Dock Allen, Mitre Corporation

Dock Allen is the founder and chair of the OMG Real-time Special Interest Group, which has suceeded in getting support for real-time systems, embedded systems, fault tolerance, and parallel processing (currently underway) into the commercial standards for CORBA. Dock is also the project leader for the USAF/ESC Common Data Environment project at the Mitre Corporation.

Greg Bollella, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems Laboratories.

Dr. Greg Bollella, Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, has been interested in algorithms and software architectures that support real-time execution completion guarantees within general-purpose operating systems and virtual machines since 1992. While a Senior Architect at IBM, he led the Real-Time for Java Expert Group under the Java Community Process. He continues to work on the Real-Time Specification for Java at Sun Laboratories. Greg holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His dissertation research is in real-time scheduling theory and real-time systems implementation.

Mr. Barned has a BS from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MS from Syracuse University. He has played major roles in the development of numerous real time operating systems, communications systems and I/O drivers. Mr. Barned has been involved with POSIX standardization for many years. He is also a member of the National Committee for Information Technology Standards (NCITS) R1 (Real Time Computing Systems) and Technical Editor for NCITS R1.1 (Real Time UDI).

Mark is currently involved with refining and using methodologies for real-time objected oriented architecture development. He is frequently called upon to teach and lecture on Object-Oriented systems, Real-Time systems, and their architectural implications.

Mark Gerhardt has been working in the real-time industry for more than thirty years. He been involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of numerous real-time systems especially in the areas of signal and radar processing, special-purpose embedded and real-time computers, and fault tolerant systems as well as having designed and implemented major embedded software applications including C3I and early-warning receivers.

Mark's key technical interests include software and systems engineering methods, system and software architecture, object-oriented architectures, designs, and programming languages (including extensive contributions to the Ada 95 language.) He has been extensively involved in related research and teaching, having co-developed several courses on Object-Oriented systems, Real-Time systems, and Ada.

He has been involved in several standards activities in related fields, including Real-Time CORBA. He is currently involved with standardization of the set of extensions to UML for use in Real-Time systems being developed by the Object Management Group. Mark is the Past Chair of ACM's SIGAda and was a Distinguished Reviewer for Ada9X (now called Ada 95.)

Mark received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree Magna Cum Laude from the City College of New York in 1967 and his Master of Science in Engineering (Computer Science) from Princeton University in 1968.

Doug is the leader of Sun's Expert Group writing the Distributed Real-Time Specification for Java. He is a Consulting Scientist at the MITRE Corporation. His principal focus is currently on distributed object systems having adaptive, application-level, end-to-end quality of services (e.g., timeliness, fault tolerance, security). Doug joined MITRE from similar technical leadership positions at HP, Digital Equipment, and Concurrent. Prior to that, he was on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Doug is widely considered to be one of the original pioneers, leading visionaries, and foremost technologists, of distributed real-time computer systems for control applications.

Jim Litchfield is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Solaris Operating Systems group. He has first exposed to Unix in 1980 while working for the government. He's been at Sun since 1988 in various capacities (Area System Engineer, Manager of various kernel groups and as an individual contributor). He currently spends most of his time interacting with customers and dealing with various architectural issues.

Lt Col Logan is assigned to the DoD Open Systems Joint Task Force and directs a multi-disciplined government/industry team responsible for accelerating application of open systems concepts to weapon systems.

He has over 20 years experience in systems acquisition including space launch vehicles, nuclear test ban treaty monitoring and modular avionics.

Colonel Logan is a distinguished graduate of the University of Louisiana - Lafayette and earned a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.

John A. O'Keefe IV, Product Manager, VenturCom, Inc.

Prior to joining in June 2000 he was a a senior operations research analyst, at the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Command Natick Research, Development, and Engineering Center, where he managed the U.S. Army's Soldier System Modeling Science & Technology Objective; the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Command Defense Simulation Internet (DSI) Facility, and the development of the Integrated Unit Simulation System and the Soldier Protective Equipment Computer Aided Design system. He chaired the Department of Defense's Soldier System Technology Base Executive Steering Committee's Modeling Working Group. He was active in modeling and simulation technologies to support materiel development from 1988 until his departure from the U.S. Army in May 1999.

