Ali Y. Duale IBM Systems and Technology Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (dualeibm.com). Dr. Duale received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from the City University of New York. He is currently a Senior Engineer and leads SAK CPU verification. He co-chaired the 18th International Conference on Testing Communicating Systems. He was recognized as a Modern Day Technology Leader at the 2006 Black Engineer Award Conference. Dr. Duale holds a U.S. patent and has published numerous technical papers in the area of testing.

Mark H. Decker IBM Systems and Technology Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (mdeckerus.ibm.com). Mr. Decker received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.S. degree in computer engineering from Syracuse University. He is a Senior Technical Staff Member working in System z architecture verification. He led and contributed to the common DFP reference model development and created the DFP validation driver. Mr. Decker holds several patents and received an IBM Corporate Award for System z architecture verification.

Hans-Georg Zipperer IBM Systems and Technology Group, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, Schoenaicherstrasse 220, 71032 Boeblingen, Germany (zippererde.ibm.com). Mr. Zipperer received a Dipl.-Inform. degree in computer science from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He initially worked on the System z G3 and G4 CMOS microprocessors, and later worked in processor firmware development for System z, where he was a member of the global millicode team. Mr. Zipperer is currently working on the firmware for the next IBM System z and System p* processors.

Merav Aharoni IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Haifa University, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel (meravil.ibm.com). Ms. Aharoni received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in computer science from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion). She has been a Research Staff Member at the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory since 2000. Ms. Aharoni is project leader of FPgen, a deep-knowledge dedicated test generator for floating-point.

Theodore J. Bohizic IBM Systems and Technology Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (bohizicus.ibm.com). Mr. Bohizic is a Senior Technical Staff Member. He spent more than 25 years developing verification tools for multiple architecture and hardware platforms, concentrating on automatic pseudorandom test generation. He led the IBM SAK effort for many years. Mr. Bohizic's current responsibility includes a technical leadership in the System z emulation project.

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