It is my pleasure to recommend Lukasz Beca for a research position at
IBM. Lukasz worked in the group (which I led) that built the Tango
collaboration system for several years and demonstrated both great
innovation and a remarkable quality of software engineering. I was at
Syracuse for 10 years and I would consider Lukasz the strongest student
that I knew at this university during this time. This implies that he was
clearly the strongest scientist in the Tango group and responsible for
much of its quality of implementation and innovation.
	I have not followed the WebWisdom.com work since I left Syracuse
about 15 months ago, but Lukasz's work in mid 1999 was very influential
in my research. His development of collaborative web pages using XML to
specify content and control suggested to me the concept of collaborative
portals which I have pursued since then.
	I have interacted with IBM research off and on over many years
and one of my best Caltech students went to IBM. I think I know the high
standard you expect and I believe Lukasz meets this. He has my full
and unreserved support.

Geoffrey Fox
Eppes Professor Florida State University
February 11 2001