Biographical sketches of authors
Ralph Christ
IBM Software Group, Rochester Laboratory, 3605 Highway 52 North, Rochester, Minnesota 55901 (electronic mail: christ@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Christ is a senior software engineer and has been the manager of the SanFrancisco Architecture, Plans, and Performance team from its inception in March of 1995. He has held numerous key positions working on the development of the System/38™ and AS/400 operating systems. For the past ten years he has been involved in a variety of object-oriented development projects, ranging from applications to operating systems. In early 1995, he was a key proponent and advocate within IBM for the move to Java technology. In May of 1999 he moved to the WebSphere team to help with project plans and strategy.
Steven L. Halter
IBM Software Group, Rochester Laboratory, 3605 Highway 52 North, Rochester, Minnesota 55901 (electronic mail: shalter@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Halter is a staff software engineer and was a member of the SanFrancisco performance group at the time this paper was written. He has worked in the area of object persistence and object infrastructures, an area in which he holds two United States patents. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Iowa State University.
Kenton Lynne
IBM Software Group, Rochester Laboratory, 3605 Highway 52 North, Rochester, Minnesota 55901 (electronic mail: klynne@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Lynne is an advisory programmer and was the team leader for the SanFrancisco performance group at the time this paper was written. He has also worked in various system software areas for the IBM System/34, System/36™, and AS/400 products. He holds five United States patents and has a research interest in neural networks and machine learning algorithms. He received a B.S. degree in psychology and an M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Stephanie Meizer
IBM Software Group, Rochester Laboratory, 3605 Highway 52 North, Rochester, Minnesota 55901 (electronic mail: smeizer@us.ibm.com).
Ms. Meizer joined IBM Germany in 1994 as a software engineer and is currently on assignment to the SanFrancisco project in Rochester, where she is working in the performance group. Previously, she has been a developer on the VisualAge® for C++ Open Class Library and the SanFrancisco common business objects. She received an M.S. degree in computer science and business administration from the Berufsakademie, Mannheim, Germany, in 1994.
Steven J. Munroe
IBM Software Group, Rochester Laboratory, 3605 Highway 52 North, Rochester, Minnesota 55901 (electronic mail: sjmunroe@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Munroe is a senior software engineer and a member of the IBM SanFrancisco performance group. He has also worked on architecture and design in various system software areas for the IBM System/38™ and AS/400 products. He holds nine issued patents. He received a B.S. degree in computer science from Washington State University, Pullman.
Mark Pasch
IBM Software Group, Rochester Laboratory, 3605 Highway 52 North, Rochester, Minnesota 55901 (electronic mail: mpasch@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Pasch is an advisory software engineer with the SanFrancisco performance group. He has also worked in various system software areas for the AS/400 products, including a large object-oriented project. He received a B.S. degree in computer science from Purdue University. He has four patents filed.
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