Bharat Bhasker is Professor in the information Technology and Systems Area at the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow. He received his B.E. in Electronics & Communications Engineering from University of Roorkee; M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Virginia Polytechnic institute and State University, USA. He has worked at Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA, MDL information Systems and Sybase, USA, in leading research and research management positions. Dr Bhasker made research contributions in NASA's Distributed Services project and High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) initiatives at Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA. He was awarded NASA's Research Productivity Award in 1994 in recognition of the research contributions. He has also served as visiting faculty at University of Maryland, College Park, University of California, Riverside and University of Texas, Dallas.