Peter Brittenham  IBM Software Group, 4205 South Miami Boulevard, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (peterbrus.ibm.com). Mr. Brittenham is a Senior Technical Staff Member within the autonomic computing organization. Mr. Brittenham is currently the chief programmer for autonomic computing focused on delegation and self-managing resources to enable IT service management. He has a B.S. degree in business administration from Boston University and an M.S. degree in computer science from Marist College.

R. Russell Cutlip  IBM Software Group, 4205 South Miami Boulevard, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (cutlipus.ibm.com). Mr. Cutlip is a software architect on the IBM autonomic-computing architecture team. His current interests include the interplay of autonomics business processes and SOA. Mr. Cutlip is coauthor of Integrated Solutions with DB2, published by Addison-Wesley in 2003. He has an M.B.A. degree in management of information systems and strategic planning from the University of Pittsburgh.

Christine Draper  IBM Software Group, 11501 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (cdraperus.ibm.com). Mrs. Draper is a Senior Technical Staff Member on the IBM autonomic-computing architecture team and works with development teams within IBM to apply autonomic computing concepts to IT service management. An active member of OASIS, she is working to standardize a solution deployment descriptor. She has a B.A. degree with honors in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge, England.

Brent A. Miller  IBM Software Group, 4205 South Miami Boulevard, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (bamillerus.ibm.com). Mr. Miller, a Senior Technical Staff Member on the IBM autonomic-computing architecture team, is the lead architect in autonomic computing, addressing both technology and standards efforts associated with self-managing autonomic systems and ITSM. He has a B.S. degree in computer and information science from the Ohio State University. He is coauthor of Bluetooth Revealed, published by Prentice-Hall in 2000.

Samar Choudhary  IBM Software Group, 4205 South Miami Boulevard, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (samarus.ibm.com). Dr. Choudhary is currently the chief architect for the integrated-solutions console project at IBM. Dr. Choudhary has an M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Northern Illinois University.

Marcelo Perazolo  IBM Software Group, 4205 South Miami Boulevard, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (mperazolus.ibm.com). Mr. Perazolo is a member of the IBM autonomic-computing architecture team, where he serves as senior architect for symptoms, virtualization, and knowledge representation. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering, both from the State University of Campinas, Brazil.