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Jim Kurose is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts.

He is the eight-time recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from the National Technological University, the recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from the college of Natural Science and Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts, and the recipient of the 1996 Outstanding Teaching Award of the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools. He has been the recipient of a GE Fellowship, an IBM faculty Development Award, and a Lilly Teaching Fellowship.

Dr. Kurose is a former Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He is active in the program committees for IEEE Informcom, ACM SIGCOMM, and ACM SIGMETRICS. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University.

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Keith Ross is the Leornard Shustek Chair Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York. From 1998 to 2003 he was a professor in the Multimedia Communications Department at Institute Eurecom. From 1985 to 1998 he was a professor in the Department of Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Keith Ross was also the founding CEO of Wimba, which develops Java-based asynchronous voice-over-IP technologies.

Dr. Ross has published numerous research papers and has written two books. He has served on editorial boards on many major journals, including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and on numerous programming committees, including ACM SIGCOMM and IEEE Infocom. He has supervised 14 Ph.D. theses. His research and teaching interests include P2P systems, content distribution, multimedia networking, and stochastic networks. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.