Biographical sketches of authors

Weiming Gu   IBM Network Computing Software Division, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (electronic mail: wgu@us.ibm.com). Dr. Gu is a senior software engineer in the System Performance Group of the Network Computing Software Division. He currently works on Java and JIT compiler performance. After joining IBM in 1995, he worked on building performance tools and analyzing performance of the OS/2 system kernel. Dr. Gu received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1995.

Nancy A. Burns   IBM Network Computing Software Division, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758. Mrs. Burns is a senior software engineer, currently serving as the IBM Corporate Java Performance focal point, coordinating the performance work done across all IBM platforms. She has served as the technical lead for the performance work on the Developer Kit for OS/2 Warp, Versions 1.1.1 and 1.1.4. She led the performance team that delivered JavaOS for Business Release 2.0 and 2.1. She joined IBM in 1983 and has worked on a variety of software development projects involving expert systems, multimedia, database management, and parallel processing, before focusing on performance of the Java language and Java virtual machines. Mrs. Burns received a B.S. degree in statistics and quantitative methods from Louisiana State University and an M.S. degree in mathematical sciences from the University of North Florida.

Michael T. Collins   IBM Network Computing Software Division, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (electronic mail: mcollin@us.ibm.com). Mr. Collins graduated from Purdue University with a B.S. degree in computer science in 1982. He joined IBM in Austin in 1982, initially working on software design and development for the 5520 office system, a dedicated minicomputer for office groupware applications. He later designed and developed software for communication and networking software systems on the DOS and OS/2 platforms, including the PC LAN program and the directory and security services feature of Warp Server. He has also developed software for IBM word processor and office groupware applications at IBM's former facility in Westlake, Texas. In these assignments, he was the development lead for DisplayWrite 5 (a popular DOS word processor) and the IBM WorkGroup Directory product. Most recently, he has worked as part of the team dedicated to improving the performance of IBM's Java products on Intel processors, with a focus on the Java virtual machines and JIT compilers for Windows and OS/2. He has received several IBM awards, including two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards and a Division Award. He is also a coinventor on three filed patents and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.

Wai Yee Peter Wong   IBM Network Computing Software Division, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (electronic mail: wpeter@us.ibm.com). Dr. Wong is an advisory software engineer, working on performance improvement of the graphical user interface since 1995. In the past two years, his main work has been on Java graphics. He holds a B.A. degree in mathematics and computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo, an M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Ohio State University. His current interests include graphical user interfaces and object-oriented systems. Dr. Wong received two IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards for his work on Java graphics performance.