Vladimir Getov is a talented researcher whose background in Eastern Europe
has kept his abilities "hidden". However I am highly impressed  by Vladimir
and give him an unreserved exceptional reference. I am writing for Ken
Hawick as well. I should note that I know Ken rather better as he worked in
my research group. Vladimir hoswever, I have worked with more recently and
we have an active current "long distance" collaboration on designing good
message passing interface to Java.
Vladimir and I first met as part of our Java Grande activities which is a
set of community activities designed to explore the issues relevant for
using Java in high performance (Grande) applications. Vladimir was an early
worker in this field which obviously fits Kent's interests quite well. His
work on linking Java to MPI was highly regarded and succesful. Vladimir is
a natural leader and he became the coordinater of our Java-MPI subgroup and
he has led this very effectively. He has established a good international
reputation and I expect that he will contnue to expand on this opportunity.
Vladimir is an excellent colleague and has my strongest support