Organisers

Vinny Cahill

Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin

Vinny Cahill is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin. He heads the Distributed Systems Group whose research areas covers all aspects of distributed computing ranging from parallel processing in workstation clusters through support for distributed virtual enterprises to mobile computing. His particular research interests include distributed systems, middleware and language support for distributed computing, distributed object computing, reflective programming and mobile computing. Vinny has served on the programme committee of multiple conferences, including ECOOP�98 and ECOOP 2000, and as guest co-editor of journals such as IEEE Internet Computing and The Computer Journal.

Siobhán Clarke (contact organiser)

Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin

Siobhán Clarke is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin. After over ten years as a professional software engineer with IBM, her interest in improving object-oriented software engineering techniques led her, in 1997, to pursue a career in research. Her PhD thesis is based on extending the decomposition (and composition) capabilities of object-oriented design languages. Her current research interests relate to advanced separation of concerns in object-oriented systems, and architecting and engineering solutions for evolution.

Simon Dobson

Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin

Simon Dobson is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin. His main interests include the design of "smart" spaces and artefacts, novel programming languages and large-scale systems design. Prior to joining TCD he spent five years at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) -- the UK's premier public multidisciplinary laboratory -- working on a variety of projects in the areas of programming languages, systems architectures, knowledge-based systems and multimedia data handling, including some of the earliest systems combining stable back-end CORBA and database services with dynamic web creation. He is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the BCS, IEEE and ACM.

Robert Filman

NASA Ames Research Center

Robert Filman is a Computer Scientist at the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS) working in the Computational Sciences Division of NASA Ames Research Center, researching frameworks for developing distributed applications (DReAM). Prior to coming to NASA in May 1999, he worked in the research groups of Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space, IntelliCorp and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, and on the faculty of the Computer Science Department of Indiana University, Bloomington. He spent most of the 70's at Stanford (B.S. '74, M.S. '74, Ph.D. '79). Robert Filman is Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Internet Computing