Biographical sketches of authors
Timothy M. Kemp IBM Microelectronics Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (kemp@vnet.ibm.com). Mr. Kemp is a Storage Platform
Architect for the IBM Microelectronics Division. He
received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and
computer science from the University of California at
Berkeley in 1971 and joined the IBM Advanced Systems
Development Division in 1972. Mr. Kemp has worked on a wide
variety of systems, including industrial process control,
operating systems, network databases, compilers, and
electronic computer-aided design. Most recently, he has
concentrated on developing electronics architectures for
hard-disk drives.
Robert K. Montoye
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center,
P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights,
New York 10598 (montoye@us.ibm.com). Dr. Montoye is a
Research Staff Member in the Experimental Systems group. He
received his B.S. in 1977 in physics and his M.S. in 1981
and Ph.D. in 1983 in computer science from the University
of Illinois. Joining IBM in 1983, he designed and
implemented the RS/6000 floating-point unit. After pursuing
interests outside IBM from 1990 to 1995, he returned to IBM
to focus on high-performance and cost-effective memory
systems. Dr. Montoye is a member of the IBM Academy of
Technology; he has published a number of technical papers
and holds twelve patents.
Jeffrey D. Harper
IBM Microelectronics Division, 11400 Burnet Road,
Austin, Texas 78758 (jdharper@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Harper received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in
electrical engineering from Auburn University in 1986 and
1988 respectively. He joined the Systems Technology
Division at IBM in Austin in 1988 and served as technical
lead of the PowerMite decompression macro hardware
development.
Mr. Harper is currently working in the IBM
Microelectronics World Wide Field Design Center developing
custom ASICs utilizing the IBM Blue Logic technology.
John D. Palmer
IBM Research Division, Almaden
Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California
95120 (jpalmer@almaden.ibm.com). After receiving a B.S.
in applied mathematics from Clemson University, Mr. Palmer
joined IBM in 1969 at the Poughkeepsie, New York,
Development Laboratory, where he worked in TSO development.
Following a two-year military leave of absence, he was
assigned to the IBM Advanced Development Laboratory in Los
Gatos, California, working on IMS and imaging projects.
From 1974 to 1982 Mr. Palmer was an MVS system programmer
at several different IBM research facilities and
development laboratories. He has since worked in research
and research management on multisystem IMS and DB2
projects, and his current assignment is in disk-drive
microcode and electronics at the IBM Almaden Research
Center in San Jose, California. His current interests are
in error analysis, disk-drive performance, processor
integration, and microcode structure.
Daniel J. Auerbach
IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650
Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120
(dja@almaden.ibm.com). Dr. Auerbach is Manager of the
DASD Controller Architecture and Electronics Department
at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He received a Ph.D.
degree in physics from the University of Chicago; before
joining IBM in 1978, Dr. Auerbach served on the faculty of
Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include
information storage systems, the design of parallel
computers, and the dynamics of gas-surface interactions.
His work on gas- surface interactions involves the use of
molecular-beam and laser-spectroscopic techniques to allow
quantum-state-specific studies of the microscopic details
of fundamental gas-surface-interaction processes underlying
materials processing. Before assuming his present
management post, Dr. Auerbach was Department Group Manager
of Science and Technology, Almaden Research Center.
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