Ray W. Johnson is an engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.  Ray
has been interested for some time with the uses of agents and mobile
code on the internet.  His current project is centered about the
Tcl/Tk scripting language and its applications for the Internet.  This
work has had two main thrusts.  The first is the ability to write a
script that may contain a user interface and have it work unmodified
on the major computer platforms with the right look and feel.  The
second involves the notion of a "safe" interpreter that can be used
to run untrusted scripts in a secure manner.

Mr. Johnson has also published several papers on the use of Tcl/Tk and
software agents.  Most recently this has included a book chapter
on Tcl/Tk in a book about software agents titled "Bots and other
Internet Beasties".  In addition, Ray is on the editorial board of
a new IEEE magazine called "Internet Computing".

Prior to joining Sun Ray was an engineer at Lockheed-Martin's
Artificial Intelligence Research Center.  Here Ray focused on creating
software agents that had the ability to react to a changing
environment.  Lockheed is also where he started a mailing list for
software agents that now includes over 1400 researchers.

Ray's interests include software agents, user interface toolkits, and
scripting languages.  He received a B.S. in Computer Science from
George Washington University in 1991 and a Masters degree in Computer
Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1992.