About the Authors

K. Mani Chandy is the Simon Ramo Professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering and Operations Research in 1969. He was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin from 1970 to 1987, and has been at Caltech since then. Chandy has received numerous awards, including the CMG Michelson Award, the IEEE Kobayashi Award, the Babbage Award, and several teaching awards. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. His research is on distributed systems, event processing, and performance analysis with an emphasis on smart systems and sense-and-respond systems.

W. Roy Schulte is Vice President and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, Inc. in Stamford, Connecticut. Schulte was the lead author of the 1996 Gartner report that introduced the term service-oriented architecture (SOA) to the industry. He also originated the research in the field of message brokers, coined the term business activity monitoring (BAM), and wrote the first analyst reports on the zero-latency enterprise and the enterprise service bus (ESB). Schulte has more than 25 years of experience as an application developer, software system programmer, database administrator, product manager, and analyst. He is a member of the Event Processing Technical Society steering committee, is a frequent speaker at industry events, and contributes to web forums. He has a BS from MIT and an MS from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.