In 1995 he was the leader of the System Analysis Team that won the U.S. Army Materiel Command's System Analysis Award for the development of a methodology to use engineering level and virtual reality battlefield simulations into a virtual prototyping system allowing the rapid and low cost approach to examine and quantify the effects of proposed individual soldier clothing, weapons, and sensors on individual survival/unit mission accomplishment.

Mr. O'Keefe is a disabled Regular Army Major having served in numerous leadership positions including Mechanized Infantry Platoon Leader, Mechanized Infantry Company Executive Officer, Assistance Division Operations Officer, Maintenance Manager for a Air Cavalry Brigade, Intermediate Maintenance Company Commander, and Inspector General at the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Command.

Mr. O'Keefe has a BA from Norwich University (1975) and an MA from American Technological University (1981). He is a graduate of numerous military professional training courses and has published over 24 unclassified technical reports/articles on the use of models and simulations to support material design, evaluation and analysis.

Stan Schneider, President, RTI Inc.

Stan is a specialist in real-time software systems and architectures. He started his career developing data acquisition systems for automotive testing. He then lead a team building personal computers and communications systems. He later managed a robotics research laboratory at Stanford. He authored RTI's original StethoScope, ProfileScope, and ControlShell products. He was one of Wind River's first customers, and chaired the Wind River User's group for 5 years.

Stan founded Real-Time Innovations (RTI) in 1991, originally as a consulting company serving clients building semiconductor equipment, medical devices, and aerospace systems. Today, RTI builds analysis tools, network middleware, and software architectures for real-time systems. RTI's charter is to "bridge research to reality" by bringing advanced research results to market.

Stan holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University and bachelors and master's degrees in engineering from the University of Michigan.

Aubrey T. Smith has a lengthy career in the research, development, test, evaluation and acquisition of major systems both for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Navy.

An employee of the Naval Air Systems Command, he is currently assigned as the Director of the Open Systems Joint Task Force for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (AT&L). He has an extensive background in software and systems engineering, standardization, program reviews and international relations.

Mr. Smith holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the North Carolina State University and a Master of Business Administration from the George Washington University. He is also a graduate of the Program Management Course at the Defense Systems Management College. Active in both SAE International and the American Institute of Aeronautics (AIAA), he is on the Board of Directors and a Fellow of AIAA. Currently, he is also chairman of the NATO Military Agency for Standardization's Avionics Systems Work

Michael Tiemann, Chief Technical Officer , Red Hat Inc.

Michael Tiemann is one of the first and most important pioneers of open source. His early work with GNU software created world-leading technologies, and became an inspiration to Linus Torvalds and an enabling technology for Linux in 1991. Today, as Chief Technical Officer of Red Hat, he continues to shape the future of open source as it drives the next-generation of embedded, post-PC computing devices. Prior to joining Red Hat, Michael served as the co-founder and Acting CTO of Cygnus Solutions, which was acquired by Red Hat in January 2000. During his ten years at Cygnus, Michael participated in a number of roles, helping to lead the company from a fledgling start-up to an admired open source powerhouse. He is a frequent speaker and well-respected expert within the open source community.

Tom Williams is Editor-in-Chief for RTC magazine. Mr. Williams joined RTC with over 20 years of industry knowledge, having most recently held the position of Editor-in-Chief for Embedded Systems Development, a Penton publication. Mr. Williams has worked for successful publications such as InfoWorld, Dr. Dobbs, ED, CD and ESD. He earned his masteršs degree from Washington University and completed his post-graduate work at Bonn University.

Victor Yodaiken is founder of FSMLabs and the creator of RTLinux. Yodaiken has worked on operating systems since the early 1980s when he was one of the primary designers of of distributed fault tolerant UNIX system for a company called Auragen. More recently Yodaiken was a professor and chair of computer science at the New Mexico Institute of Technology in Socoro New Mexico. Currently Yodaiken manages FSMLabs, a company founded in 1998 to provide commercial support and consulting for RTLinux.

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