Eric Peterson, the editor of Ericsson Review.

Joel Askelöf, who joined Ericsson in 1998, is employed at the AudioVisual unit, Ericsson Research, where he works on still-image compression, universal multimedia access and augmented reality. He has been involved in the standardization of JPEG2000 since 1998, both as co-editor of JPEG2000 part 5 (reference software) and currently as the head of the Swedish delegation. He holds an M.S. in engineering physics from Uppsala University.

Lars Boman is currently head of Ericsson Internet Applications. From 1983 to 1985, he was research and development manager at Ericsson Business Network AB. From 1985 to 1990, he served as director of research and development. In June 1990, he was appointed vice president, general manager and business unit manager of Ericsson Business Network AB, which was responsible for packet-data communication equipment and large PBXs. In September 1995, Lars became president of Ericsson Infotech AB, and from May 1997 to February 2000, he served as vice president, products and technology for Ericsson Mobile Systems in Japan.

Charilaos Christopoulos manages the MediaLab at Ericsson Research. He joined Ericsson in October 1995, and has worked in numerous image- and video-coding-related projects, including MPEG-4 and H.263 video transcoder architectures, and multipoint control units. In 1997, he began working with JPEG2000, in part as head of the Swedish delegation in ISO/SC29 WG1 JPEG (until March 2000); as editor of the verification model; and as co-editor of part I of the standard. Since 1999, he has been working with MPEG-7 (he is co-chairman of the mobile profile ad hoc group) and virtual/augmented reality. He is a senior member of IEEE and associate editor of IEEE Transactions of circuits and systems, part II: Analog and digital signal processing. He holds a B.S. in physics from the University of Patras in Greece, an M.S. in software engineering from the University of Liverpool in the UK, and a Ph.D. in image and video coding from the University of Patras and the Free University of Brussels in Belgium.

Andreas Grundsell currently works for Supply and Sourcing at Supply and IT within Ericsson’s Mobile Systems division (DMS). Before this, he served as the head of UMTS supply development and as the supply strategy advisor at DMS Supply and IT. He has many years’ experience of working as a project manager in production and in supply support system development. He holds an MBA and an M.S. in mechanical engineering.

Andy Johnston is a master software designer at Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland in Aachen Germany. He is currently a system manager for the Ericsson WISE Portal at Ericsson Radio Systems in Kista as well as a design manager for Mobile Portal Technologies at Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland. Andy has been with Ericsson since 1995. Prior to joining Ericsson, he was the chief developer of the widely used CAMPUS® Database & CAE system. He has a B.S. in computer science from Dublin City University, Ireland.

Mathias Larsson Carlander joined Ericsson and the Compression Lab in April 1998. He is now a senior research engineer in the Visual Technology unit at Ericsson Research. He mainly works with still-image coding projects, but also works with projects related to objective and subjective image-quality measures and video coding. Since 1998, he has been active in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 and JPEG2000 standardization; he was co-editor of JPEG2000, part II, and chairman of the region of interest subgroup. In November 2000, he became chairman of AG29, the standardization group that is responsible for multimedia, coding, and representation—including JPEG and MPEG standards—at Informationstekniska Standardisering (ITS) in Sweden. He holds an M.S. in computer science and engineering from the Linköping University.

Karin Mallmin, who joined Ericsson in 1994, is currently manager of supply chain planning at the GSM, TDMA, EDGE Systems business unit, Ericsson Radio Systems. Before this, she worked with GSM supply chain management (focus on the Chinese market) and later as the program coodinator of global supply chain management, Vodafone global accounts. Karin studied industrial engineering and management at Linköping University, Sweden.

Tim Murphy is an integration specialist at Ericsson Research Canada for the cdma2000 Packet Core Network. Since joining Ericsson, in 1999, he has been involved in the development of third-generation packet-data systems, including GPRS and the PCN. Most recently, his work has focused on Linux application research and PCN complementary technology research. He holds a B.S. in finance from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and is completing an M.S. in telecommunications from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Thomas Papanikolaou joined Ericsson in 1999, working as technical architect and chief developer, and later as system manager of the WebOnAir™ - Information Server. He is currently a system manager of the Ericsson WISE Portal Presentation Layer. Prior to joining Ericsson, he was a researcher in computational number theory and cryptography at the University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany. In 1998, he received a post-doctoral fellowship from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.) in France. Thomas has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Saarbrücken, Germany.

Mike Slssingar joined Ericsson in 1997. Since early 1999, he has managed the development of demonstration WAP applications for CeBIT and Telecom 99, and worked with WAP and wireless ISP consultancy for Ericsson Business Consulting. This work led to his role as systems manager for the WISE 2.0 Portal. Mike was responsible for the presentation, session, subscription, and J2EE application server definition studies and led the initial technology partnering before the requirements for professional services deployment were defined. He holds a post-graduate degree in software engineering and an M.S. in computing for commerce and industry.

Fredrik Öijer is a strategic product manager in the GSM/UMTS business unit at Ericsson Mobile Communications. He has been with Ericsson since 1997, and is currently responsible for messaging technologies and applications, and for the market-related design issues of general user interfaces. He holds a B.S. in informatics (emphasis on human-computer interaction, minor in business administration) from the Lund University in Sweden