Dean Jacobs' research interests are in distributed systems,
transaction processing, and databases. His academic pedigree includes
a Ph.D. from Cornell University, a stint on the faculty of the
Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California,
and involvement with various international conferences and
journals. His industrial pedigree includes the development of several
widely-used commercial distributed systems. He was one of the original
developers of the WebLogic Application Server and was responsible for
its clustering architecture. Currently, he is a Principal Architect at
salesforce.com.