Lily Mummert is a Research Scientist at Intel Research Pittsburgh working in the area of distributed systems and systems management. Before joining Intel in 2006 she was a Research Staff Member at IBM TJ Watson Research Center, where she worked on problems in enterprise system management and contributed to several products. She earned a PhD. In Computer Science form Carnegie Mellon University in 1996. Her current research is focused on system issues related to searching large repositories of complex data. She spends most of her time working on the ISADS project, for which she serves as co-Pl