This technology has been retired.

David Shields received his BS in Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology and his PhD in Computer Science from New York University. He was on the research staff at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, where he worked on programming languages and compilers, including the LITTLE, SETL, and Ada/Ed projects. He also wrote SPITBOL/6000 and (with Robert Dewar) PC SPITBOL.

Since joining IBM in 1987, Dr. Shields has worked on automatic parallelization, including the PTRAN project, and IBM's FORTRAN 90 compiler with High Performance FORTRAN support for SP2 machines.

Derek Lieber works at IBM Research in Hawthorne, New York. His interests include debugging, program visualization, and graphical user interfaces. Prior to jumping on the Java bandwagon, Mr. Lieber worked on an incremental C++ compiler project, wrote an X11 graphical debugger for C, C++, and FORTRAN programs running on AIX workstations, and wrote the user interface portion of a multi-process, parametered, 3D, geometric modeling system.

Philippe G. Charles works in the IBM Research Division, Hawthorne, NY.

For platform(s):

• All Java Platforms