Prof. Bender is an expert in algorithmics and scheduling. He won an R&D100 award for the Compute Processor Allocator, a job scheduler for massive supercomputers, which has been licensed to Cray and is used in many of the largest supercomputers in the world. Prof. Bender is also an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University.
Prof. Farach-Colton is an expert in algorithmic and information retrieval. He was an early employee at Google, where he worked on improving performance of the Web Crawl and where he developed the prototype for the AdSense system. Prof. Farach-Colton is also a Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University.
Dr. Kuszmaul's research focuses on developing computer systems and hardware that behave well both in practice and in theory. His entry won 5 out of 6 categories in Jim Gray's 2007 sorting benchmark contest, sorting a terabyte in 197 seconds. He formerly architected Akamai's distributed data collection system, was a Yale Professor of Computer Science and was a principal network architect for the Thinking Machines CM-5 Supercomputer. Dr. Kuszmaul is also a Research Scientist in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
Mr. Wells has filled both business and technical roles for high tech companies for over 20 years. At Giganet (acquired by Emulex), he began in the engineering organization, then moved to Business Development and Marketing, focusing primarily on identifying and opening new markets for the business. Before that, he worked as the lead design engineer and I/O architect of the Thinking Machines CM-5 Supercomputer. He also designed medical ultrasound equipment for Hewlett Packard, and integrated circuits at various companies.