Senior Technical Staff, IBM Software Group

Dr. Burbeck joined IBM in January, 1995 as a Senior Consultant specializing in Object Technology. In 1997 he moved to IBM Research for a year to study adaptive and self configuring systems. From 1998 to the present he has been a Senior Technical Staff Member in the IBM Software Group with a focus on emerging technologies. His current interests include Open-Source Software, Web Services, and peer-to-peer computing. He participated on the joint Ariba/IBM/Microsoft UDDI architecture team.

Prior to joining IBM, Dr. Burbeck directed computing and statistics at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, co-founded a startup that pioneered Smalltalk for the IBM PC/AT, worked for two years at Apple Computer as a Product Marketing Manager for object-oriented development tools, and spent four years as vice president of development and operations at Knowledge Systems Corporation (a software tool and consulting company specializing in object-oriented design and consulting).