About the Authors

Toby Teorey is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was chair of the 1981 ACM SIGMOD Conference and program chair of the 1991 Entity-Relationship Conference. Professor Teorey’s current research focuses on database design and performance of computing systems. He is a member of the ACM.

Sam Lightstone is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Development Manager with IBM’s DB2 Universal Database development team. He is the cofounder and leader of DB2’s autonomic computing R&D effort. He is also a member of IBM’s Autonomic Computing Architecture Board, and in 2003 he was elected to the Canadian Technical Excellence Council, the Canadian affiliate of the IBM Academy of Technology. His current research includes numerous topics in autonomic computing and relational DBMSs including automatic physical database design, adaptive self-tuning resources, automatic administration, benchmarking methodologies, and system control. Mr. Lightstone is an IBM Master Inventor with over 25 patents and patents pending, and he has published widely on Autonomic Computing for relational database systems. He has been with IBM since 1991.

Tom Nadeau is a senior technical staff member of Ubiquiti Inc. and works in the area of data and text mining. He received his B.S. degree in computer science and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His technical interests include data warehousing, OLAP, data mining and machine learning. He won the best paper award at the 2001 IBM CASCON Conference.