This technology has been retired.

Daniela Bourges-Waldegg has been a research staff member at the IBM Zürich Research Laboratory since January 1999, specializing in mobile computing. She holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Université de Rennes 1, France, and a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Metropolitan Autonomous University of Mexico City.

Yann Duponchel received an M.S. in telecommunication engineering from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, France, in 1998. In the same year, he joined the IBM Zürich Research Laboratory to work on packet-based telephone systems. Mr. Duponchel's research interests include new communication protocols, distributed systems, artificial intelligence, and object-oriented programming.

Marcel Graf has been a research staff member at the IBM Zürich Research Laboratory since 1996, working on projects in the area of distributed computing, such as Voice Over IP, service creation for "telcos," and multi-device applications in ubiquitous computing. He received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Michael Moser joined the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory as a research staff member in 1992, working in different areas such as high speed networks, protocol and data conversion, Web applications, distributed and mobile computing, data synchronization, and event correlation. He received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zürich, Switzerland.

For platform(s):

• Java

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For topics:

• model-view-controller (MVC)
• real time
• replication
• synchronization
• ubiquitous computing
• mobile devices