Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler

About the technology author(s):
Daniel Ford, Ph.D., is the former manager of the Web Technologies Department at IBM® Almaden and is currently on assignment at the IBM Watson Research Center in New York. He has a wide range of interests and research activities, including software engineering, bioinformatics, and robotics.

James H. Kaufman, Ph.D., is manager of the Healthcare Informatics project in the Department of Computer Science at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He is also a fellow of the American Physical Society. During his career at IBM Research, Dr. Kaufman has made contributions to several fields, including simulation science and magnetic device technology. His scientific contributions include work on pattern formation, conducting polymers, superconductivity, experimental studies of the Moon Illusion, as well as contributions to distributed computing and grid middleware.

John Thomas is a Java™ developer for IBM. He was previously one of the lead programmers for the IBM Almaden TSpaces project and also a member of the OptimalGrid Project at the Almaden Research Center. Mr. Thomas can be reached by e-mail.

Iris Eiron joined IBM Israeli Research Lab in January 1998 and began working at IBM's Almaden Research Center in December 2000. Ms. Eiron's current interests include development and implementation of a national health care information infrastructure.

Matthew Hammer is an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin. He is majoring in computer science with an interest in the field of programming languages. Mr. Hammer worked as an IBM research intern in the summers of 2003 and 2004.