nford University (CA, USA). He is the USA, UK, Japan and Hong Kong, before spending over author of more than 30 research papers as well as mul- fifteen years in academia in the UK, United Arab tiple standard contributions. He also holds several Emirates and Nigeria. He also designed equipment for Korean and international patents. He received the IEEE NASA's Apollo Moon Landings. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES Dr. Casimer DeCusatis is an IBM Distinguished Engi- the role of Technical Chair, and is a panelist for the IEEE neer and Technical Executive based in Poughkeepsie, Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing N.Y. He is an IBM Master Inventor with over 70 patents, Industrial Technology Track. Dr. Fette currently heads and recipient of several industry awards, including the the General Dynamics Signal Processing Center of Ex- IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award and the EDN Innovator of cellence in the Communication Networks Division. the Year. He is co-author of more than 100 technical papers, book chapters, and encyclopedia articles, and is Professor Leonidas Guibas is Professor of Computer also co-leader of the IBM Academy of Technology study Science (and by courtesy, Electrical Engineering) at "Innovation Ecosystems". He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Stanford, having previously worked for Xerox PARC, Optical Society of America, and SPIE (the international Stanford, MIT, and DEC/SRC. At Stanford he heads the optical engineering society), and various other pro- Geometric Computation group within the Graphics fessional organizations and honor societies. Laboratory and has developed new courses in algorithms and data structures, geometric modeling, geometric al- Dr. Daniel Dobkin has been involved in the de- gorithms, sensor networks, and biocomputation. He is velopment, manufacturing, and marketing of communi- also part of the AI Laboratory the Bio-X Program, and the cations devices, components, and systems for thirty Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engi- years. He is the author of three books and about 30 neering. 