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Cathie Lesjak is executive vice president and chief financial officer of HP, where she is responsible for the company's overall financial activities and leads several departments, including business unit finance, treasury, tax and controllership. A veteran of the company for more than two decades, Lesjak previously was senior vice president and treasurer, responsible for managing the company’s worldwide cash, debt, foreign exchange, capital structure, risk management and benefits plan administration. Lesjak also managed financial operations for Enterprise Marketing and Solutions and the Software Global Business Unit. Before that, she was group controller for HP's Software Solutions Organization covering five divisions with a $400 million research and development budget. Lesjak served as controller and credit manager for the Commercial Customer Organization and also managed HP's global channel credit risk. Lesjak has a bachelor's degree in biology from Stanford University and a master of business degree in finance from the University of California, Berkeley.

Don Grantham is senior vice president and chief sales officer at HP. He is responsible for the company’s enterprise accounts and public sector sales as well as sales for the communications, media and entertainment; financial services; manufacturing and distribution; and health and life sciences industries. Grantham also is responsible for worldwide alliance sales, sales operations, compensation and support, global pre-sales, and the company’s go-to-market effectiveness. Prior to joining HP, Grantham spent nine years at Sun Microsystems, culminating in his last position as executive vice president of Global Sales and Services, reporting to the chief executive officer. He was responsible for the overall leadership of more than 17,000 employees around the world. Under Grantham’s leadership, Global Sales and Services delivered a consistent, integrated and responsive customer experience. Grantham started his career in high tech with IBM. During his 17 years there, he held numerous leadership roles, including executive management responsibility for Sales in Northern Europe during his final three years at the company. Grantham was educated in the United Kingdom, where he continues to be based.

Michael Mendenhall is senior vice president and chief marketing officer at HP, where he directs all aspects of the company’s corporate marketing operations globally. The organization oversees brand strategy, internal and external communications, digital strategy, global citizenship, integrated design, customer intelligence, services and operations, and hp.com. Prior to joining HP, Mendenhall spent 17 years at Walt Disney Company, culminating in his last position as executive vice president in charge of all marketing and communications for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, a $10 billion business spanning North America, Europe and Asia. His areas of responsibility included global brand image, marketing strategy, planning, publicity, advertising, media, new media/online, interactive TV, strategic alliance marketing, special events and promotions, as well as operations and customer managed activities. Prior to this role, he held numerous senior marketing positions at Disney. He led a team that developed strategic content, product plans and cross-asset management for the Walt Disney Studios and participated in the opening of Disneyland Paris (Euro Disney) and Hong Kong Disneyland. Mendenhall has overseen work that has won a number of prestigious awards, including an Emmy and the 2000 and 2001 Silver Lion’s Best Corporate Campaign Award at the International Advertising Festival in Cannes, France. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Marketing and Branding, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the CMO Inner Circle, the senior advisory board of the Executive Marketing Council, the CMO Club and the Marketing 50, a club of 50 top non-competitive chief marketing officer peers who come together for strategic collaboration. He also serves on the boards of the USA Swimming Foundation, the Churchill Club and the San Gabriel Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America. In 2008, he was awarded one of BtoB Magazine’s top marketers of the year and was No. 22 on AdvertisingAge’s “Power Players.” Most recently, Michael was recognized as marketer of the year by the Delaney Report while at the same time, HP was recognized as the technology marketer of the year by Marketing Daily. Mendenhall received a bachelor’s degree from Emerson College in Boston.

Peter J. (Pete) Bocian is executive vice president and chief administrative officer at HP, responsible for the company’s shared and administrative services, which include real estate; indirect and services procurement; security and safety; business support services; travel and aviation; and, HP Financial Services, the company’s financing arm. He is a member of HP’s executive council and reports to HP Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd. Bocian was formerly with Starbucks Coffee Company, where he served since 2007 as executive vice president, chief financial officer and chief administrative officer managing the company’s finance, supply chain and information technology functions. Prior to Starbucks, he spent 24 years at NCR Corporation, where he served for three years as senior vice president and chief financial officer after leading the finance organizations of several of the company’s divisions, including Teradata and Retail Solutions. Bocian graduated in 1982 with a master’s degree in accounting from Michigan State University, where he also earned a bachelor’s degree.

Randy Mott is executive vice president and chief information officer of HP, responsible for the global information technology (IT) strategy and all of the company's IT assets. This includes company-wide application development, data management, technology infrastructure, data center operations and telecommunication networks worldwide. Mott's vision and leadership approach has garnered him global recognition in leading transformational initiatives focused on optimizing IT as a business. In June 2007, he received the "Roger Milliken Career Achievement Award" from the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions Association for his dedication and contributions to enabling the retail and consumer-focused industries through the creation and implementation of supply chain standards and best practices. Previously, Mott was senior vice president and chief information officer for Dell, Inc., which he joined in 2000. He was responsible for managing that company's global IT infrastructure, which included the backbone of its extensive Internet and web-based capabilities. Mott significantly enhanced the company's IT executive talent and focused the organization on global, scalable and common systems. Prior to Dell, Mott spent 22 years at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., where he held a variety of technical and management positions and pioneered retail and supply-chain systems automation. In 1994, Mott was named senior vice president and chief information officer and for the next six years Wal-Mart almost tripled in revenue and its IT group earned a "best-of-class" reputation as it cost-effectively leveraged global and common IT systems. In 1996, Mott was promoted to Wal-Mart's executive committee and in 1997 InformationWeek named him "Chief of the Year." Mott has a bachelor of science in mathematics from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. In 2005, he was named in the Fulbright College Alumni Academy as a Distinguished Alumni.

Shane Robison is responsible for shaping HP's overall corporate strategy and technology agenda, and oversees the company's corporate marketing function. He steers the company's $3.6 billion research and development investment and fosters the development of the company's global technical community. All of the company's senior chief technology officers and the director of HP Labs report into him. Robison also leads the company's strategy and corporate development efforts, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, intellectual property licensing, venture capital community and partnerships. He was one of four principal architects of HP's merger with Compaq Computer Corp., and, in 2004, InfoWorld declared Robison one of the world's 25 most influential chief technology officers. Robison also has responsibility for worldwide corporate marketing activities, including external and internal communications, brand marketing, customer intelligence and corporate affairs. Robison was senior vice president and chief technology officer of Strategy and Technology at Compaq. Prior to joining Compaq, Robison was president of Internet Technology and Development at AT&T Labs, where he led a 2,000-person team that was responsible for the architecture, planning and development of all of AT&T's Internet technologies and services. Robison also was president of the Design Productivity Group at Cadence Design Systems and, prior to that, spent several years at Apple Computer, where he was vice president and general manager of the Personal Interactive Electronics Division. He also held a research management position at Schlumberger's artificial intelligence lab in Palo Alto. Robison received bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from the University of Utah.

