Professor Guibas is an ACM Fellow and winner technical publications, and holds 7 US patents as in- of the ACM/IEEE Allen Newell award. ventor or co-inventor. He has twenty years of experience in semiconductor process development, and ten years in Keith Jack is Director of Product Marketing at Sigma radio engineering and RFID. He has taught classes on Designs, a leading supplier of high-performance System- chemical vapor deposition, antenna principles, and radio- on-Chip (SoC) solutions for the IPTV, Blu-ray, and frequency identification in the US and Asia. HDTV markets. Previously, he was Director of Product Marketing at Innovision, focused on solutions for digital Professor Farid Dowla is a senior research engineer at televisions. Mr. Jack has also served as Strategic Mar- the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) keting Manager at Harris Semiconductor and Brooktree and has been at LLNL since 1984. His present research Corporation. He has architected and introduced to interests include high-frequency radio-wave communi- market over 35 multimedia SoCs for the consumer cations, and micro-wave and millimeter-wave radar im- markets. aging techniques. He also worked many years in the areas of seismic, acoustics, and biomedical signal processing. Ronald Kitchen was with the Royal Air Force for four- He has taught graduate and undergraduate electrical teen years from the age of sixteen. He joined the Marconi engineering courses in signal processing and communi- Company in 1955 and was appointed Marconi Research cations at U.C. Berkeley and U. C. Davis. Quality Manager and Radiation Protection Officer in 1971, carrying out just under 1000 radiation in- Juanita Ellis has been at the forefront in working with vestigations. He retired in 1990 and set up his own corporations in the areas of Convergence, Computer consultancy. As a visiting consultant, he created a course Security and E-business. Some of these companies at Marconi College, training 142 Military officers and include Sony, JcPenney, SWBell, Boeing, Xero