After his Cornell Ph.D., Lorenzo was a Professor at UT Austin, where he picked up his thick Texan accent. His research is on scalable, fault tolerant, distributed computing. He is a director of the CMMRS Undergraduate Research Summer School: learn more about it!
Robbert van Renesse was the primary designer and implementer of the final version of the Amoeba distributed operating system and the EGOS educational operating system. He also was on the AT&T Bell Labs Plan 9 Operating System team.