Contributors to This Issue Brian N. Bershad is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington in Seattle, V/ashington. Dr. Bershad's research interests include archi- tecture, operating system support for parallel and distributed computation, and high performance networking. Prior to his appointment in Seattle, he was on the faculty at Carngie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He received his M.S. (1989) and Ph.D. (1990) degrees in Computer Science from the University of Washington. He received his Bachelor's Degree (1986) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sci- ence from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Bershad received an NSF PYI award in 1990, an ONR TIA award in 1994, and is a member of IEEE and ACM. Dr. Bershad's cuffent research includes the SPIN project and Memory system design. Fred Douglis is an MTS at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. Prior to that he was a scientist at the Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory, and a post- doctoral fellow at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. His interests include the V/orld Wide Web, mobile computing, distributed computing, and file systems. He worked on the Sprite network operating system from its inception in 1984 until the fall of 1990, and built its process migration facility as part of his doctoral research. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University in 1984, an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley in 1990. He can be reached at douglis@re- search.att.com. Peter Honeymanholds the B.G.S. (with distinction) from the University of Michigan and the Ph.D. from Princeton University for research in relational database theory. He has been a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He is Associate Research Scientist at the University of Michigan's Center for Information Technology Integration and Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Honeyman has been instrumental in several software projects, including HoneyDanBer UUCP, PathAlias, MacNFS, Telebit's UUCP spoof, and improvements to Transarc's AFS, such as transport layer improvements and disconnected operation. His research ef- forts focus on distributed file systems, with an emphasis on mobile computing, secu- rity, and performance. He can be reached at [email protected]. Contributors to This Issue 415 Larry Huston holds B.S.E and M.S.E. degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Com- puter Engineering and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, all from the University of Michigan. His dissertation is titled Remote Access to Distrib- uted File Systems. He is employed by Ipsilon Networks, Inc. He can be reached at lhuston @ citi.umich.edu. P Krishnan is a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. His re- search interests include network management, the development and analysis of algo- rithms, online and prediction algorithms, prefetching and caching, mobile comput- ing, and data compression. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University in 1995, and his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 1989. He can be reached at [email protected]. Brian B. Noble is a graduate student in the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include mobile computing, distributed sys- tems, and system evaluation; currently he is implementing the Odyssey architecture. Noble received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sci- ence from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Master's degree in Com- puter Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He can be reached at [email protected]. Morgan Price is a graduate student in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is implementing applications for Odyssey. He received his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Biology from the University of Chicago. He can be reached at [email protected]. Mahadev Satyanarayanan is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His current research addresses the problem of information access in mo- bile computing environments. The Odyssey mobile computing platform and the Coda File System are outcomes of this work. Earlier, he was a principal architect and implementor of the Andrew File System, which focused on issues of scale, per- formance and security. Later versions of this system have been commercialized and incorporated into the Open Software Foundation's DCE offering. Satyanarayanan received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon and Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, Usenix and Sigma Xi, and has been a consultant and advisor to in- dustry and government. He can be reached at [email protected]. 416 Contributors to This Issue.