Biographical sketches of authors
Ching-Shan Peng Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, University of
California, Irvine, California 92697 (electronic mail:
cpeng@ece.uci.edu). Mr. Peng worked at the IBM Thomas J. Watson
Research Center, Hawthorne, New York, as a summer intern during 1996
and 1997. He received the B.S. degree in computer science and
information engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in
1989 and M.S. degrees in both the department of electrical and computer
engineering and the department of computer science from the University
of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1993 and 1994, respectively. Mr. Peng is
currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Irvine.
His research interests include real-time scheduling, real-time database
systems, and real-time application frameworks.
Shyh-Kwei Chen IBM Research Division,
Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704,
Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail:
skchen@watson.ibm.com). Dr. Chen is a research staff member at
the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York. He
received the B.S. degree in computer science and information
engineering from National Taiwan University in 1983, the M.S. degree in
computer science from the University of Minnesota in 1987, and the
Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, in 1994. His research interests include parallel
processing, compilers, and fault-tolerant computing.
Jen-Yao Chung IBM Research Division,
Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704,
Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail:
jychung@watson.ibm.com). Dr. Chung is a research staff member at
the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York. He
currently is manager of the electronic commerce platforms department.
He received the B.S. degree in computer science and information
engineering from National Taiwan University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
in computer science from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include Web data access,
network computing, scalable Web server, database performance and
benchmark, and parallel database/query systems. Dr. Chung has won one
IEEE Outstanding Paper Award, an IBM Technical Achievement Award, a
Research Division Technical Group Award, and a Research Division Award.
He has served as industrial chair, program committee member, and
session chair in several workshops and conferences. Dr. Chung is a
senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.
Amber Roy-Chowdhury Transarc
Corporation, The Gulf Tower, 707 Grant Street, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania 15219. Dr. Roy-Chowdhury is currently employed by Transarc
Corporation, a subsidiary of IBM. He was employed by IBM at the Thomas
J. Watson Research Center in the summers of 1992 and 1993 in the
fault-tolerant systems department and from December 1995 to May 1997 in
the data intensive platforms department. Dr. Roy-Chowdhury received the
B.Tech. degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian
Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in
1990, 1992, and 1995, respectively. His research interests include
fault-tolerant computer systems, parallel and distributed computing,
and transaction processing. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, and the IEEE
Computer Society.
V. Srinivasan Network Computer, Inc.,
500 Oracle Parkway, MS SC-2, Redwood Shores,
California 94065 (electronic mail: srini@navio. com). Dr.
Srinivasan is currently a senior technical staff member at Network
Computer, Inc. (formerly Navio Communications, Inc.). At Network
Computer and Navio, he has contributed extensively to the design and
implementation of the NCTV Custom Connect Server, which provides highly
scalable access to data for enhanced TV clients. Prior to joining
Navio, Dr. Srinivasan was a member of the Database Technology Institute
at the IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory. At IBM, he played key roles as an
architect and implementor of several products including Net.Data, DB2
WWW Connection, ObjectLite, and ObjectStore/DB2 gateway. Based on his
work at IBM and Navio Communications, Dr. Srinivasan has filed for
several patents in the areas of the Internet and object technology. He
received his B.Tech. degree in computer science from the Indian
Institute of Technology, Madras, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
computer science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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