Location Transponder

About the technology author(s):
Jussi Myllymaki is a research staff member at the Almaden Research Center, IBM Research Division. He received his M.S. degree in Industrial Management from Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dr. Myllymaki's early work focused on performance evaluation of tertiary storage devices and database systems. Later, he worked in Web search engine technology and Web data extraction (see the developerWorks article). Dr. Myllymaki's current interests include location-based services and management of dynamic location data. His IBM Research Web page is at http://www.research.ibm.com/people/j/jussi/.

James H. Kaufman is a research staff member at the Almaden Research Center, IBM Research Division. He received his B.A. in Physics from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Physics from UCSB. Dr. Kaufman has worked in several areas of research at IBM, including micromagnetic modeling, magneto-electronic devices, dynamical systems, pattern formation, critical phenomena, and diamond-like carbon for protective, thin film disk overcoats. He has also served as a technical manager and has led a department in Science and Technology responsible for development of new materials for thin film recording heads and non-volatile magnetic memory (MRAM). Dr. Kaufman recently moved to the Computer Science Department, where his current research interests include management of dynamic spatial data and technologies for privacy protection.