Biographical sketches of authors
Casimer M. DeCusatis
IBM System/390 Division, 522 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (decusat@us.ibm.com).
Dr. DeCusatis is a Senior Engineer in the IBM System/390 Division, Poughkeepsie, New York, where he has participated in many data communications development teams for ESCON transceivers and cables, the InterSystem Channel used on six generations of Parallel Sysplex architectures, the OETC and Jitney parallel optical links, the 9729 Optical Wavelength Division Multiplexer (winner of the 1996 Photonics Spectra Circle of Excellence Award) and FDDI/ATM/Gigabit Ethernet interfaces for the Open Systems Adapter family. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1988 and 1990, respectively, and the B.S. degree magna cum laude in the Engineering Science Honors Program from Pennsylvania State University in 1986. He is a co-inventor on 16 patents and author of more than 50 technical papers as well as the book Acousto-optics: Fundamentals and Applications (Artech House, 1990). He has contributed chapters to several books and has served as co-editor of the Handbook of Fiber Optic Data Communications (Academic Press, 1998) and as editor of the Handbook of Applied Photometry (AIP Press and Springer-Verlag, 1997). Dr. DeCusatis is currently President of the Institute for Optical Data Communications. His other research interests include signal processing using wavelets, which has been the subject of recent invited talks in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Gdansk, Poland. Dr. DeCusatis is a member of the Optical Society of America, IEEE, SPIE, Sigma Xi Research Society, and ten academic honor societies including Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu; he has also been profiled by various biographical publications including Who's Who in Science and Engineering.
Daniel J. Stigliani, Jr.
IBM System/390 Division, 522 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (danst@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Stigliani received the B.Engr. degree in general engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois. In 1969, he joined the IBM Federal Systems Division in Owego, New York, working on a broad range of projects in optical signal processing and communications. In 1974, Dr. Stigliani transferred to the System/390 Division, where he was responsible for the development of optical fiber communications for data processing applications. He has received three division awards, an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, a publication award, and two IBM Invention Achievement Awards. He has published numerous technical papers and has co-authored two books in the field of optical communications and computers. Dr. Stigliani is currently a Senior Technical Staff Member in the S/390 System Design organization, responsible for future processor data communications infrastructure and fiber optic applications.
Walter L. Mostowy
IBM Global Services, 1551 South Washington Avenue, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 (mostowy@us.ibm.com).
Mark E. Lewis
IBM Global Services, 522 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (melewis@us.ibm.com).
David B. Petersen
IBM System/390 Division, 800 North Frederick Avenue, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20879 (petersen@us.ibm.com).
Noshir R. Dhondy
IBM System/390 Division, 522 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (dhondy@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Dhondy is an Advisory Engineer in the S/390 Parallel Sysplex Development organization in Poughkeepsie, New York. He joined IBM Kingston in 1968 as an Associate Engineer in the Electromagnetic Compatibility Department. He has been involved with various aspects of hardware design and was the lead designer of the 9037 Sysplex Timer; he continues to work on external time reference-related development for the S/390 Parallel Sysplex. Mr. Dhondy has published three invention disclosures and has received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and a divisional president's award. Mr. Dhondy received his B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, and his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.
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