Biographical sketches of authors

David Ferrucci IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 (ferrucci@us.ibm.com). Dr. Ferrucci is a research staff member and senior manager at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He manages the Semantic Analysis and Integration department which develops technologies, architectures, and solutions for mining unstructured information and applies them to information processing systems. His team includes world-class researchers and software engineers in NLP and knowledge representation. Dr. Ferrucci is a co-architect of IBM's Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA), a project that spans six IBM research labs and provides the foundation for Research Division work in text analytics. Dr. Ferrucci has published in the fields of logic and knowledge representation, architectures for natural language engineering, and automated question answering. His research interests include advanced technologies for representing and applying knowledge about logic and language. He has eight patents pending in search and text analysis, interactive document configuration, and automatic story generation. Dr. Ferrucci received a Ph.D. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., in the area of knowledge representation and automated reasoning.

Adam Lally IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 (alally@us.ibm.com). Mr. Lally is an advisory software engineer in the Information Management Solutions group at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He is the lead engineer for the UIMA Java development framework, where his work focuses on applying software architecture and engineering principles to accelerate research and to facilitate integration of research into IBM products. Mr. Lally received a B.S. degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.