Allen Luniewski is a Senior IT Architect with IBM's Software Group. Dr. Luniewski began his career working at Xerox on the operating system for the pioneering Xerox Star line of workstations and products. In his 14-year stay in IBM's Research Division, Dr. Luniewski worked on projects including a WYSIWYG editor for SGML documents, an object-oriented database, and a system for helping users keep track of the objects on their workstation. He also led a project for the Advanced Research Project Administration of the US Department of Defense. While in IBM's Information Management Division the past few years, Dr. Luniewski has managed part of the DB2 product development, worked on standards for grid technology, and has investigated regulatory compliance issues. Dr. Luniewski received his PhD in computer science from MIT and his BS in mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University. He can be reached at luniew at us.ibm.com.