5 Biography

Jack C. Wileden received the A.B. degree in mathematics and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer and communications sciences from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Director of the Convergent Computing Systems Laboratory there. His current research interests center on tools and techniques supporting seamless integration of advanced capabilities into computing systems. Recent projects in his laboratory have focused on object management topics, including persistent object systems and name management, and on interoperability support for multilingual programming. Professor Wileden's previous research efforts were in the areas of software development environments and tools, notably analysis and debugging tools applicable to concurrent software systems. His research has been supported by DARPA, NSF and ONR and he is the author of more than sixty papers in journals and refereed conferences. With Dr. Alan Kaplan, he presented a half-day tutorial on ``Software Interoperability: Principles and Practice'' at the 1997 International Conference on Software Engineering.