Biographical sketches of authors
Walter Bender
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: walter@media. mit.edu).
Mr. Bender is a senior scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory and principal investigator of the laboratory's News in the Future consortium. He received the B.A. degree from Harvard University in 1977 and joined the Architecture Machine Group at MIT in 1978. He received the M.S. degree from MIT in 1980. Mr. Bender is a founding member of the Media Laboratory.
William Butera
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: bill@media.mit.edu).
A native of Washington, DC, Mr. Butera received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from MIT in 1982 and 1988. In 1982 he joined the Research and Development Department of ITT Industries in Stuttgart, Germany, where he worked on video coding schemes for broadband ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network). In September of 1986 he joined the Movies program at MIT's Media Lab as a research assistant and basketball coach. From 1988 through 1994, he was a system designer in the Concept Engineering Department at Intermetall in Freiburg, Germany, where he developed digital video components for the consumer electronics market. In 1995, he joined MIT's Media Lab, where he works as a research assistant on programming models and algorithms for dense, decentralized computing ensembles. An early participant in MPEG, he has authored several articles and holds five patents in the field of digital formats for video compression and storage. His interests include architectures for parallel processing, image coding, and machine vision.
Daniel Gruhl
IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120-6099 (electronic mail: dgruhl@almaden.ibm.com).
Dr. Gruhl is a research staff member at the IBM Almaden Research Center, where he is a member of the Exploratory Database Systems group. He received his doctorate degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 2000; his research was done at the MIT Media Laboratory.
Raymond Hwang
Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 (electronic mail: raymond_hwang@student.hms.harvard.edu).
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Hwang received his B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from MIT. Currently he is a student at Harvard Medical School.
Fernando J. Paiz
There, 165 Jefferson Drive, Menlo Park, California 94025 (electronic mail: fpaiz@there.com).
Mr. Paiz graduated from MIT in June 1999, simultaneously earning bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science and electrical engineering and a bachelor's degree in theater arts. Since graduation he has been applying his multimedia interests and skills toward his role as a software engineer at There, a Silicon Valley start-up company.
Sofya Pogreb
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: spogreb@mit.edu).
Ms. Pogreb graduated from MIT in June, 2000, with degrees in both computer science and management. She began working for McKinsey & Company in Palo Alto, California, in the summer of this year. Past work experience has included internships at Hewlett-Packard Company and Intel Corporation, as well as research projects at the MIT Media Lab and the Lab for Computer Science.
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