Author: Dana Moore

Dana Moore is a division scientist with BBN Technologies andis an acknowledged expert in the fields of peer-to-peer andcollaborative computing, software agent frameworks, and assistiveenvironments. Prior to joining BBN, Dana was chief scientist for Roku Technologies and a distinguished member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories. Dana is a popular conference speaker and auniversity lecturer. He has written articles for numerous computingpublications and coauthored the books Peer-to-Peer: Building Secure, Scalable, and Manageable Networks; Jabber Developer”s Handbook; and Rich Internet Applications. Dana holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial design, also from the University of Maryland.Raymond Budd is a software engineer with BBNTechnologies. He has designed, developed, and supported a varietyof web applications and other distributed systems in Java, Ruby, and Python. He has been published in several conference proceedingssuch as the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and journals including Applied Intelligence. Additional areas of interest include knowledgerepresentations, knowledge engineering, and distributed planningand scheduling. He received a Bachelor of Science degree incomputer science from the University of Pittsburgh.William Wright is a senior principal investigator with SPARTA, where he develops networking software for systemsdistributed across the globe. His interests include real-timeembedded systems, software architecture for reuse, and softwareagent frameworks. A frequent conference speaker, William has alsowritten for Dr. Dobb”s Journal, Java Developer”s Journal, and Embedded Systems Programming, among others. He coauthored the books Jabber Developer”s Handbook and Beginning Java Networking. William holds a Master of Science degree incomputer science from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Music degree in education from Indiana University.