Duane Wessels
Duane Wessels discovered Unix and the Internet as an undergraduate student studying physics at Washington State University. After playing system adminis-trator for a few years, he moved to Boulder, Colorado, to attend graduate school.In late 1994, he joined the Harvest project, where he worked on searching,indexing, and caching. From 1996 until 2000, he was co-principal investigator of the NLANR Information Resource Caching project (IRCache). During this time, he and others developed and supported the Squid caching proxy. In 1999, his team organized the first"Cache-Off," a performance benchmarking event for caching proxies. Currently, he is co-owner and president of The Measurement Factory,Inc., a company that specializes in evaluating the performance and behavior of HTTP-aware devices. Like many other Colorado residents, he enjoys hiking, bicy-cling,and snowboarding.
The animal on the cover of Web Caching is a rock thrush. Rock thrushes belong to the order Passeriformes, the largest order of birds, containing 5,700 species, or over half of all living birds. Passerines, as birds of this order are called, are perching birds with four toes on each foot, three that point forward and one larger one that points backward. Rock thrushes belong to either the genus Monticola or the genus Petrocossyphus, such as Monticola solitarius, the blue rock thrush, and Petrocossyphus imerinus, the littoral rock thrush.