David R. Cheriton
Professor, Stanford University
Dr. David R. Cheriton heads the Distributed Systems Group of the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. He co-founded Granite Systems, which was acquired by Cisco in 1996 and Kealia, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2004. In 2003, Dr. Cheriton was presented with the SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement award by the ACM "...for his contributions in data networking and systems, and for his keen talent for questioning the assumptions behind all our work."
Hector Garcia-Molina
Professor, Stanford University
Dr. Hector Garcia-Molina is the Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He was the Chairman of the Computer Science Department from January 2001 to December 2004. From 1997 to 2001, he was a member the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). Dr. Garcia-Molina is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; is a member of the National Academy of Engineering; and the recipient of the 1999 ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award.
Armando Fox
Research Associate, UC Berkeley
Dr. Armando Fox is a co-founder of the Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory at UC Berkeley. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His recent collaboration with David Patterson on Recovery-Oriented Computing earned him the distinction of being included in the "Scientific American 50" of 2003. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, as well as teaching awards from Stanford University, the Society of Women Engineers, and Tau Beta Pi.
