Angelo Corsaro is CTO at PrismTech, where he directs the company's technology strategy, planning, evolution, and evangelism. He also leads the strategic standardization at the Object Management Group, where he cochairs the Data Distribution Service (DDS) Special Interest Group and serves on its Architecture Board. Dr. Corsaro is a widely known and cited expert in the field of real-time and distributed systems, intelligent data-sharing platforms, and software patterns; has authored several international standards; and has more than 10 years of experience in technology management and design of high-performance, mission- and business-critical distributed systems. Prior to joining PrismTech, he served as a Software Scientist within the SELEX-SI Strategic and Technological Planning Directorate. He earned a PhD and an MS in computer science from the Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and a laurea magna cum laude in computer engineering from the University of Catania, Italy. He can be reached at angelo.corsaro at prismtech dot com, Twitter: @acorsaro, and on SlideShare.