Emmanuel Cecchet

He contributed to the DynaServer project at Rice University to study the design of scalable, high-performance and highly available e-business servers. After leaving Rice, he led a team at INRIA in France to provide open-source middleware for large-scale data servers. In 2005, Emmanuel joined Continuent where he now serves as Chief Architect. Emmanuel was Chief Architect of the ObjectWeb open source consortium and the leader of the C-JDBC project (http:c-jdbc.objectweb.org). He now leads Continuent.org and the Sequoia project (http:sequoia.continuent.org). He is also research assistant in the Dependable Systems Lab (http://dslab.epfl.ch) at EPFL in Switzerland.