Biographical sketches of authors
Kathryn Heninger Britton
IBM Application Integration Middleware Division, P.O. Box 12195, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27515 (electronic mail: brittonk@us.ibm.com).
Ms. Britton is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Application Integration Middleware Division. She is the technical leader of the worldwide research and development team that produced the IBM WebSphere Transcoding Publisher product, first shipped in March 2000. Since joining IBM in 1981, she has contributed to IBM's network architecture, with a focus on two-phase commit protocols and multiprotocol networking. She has also worked on the development of several software products for networking and mobile computing. She has served as IBM's representative to the X/Open XNET working group. Prior to joining IBM, Ms. Britton worked for the Naval Research Laboratory on software engineering research and technology transfer. She holds a bachelor's degree in English from Stanford University and two master's degrees, one in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Ralph Case
IBM Software Group, 4205 South Miami Boulevard, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (electronic mail: caser@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Case is a senior programmer developing transcoding strategy and technology. He also works on APPN® architecture and chairs the APPN Implementers Workshop (AIW). Previously, he helped develop S/390 hardware, specializing in channel subsystems, ESCON®, and total systems test. He has experience building automated tools and cooperative processing systems using communications protocols, knowledge-based systems, and object-oriented programming. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Andrew Citron
IBM Software Group, 4205 South Miami Boulevard, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (electronic mail: citron@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Citron is currently the team lead for the Transcoding Publisher and Host Publisher performance team. He has also been a software developer on Web Express and Mwave®. Prior to that he was lead architect for IBM's APPC architecture.
Rick Floyd
IBM Software Group, 4205 South Miami Boulevard, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (electronic mail: raf@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Floyd received the B.S. degree from Iowa State University in 1977 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Rochester in 1982 and 1989. He was a member of the technical staff at the Clinton P. Anderson Meson Physics Facility from 1978 to 1981, and at BBN Laboratories Incorporated from 1987 to 1989. He has been with IBM in Research Triangle Park since 1989. His research interests include distributed systems and mobile computing.
Yongcheng Li
IBM Application Integration Middleware Division, 4205 South Miami Boulevard, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (electronic mail: ycli@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Li is a software engineer in the Advanced Design and Technology Group of the Application Integration Middleware Division. He currently works on XML-based application integration and data transformation. After joining IBM in 1997, he worked on Web-host integration. Dr. Li received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Tsinghua University in 1993. He is a coinventor on 16 filed patents.
Christopher Seekamp
IBM Software Group, 4205 South Miami Boulevard, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (electronic mail: seekamp@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Seekamp is a programming consultant and has been the primary developer and development team leader for the text-related portions of the WebSphere Transcoding Publisher since early in its development. He has held numerous key positions working on the development of the various communications software projects. For most of the last several years he has worked on issues dealing with providing content to various types of mobile devices, both inside and outside of IBM. Over 10 years ago, Mr. Seekamp was an early adopter of object-oriented design and development techniques and has been employing object-oriented design and development approaches in his work ever since.
Brad Topol
IBM Software Group, 4205 South Miami Boulevard, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (electronic mail: btopol@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Topol is a member of the AIM/Business Connection Advanced Technology Group at IBM in Research Triangle Park. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Emory University in 1993 and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998. Currently, he is actively involved in advanced technology projects in the areas of content adaptation, distributed systems, networking, and graphical user interfaces.
Karen Tracey
IBM Software Group, 4205 South Miami Boulevard, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (electronic mail: kmt@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Tracey received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1987, 1989, and 1991, respectively. She joined IBM at Research Triangle Park in 1991. She has worked in development for various products, most recently for Communications Server/390 and WebSphere Transcoding Publisher.
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