Marcela Perez de Alonso has worldwide responsibility for HP’s human resources initiatives, including workforce development and organization effectiveness, benefits and compensation, staffing, global inclusion and diversity, and HR processes and information management. She is also the Board Chair of the HP Company Foundation and a member of the board for HP Financial Services, the financing arm of HP. Since joining HP in 2004, Perez de Alonso has spearheaded a pivotal transformation to build a best-in-class HR organization aligned to drive results and optimize the company’s growth and efficiencies. Previously, a long-time executive at Citigroup, Perez de Alonso has held senior-level roles in both operations and human resources, including the lead HR role for Citibank’s Global Consumer Business – a 90,000-employee organization where she developed a host of breakthrough initiatives. Senior executive recruiting, diversity, variable compensation and employee survey programs are among the many worldwide efforts Perez de Alonso led during her tenure. She also was head of Citigroup’s North Latin America retail business operations and was in charge of deposit products for the company’s international retail bank. Most recently, Perez de Alonso was recognized with the 2007 Hunt-Scanlon Human Resources Leadership Award for accomplishments in driving bottom-line results through effective human capital management. One of only 10 women to be included in the ninth annual Hispanic Business Corporate Elite directory, Perez de Alonso was named one of the 50 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business by Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine. She also was honored as the 2005 Corporate Executive of the Year by Hispanic-Net, a California nonprofit organization of executives and professionals in technology-related fields. Perez de Alonso earned an advanced degree in organizational psychology from the Catholic University in Chile. She attended the Business Executive Program of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and received a certificate in finance and accounting. Perez de Alonso currently serves on the advisory board of the Marshall Business School, University of Southern California.

Michael J. Holston is executive vice president, general counsel and secretary for HP, responsible for the company's worldwide legal affairs, including patents and licenses, litigation and regulatory matters. He also oversees the company's compliance, government affairs, privacy and ethics operations. Most recently Holston was a partner in the litigation practice at Morgan Lewis, where, among other clients, he supported HP as external counsel on a variety of litigation and regulatory matters for more than 10 years. At Morgan Lewis, Holston gained extensive trial experience, trying scores of criminal and civil cases, and handled class-action lawsuits for numerous clients nationwide. Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Holston served as a prosecutor in the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He is also a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, and he teaches and lectures on trial advocacy for the National Institute of Trial Attorneys. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., Holston has a J.D. from Villanova University School of Law and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

Todd Bradley is executive vice president of HP’s Personal Systems Group, a $42 billion annual revenue business that includes personal computers, mobile devices, technical workstations, personal storage solutions and Internet services. He also is a member of HP’s Executive Council. Under Bradley’s leadership, the Personal Systems Group has accelerated profitable growth, firmly establishing HP as the No. 1 PC vendor in the world. During his three-year tenure, the business has added more than $15 billion in revenues and increased profitability threefold. His organization reset the global PC industry with its “The Computer Is Personal Again” campaign, setting a new standard for design, user interface and the overall customer experience. At the helm of the largest global supply chain in the IT industry, Bradley has promoted environmental and social responsibility across thousands of suppliers and channel partners and millions of customers whose lives and businesses HP touches. During his 28-year management career, Bradley has held senior roles at GE Capital, Dun & Bradstreet and FedEx. Prior to joining HP, Bradley was chief executive officer of Palm. Before that, Bradley was executive vice president of global operations for Gateway. Bradley holds a bachelor of science in business administration from Maryland’s Towson University, where he is currently a member of the board of visitors. He also serves as a director of LiveOps and trustee of the American Film Institute.

Vyomesh (VJ) Joshi is executive vice president of the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) at HP. IPG is a $29 billion annual revenue business that encompasses inkjet, LaserJet and commercial printing, printing supplies, digital photography, entertainment, graphics and managed services. In the last seven years under VJ’s leadership, IPG has grown revenue from $19 billion to $29 billion and doubled its operating profit to more than $4 billion. VJ spearheads HP’s drive to become not merely the world’s premier printer company, but the world’s premier printing company. HP has been the worldwide market leader in printing since introducing its first inkjet and LaserJet printers in 1984. The company has sold more than 400 million inkjet printers since then and, in 2006, shipped its 100 millionth LaserJet printer. HP’s imaging and printing intellectual property portfolio includes more than 12,500 patents worldwide. VJ joined HP in 1980 as a research and development engineer and has held various leadership positions. He holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Ohio State University. VJ has been a member of the Yahoo! board of directors since 2005.

David Gee is vice president of Worldwide Marketing for EDS, an HP company. In this role, Gee is responsible for driving the EDS marketing teams globally across a broad portfolio of Infrastructure Technology Outsourcing (ITO), Applications and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services. He drives worldwide marketing strategy, product marketing, planning and execution, including development and communication of messaging and demand generation for all aspects of the EDS portfolio. Gee reports to EDS Senior Vice President and General Manager Joe Eazor and also serves as part of the Technology Solutions Group functional marketing leadership team. Before his current role, Gee was vice president of marketing for HP Software, where he was responsible for all brand positioning and demand generation activities – including campaign development, user conferences, press/analyst relations – for HP's enterprise software and solutions portfolio. During his five-year tenure in this position, Gee played an integral role in transforming HP's software business and brand through a series of strategic acquisitions and the tripling of the unit's workforce and revenues. Gee's marketing leadership was instrumental in building credibility for the HP Software brand and positioning HP as one of the premier software organizations in the world. Before HP, Gee was vice president, international, for the Yahoo! Enterprise Solutions business unit and was responsible for the sales, marketing, operations and overall business strategy of Yahoo!'s offerings in the enterprise information portal marketplace outside the United States. Previous to Yahoo!, he was vice president of Sun Microsystems' Global iForce programs. He joined Sun in 1999 as vice president of marketing for the company's Software Systems Group. Before joining Sun, he was the director of IBM's NetGen group, where he spearheaded the European development of this division, which was focused on sales and marketing initiatives for the ISP, ASP and Internet markets. In 1999, Gee was recognized by Technology Review, MIT's magazine of innovation, with inclusion on its “TR100” list of 100 young innovators who exemplify the spirit of innovation in science, technology, business and the arts. David Gee holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from Lancaster University, England, and an MBA degree from Georgetown University.

A seasoned information technology services and sales executive, McCain will serve as senior vice president and general manager of HP Services. McCain, 47, has been the senior vice president of HP Consulting & Integration since December 2005. Prior to joining HP, McCain served as chief executive officer of iEnergizer, a privately-held, business process outsourcing services company. Previously, he was chief executive officer, North America, at Capgemini, and spent 16 years at EDS, where he held various executive positions within its e.Solutions, CIO Services and Commercial Services units.

Ajay Gupta is director of the Innovations for the Next Billion Customers Lab (HP Labs India), addressing the technology needs of customers in India’s rapidly growing markets, creating technologies to make IT relevant, affordable and simple to consume. Since joining HP in 1986, Gupta has held positions with HP Labs in India, Singapore and the United Kingdom. From 1998 to 2003, he was managing director of the Indian subsidiary of HP’s joint venture with Ericsson, Ericsson HP Telecom (EHPT), responsible for building its research and development and global offshore services center. Prior to this, Gupta was system integration business manager of the HP Telecom Management division in Singapore, where he led multi-million dollar solution sales and delivery teams. From 1991 to 1995, Gupta led teams at HP Labs Bristol, U.K., working on electronic test systems and intelligent networks to develop a number of products that now form HP’s and Agilent’s telecom offerings. Between 1989 and 1991, Gupta was part of the team that set up HP’s offshore software operation in Bangalore, India. Gupta earned his bachelor of science at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, and his master of science at the University of Edinburgh, U.K. He holds several granted patents and has been published in numerous technical journals.

