based on publish-subscribe paradigm - the PubSub framework. His research interests include service-oriented architectures, end-user development, and consumer programming.

Klemo Vladimir, B.Sc., is currently a computer science Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. He works on web architectures for composing gadgets as a part of the Geppeto project. As a Google intern he worked in the Google Checkout group.

Ivan Zuzak, B.Sc. is an ex-Google intern and worked on inter-gadget communication for Google Gadgets. He is currently a computer science Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. He is working on web architectures for composing gadgets as a part of the Geppeto project.