Dr. Richard Golding spends his time working on satellites and other issues related to space. Previously he was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center. Previously he was Software Architect with Panasas, developing distributed storage solutions, and a Member of the Technical Staff at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. He is also a Research Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests-in the odd spare moment-include fault tolerance and scalability in distributed systems, along with storage systems.