Michael Voss is a Senior Principal Engineer of the Middleware Architecture at Intel. He has been a key member of the TBB development team since before its 1.0 release in 2006. Michael has co-authored over 40 published papers and articles on parallel programming and frequently consults with customers across diverse domains to help them effectively utilize parallelism in their applications. He is a member of the ISO C++ committee (WG21), participating in discussions around libraries and concurrency. Before joining Intel in 2006, Michael was an Assistant Professor in the Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He earned his Ph.D. from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University.

James Reinders enjoyed a distinguished career at Intel Corporation that spanned over four decades. With extensive experience in parallel computing, James has authored, coauthored, or edited twelve technical books on parallel programming and contributed to numerous others. A proud graduate of the University of Michigan's engineering programs, he has a deep passion for system optimization and teaching. James has had the privilege of contributing to two of the world's fastest computers, both achieving the #1 spot on the TOP500 list, as well as many other supercomputers and software development tools. With the completion of this book, James has retired from Intel and is now enjoying a well-deserved life of relaxation in Oregon.