Tim Howes is a Senior Systems Research Programmer for the University of
Michigan's Information Technology Division. He received a B.S.E. in Aerospace
Engineering, a M.S.E. in Computer Engineering from UM, and is completing
a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He is currently project director and principal
investigator for the NSF-sponsored WINX project, and in charge of directory
service development and deployment at U-M. He is the primary architect and
implementor of the U-M LDAP directory package, the DIXIE system, the GDA
X.500 DSA, and a major developer of the QUIPU X.500 implementation. He is
author or co-author of several papers and RFCs, including RFC 1777 and RFC
1778 defining the LDAP protocol. He is chair of the IETF Access, Searching,
and Indexing of Directories working group, and an active member of the ACM
and IEEE.