Biographical sketches of authors

Vijay K. Naik IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P. O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (vkn@us.ibm.com). Dr. Naik is a research staff member in the Internet Infrastructure and Computing Utilities Department. His current research areas include distributed computing, in particular, utility computing, peer-to-peer, and grid computing. He is the author of the book, Multiprocessing: Trade-Offs in Computation and Communication. He has also published over 40 articles in journals and refereed conferences. Prior to joining IBM in 1988, Dr. Naik was a staff scientist at ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from Duke University.

Ajay Mohindra IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (ajaym@us.ibm.com). Dr. Mohindra has been a research staff member at IBM since 1993. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include distributed systems and autonomic and utility computing.

David F. Bantz IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (bantz@watson.ibm.com). Dr. Bantz has been a research staff member since 1972, after a short stint at a startup company. He graduated from Columbia University in 1970 with an Eng. Sc. D. degree and taught there as an adjunct professor for nearly 25 years. He has 20 issued patents. His technical interests have always been in personal computing applications and technology, and he is currently working on autonomic personal computer management.