| Blair
began
his
IBM
Rochester
career
in
1988
in
Rochester
testing
OS/
400
V1R2,
and
has
enjoyed
a
wide
variety
of
interesting
and
challenging
assignments
since.
Blair's
focus
has
been
in
the
areas
of
compilers,
machine
language
translation,
intermediate
program
representations,
and
operating
systems
performance
tooling
on
the
System
i
family
machines.
Blair
has
been
involved
with
support
for
Java
on
the
System
i(tm)
family
since
it
was
first
released
on
System
i
in
OS/
400
release
V4R2,
and
specializes
in
the
Java
Native
Interface
(JNI).
Blair
is
an
enthusiastic
proponent
for
Java
and
object-oriented
programming,
and
has
been
providing
education
for
IBM
since
1997.
Blair
has
a
B.S.
in
Math
from
USD
Vermillion,
South
Dakota,
and
an
M.S.
in
Computer
Science
from
SDSM&T,
Rapid
City,
South
Dakota.
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