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\section{Biographical Sketches}

\begin{center}
{\large Miron Livny}\\
University of Wisconsin Deptt. of Computer Sciences\\
Madison, WI  53706, (608)262-0856, miron@cs.wisc.edu
\end{center}
\begin{description}
\item[EDUCATION]

\begin{description}
\item[]
Ph.D., Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, February, 1984.
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\end{description}
\item[RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE]

\begin{description}
\item[]
University of Wisconsin-Madison,CS Dept.,
Professor, September, 1995 - present.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison, CS Dept., Associate
Professor, September, 1989 - 1995.
\item[]
University of Wisconsin-Madison, CS Dept., Assistant
Professor, April, 1984 - August 1989.
\em Program Committee Member:}  PODS, SIGMOD, VLDB, PDIS, SIGMETRICS,
IDCS, HCW, ARTDB. 
\end{description}

\item[SOFTWARE DEVELOPED]

\begin{description}
\item[]
The DeNet simulation package, the CONDOR cluster management system, the DBC batch system,
the QCLIC image compression and browsing system, the DEVise visualization environment,
the BIRCH clustering tool, and the ZOO experiment management system.  
All are distributed freely, and some have been used extensively worldwide.
\end{description}

\item[SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS]

\begin{jlist}
\item
L. Haas, M. Carey, M. Livny, and A. Shukla,
"SEEKing the Truth About Ad Hoc Join Costs",
to appear in
{\em VLDB Journal}.

\item
J. Pruyne, and M. Livny,
"Interfacing Condor and PVM to harness the cycles of workstation clusters,"
{\em Journal on Future Generations of Computer Systems, Vol. 12, No. 1,} May 1996

\item
E. Haber,Y. Ioannidis, and M. Livny,
"Foundations of Visual Metaphors for Schema Display,"
{\em Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (special issue on management of visual
information), Vol. 3, No. 3/4}, July 1994.

\item
C. Chen, K. Salem, and M. Livny,
"The DBC: Processing Scientific Data Over the Internet,"
{\em 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems}

\item
K. Brown, M. Carey, and M. Livny,
"Goal-Oriented Buffer Management Revisited."
{\em Proc. 1996 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data}.

\item
J. Myllymaki and M. Livny,
"Disk-Tape Joins: Synchronizing Disk and Tape Access"
{\em The 1995 ACM SIGMETRICS - PERFORMANCE Conference}

\item
V. Ratnakar, M.Livny, J. M. Norman,and K. Kucharik,
"Classification on compressed images with bounded loss,"
{\em The 1995 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium}

\item
M. Livny, B. Melamed, and A. K. Tsiolis,
``The Impact of Autocorrelation on Queueing Systems'', 
{\em Management Science, Vol, No. 3},
March 1993

\item
V. Ratnakar, M.Livny,
"Extending RD-OPT with Global Thresholding for JPEG Optimization"
{\em The 1996 IEEE Data Compression Conferenceq}

\item
V. Anjur, Y. Ioannidis,and M.Livny,
"Frog and Turtle:  Visual Bridges Between Files and Object-Oriented Data",
{\em 8th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management}.

\item
M. Carey, M. Livny, and  R. Jauhari).
``On Transaction Boundaries in Active Databases: A Performance Perspective'', 
{\em IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering},
September 1991,
\end{jlist}
\end{description}


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\begin{center}
{\large John M. Norman}\\
University of Wisconsin - Madison\\
Department of Soil Science\\
Madison, WI  53706\\
(608)262-4576\\
norman@calshp.cals.wisc.edu
\end{center}
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\begin{description}
\item[EDUCATION]

\begin{description}
\item[]
Ph.D., Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1971.
\begin{description}
\item[]
Dissertation Topic: ``Sunfleck-Size and Light-Intensity Distributions in Plant Canopies''
\item
Dissertation Advisor: ``Champ B. Tanner''
\end{description}
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M.S., Soil Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 1967.
\item[]
B.S., Physics, University of Minnesota, Mpls., MN, 1964. 
\end{description}
\item[RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE]

\begin{description}
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University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Soil Science, Professor,
September, 1988 - present.
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agronomy, Professor,
August, 1978  - August 1988.
Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, Associate
Professor September 1975-1978, Assistant Professor September 1972-1975.
University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, Botany Department, Research
Fellow, March 1971 - May 1972.
\end{description}
\item[SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS]

