Biographical sketches of authors
Emily C. Plachy IBM Global Industries, 1133 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, New York 10604
(electronic mail:
eplachy@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Plachy is a Senior Technical
Staff Member and manager of the Solution Architecture and Reuse organization in
IBM Global Industries. Her primary interests are software reuse, software
development, and solution architecture. After working for Exxon Production
Research Company in Houston, Texas, as a seismic applications programmer, she
joined IBM's engineering/scientific compiler development team in 1982. Dr.
Plachy provided the overall project management for the Parallel FORTRAN
compiler, which was delivered to Cornell University as the software cornerstone
of their IBM 3090 six-way NSF (National Science Foundation) Supercomputer
Center. In 1990, Dr. Plachy was a senior research manager at the T. J. Watson
Research Center, leading multiple application development environment research
projects. In 1995, she led the development of a software architecture for
interactive broadband systems. Dr. Plachy was elected to the IBM Academy of
Technology in 1992. She received a B.S. degree in applied mathematics and
computer science from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, an M.S.
degree in computer science from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario,
and a D.Sc. degree in computer science from Washington University.
Philip A. Hausler IBM Global Services, 100 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202
(electronic mail: hausler@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Hausler is a senior project
executive with responsibility for application and maintenance for Prudential
HealthCare. Since joining IBM in 1985, Mr. Hausler has held numerous management
assignments at IBM in solution and product development and consulting services.
Mr. Hausler serves on the faculty of the computer science department at Johns
Hopkins University, where he teaches graduate courses on software engineering
and programming languages. From 1985 to 1996, he taught undergraduate and
graduate courses at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is a
member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), IEEE
Software Engineering Technical Committee, and was a panel member for the
Department of Defense's Software Acquisition Best Practices Initiative. Mr.
Hausler received a B.S. degree summa cum laude in computer science from the
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and an M.S. degree in computer
science from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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