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About the Editors


EDITOR IN CHIEF

 
Dejan Milojicic

Dejan Milojicic is the founding editor of Computing Now. He has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technologies, IEEE Concurrency, IEEE Distributed Systems Online, and IEEE Internet Computing magazines. He chaired the IEEE Technical Committee on Operating Systems and has been involved with several other technical committees and Computer Society-sponsored conferences.

Dejan is a senior research manager at HP Labs. He has worked in the areas of operating systems and distributed systems for more than 20 years. He has been engaged in standardization bodies, such as OMG and GGF. He is a member of the IEEE, ACM, and Usenix. He has a BSc and an MSc from University of Belgrade and a PhD from University of Kaiserslautern. He can be reached at computing_now@computer.org.

  

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

 
Mark Baker

Mark Baker is a research professor of computer science at the University of Reading in the School of Systems Engineering. He leads a group that is involved in the research and development of middleware for parallel and distributed systems. He's a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society and is involved many of their activities and events. He received his PhD in Maritime Technology at the Cardiff University in 1988. His Web site is http://acet.rdg.ac.uk/~mab/.

  
Doree Duncan SeligmannDorée Duncan Seligmann is the director of Collaborative Applications Research at Avaya Labs. Her work encompasses social software, context-aware communications, communications reasoning, mobile communication solutions, the communication enablement of social networks and businesses processes, communications middleware, intelligent user-interface techniques, and speech-based systems. Dorée earned a PhD in computer science at Columbia University. She's a member of the IEEE and ACM and the associative editor in chief for IEEE MultiMedia magazine.
  
George ThiruvathukalGeorge K. Thiruvathukal is an associate professor of computer science at Loyola University Chicago in the Computer Science department, where he also serves as computing director and co-director of the Emerging Technologies Laboratory (www.etl.luc.edu). His research and teaching interests include computing history, parallel and distributed systems, programming and markup languages, and free and open source software. He also has extensive multidisciplinary interests, including digital humanities, music, environmental science, and bioinformatics. He holds a PhD from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He also serves as an associate editor for Computing in Science and Engineering, co-published by IEEE Computer Society and the American Institute of Physics. He's a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM. He is also the coauthor of High Performance Java Platform Computing, which is now available freely online at http://hpjpc.googlecode.com. To contact him, please visit www.cs.luc.edu/gkt.
  
Christian TimmererChristian Timmerer an assistant professor in the Department of Information Technology (ITEC), Multimedia Communication Group (MMC), Klagenfurt University, Austria. His research interests include the transport of multimedia content, multimedia adaptation in constrained and streaming environments, distributed multimedia adaptation, and Quality of Service / Quality of Experience. He was the general chair of WIAMIS 2008 and EUMOB2009 and has participated in several EC-funded projects, notably DANAE, ENTHRONE, P2P-Next, and ALICANTE. He also participated in ISO/MPEG work for several years, notably in the area of MPEG-21, MPEG-M, and MPEG-V. He received his PhD in 2006 from the Klagenfurt University. Publications and MPEG contributions can be found under http://research.timmerer.com, follow him on http://www.twitter.com/timse7, and subscribe to his blog http://blog.timmerer.com.
 
Ron Vetter

Ron Vetter is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and cofounder of the technology company Mobile Education LLC. He is editor in chief of Computer magazine, as well as an associate technical editor for Computing Now. Vetter has a BS and an MS in computer science from North Dakota State University, Fargo, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM. In 1998, Vetter was selected as an ACM Distinguished Lecturer and elevated to the grade of senior member in the IEEE. Contact him at http://people.uncw.edu/vetterr.

 

ADVISORY BOARD

 
Jean Bacon

Jean Bacon is a professor of distributed systems in the Computer Laboratory of the UK's University of Cambridge. She's a member of Computer's editorial board. You can reach her at www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jmb25/.

 
Thomas CostelloThomas Costello is is the CEO of UpStreme, Inc. He's also a member of IT Professional magazine's editorial board. For more information, see www.UpStreme.com.
 
Scott Davidson

Scott Davidson is senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. He's also a member of IEEE Design & Test of Computers' editorial board. Contact him at scott dot davidson at sun dot com.

