Eric Perkins  IBM Research, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 (perkinseus.ibm.com). Dr. Perkins is a software engineer and has worked at IBM for four years. He received a Ph.D. degree in information technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001 for research in algorithms for discrete element simulation. His current research focuses on high-performance XML processing.

Morris Matsa  IBM Research, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 (mmatsaus.ibm.com). Mr. Matsa has been a software engineer and a researcher at IBM for eight years. In that time, he has developed a number of software prototypes that have been integrated into five different IBM products. He also founded the IBM Extreme Blue internship program. He currently works in the field of high-performance processing of the XML stack. He received B.S. degrees in mathematics and computer science and a Master's degree in computer science, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Margaret Gaitatzes Kostoulas  IBM Research, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 (mggus.ibm.com). Margaret Kostoulas is a software engineer and has worked at IBM for eight years. She received a Master's degree in computer science from Purdue University. She is currently working on the performance of the XML processing stack. In the past, she worked on Universal Usability projects and on cross-discipline projects, designing virtual prototyping laboratories for computational science.

Abraham Heifets  IBM Research, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 (aheifetsus.ibm.com). Mr. Heifets is a software engineer and has worked at IBM for two years. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Cornell University. In the past, he has worked on a world champion robotic soccer team, a publish-subscribe system for location-based services, and single-agent search algorithms. He currently works in the field of high-performance processing of the XML stack.

Noah Mendelsohn  IBM Research, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 (noah_mendelsohnus.ibm.com). Mr. Mendelsohn is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has been working at IBM for over 25 years, has made significant contributions to the development of SOAP, the W3C XML Schema Language, and JavaBeans™, and is a member of the World Wide Web Consortium Technical Architecture Group. He has extensive experience in the areas of operating systems, programming languages, and distributed systems. Mr. Mendelsohn has a Master's degree in computer science from Stanford University and a Bachelor's degree in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.