Linnea Cook
Linnea Cook earned her BS in Mathematics with a minor in Physics from Purdue University in 1970 and her MS in Computer Science in 1972, also from Purdue. She is with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her experience includes developing, optimizing, and parallelizing neutron transport codes, scientific visualization, and scientific data management. Her primary technical interest is enabling the sharing of scientific data produced by hydrodynamics and transport simulation codes through the development of common data models and a common file format. Linnea has been a Team Leader, Group Leader and Section Leader for a group of 35 computer scientists who support physics simulation code development
Dennis Gannon
Dennis Gannon is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at
Indiana University and he is its current chair. His previous
positions include the Department of Computer Science at Purdue
University where he was an Assistant and Associate Professor. He was
also a Senior Visiting Research Scientist at the Center for
Supercomputer Research and Development, University of Illinois, from
1985-1990, where he worked on the Cedar multiprocessor project. From
1992-1996 he led the HPC++ and Sage++ projects which have produced a
set of libraries for object-oriented parallel and distributed runtime
systems and compiler technology for C++ and Fortran.
Larry Peterson
Larry Peterson is a Professor of Computer Science at Princeton
University. Prior to joining Princeton, he was the Head of the
Computer Science Department at the University of Arizona. His
research focuses on computer networks, and he is co-author of the
textbook "Computer Networks: A Systems Approach". Dr. Peterson is the
Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, and has
served on the editorial boards for IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Networking, the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, and
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computer Systems. Dr. Peterson received
his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1985.
A Blueprint for Introducing Disruptive Technology into the Internet
Dan Reed received his PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University
in 1983. He holds the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell
Professorship at the University of Illinois, where he serves as
director of the National Computational Science Alliance and the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications. In this dual
directorship role, Reed provides strategic direction and leadership to
the fifty Alliance partners and NCSA and is the principal investigator
for the Alliance cooperative agreement with the National Science
Foundation. Before becoming NCSA director, Reed was head of the
University of Illinois Computer Science Department from 1996 to 2001.
He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Computing
Research Association. 
Walter Tichy has been Professor of Computer Science at the University
Karlsruhe, Germany, since 1986 and Director of the Software
Engineering Department at FZI, a technology transfer institute, since
1998. Previously, he was Senior Scientist at Carnegie Group, Inc., in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and served six years on the faculty of the
Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. His primary
research interests are software engineering and parallelism. Walter
received a B.S. from the Technical University in Munich in 1974 and
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon
University in 1976 and 1980. He is a member of ACM, Gesellschaft fuer
Informatik, and IEEE Computer Society. He has published over one
hundred scientific papers. 
Stu Zweben received his PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University
in 1974. He is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer
and Information Science at The Ohio State University. He is a fellow
and former president of ACM and former president of The Computing
Sciences Accreditation Board. He currently serves on the Board of
Directors of the Computing Research Association. He also serves on
the editorial board of the Empirical Software Engineering Journal. He
is Co-Director of the Reusable Software Research Group at Ohio State.
He has special interests in the testing of object-based software, and
in doing empirical studies to assess the effectiveness of various
software engineering principles and practices.
Mike Atallah received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the
National Science Foundation in 1985. A Fellow of the IEEE, he has
served on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on Computing, Journal
of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Information Processing Letters,
Computational Geometry: Theory & Applications, International Journal
of Computational Geometry & Applications, Parallel Processing Letters,
Methods of Logic in Computer Science. He has been a Keynote Speaker
and Invited Speaker at many national and international meetings. In
June 2001 he co-founded Arxan Technologies Inc., a startup in the
software security products space, that in 2002 secured funding from a
top-tier venture capital firm.