Biographical sketch of author
Francis A. Kampf
IBM Microelectronics Division, Burlington facility,
Essex Junction, Vermont 05452 (kampf@btv.ibm.com). Mr.
Kampf attended Temple University, earning a B.S. in
engineering, magna cum laude, in 1987. He joined IBM
Kingston in 1988 and participated in the development of an
FDDI-based interconnect controller. His continued
development effort in the communications interconnect arena
resulted in a cooperative effort with the IBM Zurich
Research Laboratory and the demonstration of a prototype
gigabit WAN/LAN at Telecom'91. He joined the newly formed
IBM POWERparallel group in 1992 and participated in the
development of the Scalable POWERparallel (SP) line of
massively parallel computers. Mr. Kampf's work on the
communication subsystem has led to eleven pending patent
applications. In 1996, he joined the IBM Blue Logic core
development area at IBM Burlington to develop data
compression cores. His work includes the development of the
JBIG-ABIC and ALDC/BLDC cores.
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