Martin Freeman is currently principal scientist at Philips Research in
Palo Alto, CA. He has published papers in the areas of computer
architecture, transaction processing, operating systems, and storage
systems. Prior to joining Philips Research, he was a senior
microprocessor architect at Signetics Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA, a
member of the technical staff at Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ, and an
associate professor of computer science at American University in
Washington, DC. He is currently interested in issues involving
multimedia and the Web, and the use of agent technology.

He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania,
and has two additional degrees in Electrical Engineering from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Columbia University.  He has also
been a Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford
University. He holds patents in the areas of memory management units
and pattern recognition hardware, and currently chairs the IEEE
P1285 Scalable Storage Interface working group. He is also Co-Chairman
of Multimedia Computing and Networking 1997.