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Toby Lehman joined the IBM Almaden Research Center in 1986, shortly after finishing his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Lehman's research interests include server-based back-up systems, object-relation database systems, large object management, memory-resident database systems, Tuplespace systems, and just about any cool thing written in Java. Dr. Lehman is the leader of the TSpaces project and he plans to use TSpaces to make the world one cool and productive place.

Keung Hae Lee is a visiting scientist for the TSpaces group at IBM Almaden Research Center and an associate professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Hankuk Aviation University in Korea. He currently leads the development effort for MoDAL. His research interests include distributed objects, internet applications, and application architecture for handheld computers. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech in 1990 and worked for IBM from 1990 to 1993.

Dwayne Nelson joined IBM's TSpaces team as a software engineer in January of 1999. Previously, Mr. Nelson has been a scientist at SAIC's Advanced Distributed Simulation/Research Team and a research assistant at IST's Visual Systems Laboratory (Orlando, FL). In August of 1997, he received his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida with a survey of multi-agent systems and collective agent behaviors. Mr. Nelson's interests remain focused on intelligent/adaptive and distributed systems.

Todd Hodes is a graduate student in the Ph.D. program at the University of California at Berkeley. He received an M.S. from UCB in 1997 and a B.S. with high honors from the University of Virginia in 1994. His research interests are location-dependent applications for mobile devices, scalable service discovery/advertising, remote control of devices and applications, and composition of network services from heterogeneous clients.

Michelle Munson joined IBM in December 1998 after completing her Master's in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, UK. She graduated from Kansas State University in 1996 with degrees in EE and Physics. Ms. Munson is interested in all aspects of distributed systems. She has recently developed an engine for distributed event programming to coordinate application components in a flexible, scalable fashion. She helped create the Universal Information Appliance vision, which describes the motivation and design of the MoDAL engine and presents a software framework for inter-operating the MoDAL application with a generic device or service on the network.

Miguel Guellin is an electronics engineer who joined IBM in May 1991. He is a member of the Guadalajara Programming Lab in Guadalajara, Jal., Mexico. Mr. Guillen helped to write MoDAL's formal definition and an initial prototype of an interpreter of it running in an IBM Workpad. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Guadalajara. Mr. Guellin is interested in small and embedded devices, OO technologies, evolving algorithms, and the Internet.

Armando Morales graduated as an EE in 1984; he joined IBM in 1985 as a product engineer for S/36 and later for AS/400; in 1990 he finished an MBA program; and, in 1992, he joined the Guadalajara Programming Lab, where he has been a team leader for multiple software projects for the AS/400 and PSG. He is interested in new applications for embedded systems and small devices such as the IBM Workpad.

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