David M. Chess  IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 (chessus.ibm.com). Mr. Chess is a research staff member in the Internet Infrastructure and Computing Utilities department at the Watson Research Center. He received an A.B. degree in philosophy from Princeton University in 1981 and an M.S. degree in computer science from Pace University. He joined IBM Research in 1981 and has worked on computer-mediated collaborative work, computer security and virus prevention, autonomic computing, and scalable systems management.

James E. Hanson  IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 (jehansonus.ibm.com). Dr. Hanson is a research staff member in the Internet Infrastructure and Computing Utilities department at the Watson Research Center. He received a Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley. Since joining IBM Research in 1995, he has worked on emergent phenomena in networked systems, software agents and multi-agent systems, and autonomic computing.

John A. Pershing, Jr.  IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 (pershngus.ibm.com). Mr. Pershing is a research staff member in the Distributed Infrastructures department at the Watson Research Center. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been involved in computer systems work for over 30 years, primarily in the areas of computer networking, large-scale clustering, availability, and systems management.

Steve R. White  IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 (srwhiteus.ibm.com). Dr. White is a research staff member in the Internet Infrastructure and Computing Utilities department at the Watson Research Center. He is currently working on autonomic computing, exploring how to build computing systems that have billions of components, yet are still self-managing. Dr. White has published in the fields of condensed matter physics, optimization by simulated annealing, software protection, computer security, computer viruses, information economies, and autonomic computing and holds over two dozen patents in related fields. He is a member of the IBM Academy and has received IBM's highest technical awards for his work. Dr. White received a Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego in theoretical physics in 1982. He held a post-doctoral fellowship at IBM Research before becoming a research staff member.