Michael Franklin is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the
University of California, Berkeley where his research focuses on the
architecture and performance of distributed databases and information
systems.  At Berkeley he co-leads the Telegraph project on adaptive
data stream processing and works on projects spanning the range from
sensor networks to grid computing.  He worked several years developing
database systems in industry prior to receiving his Ph.D. from the
University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1993.  More recently, he spent
part of last year as an Executive-in-Residence at the Mayfield Fund, a
venture capital firm in Menlo Park, CA, where he focused on emerging
opportunities in sensor networks, RFID, and related technologies.