Gerald completed a master's degree in English Literature and Computer Science in 1994 and has since been involved in both research and teaching at the Computer Science department at Freie Universitaet Berlin. He is currently working to complete his PhD.

Gerald lives with his wife Christine and his sons Johannes and Julius in Berlin. When not working or playing with the kids, he enjoys red wine, cycling and tennis, and engages in choir singing.

Prior to this appointment, Andreas worked at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) in Brisbane, Australia in the position of a Principal Research Scientist. Among other activities at the DSTC, Andreas lead CORBAnet, OMG's Internet-accessible ORB-interoperability showcase, and co-authered OMG's Object Trader specification, worked on CORBA-DCE interoperability, Web and middleware integration and distributed multimedia systems. From 1993 to 1994, he worked as a Research Scientist for the University of Montreal, Canada on quality of service issues of multimedia applications.

Andreas is Java Report Online's CORBA columnist and is a contributor to the Middleware Spectra. He also serves in program committees and advisory boards of a number of international conferences, workshops and journals devoted to different aspects of distributing computing. His research results and experience reports have been published in over 30 articles in international conferences, workshops and journals. Andreas holds a PhD and MSc in Computer Science from the Humboldt-University at Berlin, Germany.

Andreas lives with wife Dorit G. Hillmann and daughter Meta J. Hillmann in San Francisco. When not being at customer sites, he enjoys the 23 miles commute to the San Mateo office on his bicycle and, if time permits, competes in races around the Bay Area.

Keith completed an honours degree in Computer Science at the University of Queensland in 1989. He has worked in the Australian and European computer industries as a Unix operating systems and network programmer. He has been researching distributed systems at DSTC since 1995.

At night this mild-mannered computer scientist turns into DJ dud, playing eclectic dance music for a "queer and alternative" crowd at two weekly Brisbane dance and performance events organised by the love machine corporation - of which he is one of three principal partners. He currently routes all his OMG standards travel through Sydney to spend time with his partner of 12 years, and fellow DSTC researcher, Tim Mansfield.