The engineers, scientists, and dreamers of Sun Microsystems.

	Ken Russell Plug in Now Russell and his team have been able to make Java software run more reliably in Web browsers and, in the process, taught it to do new tricks.
	Olaf Manczak Pain Reliever His Project Live* offers a far easier way to distribute and configure software in the datacenter.
	Ashok Krishnamoorthy On the Cusp of a Dream This Distinguished Engineer is leading an ambitious research project that aims to bring light speed (rather than wire speed) to microprocessors.
	Leslie Lambert Balancing Act Her job is managing a paradox. A worldwide paradox. A paradox that involves unfettered access and the opposite of unfettered access.
	Steve Green Searching for Perfection Second-generation search guy and his team get results with hybrid solution.
	Dan Berg Travel, Talk, Repeat A Distinguished Engineer, VP, and CTO, Berg juggles roles and perceptions, continually challenging both customers and employees to think differently.
	Chris Gerhard Problem Solver Technical issues that can't be easily resolved end up on the desk of this problem solver.
	Roger Meike Surrounded by Sensors Imagine a network of small programmable objects. A network of things, if you will. Things that can make good things happen.
	Paul Byrne Project Wonderland Here's the thing: Sun has a widely distributed workforce. As do a lot of companies. Which is the point of Project Wonderland.
	Mark Moir Making the Impossible Possible Moir and team are developing ways to build systems that are fast, scalable, concurrent, and correct -- thanks to a radical rethinking of transactional memory.
	Dan Ingalls The Lively Kernel The project, led by Dan Ingalls, a Distinguished Engineer in Sun Labs, is designed to take Web programming forward and backward at the same time.
	Dean Nelson Not Rocket Science Nelson and his seven-person team have been consolidating Sun datacenters around the world and saving the company millions of dollars.
	Harriet Coverston Storage with Smarts Meet the woman behind the biggest paradigm shift in storage in more than 30 years.
	Glenn Scott The Celeste Project What would it take to make a storage system that didn't need to be backed up? Sun Labs researcher Glenn Scott has the answer.
	Brian Wong High Semantic Storage "We're talking about having data do things the way they should be done, without my having to touch it myself," Wong says.
	Ron Ho Making Wires Cool A Distinguished Engineer takes on a crucial conundrum: As microprocessors have gotten smaller and faster, the wires within them have gotten smaller and slower.
	Sunay Tripathi Clean Slate A 10-year Sun veteran helps the company live up to its slogan and once again forge ahead of the pack with a new networking stack.
	Jeff Kesselman Fun and Games and Business Let's be clear about one thing: Games are a serious business. And now for a serious solution.
	Hans Eberle The Switch Is On In today's datacenters, the ability to move data -- fast -- is critical. But it doesn't have to be complex.
	Phillip Yelland The Art of Forecasting A researcher in Sun Labs, Yelland runs the Management Science Project, where he combines insights into math and human nature.
	Greg Bollella Real-Time Obsession This Distinguished Engineer has a real-time obsession with precision and predictability.
	Steve Rubin Typically Atypical Dissatisfied with the other CAD tools, Rubin came up with a way of designing integrated circuits that he considers a no-brainer.
	Vipul Gupta Internet Security 2.0 To the cognoscenti, this Distinguished Engineer is known as the man behind Internet Security 2.0.
	Jo Ebergen 'It's the Economy, Stupid' Calculating the Cost of Energy, Area, and Delay in Circuit Design
	Glenn Brunette Making Security Simple The Goal: Validating Entire Architectures with a Single Click
	Mike Shapiro Computer, Heal Yourself How a Distinguished Engineer took "self-healing" from buzz word into reliabile reality.
	Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore Free Your Mind Like all good engineering efforts, ZFS, the revolutionary new file system in Solaris 10, began in a moment of anger.
	Tim Marsland The Art of the Operating System How to make innovation and stability coexist.
	Richard Dee The Trouble with Tape People have been telling this physicist that tape storage is dead since 1984. He says the technology still has plenty of life left.
	Jon Greaves Every System Tells a Story Although "personality mapping" is still in nascent form, Greaves says it has already proved effective with customers, including an international banking consortium.
