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About the Authors
Sam Lightstone is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Development Manager with
IBM’s DB2 product development team. His work includes numerous topics in auto-
nomic computing and relational database management systems. He is cofounder and
leader of DB2’s autonomic computing R&D effort. He is Chair of the IEEE Data Engi-
neering Workgroup on Self Managing Database Systems and a member of the IEEE
Computer Society Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Computing. In 2003 he
was elected to the Canadian Technical Excellence Council, the Canadian affiliate of the
IBM Academy of Technology.
He is an IBM Master Inventor with more than 25 patents and patents pending; he
has published widely on autonomic computing for relational database systems. ...