William R. Bennett Award
Jorg Nonnenmacher received the M.Sc. degree in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree in 1998 from EPFL, Lausanne Switzerland.
In 1995 he joined the Institute Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France, where he is a Research Scientist and Teaching Assistant. His current research interests include control in large distributed systems, and new applications for integrated networks.
Email: nonnen@eurecom.fr
Ernst W. Biersack (M'89) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany. From 1983 to 1989 he was a Research Scientist with the Technische Universitat Munchen. From March 1989 to February 1992 he was a member of the Technical Staff with the Computer Communications Research District, Bell Communications Research. Since March 1992, he has been an Associate Professor of telecommunications at Institut Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France. His current research is on architectures for scalable high-performance video servers and reliable multicast transmission. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the IEEE Network Magazine, ACM Multimedia Systems , and the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
Mr. Biersack is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). For his work on synchronization in video servers, he received the Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems in 1996.
Email: erbi@eurecom.fr
Don Towsley (M'78-SM'93-F'95) received the B.A degree in physics and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1971 and 1975, respectively.
From 1976 to 1985 he was a member of the Faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts. During 1982-1983 he was a Visiting Scientist at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, and during 1989-1990 he was a Visiting Professor at the Laboratoire MASI, Paris, France. His research interest include high-speed networks and multimedia systems.
Dr.Towsley currently serves on the Editorial Board of Performance Evaluation and has previously served on several editorial boards including those of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He was a Program Co-Chair of the joint ACM Sigmetrics and Performance '92 conference. He has received two best conference paper awards from ACM Sigmetrics. He is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and a member of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA).
Email: towsley@cs.umass.edu
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