Chris Benes
Chris Benes was born and raised in Chicago. He graduated from Purdue
University with a B.S. in Computer Science in 1993. While at Purdue,
he wrote for the Sports section of the Exponent and served in Purdue
Student Government as Director of the Security Escort Service. His
professional career has been primarily spent in the telecommunications
industry where he has designed and developed real-time, multitasking
embedded software for communication systems as well as for specific
devices. He has worked at Tellabs ('93-'95), Motorola ('95-'97) and
Mindspeed ('97-'02). Currently he manages embedded software
development at Shure, an audio engineering company in Evanston. His
wife Cheryl Benes is a patent attorney at Tellabs. Chris coaches and
plays club soccer year round and spends time volunteering for the
American Lung Association and Chicago Historical Society.
Mike Goodrich
Mike Goodrich is a Professor in the Department of Information and
Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. He is also
a Research Affiliate of the Johns Hopkins University.
Prof. Goodrich's research is directed at the design of high
performance algorithms and data structures for solving large-scale
problems motivated from information assurance and security, the
Internet, information visualization, and geometric computing. Mike
served as chair for 26th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
(STOC). He is an associate editor for International Journal of
Computational Geometry & Applications, Journal of Computer and System
Sciences, and Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications. He has
been awarded several awards for excellence in teaching.
Ajay Gupta is a Professor of Computer Science at Western Michigan
University. He was the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at
Western Michigan from 1998 to 2002. He received his B.E.(Honors) in
Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Birla Institute of
Technology and Sciences, Pilani, India in 1982, his M.S. in
Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Cincinnati in 1984,
and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1989.
Dr. Gupta's research interests include sensor networks, mobile
computing, web technologies, computer networks, evolutionary
computation, scientific computing, and design and analysis of parallel
and distributed algorithms. He is a member of the IEEE Computer
Society, the IEEE, the ASEE, and the ACM. 
Tom Ho is Chairman and Professor of Computer Technology at Indiana
University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Previously, he was
a Senior Fellow in Information Systems and Computer Science at the
National University of Singapore from 1993-1994. From 1990-1992 he
was Director of the Information Networking Institute at Carnegie
Mellon University. From 1978 to 1988 he was Head of the Department of
Computer Technology at Purdue University. He received his BS, MS, and
Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Purdue University. He is a
charter member of the Association for Information Systems and the
Indianapolis chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM)
International. In April 1996, he was named by the Indianapolis
Business Journal to its "Who's Who in Information Technology."
Kevin Kahn is an Intel Fellow (the corporation's highest technical
position) in the Corporate Technology Group and Director,
Communications and Interconnect Technology. He also coordinates
Intel's participation in various relevant standards bodies and
consortia and chairs the Intel Communications Research Council. He
currently serves on the FCC Technological Advisory Council, chairs the
National Science Foundation's Engineering Advisory Council, and serves
on various academic advisory committees. He received his Ph.D. and
Master's degrees in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1976
and 1973, and his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Manhattan
College in 1972. The Purdue University School of Science awarded him
its Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1995. 
After completing a Ph.D in Computer Science at Purdue University in
1981, Steve Tolopka joined Intel Corporation as a systems software
engineer, eventually becoming OS Architect and managing the
Communications Software group. Steve then joined the group that
eventually became Intel Architecture Labs (IAL). In 1996 he became
Director of IAL's Managed Platform Lab. In 2000 he assumed
responsibility for strategic direction of IAL's Connected Consumers
program. He is currently Director of Strategic Technology Programs
for Intel's Corporate Technology Group. Steve was named a
Distinguished Alumnus of the Purdue University School of Science in
April 1999. 
In May of 1998 Purdue University established the Center for Education
and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) with Gene
Spafford as its Director. Spaf has received recognition and many
honors for his work, including being a charter recipient of the
Computer Society's Golden Core, and being named as a Fellow of the
ACM, as a Fellow of the AAAS, and as a Fellow of the IEEE. He was
named as a member of the ISSA's Hall of Fame, and awarded the 2001
William H. Murray Medal by the NCISSE. In October of 2000, Gene
received the field's most prestigious award: the NIST/NCSC National
Computer Systems Security Award. In 2001 Spaf received Purdue's two
highest honors for teaching: the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
Award in Memory of Charles B. Murphy, and being named as a Fellow of
the Purdue Teaching Academy.