André Bondi
André Bondi has been the Director, System Performance at Leapstone
Systems since 2002. Prior to that, he worked at Hudson Williams, a
web performance consulting company in New York, and was a Principal
Technical Staff Member in the Network Design and Performance Analysis
Department at AT&T Labs, Middletown, NJ. Dr. Bondi earned a Ph.D. in
Computer Science from Purdue University in 1984 and before that an
M.Sc. in Statistics from University College London. Before joining
AT&T (Bell) Labs in 1987, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer
Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
A Performance Engineering Perspective
Eric Dittert
Eric Dittert is a member of the staff in the Emerging Platforms Lab of
the Corporate Technology Group at Intel Corporation. Since joining
Intel in 1988, he has led advanced development projects in system
management software and software development tools and programming
systems. Prior to joining Intel, Eric was a member of the faculty of
the Computer Science Department at New Mexico State University. Eric
received his PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1982
and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Arizona State
University in 1976.
Alan Hevner is an Eminent Scholar and Professor in the Information
Systems and Decision Sciences Department in the College of Business
Administration at the University of South Florida. He holds the
Salomon Brothers/Hidden River Corporate Park Chair of Distributed
Technology. Dr. Hevner's areas of research interest include
information systems development, software engineering, distributed
database systems, healthcare information systems, and telemedicine.
He has published over 100 research papers on these topics and has
consulted for a number of Fortune 500 companies. Dr. Hevner received
his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1979. He has
held faculty positions at the University of Maryland and the
University of Minnesota. Dr. Hevner is a member of ACM, IEEE, AIS,
and INFORMS.
Kevin Kahn is an Intel Fellow (the corporation's highest technical
position) in the Corporate Technology Group and Director,
Communications and Interconnect Technology. He also coordinates
Intel's participation in various relevant standards bodies and
consortia and chairs the Intel Communications Research Council. He
currently serves on the FCC Technological Advisory Council, chairs the
National Science Foundation's Engineering Advisory Council, and serves
on various academic advisory committees. He received his Ph.D. and
Master's degrees in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1976
and 1973, and his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Manhattan
College in 1972. The Purdue University School of Science awarded him
its Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1995. 
Dave Schrader is the lead Strategist and one of the Marketing
Directors for NCR's Teradata Applications Solutions group. He works
with NCR's various industry marketing organizations in the Retail,
Financial, Insurance, Travel, Transportation, Government, and
Manufacturing sectors. Dave joined NCR in 1991. Before that, he
worked at Digital Equipment Corporation in the Database Engineering
group on distributed databases, and also worked at Servio Corporation
as the Engineering Manager for the GemStone object-oriented database
product. Schrader received his PhD in Computer Science from Purdue
University in 1983, has published several technical papers, and holds
2 patents. 
Douglas Comer is an internationally recognized expert on computer
networking and the TCP/IP protocols. He served as chairman of the
CSNET technical committee, chairman of the DARPA Distributed Systems
Architecture Board, and was a member of the Internet Activities Board
(the group of researchers who built the Internet). He is well-known
for his series of ground breaking textbooks on computer networks, the
Internet, and computer operating systems. His books have been
translated into eleven languages, and are widely used in both industry
and academia. For over fifteen years, Doug has served as North
American editor of the research journal Software-Practice and
Experience, which is published by John Wiley & Sons. Comer is a fellow
of the ACM and the recipient of numerous teaching awards.
