Dr Paul McMullan Dr McMullan is currently involved with Queen's University, Belfast. He is administrator and lecturer in the Bachelor of Arts General Studies course "Computer Programming Fundamentals with Java" for the School of Computer Science. He is also involved with the Queen's Computing Services Management Information Systems department, developing and maintaining SQL/INGRES applications for Financial Administration. He has had extensive experience industrial experience in programming for bespoke application solutions and networked Client/Server systems. His research involved parallel distributed and networked processing and he has 7 publications to date.    Mr Barry McCollum Mr McCollum is course administrator and lecturer for the Bachelor of Arts General Studies course in Information Processing at Queen's University, Belfast. He has been involved with Nottingham University with the Administration of Resources and Management Information Systems. He is currently researching in the area of Object Oriented Parallelism, involving networked distribution of processes using Artificial Intelligence. He has had several publications in this area and the field of Automated Scheduling and Resource Management.    Company Background Realtime Solutions have provided services for the following: BIC Systems BT The Queen's University of Belfast Nottingham University Police Authority Technology Group Realtime Solutions have specialist expertise in the following areas: Java/Javascript Visual C++ and Visual Basic HTML, dHTML and CGI-BIN Oracle, Access, INGRES and SQL Server