Alistair Veitch is director of the Storage and Information Management Platforms Lab at HP Labs, the company’s central research and development arm. He and his team build platforms and services that create, host, manage and provide the next generation of storage and information sources and services for enterprise and user-controlled information. A native of New Zealand, Dr. Veitch received Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Waikato University in New Zealand in 1989 and 1990 respectively. He earned a doctorate degree in computer science from the University of British Columbia, Canada in 1998. Dr. Veitch has wide-ranging research interests in computer science, with a particular interest in storage systems, and has worked in areas as diverse as operating systems design, software engineering, storage systems management, distributed systems design and information management. Dr. Veitch has received approximately 15 patents and authored more than 20 referred papers in top-tier conferences and journals. He recently co-authored a book, Storage, Data and Information Systems, with HP Labs colleagues. Since joining HP Labs in 1998, he and HP Labs colleagues have done pioneering work in the areas of storage systems management and design, including the first demonstrations of completely self-managing storage systems. He was the lead architect for the Federated Array of Bricks project, which demonstrated that it was possible to build enterprise-class disk arrays from distributed, commodity components. Prior to HP, Dr. Veitch worked in a variety of IT engineering and software development roles in both academic and commercial settings.

Bernardo A. Huberman is a Senior HP Fellow and director of the Social Computing Lab at HP Labs, which focuses on methods for harvesting the collective intelligence of groups of people in order to realize greater value from the interaction between users and information. Huberman’s main research focus is on the relationship between local actions and the global behavior of large, distributed systems. Areas of exploration include distributed knowledge, social organizations and the economics of attention. Much of Huberman's research has concentrated on the World Wide Web, with an emphasis on the dynamics of its growth and use. This work helped uncover the nature of electronic markets, the detailed structure of the web and the laws governing the way people surf for information. One of the originators of the field of ecology of computation, Huberman recently published the book, "The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information," with MIT Press. Previous to HP, Huberman worked at Xerox PARC, where he did research on the physics of chaos, distributed systems and Internet characterization. Huberman is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, former trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics and Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Huberman received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently a consulting professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He has been a visiting professor at the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark, the University of Paris, and Insead, the European School of Business in Fontainebleau, France.

Carl Taussig is director of the Information Surfaces Lab at HP Labs, the company’s central research and development arm, where he leads HP’s advanced research on paper-like displays including front-plane and back-plane materials and architectures as well as roll-to-roll manufacturing methods. During his 20 years at HP, Taussig has focused on storage technologies including hard disk, helical scan tape, probe storage and optical disk. Taussig led the HP team that developed the technology that enables ROM-compatible rewritable DVDs. This technology is the basis for the DVD+RW format. Taussig received a bachelor of science from Stanford University and a master’s degree and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in mechanical engineering. Taussig has more than 50 patents and 15 publications.

Chandrakant Patel is an HP Fellow and director of the Sustainable IT Ecosystem Laboratory at HP Labs. The laboratory is focused on the creation of a sustainable IT ecosystem with the goal of driving the reduction of carbon emissions throughout the global economy. Patel's supply and demand side approach in creating a sustainable IT ecosystem builds on his pioneering work in the late 1990s on holistically managing available energy as a key resource in data centers. He initiated research in "smart" data centers, emphasizing that the "data center is the computer" and it requires a management system that enables dynamic provisioning of compute, power and cooling resources based on the need. The research resulted in a suite of products and services from HP. Patel has played a key role in establishing HP's leadership in energy-efficient computing by founding the HP Labs' thermal technology research program in the early 1990s, and subsequently the data-center architecture program. He foresaw the thermal-management challenges associated with high power density due to miniaturization in semiconductor technologies, and the need to manage energy as enterprise IT system resources became increasingly connected and shared. Patel joined HP Labs in 1991, initially leading the cooling and packaging research of the Wide Word microprocessor. This research contributed to what later became Intel’s Itanium processor, which represented the next generation of microprocessors. In addition to his work at HP, Patel has taught computer-aided design as an adjunct faculty member at Chabot College in Hayward, California, undergraduate and graduate-level thermal management courses at University of California, Berkeley Extension, Santa Clara University and San Jose State University. A Fellow of IEEE, he has authored many refereed journal and conference papers and has been granted more than 95 U.S. Patents. Patel has been honored as a distinguished alumnus by the City College of San Francisco and by the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at San Jose State University. Patel has also been profiled by ABC-KGO television in its Emmy Award winning series "Profiles of Excellence" for contributions to science, technology and education.

Chris Whitney is director of the Service Automation & Integration Lab at HP Labs, the company’s central research and development arm, where he leads the effort to develop a business operating environment for the global services ecosystem. Whitney has been involved in service automation and integration since joining BT Labs in 1985 where he was responsible for developing algorithms and prototypes of intelligent service and network management systems for use in public and private communications networks. Prior to assuming his current position, Whitney managed HP Services' research and innovation group, focused on developing new services and solutions for HP Consulting, Integration, Outsourcing and Support organizations. From 2000 to 2005 he held vice president roles at Exodus Communications and at Cable & Wireless, where he developed lights-out, virtualized, automated data center solutions. He also founded ActiveReasoning, a California-based startup company developing data center compliance and management software. Earlier roles included work in HP’s Customer Relationship Management Operation, where he lead the research and development organization developing automated call center and customer management software. Whitney first joined HP Labs in 1994, developing automated service-management capabilities for HP’s OpenView and other products. He received his bachelor of science in computer science from Teesside University and a master of science from South Bank University, London.

Eric Hanson is the director of the Commercial Print Engine Lab in HP Labs, which is working on innovations in printing processes and materials for dramatic performance improvements in commercial print engines, including speed, image quality, automation, reliability, image permanence and cost per page. Hanson has been involved with digital printing and imaging research at HP Labs for 24 years, working on advanced technologies for HP’s core hardcopy and imaging business, as well as technologies that open new service and solutions business opportunities. Over the years, Hanson has supervised teams that have made significant contributions to HP’s Thermal Ink Jet and Liquid Electrophotography technologies in the areas of materials, operating conditions, fabrication techniques and designs. He also has conducted research on several other non-impact marking techniques, in addition to analyzing strategic technological trends in the major printing technologies. Hanson is currently the president of the Society for Imaging Science & Technology (IS&T), a major international engineering society in the field of printing and imaging. He served previously as the IS&T executive vice president and conference vice president, and was general chair of IS&T’s 1995 International Digital Printing Conference. Hanson received a Ph.D. in physics in 1977 from the University of California at Berkeley, where his focus was experimental research on optical properties of liquid crystals and solid-state materials. He joined HP Labs after receiving his degree and initially conducted research on optical fiber fabrication and optical switching components. He has been awarded 18 U.S. patents.

