Biographical sketches of authors
Jeffrey W. Josten
IBM Software Solutions Division, Santa Teresa Laboratory, 555 Bailey
Avenue, P.O. Box 49023, San Jose, California 95161-9023 (electronic
mail: josten@vnet.ibm.com). Mr. Josten is a senior programmer
with the DB2 development group at the Santa Teresa Laboratory. He was
the team leader of the DB2 Version 4 data sharing development effort,
and continues in that role as enhancements to the data sharing function
are delivered in future DB2 releases. He joined IBM in 1985, and has
been a member of the DB2 development team since 1987. His design and
development activities cover a broad range of DB2 components, with
emphasis on the locking and buffer management functions. He holds
several software patents in the area of multisystem database sharing
and is a frequent conference speaker on DB2 topics. Mr. Josten holds a
B.S. degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of
Wisconsin at Madison.
C. Mohan
IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California
95120 (electronic mail: mohan@almaden.ibm.com). Dr. Mohan
has been a research staff member at IBM's Almaden Research Center
since 1981 and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology since 1992. He
is currently leading the Exotica project on advanced transaction
management and workflow systems. His research ideas are incorporated in
numerous products (DB2, S/390 Parallel Sysplex coupling facility,
SQL/DS, MQSeries, and others). Dr. Mohan received the ACM SIGMOD
Innovations Award in 1996 for "innovations that have been truly
outstanding and that have made a major impact in the database field."
He has also received many IBM awards, including the 9th Plateau
Invention Achievement Award for his patent activities. In 1997 he was
honored as one of IBM's Master Inventors. He was the Americas Program
Chair for the 1996 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases.
He is an editor of the VLDB Journal and of Distributed
and Parallel Databases--An International Journal. Dr. Mohan
received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of
Texas at Austin in 1981 and a B. Tech. in chemical engineering from the
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1977.
Inderpal Narang
IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose,
California 95120 (electronic mail: narang@almaden.ibm.com).
Mr. Narang is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Almaden
Research Center. He joined IBM in 1981 and has been working with the
database products and their multisystem coupling aspects. His key
contributions have been in the architecture and algorithms of the
coupling facility and DB2 data sharing in the coupled systems, and he
received an IBM Corporate Award for this work. He has published papers
and holds several patents in these areas. Currently, he is working on
the DataLinks architecture, which extends the database
management of data to files in the file systems.
James Z. Teng
IBM Software Solutions Division, Santa Teresa Laboratory, 555 Bailey
Avenue, P.O. Box 49023, San Jose, California 95161-9023 (electronic
mail: jteng@vnet.ibm.com). Dr. Teng is a Senior Technical Staff
Member who has worked on DB2 since 1980. He has extensive knowledge in
areas of database locking, data recovery, data management, buffer pool
management, and performance-related database technology. Dr. Teng is
the lead architect in DB2 for the System/390 Parallel Sysplex
architecture. He has obtained numerous software patents for IBM on
relational database technology and has published several papers in
technical journals. He is also a frequent speaker at the SHARE, GUIDE,
IDUG (International DB2 User's Group), and DB2 conferences. Dr. Teng
received a master's degree in computer science and a Ph.D. degree in
statistics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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