About the Authors
T. S. Jayram
IBM Almaden Research Center
650 Harry Rd
San Jose, CA 95120.
jayram[ta]almaden[td]ibm[td]com
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/jayram
IBM Almaden Research Center
650 Harry Rd
San Jose, CA 95120.
jayram[ta]almaden[td]ibm[td]com
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/jayram
T. S. Jayram (aka Jayram Thathachar) has been at
IBM Research since 1998.
He obtained his Bachelors degree in Computer Science
from IIT Madras, Chennai
and his Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science and
Engineering from the
University of Washington,
Seattle, under the supervision of
Paul Beame.
He now manages the Algorithms and Computation group at IBM Almaden.
His primary research interests are
in massive data sets and computational complexity.
Ravi Kumar
Yahoo! Research
701 First Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94089.
ravikumar[ta]yahoo-inc[td]com
http://research.yahoo.com/Ravi_Kumar
Yahoo! Research
701 First Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94089.
ravikumar[ta]yahoo-inc[td]com
http://research.yahoo.com/Ravi_Kumar
Ravi Kumar has been at
Yahoo! Research since July 2005.
Prior to this, he was a research staff member at the
IBM Almaden Research Center
in the Computer Science Principles and Methodologies group.
He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from
Cornell University under
Ronitt Rubinfeld
in December 1997.
His primary interests are web algorithms, algorithms for large data sets,
and theory of computation.
D. Sivakumar
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043.
siva[ta]google[td]com
http://globofthoughts.blogspot.com
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043.
siva[ta]google[td]com
http://globofthoughts.blogspot.com
D. Sivakumar (Siva) is interested in theoretical computer
science, organizing the world's information, and everything in between. He
has been at
Google Research
since 2005, before which he was on the Research Staff at the
IBM Almaden Research Center,
San Jose, CA. Before finding his
home in the pleasant environs of Northern California, he spent a few years
in the steam chamber of Houston, TX, as a member of the faculty of
Computer Science at the
University of Houston,
and a few years in the
freezer that is Buffalo, NY, where he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from
the State University of New York
under the wise tutelage of
Ken Regan,
Jin-Yi Cai, and
Alan Selman.