IBM Lightweight Services

About the technology author(s):
Christopher Vincent is a software engineer on the Internet Technology Team, IBM Server Group. His research interests include instant messaging, publish/subscribe infrastructure, rapid application development, and dynamic programming languages. He received M.Eng. and B.S. degrees from MIT, where he worked at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

John Rooney is a manager on the Internet Technology Team, IBM Server Group. The Internet Technology Team builds next-generation application prototypes and technologies for use within IBM and with customers.

Matthew Roy is a staff software engineer on the Internet Technology Team, IBM Server Group. His research interests include instant messaging, high performance publish/subscribe infrastructure, and digital media management. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Paul Reed is a software engineer on the Internet Technology Team, IBM Server Group. His research interests include high performance Web systems, data management, and distributed system monitoring. He received his B.S. degree from the University of York in England.

Benjamin Szekely is a software engineer on the Internet Technology Team, IBM Server Group. His research interests include Web service transports and infrastructure, instant messaging, and distributed systems. He received his B.A. degree from Cornell University, where he did research in dynamical system visualization and sensor networks.