Biographical sketches of authors
Nicholas S. Bowen
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704,
Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: bowenn@watson.ibm.com). Dr. Bowen received the B.S. degree in
computer science from the University of Vermont, the M.S. degree in
computer engineering from Syracuse University, and the Ph.D. in
electrical and computer engineering from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst. He joined IBM at East Fishkill, New York, in
1983 and moved to the Research Center in 1986, where he is currently
the Department Group Manager of Servers. He is a senior member of IEEE
and a member of ACM. His research interests are operating systems,
computer architecture, and fault-tolerant computing.
James Antognini
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704,
Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: antogni@watson.ibm.com). Dr. Antognini is currently a senior
programmer at the Research Center, working on projects related to
OS/390 and to servers and clients (running on MVS, AIX®, and
Windows NT®). He previously worked on PL/I language performance,
Enterprise Storage Manager (architecture), integrated records
management, asynchronous data mover, automatic restart manager, and the
intelligent data miner. He has presented papers at SHARE on MVS,
CICS*, and PL/I. Dr. Antognini received the A.B. in psychology from
Stanford University in 1970 and the Ph.D. in experimental psychology
from Yale University in 1975.
Richard D. Regan
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704,
Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: regan@watson.ibm.com). Mr. Regan received a B.S. in computer
science/mathematics from Syracuse University in 1985 and joined IBM
that year. He subsequently received an M.S. in computer science from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1992 and is currently pursuing a
Ph.D. in computer science at Polytechnic University. He has been
involved in the development of several OS/390 products, including
Advanced Peer-to-Peer Communications (APPC) and the automatic restart
manager (ARM). He is currently an advisory software engineer doing
research and development of distributed transaction processing systems.
Mr. Regan received a Research Division Award in 1995.
Nicholas C. Matsakis
IBM S/390 Division, 522 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
(electronic mail: nmatsakis@vnet.ibm.com). Mr. Matsakis is a
staff programmer in OS/390 XCF/ARM Development. He graduated in 1984
from Rutgers College with a computer science and economics degree. He
has been with IBM for 12 years during which eight of those years have
been in the development of the OS/390 cross-system coupling facility
(XCF), cross-system extended services (XES), recovery and termination
manager (RTM), and automatic restart manager (ARM). He is currently an
IBM technical consultant and a member of the OS/390 Parallel Sysplex
Enablement Team.
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