Biographical sketches of authors
Ian F. Brackenbury IBM United
Kingdom Laboratories Ltd., Hursley Park, Winchester, Hants
SO21 2JN, United Kingdom (electronic mail:
Ian.Brackenbury@acm.org). Mr. Brackenbury is Chief
Technologist at the IBM Hursley Development Laboratory in England and
an IBM Distinguished Engineer. He is a member of the British Computer
Society, a member of IEEE and ACM, and a member of the IBM Academy. He
has a B.Sc. in experimental psychology and computer science from the
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He joined IBM at
Hursley in 1974, working on advanced computer languages, image systems,
workflow, and high-function graphics. In 1983 he was assigned to the
staff of the IBM Corporate Technical Committee in Armonk, New York,
returning to the United Kingdom a year later to run the IBM United
Kingdom Scientific Centre. Mr. Brackenbury has been responsible for a
wide range of software advanced development including prototypes for:
Object Rexx; desktop hypertext and multimedia; person-to-person
conferencing; and OMG's transactional service, OTS. Since its
inception in 1995, he has been leading the IBM Centre for Java
Technology, responsible for porting Java to over a dozen platforms.
Donald F. Ferguson IBM Software
Group, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 30 Saw Mill River
Road, Hawthorne, New York 10532 (electronic mail:
dff@us.ibm.com). Dr. Ferguson joined IBM as a research staff
member in 1987 and is currently a Distinguished Engineer in the IBM
Software Group. He is also Chief Architect and Technical Leader for
IBM's Component Broker product and Enterprise JavaBeans
implementations. During his career in IBM, he has contributed to IBM
cache management, operating system and transaction processing workload
management, multimedia content server, system management, and
distributed object-oriented products. He is an author of seven current
or pending patents and over two dozen technical publications. Dr.
Ferguson has received two IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards, four
Research Division Technical Awards, two IBM Invention Plateau Awards,
an IEEE best paper award, and was elected to the IBM Academy of
Technology in 1997.
Karl D. Gottschalk IBM Network
Computing Software Division, P.O. Box 12195, Research
Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (electronic mail:
karlgott@us.ibm.com). Mr. Gottschalk is a senior software
engineer focusing on IBM's technical strategy for Java. He has been
heavily involved in the definition and use of IBM Java tools and
components for building and running enterprise applications. Prior to
working on Java, he worked for many years on IBM's systems and network
management products; he was the chief designer for several releases of
IBM's NetView product. Mr. Gottschalk joined IBM in 1968 and has held
positions in the areas of program design, program development, program
maintenance, and information development. He received a Master of Arts
degree in English literature from the University of Mississippi in
1965, a Master of Science in computer science from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976, a Master of Business
Administration from Duke University in 1983, and a Master of Arts in
liberal studies from Duke University in 1988.
R. A. (Tony) Storey IBM United
Kingdom Laboratories Ltd., Hursley Park, Winchester, Hants
SO21 2JN, United Kingdom (electronic mail:
Tony_Storey@uk.ibm.com). Dr. Storey is an IBM Distinguished
Engineer focusing on IBM's transaction processing products and
direction, working in the Transaction Systems organization in the IBM
UK Laboratory. He joined the UK laboratory in 1980, working on
transaction processing systems and has been heavily involved in the
direction of one of IBM's premier transaction processing products,
CICS, over a number of years. He was also very much involved with the
original concept and definition of IBM's MQSeries. More recently his
focus has been on transaction processing and its relationship with
Java, and object technologies generally. He joined IBM at the United
Kingdom Scientific Centre in 1974, working in the area of relational
database research. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Durham,
England, in 1967.
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