Pat Morreale is the Director of the Multimedia Lab and Research Associate Professor, Advanced Telecommunications Institute, Stevens Institute of Technology. She has published papers, book in the areas of network managment and distributed multimedia systems. She holds a patent in the area of real-time distributed database processing. Prior to her appointment to Stevens, she was responsible for network planning and design with Advantis, Chicago, and the McDonnell Douglas Corporation, St. Louis. She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology. She is currently interested in nomadic systems and distributed agent management.