Biographical sketches of authors

Gregory P. Rodgers   IBM Linux Technology Center, 18 Frew Close, Nicholls, ACT 2913, Australia (rodgersg@us.ibm.com). Dr. Rodgers joined IBM in 1981 as an MVS systems and application programmer. As part of the IBM Resident Study Program, he received his Ph.D. in computer science from Pennsylvania State University in 1989. Dr. Rodgers was a computer-aided design (CAD) development programmer for the IBM electronic design automation organization, working on parallel circuit simulation programs. From 1996 to 1999, he led the development and operation of the CAD environment for the POWER4 microprocessor development team. In 2000, he led a team that ported Linux to the POWER4. Today he continues to work on PowerPC Linux as part of the IBM Linux Technology Center on assignment to the IBM laboratory in Canberra, Australia.

Isidore G. Bendrihem   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (igb@us.ibm.com). Mr. Bendrihem is a Senior Engineer in the VLSI Design Systems Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received the B.S., M.S., and M.Phil. degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 1984, 1986, and 1988, respectively. He joined the IBM Research Division in 1992, working on several VLSI design tool issues for microprocessor design. Mr. Bendrihem is the architect for the Common Tools Environment (CTE), currently used at all major microprocessor development efforts at IBM. Current areas of research interest include design environments for project-independent, multi-site VLSI development. Mr. Bendrihem received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in 1997 and a Research Division Outstanding Contribution Award in 1998 for his work in the design of the G4 and G5 S/390 microprocessors.

Thomas J. Bucelot   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (bucelot@us.ibm.com). Dr. Bucelot is a Research Staff Member and Manager of the Design Systems Group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received his B.S. degree in physics education from the State University of New York, College at Cortland, in 1969 and his Ph.D. in low-temperature physics from the University of Virginia in 1979. He joined IBM Research in 1979 to work on the Josephson superconducting computer project. From 1983 to 1992 he worked with and managed a group doing research in device and process measurements for liquid nitrogen and room-temperature-optimized CMOS technologies. In 1992 he joined the VLSI Design Department. Dr. Bucelot has received IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards for the design of liquid nitrogen probe stations and for his contributions to the design of the G4 microprocessor. His current interests include multi-site design infrastructure issues and VLSI design-tool development for high-performance, low-power microprocessors.

Barry D. Burchett   IBM Global Services, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (burchett@us.ibm.com). Mr. Burchett received his B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Kentucky. He joined ARDIS, a joint venture of IBM and Motorola, in 1990 as a network analyst and became operations manager. He joined IBM in 1996 as a manager of SAP delivery for IBM internal and commercial customers for Global Services. In 1998, Mr. Burchett became Delivery Project Executive for IBM Austin infrastructure, inclusive of file systems. Today, he remains with IBM Global Services as the Global Project Executive to the IBM Storage Technology Division. He also is an IBM Certified Project Manager.

John C. Collins   IBM Corporation, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (jcollin@us.ibm.com). Mr. Collins joined IBM in East Fishkill, New York, in 1969 and until 1984 worked as an engineer and manager in the high-performance chip design area. From 1984 to 1989 he was a Senior Manager in the large-systems channel-switching area. Mr. Collins joined the Austin Development Laboratory in 1990 and worked as a Project Manager in RS/6000 Development and Manufacturing until 1996. He then worked as a Project Manager with the POWER3 and POWER4 chip design teams in the IBM Microprocessor Development organizations. Mr. Collins retired from IBM in 2000 and worked as a Project Manager/Consultant for Schlumberger in the Chip Test operations organization. He returned to IBM in 2001 to work as a Project Manager Consultant. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1969) and an M.E. degree in industrial administration from Union College (1980). He also completed a Master's Certificate in project management from George Washington University (1999) and was certified as a Project Management Professional in 1999 by the Project Management Institute. Mr. Collins also holds patents and publications related to the technology and system area.