Gary Dispoto is director of the Print Production Automation Lab at HP Labs, the company’s central research and development arm, where he leads the effort to streamline the processes required to produce industrial and commercial digital print, enabling new types of printed materials and broader access to commercial print production. Dispoto has been involved in digital print since joining HP Labs in 1985. He was responsible for developing the first digital print processing algorithms and pipelines in HP and produced the first color inkjet prints in HP history. His extensive work on color science and reproduction includes work in consumer color architectures, commercial color management, sRGB and other color encoding standards, multi-level error diffusion, black ink control algorithms, color matching, color rendering, inkjet and laser printing, pipeline architectures, and color psychophysics. Dispoto has represented HP in the International Color Consortium (ICC), International Commission on Illumination (CIE) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and chaired CIE TC8-01, “Color Appearance Models for Color Management Applications.” He holds several U.S. patents related to color imaging. He has been leading HP Labs’ efforts in color science and reproduction since 1999, and in that time has shifted the research focus to automating color reproduction for commercial, professional and industrial applications. Over the last several years, his research interests have expanded out from color to overall commercial print production and he has led research projects in areas such as finishing, media sensing and RIP technology. Dispoto received his bachelor of science and master of science degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a master of business administration from the University of Santa Clara.

Hiromi Oda is director of the Community and Interactive Media Lab (HP Labs Japan), which is exploring the fusion of the development of new types of interactive media and the transformation of community interactions and user experiences in such environments. Oda joined HP Labs, the company’s central research and development arm, in 2001 as a member of the Personalization and Text Analysis Group at HP Labs Japan. He applied his knowledge on natural language and text analysis techniques mostly on projects dealing with data analysis of online communities. Since 2006, Oda has been leading the Rich and Trusted Communications Group, which developed the Community Research Framework and its companion platform to analyze, verify and test various aspects of online communities including information flow, trust, reputation, privacy, topic transition and community detection. He holds a Ph.D. in cognitive science and linguistics from Indiana University. His research interests range over the broad areas that center around communicative human interactions. He first studied theoretical linguistics and expanded it into computational modeling of mental language processing, then into more communicative and interactionist perspectives. Recent interests include social and non-verbal aspects of communicative interactions in the real world and the online or virtual space. He also has some works in the analysis of gestural dialogues in artificial settings. Oda studied at Kanagawa University, Waseda University and Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan, and he taught at Azabu University in Kanagawa, Japan for several years.

Huw Robson is director of the Pervasive Computing Lab at HP Labs, investigating technologies for mobile and situated devices and high-value services that can deliver the “right thing in the moment” to users. He joined HP in 1994 with the assignment of creating a new digital media department. That department has since expanded to include other teams from Bristol and Palo Alto to form the Pervasive Computing Lab. The current research portfolio includes innovation in and around novel viewing devices; Memory Spot, a tiny, high-capacity re-writable data chip; mscapes, which creates a digital media overlay on top of a physical landscape; active posters, which uses 2-D barcodes to deliver digital content to mobile phones with in-built cameras; and personal collaboration technology. Before joining HP, Robson worked in the audio-visual and digital multimedia industry, including the advanced project and systems group of Philips Consumer Electronics, in the Netherlands. In 1991, he moved back to the U.K. from the Netherlands to join Videologic, for which he managed the development of platform-independent videographic middleware for the PC, including the world’s first motion-JPEG digital video capture-and-playback solution. Robson also manages a number of philanthropy programs for HP, including co-management of the pan-European Art & Science initiative. He is a trustee of the Windscreen Trust and a member of the advisory boards of the Royal Photographic Society and the optics department of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London. He has an honors degree in electrical and electronic engineering from University College Cardiff.

Jaap Suermondt is the director of the Business Optimization Lab at HP Labs, developing the next generation of analytical technologies and solutions that will bring highly personalized experiences to individuals and unprecedented operational efficiencies to businesses. Suermondt’s team brings together deep expertise in data mining and the decision sciences, operations research, algorithms, statistics, marketing science and economics. Suermondt, who first joined HP in 1992, has worked on research projects in information management and on various projects targeted toward HP Services. Past research includes work in data mining (particularly text mining, automated categorization and quantification), uncertainty management, decision support systems (for example, diagnostics for printers), electronic health records and clinical information systems. Suermondt has a bachelor of science in mathematical and computational science from Stanford University and a master of science and Ph.D. in medical information sciences from Stanford University School of Medicine. He has been granted 18 patents.

John Apostolopoulos is a Distinguished Technologist and the Director of the Multimedia Communications and Networking Lab (MCNL) at HP Labs. The goals of MCNL are (1) to create compelling networked media experiences that fundamentally change how people communicate, collaborate, socialize and entertain, and (2) to create the intelligent infrastructure which provides predictable, high-quality and power-efficient networking to support current and future applications. His primary research interests include improving the reliability, fidelity, scalability and security of multimedia communications over wired and wireless packet networks. His work on transcoding in the middle of a network while preserving end-to-end security (secure transcoding) has recently been adopted by the JPEG-2000 Security (JPSEC) standard. Apostolopoulos received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. In graduate school, he worked on the U.S. Digital TV standard and received an Emmy Award Certificate for his contributions. Apostolopoulos was named “one of the world’s top 100 young (under 35) innovators in science and technology” (TR100) by MIT Technology Review in 2003, and has received a number of best paper awards. He was named an IEEE Fellow in 2008. He also teaches and conducts joint research at Stanford University, where he is a Consulting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and he is a frequent visiting lecturer in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

John Manley is director of the Automated Infrastructure Lab at HP Labs, exploring technologies that enable dynamic cloud computing – that is, service-oriented computing on an internet scale for both enterprises and individuals. His team has been creating prototypes of cloud and utility computing systems for more than eight years, focusing principally on managing the lifecycles of virtual systems built on federated infrastructures and the lifecycles of applications delivered as services. The initial focus was on high-performance computing applications such as CGI-rendering for the animation industry, which led to HP offering a utility rendering service to DreamWorks. More recently the focus has been on enterprise transactional applications, in particular SAP. Manley joined HP Labs in 1985 to work on knowledge-base management systems that allowed the storage and retrieval of much richer forms of information than are handled by database management systems. This work evolved to focus on enabling the meta-level treatment of federated, heterogeneous information sources. In the early 1990s, he moved on to manage a team researching the scalability aspects of Telecommunications Management Network. This work led to technology transfers to the HP OpenView and telecommunications platform businesses. More recently, Manley led research in a number of IT fields, including communications technologies and very large-scale systems such as voice over IP, web collaboration, 3D environments and notification systems. He holds a Ph.D. in molecular quantum mechanics from the University of Bristol.

John Sontag leads the Technology Transfer Office at HP Labs, which is charged with speeding the transfer of research into products and services through multiple routes. Sontag is responsible for focusing on the brokering of technology transfer through three primary channels: product development within HP’s business groups, intellectual property licensing agreements with a third party, and via the venture capital community. Sontag was previously the director of virtualization and data center architecture research at HP Labs, where the team focused on the architectural and operational impacts of virtualized servers, storage and networking and the impact of high-density systems on data center design. He also was the lead manager in the creation of a research and production data center at HP Labs in Palo Alto, Calif., and Bristol, England. With more than 25 years of experience at HP in systems and operating system design and research, Sontag has had a variety of leadership roles in the development of HP-UX on PA-RISC and IPF, including 64-bit systems, support for multiple input/output systems, multi-system availability and Symmetric Multi-Processing scaling for OLTP and web servers. Sontag received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

As director of the Enterprise Informatics Lab at HP Labs, Martin Merry oversees research into information management that will provide HP’s enterprise customers with competitive advantages through the more effective use of information. Previously, Merry managed the Semantic and Adaptive Systems Department, leading HP Labs’ research programme into the semantic web. He joined HP Labs in 1985 as a project manager working on artificial intelligence. Since then he has managed a wide range of research activities, including work on fault diagnosis for circuit boards, order configuration for HP products, the Anaesthesiologist’s Workstation, Biologically Inspired Complex Adaptive Systems and ARKive, a large-scale digital archive of images and videos of the world’s endangered species, built in collaboration with the Wildscreen Trust. Merry led the “Living the Vision” programme in HP Labs Bristol, which was responsible for turning HP Labs research ideas into hardware and software that researchers could use to demonstrate their work more effectively. He also has been involved in a number of collaborative projects with U.K. and European research institutions. Before joining HP Labs, he worked at GEC Research, in Chelmsford, where he established an AI research programme. Before that he carried out research into mathematical logic at the University of Manchester. He has an M.A. in mathematics from the University of Cambridge.

