Karen Magerlein is an advisory engineer with the Visual Technologies Department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. She received the BS degree from Duke University and the MS from Columbia University, both in computer science. Since joining IBM she has worked on the development of programming tools, techniques for binary image manipulation, the JPEG compression standard, and image processing software for digital library applications such as the Vatican Library and Russia's State Hermitage Museum. She is a co-author on over 25 articles and patents (mostly under the name Karen L. Anderson).