\begin{description}
\item[]
``Instrumentation For Studying Vegetation Canopies For Remote Sensing
In Optical And Thermal Infrared Regions'',
Harwood Academic Publishers, London, 360 pp.
November 1990.
(Edited with N.S. Goel).
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``Biospheric Models, Measurements And Remote Sensing Of Vegetation'',
{\em ISPRS J. Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol 47, pp. 163-188},
1992,
(with N.S. Goel).
\item[]
``Scaling Processes Between Leaf And Canopy Levels'', 
{\em Scaling Physiological Processes: Leaf To Globe, eds J.R.Ehleringer
and C.B.Field},
Academic Press, Inc. New York. pp. 41-76.
1993,
\item[]
``Soil Surface CO2 Fluxes And The Carbon Budget Of A Grassland'', 
{\em J. Geophys. Res. Vol 97, pp. 18,845-18,853},
(with R. Garcia and S.B. Verma).
\item[]
``Photon Transport In Discontinuous Canopies: A Weighted Random Approach'', 
{\em Photon-Vegetation Interaction: Application	In Optical Remote Sensing
And Plant Ecology, eds. J. Ross and R. Myneni, pp. 389-414.},
1991
(with J.M. Welles).
\item[]
``Leaf Bidirectional Reflectance And Transmittance In Corn And Soybean'', 
{\em Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol 29, pp. 161-174.},
1989,
(with E.A. Walter-Shea and B.L.Blad).
\item[]
``Contrasts Among Bidirectional Reflectance Of Leaves, Canopies And Soils'', 
{\em IEEE Trans. On Geoscience And Remote Sensing, Vol GE-23, pp.659-667},
September 1985,
(with J.M. Welles and E.A. Walter).
\item[]
``From Artificial Life To Real Life: Computer Simulation of Plant Growth'', 
{\em International J. General Systems, Vol 18, pp. 291-319},
1991,
(with N.S. Goel and L.B. Knox).
\end{description}
\end{description}

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\begin{center}
{\large Raghu Ramakrishnan}\\
University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Computer Sciences\\
Madison, WI  53706, (608)262-9759, raghu@cs.wisc.edu
\end{center}
\begin{description}
\item[EDUCATION]

\begin{description}
\item[]
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, May 1987.
\end{description}
\item[RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE]

\begin{description}
\item[]
University of Wisconsin-Madison, CS Dept., Associate
Professor, September, 1992 - present.
\item[]
University of Wisconsin-Madison, CS Dept., Assistant
Professor, July, 1987 - August 1992.
\item[]
{\em Editorial Board:} Journal of Logic Programming (JLP), 
Journal of Constraints,
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS).
\item[]
{\em Program Committee Member:}  Databases (PODS, SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, PDIS, CIKM,
DOOD, EDBT) and logic programming (ICLP, ILPS, NACLP).
\end{description}

\item[AWARDS]

\begin{description}
\item[]
NSF Presidential Young Investigator, 1990 - 1995, 
Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, 1989 - 1994, 
IBM Faculty Development Award, 1988 - 1990. 
\end{description}

\item[SOFTWARE DEVELOPED]

\begin{description}
\item[]
The CORAL deductive system.
Source code in C++ for CORAL is available
freely, and is now installed at several universities and research labs.  
\item[]
The Minibase DBMS.  
Currently in beta-tests with Ramakrishnan's
database text at several schools.  Includes a 
relational DBMS plus several visualization tools.
\item[]
The DEVise visualization tool and the BIRCH clustering tool.  These are
available in beta versions, and were developed jointly with Prof. Livny.
\end{description}

\item[SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS]

\begin{jlist}
\item
M. Cheng, M. Livny, and R. Ramakrishnan,
``Visual Analysis of Stream Data'',
{\em Proc. SPIE Conf. on Visual Data
Exploration and Analysis}, 1995.

\item
R. Ramakrishnan and J.D. Ullman,
``A Survey of Deductive Database Systems'',
{\em Journal of Logic programming, Vol. 23, No. 2}, 1995.

\item
P. Seshadri, M. Livny and R. Ramakrishnan,
``Sequence Data Processing'',
{\em Proc. ACM SIGMOD Intl. Conf. on Management of Data}, 1994.

\item
R. Miller, Y. Ioannidis and R. Ramakrishnan,
``Translation and Integration of Heterogeneous Schemas: Bridging the
Gap between Theory and Practice'',
{\em Information Systems, Vol. 19, No. 1}, 1994.
{\em (Also in Proc. EDBT 93, and received the best paper
award.)}

\item
J.F. Naughton and R. Ramakrishnan,
``How to Forget the Past Without Repeating It'',
{\em Journal of the ACM, Vol. 41, No. 6}, 1994.

\item
R. Ramakrishnan, D. Srivastava and S. Sudarshan,
``CORAL: A Database Programming Language'',
{\em Proc. VLDB}, 1992.

\item
R. Ramakrishnan.
``Magic Templates: A Spellbinding Approach to Logic Programs'',
{\em Journal of Logic Programming, Vol. 11, No. 3}, Oct. 1991.

\item
I.S. Mumick, S. Finkelstein, H. Pirahesh and R. Ramakrishnan,
``Magic is Relevant'',
{\em Proc. ACM SIGMOD Intl. Conf. on Management of Data}, 1990.

\item
F. Bancilhon and R. Ramakrishnan,
``An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies'',
{\em Proc. ACM SIGMOD Intl. Conf. on Management of Data}, 1986.
{\em Reprinted in ``Readings in AI and Databases'', Eds. M. Brodie and
J. Mylopoulos, 1988, pp. 376-430.}

\end{jlist}

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