Martin Sadler is the director of the Systems Security Lab in HP Labs and supports HP’s Security Office to coordinate security efforts across the company. The lab, with members in Bristol, UK, and Princeton, NJ, focuses on technologies to enhance trust, security and privacy for consumers, businesses and governments. Its research projects include using trusted hardware to enable safer participation in the online world; understanding the economics of security and the implications for better security management; quantum cryptography; and new methods to counter sophisticated cyber-attacks. Sadler is a member of the board for The Institute of Information Security Professionals; a member of the steering committee for the United Kingdom’s Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network; a member of the British Computer Society’s Security Forum Strategic Panel; a member of the advisory group for the Information Systems Security Association’s U.K. chapter; and a member of the Confederation of British Industry’s Information Security working group. He regularly speaks on security at international conferences and is on the advisory panel of Infosecurity magazine. In 2004 and 2005 he served as a co-chair for Techcon – HP’s internal technical conference celebrating the best in innovation across the company. He was a member of the advisory board for the United Kingdom’s Foresight project on Cyber Trust and Crime Prevention outlining the strategic need for investment in cyber security. In the mid-1990s he was a member of Oftel’s Numbering Advisory Group, which oversaw the last telephony numbering plan change in the United Kingdom. Sadler, who has a degree in pure mathematics, lectured in theoretical computing science and advanced software engineering at Imperial College, London, before joining HP Labs in 1989 to lead the research project that resulted in the company’s first workflow product. He subsequently managed projects in the area of telephony call control before leading early work on e-business and security.

Meichun Hsu is director of the Intelligent Information Management Lab, focused on enabling near real-time business intelligence with robust, scalable data management, data-intensive analytics and processes, and fusion of structured and unstructured information. Hsu came to HP Labs with more than 20 years of experience in academic research and industrial R&D. Most recently, she was senior vice president of engineering at Commerce One Inc., where she led the engineering team creating a new business service platform. Prior to Commerce One, Hsu spent four years at HP Labs, where she built and managed the data mining solutions department. Earlier, she managed a technology consulting practice at EDS/A.T.Kearney, and was the chief architect of Workflow Infrastructure at Digital Equipment Corporation, where she delivered the ObjectFlow product, Digital's business process management platform. Prior to her career in industrial research and development, Hsu was a member of Computer Science Faculty at Harvard University, with a research focus in database systems and distributed systems. She received Harvard University's Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award in 1990. Hsu has published widely in the area of database and transaction systems, workflow systems, data mining, and Web service platforms. She holds more than 20 patents in these areas, and in 2001, received the prestigious 10-year best paper award (with two co-authors) from the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. Hsu received her PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Norman P. Jouppi is a fellow and director of the Exascale Computing Lab at HP Labs, the company’s central research and development arm, overseeing research on building next-generation hardware and software compute infrastructure using a cross-layer inter-disciplinary approach. Jouppi is well-known for his innovations in computer memory systems, including stream prefetch buffers, victim caching, multi-level exclusive caching and development of the CACTI tool for modeling cache timing, area and power. His research innovations have been adopted in microprocessors from most high-performance microprocessor vendors. He has also been the principal architect and lead designer of several microprocessors, contributed to the architecture and design of graphics accelerators, and extensively researched video, audio and physical telepresence. His recent work includes implications of emerging nanophotonic technology on computer systems, low-latency high-bandwidth networking for cluster computing, heterogeneous chip multiprocessor architectures, and blade system architectures. Jouppi joined HP in 2002 from Compaq Computer Corp., where he was a staff fellow at Compaq’s Western Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, Calif. From 1984 through 1996, he was a consulting assistant/associate professor in the department of electrical engineering at Stanford University, where he taught classes in VLSI, circuits and computer architecture. Jouppi received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1984, and a master of science in electrical engineering from Northwestern University in 1980. While at Stanford, he was one of the principal architects and designers of the MIPS microprocessor, as well as a developer of techniques for CMOS VLSI timing verification. He currently serves as past chair of ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH), is on the ACM Council and on the Computing Research Association (CRA) board. He is on the editorial board of Communications of the ACM and IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, and is a fellow of the ACM and the IEEE. He holds more than 35 U.S. patents. He has published over 100 technical papers, with several best paper awards and one Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) Influential Paper Award.

Oren Ariel is director of the Printing Automation Lab at HP Labs, the company’s central research and development arm, overseeing research focused on color printing algorithms, compression and coding algorithms, image and video processing algorithms, image analysis and understanding algorithms and learning technologies. The Printing Automation Lab, based in Haifa on the campus of Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, has made key contributions to HP Indigo presses, HP’s digital cameras and scanners and to many of the company’s printers. Prior to this position, Ariel was vice president and chief architect for the Software business unit at HP, responsible for the architecture blueprint, product integration architecture and shared technologies supporting the Business Technology Optimization line of products. He also managed a global team of architects and the worldwide shared technology development organization reporting to the vice president for research and development of Software. Ariel joined HP in 2006 with its acquisition of Mercury Corp., becoming HP’s chief architect and vice president of research and development for its Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) division. At Mercury, he was co-founder and chief technology officer of its Software as a Service division. He also led the ITSM division from inception through incubation of products and managed the entire Mercury product line architecture, spanning nearly $1 billion in revenues. Prior to Mercury, Ariel was co-founder and chief scientist of Narus Inc, a maker of mediation technology for the telecom billing industry. Earlier roles include independent consulting with several startup companies such as TradingDynamics (acquired by Ariba); chief technology officer at VDOnet, a pioneer of products that enable Internet video broadcasting and video telephony; technical lead at Unique LTD (acquired by AOL), a maker of over-the-net collaboration applications; and director of software engineering at Optibase Inc, a maker of digital compression technology. Ariel holds a bachelor’s degree from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology where, in 1990, he received an outstanding achievement award for developing an algorithm for topographic map compression.

Qian Lin is the director of the Multimedia Interaction and Understanding Lab, which seeks to extract information from multimedia content and interactions for the purpose of knowledge discovery, representation and rendering. Lin and her team have developed a variety of state-of-the-art image processing technologies, such as red-eye correction and panorama stitching, automatic image enhancement, photo layout, and image and video compression. Notably, Lin and her team developed Snapfish Lab, a website that gives people an advance look at experimental media processing tools and an opportunity to provide feedback. Lin received her bachelor of science from Xi’an Jiaotong University in China, her master’s of science in electrical engineering from Purdue University and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She also received the Zonta International Fellowship for women in aerospace engineering. Lin has received more than 30 patents and authored more than 20 journal and conference papers. She is a steering committee member for the Tsinghua-HP Multimedia Research Center. In 2008, she was the general co-chair for the 6th International Conference on Imaging Science and Hardcopy.

