Über die Autorin / den Autor
Since the mid 1990s David Lane has worked as a software engineer
and IT manager with the Multimedia Database Systems group at RMIT
University in Melbourne, Australia. In that group he has helped to develop
and commercialize the Structured Information Manager, a large-scale SGML/XML
document repository and a high performance Web server. David has also worked
with Australia's largest telecommunications company, Telstra, in areas as
diverse as Satellite Communications, Human Factors Research, and Electronic
Document Interchange (EDI). David has a Bachelor's degree in Applied Science
(majoring in mathematics and computer science) from Swinburne University.
Hugh E. Williams is a software design engineer at Microsoft's Windows Live Search in Redmond, WA. Previously, he was the Associate Professor in Information Retrieval at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He's published over 70 research papers and holds around 10 patents, mostly in the search engine area. When not at work Hugh likes to hang out with his family, exercise, watch Richmond play footy, and learn about baseball. Hugh has a PhD from RMIT University. His home page is http://hughwilliams.com.
