Back to [[conference:committee:2015-speakers]]\\ \\ **Bio**: \\ Dan Saks is the president of Saks & Associates, which offers training and consulting in C and C++ and their use in developing embedded systems. Dan has taught thousands of programmers around the world. He has presented at hundreds of lectures at numerous industry conferences.\\ \\ Dan has written columns for numerous print publications including The C/C++ Users Journal, The C++ Report, Software Development, and Embedded Systems Design. He is currently on leave from writing the online 'Programming Pointers' column for embedded.com. With Thomas Plum, he wrote C++ Programming Guidelines, which won a 1992 Computer Language Magazine Productivity Award.\\ \\ Dan served as secretary of the ANSI and ISO C++ Standards committees and as a member of the ANSI C Standards committee. More recently, he contributed to the CERT Secure C Coding Standard and the CERT Secure C++ Coding Standard.\\ \\ Homepage: \\ Location: Springfield, OH, USA\\ \\ **Email**: dan@dansaks.com\\ \\ [[2015:The Most Misunderstood Features of C... Explained]]\\ [[2015:New Features of C]]\\ [[2015:Embedded Programming Death Match - C vs. C++]]\\