Rich Friedrich heads the Open Innovation Office, which was established to deepen HP Labs’ strategic collaborations with those in academia, government and the commercial sector. A global team supporting HP Labs around the world, the Open Innovation Office is charged with driving high-impact research results that meet HP and its partners’ scientific and business objectives. In this role, Friedrich is responsible for identifying best-in-class technologies that complement the HP Labs research agenda. Friedrich previously directed the Enterprise Systems and Software Lab (ESSL) at HP Labs. The ESSL research team focused on ambitious next-generation enterprise computing and management systems and on inventing distinctive utility computing mechanisms to provide IT infrastructure and enterprise services on demand. Friedrich’s accomplishments span his 20-plus-year career at HP. He led the system performance team that optimized the first commercial PA-RISC based systems in the mid-1980s and the first online transaction processor called, Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC), in the late 1980s. He also was responsible for the architecture and design of a large-scale, distributed measurement system for the Open Systems Foundation Distributed Computing Environment in the early 1990s. More recently, he led the teams that invented WebQoS, the novel technology for providing predictable and stable performance for Internet-based applications, re-architected Linux for IA-64 and contributed key technologies to HP’s Utility Data Center, OpenView automation products and StorageWorks data grid products. Friedrich’s team also worked with DreamWorks to provide a remote 1,000-processor utility rendering service that was critical to the production of the feature films, Shrek 2 and Madagascar. Friedrich has participated on many scientific program committees, published extensively and is a co-inventor on 15 patents. He has delivered keynote addresses at several major technical conferences and was an invited panel member for the Gartner Group’s Technology Investor Summit and Interop’s Data Center Summit 2007. He meets with the press and industry analysts and his interviews have appeared in the San Jose Mercury News, CBS Market Watch, CNN.com, Information Week, PC Magazine, Fast Company, and Enterprise Linux. A member of HP’s Customer Technical Advisory Board, Friredrich regularly meets with CIOs and CTOs from the Global 1000 to discuss the future of IT. He is a graduate of Northwestern University.

Stan Williams is an HP Senior Fellow and founding director of the Information and Quantum Systems Research Lab at HP Labs, with more than 50 scientists and engineers working in areas of fundamental physical sciences. He is currently focused on developing technology that supports the concept of CeNSE: The Central Nervous System for the earth. The idea is that nanotechnology has the potential to revolutionize human interaction with the earth as profoundly as the Internet has revolutionized personal and business interaction. Prompted by his exploration of the fundamental limits of information and computing, Williams recently completed extensive research in nano-electronics and nano-photonics. For the past 30 years, his primary scientific research has been in the areas of solid-state chemistry and physics and their applications to technology. This evolved into the areas of nanostructures and chemically assembled materials, with an emphasis on the thermodynamics of size and shape. Williams has been awarded more than 60 U.S. patents, published more than 300 papers in reviewed scientific journals and presented hundreds of invited plenary, keynote and named lectures at international scientific, technical and business events. He has received numerous awards for business, scientific and academic achievement. Most recently he received the prestigious 2007 Glenn T. Seaborg Medal awarded by the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He was named to the inaugural Scientific American 50 Top Technology leaders in 2002 and then again in 2005 (the first to be so named twice). In 2005, Small Times magazine named the U.S. patent collection Williams has assembled at HP as the world’s top nanotechnology intellectual property portfolio and in 2000, MIT’s Technology Review placed one of his patents among the top 5 that “will transform business and technology.” Williams received a bachelor of arts in chemical physics in 1974 from Rice University and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978. He was a member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs from 1978 to 1980 and a faculty member of the Chemistry Department at UCLA from 1980 to 1995.

Tony Wiley is the director of the Web Services and Systems Laboratory at HP Labs, innovating and developing technologies that will lead to new web services that enable businesses to fully realize the inherent value of their digital content. By combining improvements in digital content creation, ingestion, management and processing with advances in social networking, new document experiences will be developed, including highly customizable documents that are optimized for both web distribution and print production, as well as multimedia documents. Previously, Wiley was the senior research manager for the Custom Publishing Systems group in HP Labs, where he led research into web-deployable tools and services for variable content document creation, generation, manufacture and publishing. He also is the director of the HP Digital Publishing University Community, a multidisciplinary community dedicated to the advancement and application of digital publishing and related technologies. Wiley joined HP Labs in 1989 as a member of technical staff in the High-Speed Networks Laboratory. Research into high-performance packet switching led to a number of innovations and technology transfers to HP’s business units. He then worked on communications technologies and services for Internet appliances before leading early research into e-services for print. Before joining HP Labs, Wiley was a consultant with Plessey Research, at Roke Manor, working on asynchronous transport mode switching and network technologies for integrated broadband communications. He worked on two major European collaborative projects sponsored by the European Union’s Research into Advanced Communications for Europe (RACE)

Umesh Dayal, a widely known expert in data management, data mining, and business-process management, is an HP Fellow and director of the Intelligent Enterprise Technologies Lab at HP Labs. Dayal has more than 25 years' of research experience in data management and has made fundamental contributions in the field, including developing some of the basic techniques for managing databases that differ in data model and query language, defining mechanisms for triggering transactions and database rules and investigating query optimization strategies, especially in heterogeneous systems. In addition, he has done important work in long-duration transactions, nested transactions and database design. Since joining HP in 1992, Dayal has initiated several research programs, including the intelligent enterprise research program, which combines decision technologies, business-process management and enterprise solutions technologies. This work, a key element of HP's Adaptive Enterprise strategy, is centered on creating technologies to improve HP’s business processes and developing innovative technologies for increasing the efficiency and value of HP’s service design and delivery capabilities. Research in these areas has created competitive advantage for HP in such areas as revenue forecasting and auction design. Previously, Dayal initiated HP’s research in business process intelligence, a field of study that combines data warehousing, data mining, analytics and optimization techniques to monitor, control and improve business processes. In addition to holding 13 patents, Dayal has published more than 120 papers at conferences and in journals. In 2001, he received the prestigious 10-year best paper award (with two co-authors) from the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases for his paper on a transactional model for long-running activities, which was deemed to have been “the most influential paper written ten years ago.” This paper is widely regarded as launching the field of enterprise-scale, transactional workflow management. Dayal is on the Editorial Board of four international journals, has co-edited two books and has chaired and served on the Program Committees of numerous conferences. He is a member of the Board of the VLDB Endowment, the Board of the International Foundation for Cooperative Information Systems, the Steering Committee of the SIAM Data Mining Conference and the Executive Committee of the IEEE Technical Committee on E-Commerce. Prior to joining HP Labs., he was a senior researcher at DEC's Cambridge Research Lab., Chief Scientist at Xerox Advanced Information Technology and Computer Corporation of America, and on the faculty at the University of Texas-Austin. He obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1979.

