Steven Abrams  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, New York, 10532 (sabramsus.ibm.com). Dr. Abrams is a research staff member in the Software Technology department of IBM Research managing the Business Application Modeling group. With that team, he develops tools that help people understand, describe, architect, visualize, and validate enterprise applications more easily and naturally than possible with traditional tools. He has had a varied career in fields such as computer music, robotics, computational geometry, and CAD/CAM and rapid prototyping tools. Dr. Abrams recently served on the National Academy of Sciences committee on Information Technology and Creativity. He studied at Columbia University where he earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science.

Bard Bloom  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, New York, 10532 (bardbus.ibm.com). Dr. Bloom received a Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, taught at Cornell University until 1995, and has worked at the Watson Research Center since then.

Paul Keyser  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, New York, 10532 (pkeyserus.ibm.com). Dr. Keyser studied physics and classics at St. Andrews' School, Duke University, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. After a few years of research and teaching in classics at the University of Alberta at Edmonton, Cornell University, and other places, he returned to his first love, programming. He is currently crafting Java™ and Eclipse™ plug-ins for the Watson Research Center in the Semantic Analysis area. His publications include work on gravitational physics, stylometry, and ancient science and technology.

Doug Kimelman  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, New York, 10532 (dnkus.ibm.com). Dr. Kimelman is a research staff member at the Watson Research Center. His general interests include the structure and behavior of complex systems, and “human computer bandwidth.” Specific areas in which he has worked include: parallel systems, operating systems, debuggers, performance tools, software visualization, software development environments, and technologies for specifying and implementing large-scale IT systems.

Eric Nelson  IBM Software Group, 3100 Smoketree Court, Raleigh, North Carolina 27604-1054 (ericnelsus.ibm.com). Dr. Nelson is a Certified Senior IT Architect in the Federal CTO Strategic Technology Architecture team. He received a Ph.D. degree in cognitive psychology from the University of Chicago in 1987, where he worked for a time as the university's technical liaison to the National Science Foundation (NSF) supercomputer centers, assisting faculty and students in the design and implementation of their research projects for NSF systems and the Argonne National Laboratory parallel-computing facility. While at Chicago, he led the development of a PC-based population dynamics simulation system that was part of a multi-university biological-sciences laboratory-simulation collection called BioQuest, which won an EDUCOM innovation award in 1991. In 1992, he moved to Tokyo, where he taught psychology and computer science and was a software consultant in financial services. He continued consulting in Singapore in both financial services and modeling and simulation for games and real-time training systems. Upon returning to the United States in 1997, he joined IBM Global Services, where he was part of the Enterprise Architecture and Technology Center of Excellence, working with a broad range of Fortune 100 clients in financial services, distribution, retail, and media. In 2002, he joined the Federal CTO Strategic Technology Architecture team and now works with Department of Defense and civilian agencies on technology strategy and transformation to open architectural systems and service-oriented architectures.

Wendy Neuberger  IBM Sales and Distribution, 609 Harvard Street, Vestal, New York 13850 (wneubergus.ibm.com). Ms. Neuberger is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Certified IT Architect in IBM Sales and Distribution, Distribution Sector. She is responsible for the development and deployment of retail reference architecture that integrates industry solutions, best practices, and tooling. Prior to joining Sales and Distribution, she was in IBM Global Services, Application Management Services (AMS). Ms. Neuberger was a member of the AMS Research Institute, championing several technology innovation projects, including Architects' Workbench. She received a B.S. degree in business management and an M.B.A. degree in management information systems from Binghamton University and joined IBM in 1983.

Tova Roth  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, New York, 10532 (tovaus.ibm.com). Ms. Roth is an advisory software engineer at the Watson Research Center. In addition to the Architects' Workbench, her work at IBM Research has included visualization of complex systems, optimization of dynamic systems, debugging tools, performance tools, and tools for aspect-oriented development. Prior to joining IBM Research, Ms. Roth worked on visualization of financial data and computer-graphics tools.

Ian Simmonds  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, New York, 10532 (simmondsus.ibm.com). Mr. Simmonds is an advisory software engineer in the Business Application Modeling department at the Watson Research Center. He received a B.A. degree in mathematics from Cambridge University in 1987. Prior to joining IBM, he developed PCTE-based software engineering tools for ESPRIT's PACT and ATMOSPHERE projects and EUREKA's EAST Environment and contributed to the standardization of ECMA and ISO PCTE. He joined IBM in 1993 and since 1995, has researched methods and tools for business and IT consulting (specifically for the insurance industry), requirements management, systems envisioning, and (starting in 2002) IT and enterprise architecture.

Steven Tang  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, New York, 10532 (stangus.ibm.com). Dr. Tang is a software engineer at the Watson Research Center. His major focus areas are advanced user interface (UI) interaction techniques, frameworks, and graphical and rich text clients. Specifically, he led the development of a query-driven browser-based UI that supports modeling through declaratively specified forms. Dr. Tang received both an M.S. degree and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He published several papers on UI builders and frameworks at the UIST conference between 1991 and 1994. Dr. Tang joined IBM Research in 2003, where he has been applying his UI expertise on tooling support for modeling applications. Prior to joining IBM, Dr. Tang worked for Fujitsu Network Communications as a senior manager for UI development, and he also co-founded a company in 1999 that specialized in rich Ajax applications supporting incremental two-way updates.

John Vlissides  Dr. Vlissides was an IBM research staff member from 1991 and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology from 1998. He was best known for his part in creating the field of software patterns and for his first book, Design Patterns, coauthored with Gamma, Helm, and Johnson (known in the field as the “Gang of Four” or “GoF”). He and the Gang of Four were recently awarded the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award for their work on design patterns. Dr. Vlissides' research interests were in software design tools and techniques (especially object-oriented ones), design patterns, application frameworks and builders, software visualization, and tools for user interface development. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. Dr. Vlissides passed away in November, 2005, after a battle of more than a year and a half with a brain tumor.