Biographical sketches of authors
Marc H. Willebeek-LeMair
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (mwlm@watson.ibm.com).
Dr. Willebeek-LeMair received the B.S. degree in computer and electrical engineering from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, in 1985, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1988 and 1990, respectively. He is currently managing the Multimedia Networking group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, specializing in the development of networked multimedia systems. Dr. Willebeek-LeMair joined IBM in 1990 as a Research Staff Member in the Research Division High Bandwidth Systems Laboratory. His research interests include real-time networked applications such as desktop videoconferencing and audio/video streaming, high-bandwidth communications, computer architecture, parallel processing, and interconnection networks. Dr. Willebeek-LeMair is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Communications Society, Alpha Xi, and Eta Kappa Nu.
Keeranoor G. Kumar
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (kumar@watson.ibm.com).
Dr. Kumar received the B.Sc. degree in physics in 1978 from Kerala University, India. He received the B.E. degree in electronics and communication in 1981 from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science in 1989 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Dr. Kumar's research contributions have been in the areas of real-time distributed computing, models of parallel programming, and compiling for parallelism. His current research interests are in the area of system and network architectures for multimedia.
Ed C. Snible
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (snible@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Snible is a Software Engineer in the Multimedia Networking group, Internet Department, at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received his B.S. in computer engineering from Arizona State University in 1990, joining the Research Division in 1997. At IBM, Mr. Snible has implemented Bamba components in Plug-in, ActiveX, and IBM MediaBeans (Java) frameworks. Current research interests include multimedia authoring, design patterns, and working with user interfaces.
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