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About the Editors
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 | 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. |
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ASSOCIATE EDITORS |
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 | 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/. |
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 | Dorée 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. |
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 | George 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. |
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 | Christian 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. |
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ADVISORY BOARD |
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 | 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/. |
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 | Hsinchun Chen is the McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems and director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona. He's also a member of IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine's editorial board. for more information, see http://ai.arizona.edu/hchen/. |
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 | Thomas 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. |
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 | 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. |
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 | 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. |
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 | 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/. |
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 | 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. |
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 | 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. |
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 | Maurizio Morisio is an associate professor in the Department of Automation and Computer Science, Politecnico di Torino. He's IEEE Software's associate editor in chief for online initiatives. Please visit him at http://softeng.polito.it/morisio/. |
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 | 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/. |
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 | 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. |
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 | 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. |
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 | 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/. |
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 | Maureen Stone is an independent consultant and editor in chief of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. Contact her at www.stonesc.com/. |
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 | 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. |
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 | Ron Vetter is the cofounder of Mobile Education, LLC and a professor in the Computer Science Department at UNC Wilmington. He's also a member of Computer magazine's editorial board. Contact him at http://people.uncw.edu/vetterr. |
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