Dr. Gibson is also Laboratory Director for Storage and Computer System Integration in the NSF sponsored Data Storage Systems Center. He recently completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC Berkeley while exploring the reliability and performance of redundant disk arrays. His dissertation tied for second place in the 1991 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award competition. Dr. Gibson received the 1989 Computer Measurement Group Award, and has held an IBM Graduate Fellowship as well as a Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarship.