Steve Burbeck (sburbeckmindspring.com). Dr. Burbeck recently retired from IBM; he is currently an independent consultant focusing primarily on scientific computing. He received a B.A. degree in mathematics from California State University and a Ph.D. degree in mathematical and cognitive psychology from the University of California at Irvine in 1979. He was Director of Data Processing and Statistics for eight years at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, where he participated in both computational genomic and proteomic research. He worked in the computing industry at two startup companies, at Apple Computer, and finally at IBM from 1995 to 2005. At IBM Dr. Burbeck worked on object-oriented technologies, spent a year in IBM Research helping pioneer the ideas that are now known as autonomic computing, and thereafter worked in various aspects of emerging technologies, including web services, open-source software, peer-to-peer technologies, and, for the last three years, the implications of computational systems biology. He was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology within two years of joining the company. Dr. Burbeck is an author of some two dozen refereed publications plus a similar number of internal IBM confidential publications. His URL is www.runningempty.org/Steve/HistoryAndInfo.html.

Kirk E. Jordan IBM Deep Computing, One Rogers Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 (kjordanus.ibm.com). Dr. Jordan is Emerging Solutions Executive in the IBM Deep Computing organization within the Systems and Technology Group. He is responsible for overseeing the development of applications for IBM advanced computing architectures; investigating and developing concepts for new areas of growth for IBM, especially in healthcare and life sciences involving high-performance computing; and providing leadership in high-end computing and simulation in such areas as systems biology and high-end visualization. Dr. Jordan received a B.S. degree in mathematics from Hobart College, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics from the University of Delaware in 1980. Prior to joining IBM, he held positions at Exxon Research and Engineering, Thinking Machines, and Kendall Square Research. He is currently Vice President for Industry in the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Dr. Jordan's main research interests are in the efficient use of advanced architecture computers for modeling and simulation. He is an author of more than 35 papers on subjects that include interactive visualization using parallel computers, parallel domain decomposition for reservoir/groundwater simulation, turbulent convection flows, parallel spectral methods, multigrid techniques, multi-resolution wavelets, and wave propagation.