Erlang is a functional concurrent programming language, used today by Ericsson programming real-time telecom products.
Supervisors manages a set of processes, possibly containing other supervisors.
Lennart Ohman has a masters degree in computer science and has been with Ericsson, working in various areas of the Erlang technology, since 1992. During the first years Mr. Ohman was active as an Erlang consultant, mainly in areas involving Erlang and databases. Today Mr. Ohman is a technical manager at Erlang Systems in Stockholm, a unit within Ericsson Software Technology.