Lee Baugh University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Department of Computer Science, 201 N. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (leebaugh@uiuc.edu). Mr. Baugh is a doctoral candidate in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, under the guidance of Dr. Craig Zilles. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Texas at Dallas. Mr. Baugh's research interests include speculative multithreading processors, dynamic optimization, and microarchitecture.

Craig Zilles University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Department of Computer Science, 201 N. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (zilles@cs.uiuc.edu). Dr. Zilles is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering and a Ph.D. degree in computer science, both from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dr. Zilles's current research focuses on cooperation between compilers, runtime systems, architecture, and microarchitecture, often motivated by work on program characterization.