	James Baty The Online Build-Your-Own-Business Mall A systems architect looks at design patterns for a virtual economy powered by storvers, servage, chipvers, and other innovations that break our old mental models.
	John Busch New Trajectories To research director John Busch, the key to creating breakaway products is not intuition but analytical explorations.
	Jim Hughes The Security of Data at Rest Few people recognize a disruptive technology the first time they see it. One of the few is Jim Hughes.
	Sara Gates Why do cars have brakes? Sara Gates offers a counter-intuitive answer and applies it to identity management.
	Susan Landau Wiretapping, Piracy, and Policy A Distinguished Engineer, Landau has long focused on the interplay between security and public policy.
	Bryan Cantrill No Bad Dogs The energetic engineer behind dynamic tracing has been named one of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35.
	Marc Tremblay The Multicore Advantage Sun's Most Prolific Inventor Is Causing Problems for Competitors.
	Jim Waldo One Miracle at a Time With the Neuromancer project, Waldo and his team are adding orders of magnitude to the scale of system design.
	Dick Sillman Solving the Storage Problem With Project Honeycomb, Sillman and team deliver a radical, low-cost, high-availability storage solution.
	Tim Bray The Loyal Opposition XML pioneer Tim Bray keeps a wary eye on complexity while he pursues new innovations.
	Guy Steele The Soul of a New Programming Language The challenge for Steele and a small team of researchers in Burlington, Massachusetts, is this: Create a programming language better than Java.
	Radia Perlman Disappearing Act This Sun engineer creates technologies at are virtually invisible; now she wants to make your data disappear.
	Scott McNealy Shy, Unassuming, and Controversial "If your strategy isn't controversial," says Sun's CEO, "you have zero chance of making money."
	Robert Drost Bye-Bye Bottlenecks One of the world's top innovators under the age of 35 speeds chip-to-chip communication 100-fold.
	Kenny Gross Looking for Trouble How a physicist's invention paved the way to five-nines (99.999 percent) availability for a major European bank.
	Rick Cattell Making and breaking the rules. "Good technology is only 10 percent of real-world success," Cattell says. But the Distinguished Engineer is discovering ways to give good technology better odds.
	Sheueling Chang Making security solutions stronger, faster, and smaller. The beauty of elliptic curve cryptography is that it uses very small keys, which makes it perfect for billions of pocket-sized devices.
	Jonathan Schwartz You have to be different to win. The Java Desktop System stirred debate within Sun and ran counter to what analysts said we should to do. Schwartz explains why we did it anyway.
	Jon Bosak How a simple new standard, known as UBL, could take over the world. The driving force behind XML, Sun's Jon Bosak is clearly a pioneer, but he continues to focus on the practical rather than the far out.
	Whitfield Diffie The secrets of strong security. Sun's chief security officer is a contrarian voice in a hard and thankless business, and yet there's still a twinkle in his eyes. Find out why.
	David Yen What comes after throughput computing? The conventional wisdom of simply lashing together "dirt cheap" commodity boards and boxes -- sold by weight in Asia -- isn't going to work for long, says David Yen. And the reason isn't so much technical as economic.
	James Gosling A fundamental break in the history of technology. As the principal creator of the Java programming language, Gosling set in motion one of the industry's most powerful contrarian currents -- though his creation first had to survive several near-death experiences.
	John Gage A global perspective. Few are better qualified to chronicle Sun's evolution than the man Bill Joy credits with encapsulating the company's vision in a single, utterly contrarian statement.
	Bill Walster The mother of all paradigm shifts. Sun's expert on "interval arithmetic" wants to replace the flawed floating-point math of today's computers -- and give Sun an astounding competitive advantage.
	Hal Stern Turning innovation into customer value. As CTO of Sun's services business, Stern sees his job as putting innovation to work for customers -- not an battalion of high-priced consultants.
	Jim Mitchell Leading the charge to create a peta-scale computer. The inventor of the Java Community Process is taking on a new challenge -- directing Sun's efforts to create a computer that can execute hundreds of thousands of software threads simultaneously.
	Greg Papadopoulos Why Sun's chief techology officer is driving a strategy of radical simplification. Gray-haired but still boyish, Papadopoulos guides the company's $2-billion-a-year R&D portfolio with an eye toward reducing complexity.