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Professor Silberschatz is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. Hereceived the 2002 IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award, the 1998ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Education Award, and the 1997 ACMSIGMOD Contribution Award. In recognition of his outstanding levelof innovation and technical excellence, he was awarded the BellLaboratories President s Award for three different Projects the QTM Project (1998), the DataBlitz Project (1999), andthe NetInventory Project (2004).

Professor Silberschatz s writings have appeared innumerous AVM and IEEE publications and other professionalconferences and journals. He is a coauthor of the textbookDatabase Systems Concepts. He has also written Op–Edarticles for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the HartfordCourant, among others.

Peter Baer Galvin is the chief technologist for CorporateTechnologies (www.cptech.com),a computer facility reseller and integrator. Before that, Mr.Galvin was systems manager for Brown University s ComputerScience Department. He is also Sun columnist for ;login: magazine.Mr. Galvin has written articles for Byte and other magazines, andhas written columns for SunWorld and SysAdmin magazines. As aconsultant and trainer, he has given talks and taught tutorials onsecurity and system administration worldwide.

Greg Gagne is chair of the Computer Science department atWestminister College in Salt Lake City where he has been teachingsince 1990. In addition to teaching operating systems, he alsoteaches computer networks, distributed systems, and softwareengineering. He also provides workshops to computer scienceeducators and industry professionals.