Xin Jiang IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (xinjiang@us.ibm.com). Dr. Jiang received his B.S. degree from Tsinghua University in China in 1998 and his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 2004, both in applied physics. He joined the IBM Almaden Research Center in 2004. Dr. Jiang's research pertains to spin-dependent electron transport in metals and semiconductors, spin injection, current-induced magnetization reversal, and domain wall motion.

Roger Wang IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (roger.wang@stanford.edu). Mr. Wang received an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2004 and a B.S. degree in engineering science and mechanics from Pennsylvania State University in 2001. That same year (2001) he was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and a Stanford Graduate Fellowship to pursue his graduate studies. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, working in the Stanford–IBM spintronics program.

Robert M. Shelby IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (shelby@almaden.ibm.com). Dr. Shelby received a B.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, both in chemistry. In 1978 he joined the IBM Research Division at the IBM Almaden Research Center, where he is currently a Research Staff Member. His research interests have included optical coherent transient phenomena and optical spin coherence measurements, fundamental noise and nonlinear processes in optical fibers, quantum optics and the generation of nonclassical light, physical phenomena in holographic data storage media, and phase-change memory materials. Dr. Shelby is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

Stuart S. P. Parkin IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (parkin@almaden.ibm.com). Dr. Parkin joined IBM Research in San Jose in 1982 as a World Trade Postdoctoral Fellow, becoming a permanent member of the staff the following year. His current work involves the study of magnetic tunnel junctions and the development of an advanced nonvolatile magnetic random access memory based on magnetic tunnel junction storage cells. His earlier research interests have included organic superconductors, ceramic high-temperature superconductors, and, most recently, the study of magnetic thin-film structures and nanostructures exhibiting giant magnetoresistance (GMR). In 1991, he discovered oscillations in the magnitude of the interlayer exchange coupling in transition-metal magnetic multilayered GMR systems. For this and related work, Dr. Parkin shared both the American Physical Society International New Materials Prize (1994) and the European Physical Society Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize (1997). He has received other awards, including the Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award (1991), the Charles Vernon Boys' Prize from the Institute of Physics, London (1991), the 1999–2000 American Institute of Physics Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics, and several awards from IBM. In 2001 he was named R&D Magazine's first Innovator of the Year. A native of the United Kingdom, Dr. Parkin received his B.A. degree in 1977; he was elected a Research Fellow in 1979 at Trinity College in Cambridge, England, and was awarded his Ph.D. degree in 1980 at the Cavendish Laboratory, also in Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2000, and he is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics (London). In 1997, Dr. Parkin was elected a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and named an IBM Research Master Inventor. In 1999 he was appointed an IBM Fellow, IBM's highest technical honor.