Ken Bowles came to UCSD in 1965 as the junior member of a two person team, chaired by Prof. Henry Booker. They were tasked to start and organize a new department of Applied Engineering Physics (AEP). Ken received his PhD under Prof Booker at Cornell in 1955, for radar studies of the Aurora Borealis. While employed by the Central Radio Propagation Laboratory of National Bureau of Standards, he directed the construction and research use of Jicamarca Radar Observatory near Lima Peru . That work involved heavy use of computers for signal analysis to study the earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere.

While starting to establish a new radio astronomy experiment near UCSD, for studies of the Sun's ionized atmosphere, the concentration on computer analysis led UCSD to appoint Ken as Computer Center Director in 1968. He introduced interactive ("online") computing to UCSD, but returned to full time teaching in 1974 when budget pressures made computer centers very controversial. With graduate student Mark Overgaard, and a supporting team of undergraduates, he then set out to provide low cost instructional computing services to the majority of UCSD students using small computers. Between late 1974 and 1980, that project grew into the UCSD Pascal Project.

When the UCSD Pascal Project grew large enough to threaten UC's favorable tax status, it was necessary for the project to leave U.C. through licensing the software to a commercial vendor. Ken then started a small software development company, later called "TeleSoft", which became a principal supplier of compilers for the Ada Programming Language worldwide. He took early Emeritus status in 1984 in order to concentrate his attentions at TeleSoft. After selling his part interest in TeleSoft in 1989, he participated for several years in the ISO committee responsible for the Ada Language standard of 1995. Since then he has turned to digital photography - concentrating on the wildflowers of San Diego County , and birds of the southwestern U.S.

Henrik Wann Jensen joined the UCSD faculty in July 2002 following three years as a research associate at Stanford University. Before Stanford, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the graphics group at MIT, and between 1996-98 a research scientist in industry working on visual effects software. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark in 1996.

Richard Kaufmann is a distinguished technologist at Hewlett Packard.  For the past ten years he has been working on large parallel scientific computers, e.g. the multi-TeraFLOP systems at the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center and Los Alamos National Labs.  His particular focus is on processors, servers and interconnects used in scale-out systems.

Mark Overgaard founded Pigeon Point Systems (PPS) in 1997 to focus on products and services supporting the adoption of open modular platforms to replace proprietary architectures, with an initial focus on the telecommunications market and CompactPCI. He is a leader in the technical subcommittees of PICMG (including the management aspects of AdvancedTCA and the corresponding CompactTCA specification, now in development). The current PPS product focus is the IPM Sentry line of platform management components, including the first available AdvancedTCA shelf and board level management components. Previously Mark was VP, Engineering at Lynx Real-Time Systems (a Unix-compatible RTOS supplier) and TeleSoft (a major supplier of embedded development solutions for Ada). He earned an M.S. in Computer Science from UC San Diego and a B.S. in Physics from Geneva College.

Stefan Savage joined the Jacobs School Computer Science and Engineering faculty in January 2001. He received his PhD from the University of Washington where he focused both on network protocol design and operating system structuring. He was a co-founder of Seattle-based startup Asta Networks, which specialized in denial-of-service defense and he continues to provide guidance to the public and private sectors relating to Internet security. His current interests include automated network defenses, adaptive Internet distributed storage systems and self-configuring 802.11-based wireless access networks.

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Dr. John VanZandt is president of CEO Consultancy Inc., a software development company with offices in California and Malaysia that helps US companies develop software products and embedded systems. He brings to the company over 25 years of experience leading and building engineering organizations for successful high-technology companies. His experience ranges from hardware design to large-scale application development. Recently he has worked with distributed Java applications (Wily Technologies), SQL database accelerators (Nextgig), and information assurance software (Security First Corp.)

Prior to CEO Consultancy John was with Ethentica where he was the VP of Engineering and developed and shipped biometric sensors and software for commercial markets. He has worked for companies such as Intel, Fujitsu, GE Labs and Sequent. He has a strong track record and proven leadership in creating dynamic organizations for defining and delivering state-of-the-art software and hardware systems. His teams have created products ranging from supercomputers to enterprise Java software, from fiber-optic networks to internet security systems.

John has 4 patents pending in the US , covering areas in encryption algorithms, authentication systems, and fingerprint sensors. He is an accomplished writer and speaker on topics ranging from software development to computer architectures, including:

• Keynote speaker at the ICAST 2003 conference in Kuala Lumpur , August 2003.
• Authored the book “Parallel Processing in Information Systems,” published in 1992.
• Wrote published reports for market research organizations (e.g. Price-Waterhouse, New Science Associates)
• Delivered invited lecture at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories 40 th anniversary celebration.

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