Frederick Douglis is the head of the Distributed Systems Research Department at AT&T Labs--Research. He has worked in the areas of process migration and mobile computing for over a decade. He is the chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on the Internet and the past chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Operating Systems and Application Environments, and he has chaired numerous conferences including the 1998 USENIX Technical Conference. He is on the editorial boards of World Wide Web and IEEE Internet Computing.