Biographical sketches of authors

Lance W. Russell IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (electronic mail: lancerus@almaden.ibm.com). Mr. Russell is a research staff member in the Storage Systems Group at the Almaden Research Center. While at the IBM Advanced Workstations Division, he led the early AIX^® operating system architecture and implementation efforts for TCP/IP, sockets, streams, and netware. He received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for his work on AIX 3.1. At Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, he worked as a principal scientist on server blade architecture and dynamic resource allocation. He holds over two dozen patents and has numerous patent filings. In addition to systems architecture, his research interests include forecasting and system planning under uncertainty. He has testified on the latter subjects before the Public Service Commission of Colorado and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Stephen P. Morgan IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (electronic mail: smorgan@almaden.ibm.com). Mr. Morgan is a senior software engineer in the Storage Systems Group at the Almaden Research Center. He has worked on a variety of systems projects since joining the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1981. He was a member of the 801 Group and helped transfer its technology into the AIX 3.1 operating system. He is a coinventor of the AIX Logical Volume Manager. Mr. Morgan helped jump-start the Open Software Foundation. He developed High Availability for NFS. He was principal investigator on a Department of Defense secure workstation project, for which he received an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award. He holds more than a dozen patents and has published papers at conferences ranging from VLDB to USENIX. He is primarily interested in storage systems and computer networking. In 1982, Mr. Morgan received an S.B. degree in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Edward G. Chron IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (electronic mail: echron@almaden.ibm.com). Mr. Chron is a senior software engineer in the Storage Systems Group at the Almaden Research Center. He worked on hardware architecture-specific operating system technology and system software development, and on CAD and CAE (computer-aided design and computer-aided engineering) tools for chip layout and design, while at Intel Corporation. At the former IBM Palo Alto Scientific Center, which he joined in 1991, Mr. Chron developed advanced versions of the AIX operating system and of the Mach microkernel, for the IBM RS/6000 and for IBM mainframe systems. Since moving to the Almaden Research Center in 1993, Mr. Chron has worked on numerous systems projects. His research interests include operating systems, systems architecture, distributed and networking systems, and storage-related applications. He received a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in 1981.