ODC - Orthogonal Defect Classification

Biographies

Ram Chillarege received his BSc degree in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Mysore, BE (with distinction) in Electrical Engineering and ME (with distinction) in Automation from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He worked as an independent hardware design consultant before returning to school. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1986. Ram is currently Manager of Continuous Availability and Quality at T.J. Watson Research Center. His work has predominantly been in the area of experimental evaluation of reliability and failure characteristics of machines. His work includes the first measurements of error latency under real workload and the concept of failure acceleration for fault injection based measurement of coverage. More recently his work has focused on error and failure characteristics in software. Ram is a Senior Member of IEEE and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Reliability.

Inderpal Bhandari is a member of the research staff at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center where he is investigating system-level and process-level troubleshooting. He was educated at Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D, 1990), the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (M.S.) and the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India (B.Engg). He is a member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society.

Jarir Chaar is a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He received both his Ph.D. in CSE (1990) and his M.S. in ECE (1982) from The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. He also received his B.E. in EE (1981, with Distinction) from The American University of Beirut - Lebanon. Prior to joining IBM, he worked as a senior software engineer at Deneb Robotics Inc and held the position of research associate at The University of Michigan. While with the University of Michigan, he researched and developed a methodology for generating the control software of manufacturing systems, applied this methodology in implementing the control software of a Prismatic Machining cell for General Motors, and co-authored many technical articles that discussed the various aspects of this methodology. Prior to pursuing his Ph.D. degree, he held the position of instructor in the Electrical Engineering department at the American University of Beirut (1983-1985). He also was the manager and systems engineer of Computeknix Microcomputers (1982-1984). Jarir is a member of the IEEE.

Michael J. Halliday is a Senior Programmer at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He joined IBM in 1969, and has worked on the design and development of IBM's mainframe operating systems (MVS, VM, and TPF) for much of that time. He graduated from the University of Nottingham, UK.

Diane Moebus has a BA from LeMoyne College with a dual major of mathematics and computer science. She also has a MS from Marist College in software engineering. Diane has been employed by IBM as a developer between 1984 and 1990; working both at the Glendale Lab and Myers Corners Lab. In December 1990, Diane took a new position as manager for MVS Development. Prior to working at IBM, Diane was employed by Grumman Aerospace as a software engineer.

Bonnie Ray is currently an Assistant Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She held a National Research Council post-doctoral appointment in the Operations Research Department at the Naval Postgraduate School. She received her PhD in Statistics from Columbia University in 1990, and her BS in Mathematics from Baylor University in 1985. Prior to working at NPS, she worked as a post-doc in the continuous availability and quality group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. She is a member of the American Statistical Association.

Man-Yuen Wong is a lecturer in the Department of Management Studies at the University of Hong Kong. He was a member of the Continuous Availability and Quality Department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He was educated at George Washington University (Ph.D.) and North Carolina State University (M.S.). Prior to joining IBM, he has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, and was a member of technical staff at Bell Communications Research.