Biographical sketches of authors
Jeffrey M. Nick
IBM S/390 Division, 522 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
(electronic mail: jeff_nick@vnet.ibm.com). Mr. Nick is a Senior
Technical Staff Member working in the OS/390 System Architecture and
Design area. He joined IBM in 1980 as a developer in the S/390 MVS
operating system. During his career at IBM, he has held positions in
MVS system design and development, and as a large systems technical
specialist focused on continuous availability issues. Mr. Nick has lead
architecture responsibility for the design of S/390 parallel processing
technology and is presently focused on leveraging that technology for
new application environments on the OS/390 platform. He is widely
recognized as a leading technical expert on S/390 Parallel Sysplex. He
received a Corporate Award for his contribution in the design and
development for the Parallel Sysplex coupling facility. Mr. Nick
currently has 18 patents in the field of operating systems technology
and has published several papers in technical journals. He has also
given tutorials on the Parallel Sysplex worldwide.
Brian B. Moore
IBM S/390 Division, 522 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
(electronic mail: bbmoore@vnet.ibm.com). Dr. Moore is a Senior
Technical Staff Member and member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He
joined IBM in 1962, where he has had assignments in processor
development, systems architecture, and operating system design. He
holds 17 patents and is an inventor on two other patent applications;
all are in the area of data processing. He has received a Sixth-Level
Invention Achievement Award and two Outstanding Contribution Awards.
Dr. Moore received the B.E.E. degree in electrical engineering from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1961, the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in
mathematics from Syracuse University in 1969 and 1974, and the M.B.A.
degree from Marist College in 1981.
Jen-Yao Chung
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704,
Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: jychung@watson.ibm.com). Dr. Chung has been with the Thomas J.
Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, as a research staff member since
June 1989. He currently is the manager of the data intensive computing
department and is working on parallel Web server World Wide Web access
to database and transaction systems, and parallel systems performance
management. His research interests include Web server, database
performance, parallel processing, job scheduling and load balancing in
real-time systems, object-oriented programming environments, and
operating system design. He has published papers in these areas and
filed two patent applications. Dr. Chung received the B.S. degree in
computer science and information engineering from National Taiwan
University in 1982, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1986 and 1989,
respectively. He has received an IBM Technical Achievement Award, a
Research Division Technical Group Award, a Research Division Award, and
one IEEE Outstanding Paper Award. He served as industrial chair,
program committee member, and session chair in several workshops and
conferences. Dr. Chung is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.
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 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 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.
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