Mic Bowman is a Principal Engineer in Intel’s Corporate Technology Group where he investigates scalable software architectures for “Connected Visual Computing”. Bowman received his BS from the University of Montana, and his MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Arizona. Bowman has developed a number of large-scale distributed systems including the first distributed search service for the Web (Harvest, 1993). More recently, he led the Intel team that built and deployed PlanetLab, a global testbed for networking and distributed systems research that runs at 500 academic and industrial labs worldwide and a winner of the “Top 50 Technologies” award from Scientific American.