Biographical sketches of authors

Robert J. T. Morris IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (rjtm@us.ibm.com). Dr. Morris is the director of the IBM Almaden Research Center where he oversees scientists and engineers doing exploratory and applied research in hardware and software areas such as nanotechnology, materials science, storage systems, data management, Web technologies and user interfaces. He is also Vice President for personal systems and storage research, managing this worldwide research work within IBM. A computer scientist, Dr. Morris has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Before coming to Almaden as lab director, he was a director at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, where he led teams in personal and advanced systems research. He began his employment with IBM at Almaden, working on storage and data management technologies. Previously, he was at Bell Laboratories where he began his career in computer communications technology. Dr. Morris was named chairman of the Bay Area Science Innovation Consortium (BASIC) in 2002. He has published more than 50 articles in the computer science, electrical engineering, and mathematics literature and has received 12 patents. He holds a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California at Los Angeles and is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and a Fellow of the IEEE. He was an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers from 1986–1991 and serves on various university advisory committees, including the Government University Industry Research Roundtable.

Brian J. Truskowski IBM Systems Group, Route 100, Somers, New York 10589 (ski@us.ibm.com). Mr. Truskowski is general manager, Storage Software, IBM Systems Group. He was named to this position in January 2003. He is responsible for developing and implementing the storage software strategy, as well as the delivery of all storage software products and services. Previously, as Chief Technology Officer of the Storage Systems Group, he was responsible for overall technical strategy, ensuring that business and product implementation plans were consistent with the overall technical direction of SSG. He and his team also monitored developments in the storage industry, studying trends and new technologies to determine how to apply them to the IBM storage business. Prior to that, Truskowski was vice president, storage subsystems development, responsible for the technical strategy, development, and delivery of the IBM worldwide storage subsystems solutions, including all subsystem hardware platforms and storage management software offerings. He was named to that position in January of 1998. Mr. Truskowski joined IBM in 1981 and held several technical and management positions in the Rochester, MN development laboratory. In 1989, following the completion of advanced degree work, he was assigned to division staff in Somers, NY, before returning to the Rochester development laboratory in late 1991. In 1994, he was named director, AS/400^® systems development, and had responsibility for AS/400 software development, including OS/400^®. Two years later he moved to the chairman's office as a technical assistant to Louis V. Gerstner, IBM chairman and chief executive officer. Mr. Truskowski earned a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Marquette University, and a M.S. degree in management of technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also has an M.B.A. degree from Winona State University (Minnesota).