Biographical sketches of authors
Barron C. Housel
Chapel Hill, North Carolina (electronic mail: bchousel@yahoo.com).
Dr. Housel recently retired from IBM as a Senior Technical Staff Member. He joined IBM in 1964 after receiving an M.S. in engineering science from the University of Oklahoma. He received an M.S. in computer science from Stanford University in 1968 and a Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University in 1973. He was active in the development of database technology with IBM Research in San Jose, California, from 1973 to 1977. During the years 1977 to 1978 he was a guest faculty member in the Computer Science Department at Purdue University. In 1979 Dr. Housel joined IBM in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he contributed to the design and development of SNA and networking products. He has been involved in the development of wireless products and technology since 1995. He was a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and is a member of the IEEE and ACM professional societies. Dr. Housel has 18 patent filings and 25 patent publications.
Ian Shields
IBM Pervasive Computing Division, P.O. Box 12195, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (electronic mail: ishields@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Shields joined IBM in Canberra, Australia, as a systems engineer in 1973 where he worked on communications systems for several Commonwealth Government accounts. He moved to Montreal, Canada, in 1979 where he worked in the Communications Systems Marketing Center and the Eastern Region Field Support Center and developed an NCP user line control for Lotto Quebec as well as providing other communications support. He moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1984 and rejoined IBM in 1987 at the Research Triangle Park laboratory where he is currently a senior programmer in the Pervasive Computing Division. Mr. Shields has worked on development of custom code as well as mainline products and has spent several years working on products designed for use with radio networks. He has several patent filings and three issued patents. He studied pure mathematics and philosophy at the Australian National University and graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in 1974. He received an M.S. in computer science from North Carolina State University in 1995 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. there.
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