Michael Kofler
Michael Kofler was born in 1967 in Innsbruck (Austria). In 1998 he completed his PhD in Computer Science at the Graz Technical University R-trees for Visualizing and Organizing Large 3D GIS Databases). He lives in Graz (Austria), is married and has two children.
His first book was published by Sybex (Germany) in 1987. It explained graphics programming for the Atari ST. Since 1991 he has been writing various successful books for Addison Wesley (Germany). These include books on Visual Basic, Client/Server Databases with VB, VBA programming for Excel, Linux, MySQL, PHP, Mathematica and Maple. His books have been translated into many languages including English, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Czech and Chinese.