He has a Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he studied educational software and user interface design. Noel co-authored the book Jython Essential. Robin Dunn, the creator and maintainer of WXPython has been working in the software industry for 18 years on a wide variety of applications. He discovered both wxWindows and Python in 1995 while looking for a cross platform toolkit and has never (willingly) looked back. Robin was awarded the ActiveState Programmers Choice Award at the 2002 O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Robin also worked for the Open Source Application Foundation, improving wxPython for use in their flagship product, Chandler.