Biographical sketches of authors
Gary M. King
IBM S/390 Division, 522 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
(electronic mail: garyking@vnet.ibm.com). Mr. King is a Senior
Technical Staff Member of the S/390 division, consulting on all aspects
of system performance. He joined IBM in 1974 and has been involved in
the design and evaluation of the system resource managers, most notably
in the area of storage management. For the past seven years his efforts
have focused on clustered system performance, particularly the S/390
Parallel Sysplex and its exploiters. He has received six Outstanding
Technical Achievement and Outstanding Innovation Awards in a variety of
areas, including storage management, data compression, and performance
analysis. Mr. King received a B.S. in mathematics from the University
at Albany, State University of New York, in 1972 and an M.S. in
computer science from the Pennsylvania State University in 1974.
Daniel M. Dias
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704,
Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: dias@watson.ibm.com). Dr. Dias received the B. Tech.
degree from the Indian Institute of Technology and the M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees from Rice University, all in electrical engineering. He
currently manages the Parallel Commercial Systems group at the Research
Center, which performs exploratory systems architecture, design, and
analysis, with a focus on reducing these ideas to working prototypes
and products. His current research includes scalable and highly
available information servers including Web, video, and other servers
for network-centric computing, Java(TM) collaboratory, Internet
commerce, parallel transaction and query processing, highly available
clustered systems, and performance analysis. Dr. Dias has published
more than 100 papers. He has won two best paper awards, IBM Outstanding
Innovation and Technical Achievement Awards, five Invention Achievement
Awards, and Research Division Awards. He holds 13 U.S. patents, with
seven additional patents pending.
Philip S. Yu
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704,
Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: psyu@watson.ibm.com). Dr. Yu has been with IBM Research since
1978. Currently he is manager of the Software Tools and Techniques
group. One focus of the project is to develop algorithms and tools for
Internet applications, such as a Web usage mining tool. His current
research interests include database systems, data mining, multimedia
systems, parallel and distributed processing, disk arrays, computer
architecture, performance modeling, and workload analysis. Dr. Yu
received the B.S. degree in E.E. from National Taiwan University in
1972, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in E.E. from Stanford University, in
1976 and 1978, respectively, and the M.B.A. degree from New York
University in 1982. He has published more than 200 papers, and he holds
or has applied for 36 U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the
IEEE and was an editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data
Engineering . Dr. Yu has received a number of honors including Best
Paper Award, two IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards, an Outstanding
Technical Achievement Award, a Research Division Award, and 17
Invention Achievement Awards.
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