 
Keith Farkas

Keith Farkas is a staff engineer at VMware and a member of IEEE Pervasive Computing's editorial board. Contact him at kfarkas at vmware dot com.

 
Maria Ganzha

Maria Ganzha is a senior researcher at the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences. She's also the Education department editor for Computing Now and IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine. Contact her at www.ganzha.euh-e.edu.pl/.

 
Anup Ghosh

Anup Ghosh is a research professor and chief scientist at the Center for Secure Information Systems at George Mason University. He's also a member of IEEE Security & Privacy's editorial board. Contact him at anup.ghosh at computer dot org.

 
David Alan Grier

David Alan Grier is an associate professor of International Science and Technology Policy and International Affairs at George Washington University and a senior consulting editor for IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. You can reach him at www.gwu.edu/~elliott/faculty/grier.cfm.

 
Tiejun Huang Tiejun Huang is a professor at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University and Computing Now's regional representative for China. Contact him at http://www.jdl.ac.cn/user/huangtiejun/index-en.aspx.
  
Luanne Johnson
 
Luanne Johnson is co-chair of the Software Industry Special Interest Group at the Computer History Museum and is a consulting editor to the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing magazine. She's also the Annals' liaison to Computing Now. Contact her at luanne.i.johnson at gmail dot com.
  
Xiang-Yang LiXiang-Yang Li is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology. He's also a member of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems editorial board. Contact him at www.cs.iit.edu/~xli.
 
Pankaj MehraPankaj Mehra is CTO and Sr. VP at Inlogy. He's also a member of IEEE Internet Computing magazine's editorial board. Contact him at pankaj.mehra at ieee dot org.
  
Paolo MontuschiPaolo Montuschi is a full professor serving as Chair of the Department of Control and Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino. He's also an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers. For more information, see http://arith.polito.it/dai-arc/paolo.montuschi/.
 
Maurizio Morisio

Maurizio Morisio is a professor in the Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino. He's IEEE Software's associate editor in chief for online initiatives. Please visit him at http://softeng.polito.it/morisio/.

 
 Sundara Nagarajan

Sundara Nagarajan is a Technical Director with NetApp and a visiting professor at International Institute of Information Technology in Bangalore, India. He's also organizing the IEEE Special Technical Community on Big Data and is Computing Now's regional liaison to IEEE Computer Society activities in India. Contact him at s.nagarajan at computer dot org.

 
Marcin Paprzycki

Marcin Paprzycki is an assistant professor at the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences. He's also the Book Reviews department co-editor for Computing Now. To reach him, please visit http://mpaprzycki.swps.edu.pl/.

 
Kevin Rudd

Kevin Rudd is a computer architect at Intel and a member of IEEE Micro's editorial board. Contact him at kevin.w.rudd at intel dot com.

 
Art Sedighi

Art Sedighi is the CTO and founder of SoftModule. He's also the Book Reviews department co-editor for Computing Now and a member of IEEE Software magazine's editorial board. Contact him at sediga at alum dot rpi dot edu.

 
Charles SeveranceCharles R. Severance is a clinical associate professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan and Web editor for Computer magazine. Contact him at http://www.dr-chuck.com/dr-chuck/resume/index.htm.
 
Leonel Sousa

Leonel Sousa is an associate professor at IST, Technical University of Lisbon, and a senior researcher at INESC-ID. Contact him at http://medusa.inesc-id.pt/~las/.

 
Sotirios Terzis

Sotirios Terzis is a lecturer in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde. Please visit him at www.cis.strath.ac.uk/cis/staff/index.php?uid=terzis.

 
Luiz Velho

Luiz Velho is a professor at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (Brazil) and is the Visgraf Laboratory’s leading scientist. He's also on IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications magazine's editorial board and is Computing Now's regional liaison to Brazil. Contact him at http://lvelho.impa.br/.

 
Chris Yang

Chris Yang is an associate professor in Drexel University's College of Information Science and Technology. He's also a member of IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine's editorial board. For more information, see http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/cyang.

 

 


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