Biographical sketches of authors
Asit Dan
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: asit@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Dan has been with IBM Research since 1990 and currently manages the business-to-business integration department, working on the development of infrastructure for supporting business-to-business e-commerce applications. He is at the forefront in the research and development of transaction processing architectures and video servers. He holds several top-rated patents in these areas and has received two IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards, seven Invention Achievement Awards, and the honor of Master Inventor for his work in these areas. Dr. Dan received a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His doctoral dissertation, Performance Analysis of Data Sharing Environments, received an Honorable Mention in the 1991 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Competition and was subsequently published by the MIT Press. He has published extensively, including several book chapters, and a book on multimedia servers.
Daniel M. Dias
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York (electronic mail: dias@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Dias received the B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rice University, all in electrical engineering. He has been with the IBM Research Center in Yorktown Heights since 1983. He manages the Parallel Commercial Systems department, which currently has projects focusing on scalable and high-performance Internet servers, business-to-business e-commerce, and performance management. His recent work includes scalable and highly available Web servers, frameworks for business-to-business e-commerce, high-performance scalable Web caches, scalable video servers, highly available clustered systems, and performance analysis. Technologies developed in these projects have been used for the 2000 Olympics Web site and large customer sites. Some are now available as IBM products such as Network Dispatcher, Web Cache Accelerator, and HACMP ES. Dr. Dias has published more than 100 papers in refereed journals and conferences. He has won two best paper awards, IBM Outstanding Innovation and Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, ten Invention Achievement Awards, and Research Division Awards. He holds 18 U.S. patents, with 15 additional patents pending.
Robert Kearney
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York (electronic mail: firefly@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Kearney has been employed at IBM for 30 years, with the last 18 at the Research Center. He is currently working in developing e-commerce frameworks. Prior to this work, he helped develop frameworks for clinical information systems, networked document retrieval and processing systems, and insurance industry systems, all as partnerships between industry, government organizations, and IBM Research. His education is in mathematics, having attended the University of Massachusetts, University of Wyoming, and Pennsylvania State University.
Terry C. Lau
IBM Canada Laboratory, 1150 Eglinton Avenue East, North York, Ontario, Canada M3C 1H7 (electronic mail: lautc@ca.ibm.com).
Dr. Lau is a senior system architect in the Department of Electronic Commerce Development at the IBM Canada Laboratory. His current activity is business-to-business e-commerce. Previously, he has been in various technical and management positions in the areas of data communications, imaging, and graphical user interface application development tools. Before joining IBM, he was a faculty staff member at the University of Hong Kong and a development manager at Northern Telecom in data communications. Dr. Lau received a B.Sc. from the University of Hong Kong and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Waterloo.
Thao N. Nguyen
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: tnnguyen@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Nguyen received a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and M.S.E.E. and Ph.D.E.E. degrees in microelectronics from Stanford University. Since joining the Research Center in 1983, he has worked on a broad range of research and development projects and held various technical and management positions. During the first six years he performed and managed research in VLSI processing technologies and material, and process characterization. He spent the next two years in semiconductor product development at the IBM East Fishkill semiconductor facilities, first as an executive technical assistant and later as senior engineering manager of process integration. From 1991 to 1996 he participated in the development of an advanced RISC microprocessor for RS/6000™ and then led the floorplanning and chip integration work in a project to produce a highly successful single-chip CMOS microprocessor for S/390™ systems. His recent activities are focused on software and systems for business-to-business e-commerce. He has worked on the development of a framework for business-to-business applications and integration as well as an OBI supplier solution package. He is currently engaged in an effort to develop and deploy business-to-business commerce servers for IBM as a supplier to large enterprises and e-marketplaces. Dr. Nguyen has authored or coauthored more than 40 technical papers and has been awarded several patents in silicon and circuit technologies. He is a recipient of several Research Division Awards, a Technical Group Award, and two IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards. He has served on the Technical Program Committee of several IEEE conferences including the Symposium on VLSI Technologies and Symposium on VLSI Circuits.
Francis N. Parr
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: fnparr@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Parr is a research staff member in the Computer Sciences department at the Research Center and also responsible for the Transaction and Messaging Technology Institute—a joint program between IBM Research and the IBM Hursley Development Laboratory. He is currently engaged in research on business-to-business middleware with previous interests in messaging and message brokering, object middleware, parallel database, and scalable transaction systems. Before joining IBM, Dr. Parr was a lecturer in computing at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University. He received a Ph.D. in applied math from Harvard University and a B.A. in mathematics from Cambridge University.
Martin W. Sachs
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: mwsachs@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Sachs is a research staff member in the Department of Computer Sciences at the Research Center. His current activity is business-to-business e-commerce, focusing on electronic trading-partner agreements. He is leading the ebXML team that is developing the specification for the standardized version of the IBM tpaML electronic trading- partner agreement language. Previously, he specialized in I/O interconnect architecture including contributions to the IBM System/390 fiber-optic ESCON™ I/O Architecture and the ANSI Fiber Channel standard. Before joining IBM, he worked in nuclear reactions and in computer-based nuclear data acquisition at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and Yale University. Dr. Sachs received an A.B. degree in physics from Harvard University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in nuclear physics from Yale University. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of Sigma Xi, the ACM, and the American Physical Society.
Hidayatullah H. Shaikh
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: hshaikh@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Shaikh is an advisory software engineer in the Parallel Commercial Systems department at the Research Center. His current activity is business-to-business e-commerce, focusing on defining a flexible and scalable framework for new and existing business-to-business protocols. His contributions include ebXML header specification and IBM tpaML electronic trading-partner agreement language. Previously, he has been involved in the architecture and design of the IBM Supplier Live solution for Ariba Buyer and implementation of Java Transaction Services. Mr. Shaikh received an M.S. degree in computer engineering from Syracuse University.
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