Vladimir Polutin is director of the Information Fusion and Real-Time Delivery Lab at HP Labs Russia, the company’s central research and development arm. In this role he is responsible for overseeing research aimed at fulfilling enterprise customers’ demand for timely information that is described in the language of their businesses, processed within their business context, and automatically selected, gathered and transformed from diverse, heterogeneous, distributed sources. Before joining HP, Polutin was director of the Motorola St. Petersburg Software Center, where he oversaw all software development activities undertaken in St. Petersburg and was instrumental in raising the organization to Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) Level 5, a measure of organizational maturity established by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Under Polutin’s leadership, the St. Petersburg center grew from 65 people to more than 760. Polutin joined Motorola in Moscow in 1994 as a business and market development manager for the Semiconductor Products Sector. He built a distribution network that enabled the first Motorola chip sales in Russia and also established strong university relationships between Motorola and leading Russian universities. Before Motorola, he worked at Moscow’s leading cellular operator, Vympelcom, as a purchasing and marketing manager. Polutin holds a Ph.D. in microelectronics and semiconductor technology from the Moscow Institute of Radiotechnology, Electronics and Automation and a master’s degree in radiotechnology and microelectronics from the Moscow Aviation Technology Institute. He also completed an MBA from MCE Brussels Business School and an Executive Program at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. Polutin has published more than 50 articles and serves on the executive board of the American Chamber of Commerce, St. Petersburg chapter, and is its IT chairman.

Wei Liu is director of the Web and Rich Content Technology Lab (HP Labs China), which seeks to create technologies for analyzing, processing and managing structured and unstructured data on the web and in organizations. Liu relocated to China in 2003 to help establish HP Labs China. Prior to this, he worked as senior research and development engineer, project manager and strategic planning manager at HP’s Colorado Springs division. While there, he led the development of current-mode CMOS technologies used in several HP products. He also led the team that created product and technology roadmaps for three HP product lines. Liu established HP’s first research and development lab in China, where he also worked as a senior research and development engineer and project manager. He worked as a researcher at HP Labs Palo Alto, where he invented high-speed, low-noise, single-chip CMOS read channel for storage systems. Liu’s first assignment at HP, in 1988, was to create the manufacturing test team in China. Liu’s research interests include mixed signal IC design, computer architecture, web technology and data management. He has published widely and been granted several U.S. patents in the areas of Mixed Signal IC design, IC packaging technology, high-speed CMOS circuit design and data management. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Abraham Lempel is a Senior HP Fellow, former director of the Advanced Studies Program at HP Labs and former director of HP Labs Israel. Lempel founded HP's Israel lab, which focuses on color printing algorithms, compression and coding algorithms, image processing and computer vision algorithms and document processing and understanding. Widely known for his pioneering work in data compression, Lempel is co-inventor of the Lempel-Ziv (LZ) data-compression algorithm, a universal noiseless source-coding technique. The work has won him numerous honors, including the Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society and the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is also an IEEE Fellow . Lempel received his BSc, MSc, and DSc degrees from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He has been on the faculty of Technion for more than three decades. He became a full professor there in 1977 and was chairman of the department of computer science from 1981 to 1984. Lempel's association with HP Labs began in 1984 when he visited the Palo Alto headquarters during a sabbatical. In 1994, with the establishment of HP Labs Israel, he became a full-time HP employee, on special leave from Technion, where he is still a chaired professor of Computer Science, holding the Viterbi Chair in Information Systems. Lempel has published over 70 papers in refereed journals and holds 8 US patents. His principal research interests are in the application of discrete mathematics to problems in computer science and information theory.

David P. Reed, one of the pioneers of the Internet, is a Fellow at HP Labs, where he concentrates on network adaptability and scalability and also work on wireless network architectures. Recognized as a worldwide expert on networks, decentralized computing platforms, and group information systems, Reed contributed significantly to the TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) technology that underlies today's Internet and World Wide Web. His lifelong research interests focus on designing systems that manage, communicate and manipulate information shared among people. He is best known for co-developing the Internet design principle known as the "end-to-end argument" and also for "Reed's Law," which explains why the utility of large, group-forming networks scales exponentially with their size -- that is, as networks get larger, group formation becomes the primary generator of value. More recently, his exploration of capacity-scaling in cooperative wireless networks has had a significant influence on U.S. spectrum policy directions. In addition to his work at HP Labs, Reed is an adjunct professor in the Viral Communications group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, where HP is a major corporate sponsor. Reed also will co-direct the MIT Communications Futures Program. Reed has been an independent consultant to the computer industry for a number of years. Previously, he was a senior research scientist at Interval Research Corporate and vice president and chief scientist for Lotus Development Corporation. Reed also was vice president of research and development and chief scientist at Software Arts. He was a faculty member in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from 1978 to 1983, working in the Laboratory for Computer Science. He has earned bachelor's, master's, electrical engineering and doctoral degrees in EECS.

Jeffrey C. Mogul is an HP Fellow at HP Labs, working on network and operating-systems issues for high-performance computer systems, and on improving performance of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Mogul joined HP from Compaq Computer Corp., which merged with HP in 2002. He was a Staff Fellow at Compaq's Western Research Laboratory (WRL) in Palo Alto, California. He joined DEC WRL in 1986. Mogul has been an active participant in the Internet community, and is the author or co-author of several Internet Standards; he contributed extensively to the HTTP/1.1 specification. He is a Fellow of the ACM, and a member of Sigma Xi (the Scientific Research Society) and Computer Professionals for Social Responsbility (CPSR). He was Program Committee Chair for the Winter 1994 USENIX Technical Conference, the IEEE TCOS (Technical Committee on Operating Systems and Application Development) Sixth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, the Second Workshop on Industrial Experiences with Systems Software, and is co-chair for the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network-I/O Convergence. He received an S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979, an M.S. from Stanford University in 1980, and his PhD from the Stanford University Computer Science Department in 1986.

John Wilkes is an HP Fellow leading research into enterprise-scale storage systems, with a particular emphasis on their design and management. He joined HP Laboratories in 1982, initially to work on the PA-RISC processor architecture, and then participated in or led a number of distributed operating system projects. He started work in storage systems in 1988 with the DataMesh project, and has been active in that area ever since. Since 1995 he has been the technical lead and group manager of the Storage Systems Program, conducting research into storage systems that can manage themselves. In mid-2000, he turned the management reins over to a colleague so that he could spend more of his time on technical work in this area. Wilkes has published on a wide range of technical topics, including his PhD thesis work on a novel graphics display (which won both the British Computer Society's Technology Award in 1982, and the Wilkes award in 1984 for the paper about it); high-speed networking (Hamlyn); and storage systems -- including disk array architectures such as HP AutoRAID, AFRAID, and TickerTAIP and most recently, self-managing storage systems. He has served as a technical conference program committee member on several occasions, including most recently the January 2002 File and Storage Technology (FAST) conference, and he was the program chair for the 1999 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). He is an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. Wilkes received a BA and MA in natural sciences (1978 and 1980), a Diploma in computer science (1979) and a PhD in computer science (1984), all from the University of Cambridge. He has held an adjunct Associate Professor appointment at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) since 1996, and is a Fellow of the ACM. He serves on the Technical Council of the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA), and was awarded a SNIA Outstanding Contribution award in 2001 for his development of the SNIA Shared Storage Model. Wilkes is named as inventor or co-inventor on about 25 patent applications, eight of which have been granted so far.

