Alex Cozzi  IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (cozzialmaden.ibm.com). Dr. Cozzi is a research staff member at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He received an M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Milan, Italy, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Dortmund, Germany. He has worked on computer vision and social network analysis. His research interests include human-computer interaction and data mining.

Stephen Farrell  IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (sfarrellalmaden.ibm.com). Mr. Farrell is a senior software engineer at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He has a B.A. degree in the history and philosophy of science and an M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Chicago. Mr. Farrell joined IBM Research in 1999 to develop systems which enhance the ability of people to work or collaborate. Some of his research areas include personalization of the Web experience, information programming, person-centric data integration, and relationship-oriented computing. Some of his projects include Fringe, which gives a person-centered view of enterprise information, and Enki, which does the same for personal information sources. He is also lead architect of the Unified Activity Management project.

Tessa Lau  IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (tessalauus.ibm.com). Dr. Lau is a research staff member at the IBM Almaden Research Center. She completed her Ph.D. degree in computer science at the University of Washington in 2001. She is interested in information management, particularly personal information, and how people interact with and customize their working environment. She has done significant work in the area of programming by demonstration, giving end users the ability to automate repetitive tasks simply by showing the system how to perform the task a few times.

Barton A. Smith  IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (basmithalmaden.ibm.com). Dr. Smith received a B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 1972, and a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University in 1977. After two years at Stanford University, where he was a National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, he joined the IBM Research Division in San Jose, California, in 1979. In his 26 years as a research staff member in IBM Research, he has worked on fundamental problems in polymers, materials, and computer science, and on IBM products including magnetic disks, optical disks, magnetic tape, typewriter ribbon, circuit boards, integrated circuits, multichip ceramic circuit modules, optical data transmission, displays, and ThinkPads^®. His most recent work centers on understanding how people use information technology and improving the human-computer interaction experience. Dr. Smith currently manages the Human Interface Research group in the Computer Science department at the Almaden Research Center.

Clemens Drews  IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (cdrewsus.ibm.com). Mr. Drews is a software engineer and currently works on the Unified Activity Management project. He has a B.S. degree in technical computer science from the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg, Germany. He joined IBM Research in 1998. During his career at IBM, Mr. Drews has worked on projects ranging from short-range wireless communication gadgets to large multiuser collaboration tools.

James Lin  IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (jameslinus.ibm.com). Dr. Lin is a research staff member at the USER (User Sciences and Experience Research) group at the IBM Almaden Research Center. His research interests include user interfaces for collaboration, end-user programming, and creating tools for designing next-generation user interfaces. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Bob Stachel  IBM Software Group, 1 Rogers Street, Lotus Development, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 (bob_stachelus.ibm.com). Mr. Stachel is a software developer in the Collaborative User Experience Research Group. Since joining IBM Research in 1998 as a senior software developer, he has worked on projects in support of activity-centric computing, lightweight collaboration, expertise location, and knowledge management. Mr. Stachel joined Lotus in 1985, and was an architect on development teams for the Domino™ Merchant (electronic commerce), Lotus Notes Newsstand (electronic publishing), and Lotus Improv (spreadsheet) products. He has a B.A. degree from Brandeis University in computer science.

Thomas P. Moran  IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (tpmoranus.ibm.com). Dr. Moran is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and leads the Unified Activity Management project. He was one of the pioneers establishing the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) within computer science, co-authoring (with Allen Newell and Stuart Card) the seminal book The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction (1983). He was at Xerox PARC for 27 years as Principal Scientist and manager of User Interface and the Collaborative Systems research and as the Director of Xerox EuroPARC in Cambridge, England. Dr. Moran is founder and editor of the journal Human-Computer Interaction. He is an ACM Fellow and recipient of ACM SIGCHI's (special interest group in human-computer interaction) Lifetime Achievement Award.