John E. Funderburk IBM Software Group, Silicon Valley Laboratory, 555 Bailey Avenue, San Jose, California 95141 (jfund@us.ibm.com). Mr. Funderburk is a software developer at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab. He previously worked on the XML Extender for DB2 and is currently working on XTABLES.
Gerald Kiernan IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (kiernan@almaden.ibm.com). Dr. Kiernan is a senior software engineer at IBM's Almaden Research Center. He previously worked on IBM's Object Broker, as well as the research version of XTABLES. He is currently doing research on privacy preserving databases.
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram Cornell University, Department of Computer Sciences, Ithaca, New York 14853 (jai@cs.cornell.edu). Dr. Shanmugasundaram is an assistant professor of computer science at Cornell University. He previously worked on the research version of XTABLES while he was a visiting scientist at IBM's Almaden Research Center. He is currently doing research on P2P indexing systems and query processing for unstructured data.
Eugene Shekita IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, Califoirnia 95120 (shekita@almaden.ibm.com). Mr. Shekita is a research staff manager at IBM's Almaden Research Center. He previously worked on DB2's query optimizer, as well as the research version of XTABLES. He is currently doing research on query processing.
Catalina Wei IBM Software Group, Silicon Valley Laboratory, 555 Bailey Avenue, San Jose, California 95141 (fancy@us.ibm.com). Ms. Wei is a senior software developer at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab. She previously worked on IBM's Object Broker and is currently working on XTABLES.