Silicon Press: Silicon Press Author Bios: Tom London

Tom London is a founding partner of SLA partners, a global technology consulting company. Tom has 25 years technical and management experience in the computer and communications industries. As VP of Architecture and Strategy for AT&T's and British Telecom's global alliance, he was responsible for its overall IP architecture, IP voice migration, and for aligning technology and business goals. Tom is an expert in many areas of computing and networking and has made significant contributions in information retrieval, compilers and operating systems, multiprocessors and security and crypto technology. He created the first version of UNIX for the VAX-11 computers. Tom earned his PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University and BA from the University of Pennsylvania. He holds numerous patents and authored many publications.