Mike Schlansker is a principal architect in HP Labs' Internet and Computing Platforms Research Center, currently investigating the use of reconfigurable computer architectures to support embedded computing needs. Embedded applications of interest network computing, communications, compression, encryption, media processing, image processing and signal processing. Reconfigurable architectures can provide efficient and high-performance programmable platforms for a broad base of embedded applications. Schlansker joined Hewlett-Packard in 1990 to work on the development of next-generation VLIW architectures and VLIW compiler technology. The primary emphasis was to understand how VLIW technology, which was already proven for scientific computing, could be adapted to the needs of business computing. Schlansker served in dual roles as a manager and a technical contributor for this project. As a manager, Schlansker assembled a research team and defined a research agenda that was well-positioned to help HP's needs in high-performance architectures and compilers. As a technical contributor, Schlansker created and demonstrated the use of many innovative techniques to improve VLIW architectures and their compilers. Schlansker authored numerous papers to help establish HPL's reputation as a leader in high-performance computing. He has authored multiple patents to help HP gain business advantage from this work. This effort resulted in the definition of EPIC architectures that are the foundation for the HP/Intel IA-64. More recently, Schlansker participated in the design of PICO (Program In Chip Out). PICO generates custom systolic and VLIW processors for specific applications. PICO takes advantage of the power of customization as it tailors hardware to specific application requirements to provide very high performance with great efficiency. Schlansker earned his PhD from the University of Michigan. Following that, he worked as an assistant professor of computer engineering at the University of Illinois. Schlansker then joined TRW as a computer architect responsible for designing and supervising the design of high-performance digital signal processing systems including custom signal processors, chips and interconnects for high-performance government applications. Next, Schlansker joined Cydrome as manager of computer architecture. In this role, Schlansker served as a technical contributor and supervisor/mentor in architecting high-performance mini supercomputers and their compilers.

Robert E. Tarjan is a well-known expert in the design and analysis of computer algorithms. He is a member of Hewlett- Packard's Office of Strategy and Technology. Dr. Tarjan is responsible for identifying key technological trends and determining how HP can best respond, as well as for helping to coordinate and strengthen research and development efforts at HP. Dr. Tarjan also continues his own research in data structures, algorithms and security. In conjunction with his work at HP, Dr. Tarjan is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He has previously held academic positions at New York University, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley and Cornell University, as well as industrial positions at InterTrust Technologies, the NEC Research Institute and Bell Laboratories. Dr. Tarjan is the inventor or co-inventor of the most efficient known algorithms and data structures for problems in a wide variety of application areas. He has published more than 170 refereed journal articles and book chapters. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and other learned societies, he was awarded the first Nevanlinna Prize in Information Science in 1983 and the Turing Award in 1986. Dr. Tarjan received a B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1969, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1971 and 1972, respectively.

Ronald Schafer, one of the world's leading authorities on digital signal processing, is an HP Fellow at HP Labs, where he is focusing on problems of acoustic signal processing for audio communication and entertainment. Schafer began his career at Bell Laboratories, where he contributed to some of the earliest research on digital signal processing. Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is the technology of representing signals such as speech, audio and video in digital form and the modification, transmission and storage of such signals using digital computation and communication. As such, DSP is the enabling technology for a wide range of modern electronic systems, from mobile phones to modems to digital cameras and multimedia PCs. In 1974, he joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as the John and Marilu McCarty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. At Georgia Tech, he and his colleagues built the world's most prestigious signal processing laboratory in academia, the Center for Signal and Image Processing (CSIP). Under his leadership and direction, this center grew from two professors to more than a dozen of the world's leading faculty in DSP. In 1981 he co-founded Atlanta Signal Processors Inc. (ASPI) to create design tools and hardware boards for DSP system design. The company created the first PC-plug-in board for Texas Instruments' first programmable digital signal processor and the first commercial digital filter design software for support of DSP chips. ASPI developed and marketed a variety of real-time algorithms, including the MELP speech coder, which became the U.S. Department of Defense standard for low bit-rate secure voice communication. Later, ASPI became a leading producer of DSP-based audio conferencing products. The company was sold to the Polycom Corporation in 2001. The research Schafer, his students and colleagues conducted underlies a wide field of consumer technologies as well as technologies for medicine and national defense. His early research achievements include contributions to cepstrum analysis and homomorphic filtering, digital interpolation, time-frequency analysis/synthesis, ADPCM speech coding (a method of method of encoding sound data files takes up less storage space than the regular Pulse Code Modulation format) and concatenated speech synthesis. More recent research yielded important contributions in the areas of iterative image deblurring; mathematical morphology; 3D image reconstruction; imaging and statistical modeling in neurobiology; medical imaging; MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) communication systems; and demosaicing for digital cameras. Schafer was a close collaborator with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories during his tenure as professor at Georgia Tech. He was co-inventor of one patent and co-author of numerous research papers with HP Labs researchers, and he was instrumental in initiating many other research collaborations between Georgia Tech faculty and HP Labs researchers. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Acoustical Society of America, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has co-authored six widely used textbooks in the DSP field, and has received numerous awards for teaching and research including the 1985 Distinguished Professor Award at Georgia Tech, the 1980 Emanuel R. Piori Award and the 1992 James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal from IEEE.

Mr. Thompson served as Chairman of Wachovia Corporation, a financial services company, from February 2003 until June 2008. Mr. Thompson also served as Chief Executive Officer of Wachovia from 2000 until June 2008 and as President from 1999 until June 2008.

John H. Hammergren is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of McKesson Corporation. He has been a director of McKesson since 1999 and was elected President and CEO in 2001 and Chairman in 2002. He joined McKesson in January 1996. Under Hammergren's leadership, McKesson has emerged as the leading provider of supply, information and care management solutions designed to reduce the cost and improve the quality of healthcare. During his tenure, the company has more than doubled its revenues to $102B, expanded into new markets and advanced to number 18 on the Fortune 500. It has also experienced a cultural transformation driven by the establishment of a set of core values, a commitment to continuous process improvement, and a collaborative approach to serving its customers. Last year Hammergren co-authored the book, “Skin in the Game,” where he describes the history of our health care system, provides an explanation of its current state, and outlines the great strides that he sees being made in the near future. This year Hammergren became the chairman of the Healthcare Leadership Council, a coalition of chief executives of the nation’s leading health care companies and organizations. In addition, he has been named one of Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare five years in a row. Hammergren is a member of the Hewlett Packard board of directors. He is also a director of Nadro, S.A. de C.V., a leading pharmaceutical distributor in Mexico. Hammergren earned a BA in business administration from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from Xavier University in Cincinnati.

Rajiv Gupta founded Securent, Inc., and leads the company as CEO, directing Securent's overall strategy and direction in the application entitlement management market. He has more than 17 years of successful enterprise software and security experience, and is widely recognized as a pioneer of Web Services. Prior to Securent, he was the Founder and CEO of Confluent Software, where he led efforts for the successful development and growth of its policy-based web-services management product, before Confluent was acquired by Oblix in 2004. Before founding Confluent, Gupta spent 11 years at Hewlett-Packard, most recently as the General Manager of the E-speak Division, a division he started in 1998 to bring to market the E-speak technology that he and his team developed at HP Labs. E-speak is the precursor to the Web Service offerings from many major IT companies, and has been inducted into the Smithsonian National Museum. Gupta is the inventor or co-inventor of some of the seminal concepts that underpin Web Services, and has more than 45 patents to his name. He earned his Master's degree and PhD in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology, and his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.