Kees Vissers graduated in 1980 from Delft University in the Netherlands. He joined Philips Research in the Netherlands in 1980. He worked on several EDA algorithms, simulation implementations, Dataflow Systems, including the programming environment and the actual ICs and Boards. He has extensive experience in high performance video processing sytems. He performed research on the design space exploration of streaming applications, the design space exploration of next generation VLIW processors and the systematic trade-off between programmable and dedicated implementations. He worked as an industrial fellow at CarnegieMellon University and at UC Berkeley. He was director of Architecture at Trimedia Technologies Inc., and most recently Chief Technology Officer at Chameleon Systems Inc. At Chameleon Systems he was responsible for all hardware and software design of a high performance reconfigurable system. He is a part time research fellow at UC Berkeley where his interest is in mapping multiple processes onto a network of processors, applied to network processing problems, e.g. IPv4 routing.