Biographical sketches of authors

Robert Haas IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland (electronic mail: rha@zurich.ibm.com). Mr. Haas received the M.S. degree in communication systems from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, and the Eurecom Institute, Sophia-Antipolis, France, in 1996. He also received the D.E.A. degree in distributed systems from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis. He joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1996 as a research staff member, designing and prototyping a layer-3 switch. In 1998 he joined the Zurich Research Laboratory, and he is currently studying for a Ph.D. degree with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Zurich. His research interests include network protocols and architecture, specifically auto-configurable and programmable networks.

Patrick Droz IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland (electronic mail: dro@zurich.ibm.com). Dr. Droz received an M.S. degree in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Zurich, in 1992. He then joined the Zurich Research Laboratory and worked in the ATM Networking Group on the design and implementation of the ATM control point for the 8260 campus backbone hub, and completed his Ph.D. degree on “Traffic Estimation and Resource Allocation in ATM Networks” in 1996. He is now manager of the Network Processor Software group. He is cochair of the IETF ForCES working group. His current research activities focus on software enablement for network processors.

Burkhard Stiller Information Systems Laboratory IIS, University of Federal Armed Forces Munich, D-85579 Neubiberg, Germany, and also Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory TIK, ETH Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland (electronic mail: stiller@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de). Prof. Dr. Stiller received an M.S. degree in computer science and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He worked there as a research assistant at the Institute of Telematics until 1995, and was a visiting scientist at the University of California, Irvine, California, in 1992, and at the University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, in the United Kingdom in 1994/1995 under a European Community Research Fellowship. From 1995 until 1999 he was with the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Zurich, as a research associate and lecturer for multimedia communications. Since August 1999 he has been an assistant professor for communication systems at ETHZ. In addition, he was appointed full professor for computer science at the University of Federal Armed Forces, Munich, Germany, in April 2002.