Mary Roth  IBM Almaden Research Center, 555 Bailey Road, San Jose, California 95141 (torkrothus.ibm.com). Ms. Roth is a software architect on the WebSphere Information Integration Solutions (WIIS) team. She has led several efforts in WIIS, including heterogeneous federation, discovery-driven integration design, and mapping technology for information integration. As a staff researcher, she contributed key advances in heterogeneous data integration techniques and federated query optimization, led efforts to implement federated database support in DB2, and contributed significantly to the ANSI/ISO SQL-MED standard. Ms. Roth has a B.S. degree in mathematics from Marquette University and an M.S. degree in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin.

Mauricio A. Hernandez  IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (mauricioalmaden.ibm.com). Dr. Hernandez is a senior software engineer. His research interests include schema mapping, data integration, and data cleansing. Dr. Hernandez has a Ph.D. in computer science from Columbia University.

Phil Coulthard  IBM Software Group, Toronto Laboratory, 8200 Warden Avenue, Markham, Ontario, Canada L6G 1C7 (coultharca.ibm.com). Mr. Coulthard is a software architect and development manager. He is currently working on WebSphere Integration Developer, an integrated development environment for building SOA applications in which service integration is the key concern. He previously worked as developer, team lead, manager, lead architect, and customer advocate in the iSeries™ tools area of the Toronto Laboratory. Mr. Coulthard is the coauthor of Java for RPG Programmers and Java for S/390 and AS/400 COBOL Programmers, from IBM Press.

Lingling Yan  IBM Almaden Research Center, 555 Bailey Road, San Jose, California 95141 (llyanus.ibm.com). Dr. Yan is the lead developer for the mapping technology in Rational Data Architect. She holds a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Alberta, Canada. Her interests include discovery algorithms and infrastructure, usability solutions and complexity management, and all means and channels of turning the value of mapping technologies into customer value.

Lucian Popa  IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (lucianalmaden.ibm.com). Dr. Popa is a research staff member. He is one of the technical leaders of the IBM Clio project on schema mappings. He received an M.S. degree in computer science from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Popa's research contributions have opened up a new area, called data exchange, of theoretical and applied research in information integration, now actively pursued by the research community.

Howard (Ching-Tien) Ho  IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (hoalmaden.ibm.com). Dr. Ho received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University, and M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Yale University. His past research interests include online analytical processing, communications issues for interconnection networks, algorithms for collective communications, graph embeddings, fault tolerance, and parallel algorithms and architectures. Dr. Ho's current research interests include XML and database languages, especially in schema mapping and data mining.

Craig C. Salter  IBM Software Group, Toronto Laboratory, 8200 Warden Avenue, Markham, Ontario, Canada L6G 1C7 (csalterca.ibm.com). Mr. Salter is the team leader of the Rational XML Web Services team. He received a B.Sc. degree in computer science from McMaster University, Canada. He and his team develop XML tools for the Rational Studio family of products with an emphasis on XML standard technologies supporting Web services. Mr. Salter is also a component lead on the (open source) Eclipse™ Web Tools Platform project.