Sharon Adler  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, New York 10532 (scaus.ibm.com). Ms. Adler is a senior manager at IBM Research in Hawthorne, New York. Her teams focus on research topics related to XML standards and Web Services. Before she rejoined IBM in 1999, she was a director of product management for publishing tools for Inso Corporation in Providence, Rhode Island. From 1985 to 1992, Ms. Adler held several key positions with IBM in Boulder, Colorado, where she was involved with the development of standards-based authoring and document management tools. Prior to that, she was a senior manager for Boeing Computer Services in Vienna, Virginia. Ms. Adler has been instrumental in the development of international computer standards for more than 25 years. She served on multiple ANSI/ISO standards committees, producing specifications such as ISO 8879 SGML and ISO/IEC 10179 DSSSL. From 1997 to the present, she has been chair of the XSL Working Group of the W3C, which produced the XSLT/XPath and related specifications as well as the XSL Formatting Objects specification. She also sits on the XML Coordination Group of the W3C and is a member of the board of directors of Idealliance, an industry association responsible for notable XML conferences held each year internationally.

Roberta Cochrane  IBM Software Group, 294 Route 100, Somers, New York 10589-0100 (bobbiecalmaden.ibm.com). Dr. Cochrane is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's Software Group Strategy division. She is a leader in the delivery of advanced query technology to IBM's database products, providing many new advanced features over the last 15 years, including materialized views, triggers and constraints. She has conducted extensive research in active database systems and played a major role in the definition of the SQL3 standard for triggers and constraints. Dr. Cochrane is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, a Master Inventor, and was one of IBM's 2002 YWCA TWIN awardees, honoring women in industry. She received a B.S. degree in computer science and mathematics from James Madison University in Virginia and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park.

John F. Morar  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, New York 10532 (morarwatson.ibm.com). Dr. Morar received a Ph.D. degree in experimental solid-state physics from the University of Maryland in 1982. After joining IBM, he spent two years in residence at the National Synchrotron Light Source project at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he used soft X-ray spectroscopy to probe the outer few atomic layers of semiconductors. Over the following eight years, he did research on metastable semiconductors using molecular beam epitaxy. Dr. Morar spent seven years in computer virus research, managing the Anti-Virus Technology and Systems group. He contributed to numerous releases of the IBM Anti-Virus and Digital Immune System software, which was built to find, analyze, and automatically distribute cures for new computer viruses faster than the virus itself could spread. He has written 70 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has contributed to IBM's patent portfolio in the areas of device processing, computer virus detection, Web services, and economic systems. Dr. Morar currently manages a group that focuses on the application of service-oriented architectures and the use of Web services both within and between enterprises.

Alfred Spector  IBM Software Group, 294 Route 100, Somers, New York 10589 (aspectorus.ibm.com). Dr. Spector is Vice President of Strategy and Technology for the IBM Software Group, where he is responsible for such diverse activities as standards, software-development methodologies, advanced technology, leading-edge technical engagements, and strategy. Previously, he was a vice president in the Research Division, where he was responsible for setting IBM's worldwide services and software research strategy and overseeing the work of more than 1300 researchers worldwide. In previous assignments within IBM, he was the general manager of marketing and strategy for IBM's middleware business and the general manager of IBM's transaction software business. Dr. Spector was also founder and CEO of Transarc Corporation, a pioneer in distributed transaction processing and wide-area file systems, and a tenured faculty member of the Carnegie Mellon University computer science department. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Stanford University and an A.B. degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and he is recognized for his contributions to the design, implementation, and commercialization of reliable, scalable architectures for distributed file systems, transaction systems, and other applications. Dr. Spector is also an IEEE Fellow and the recipient of the IEEE Kanai Award in distributed computing.