About the Reviewers

Thomas Gall had his first experience with accelerated coprocessors on the Amiga back in 1986. After working with IBM for twenty years, now he is working as a Principle Engineer and serves as Linaro.org's technical lead for the Graphics Working Group. He manages the Graphics and GPGPU teams. The GPGPU team is dedicated to optimize existing open source software to take advantage of GPGPU technologies such as OpenCL, as well as the implementation of GPGPU drivers for ARM based SoC systems.

Erik Rainey works at Texas Instruments, Inc. as a Senior Software Engineer on Computer Vision software frameworks in embedded platforms in the automotive, safety, industrial, and robotics markets. He has a young son, who he loves playing with when not working, and enjoys other pursuits such as music, drawing, crocheting, painting, and occasionally a video game. He is currently involved in creating the Khronos Group's OpenVX, the specification for computer vision acceleration.

Erik Smistad is a PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where he uses OpenCL and GPUs to quickly locate organs and other anatomical structures in medical images for the purpose of helping surgeons navigate inside the body during surgery. He writes about OpenCL and his projects on his blog, thebigblob.com, and shares his code at github.com/smistad.