Rick Adrion is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Co-Director of RIPPLES, Co-Director of the Commonwealth Information Technology Initiative (CITI), and Director of the Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE). Adrion was chair of the CS Department from 1986-1994. He founded and, from 1988-2000, served as president and chair of the board of the Applied Computing Systems Institute of Massachusetts. Adrionis a fellow of the ACM and of the AAAS.

Jim Kurose received a B.A. degree in physics from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Columbia University. He is currently Distinguished University Professor (and past chairman) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, where he is also co-director of the Networking Research Laboratory and Associate Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA).

Wayne P. Burleson is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, He received his B.S and M.S. from MIT and his Ph. D. from the University of Colorado. His research interests are in VLSI Design (Interconnects, Clocking and Power), Adaptive Systems on Chip, VLSI Signal Processing. Embedded Security, and Multimedia for Engineering Education