Biographical sketches of authors
Donald F. Ferguson
IBM Software Group, Route 100, Somers, New York 10589 (electronic mail: dff@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Ferguson received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Columbia University in 1989. His Ph.D. thesis applied concepts and algorithms from economics to resource management problems in distributed systems and computer networks. This included work on system load balancing, data replication and file placement, and network flow control. He joined IBM in 1987 and has led research and development efforts in the areas of operating system performance, database tuning, scalable transaction processing, object transaction monitors, and Web application servers. Since 1993, he has been the chief technical lead for IBM's WebSphere family of products that provides an infrastructure and programming model for integrating new and pre-existing applications with the Internet, providing business-to-person and business-to-business solutions. Dr. Ferguson holds approximately a dozen granted or pending U.S. patents and has authored more than 24 technical publications. In 1998, he was named a Distinguished Engineer. He is also a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.
Rainer Kerth
IBM Software Group, Route 100, Somers, New York 10589 (electronic mail: rkerth@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Kerth joined the WebSphere Architecture Team in Somers in July 1999. His areas of expertise are object-oriented application development, based on CORBA or EJB/J2EE, and Web application development. He is currently responsible for the documentation of and extensions to the WebSphere programming model. In this role, he has worked on extended transaction models and participates in IBM's review of different standards initiatives, mainly the EJB and the J2EE specifications. Prior to joining the WebSphere team, he worked for several years in IBM's Object Technology Practice in Germany, specializing in application development in customer engagements. Dr. Kerth earned a Ph.D. degree in mathematics and foundations of computer science at the University of Paris in 1995. His thesis addressed several fundamental questions relating to the denotational semantics of lambda calculus.
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