Roland Seiffert received his diploma degree in Computer Science from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1988. He then joined IBM Research to work on natural language technology. In 1995, he moved on to IBM Development, working on information retrieval, text mining, and unstructured information management. In 2002/03, he represented IBM in the W3C workgroup to define an XQuery Fulltext standard. Since 2004, he is the lead architect for Linux on Cell development at the IBM Böblingen lab.

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