Craig Alexander is now working at Activision as the General Manager. He brings seventeen years of engineering and general management experience from his previous positions, including his position as the Vice President and Executive Producer for EA Partners managing a portfolio of PC and console titles.  Previously, he held the position of Vice President and Executive Producer for EA's Westwood Studios in Las Vegas managing EA's pioneering massively multiplayer online sci-fi role-playing game Earth & Beyond.  Prior to that, Craig was General Manager for Sierra Online's original development studio from 1996-2000. When Sierra Online consolidated operations, Craig successfully sold the Yosemite based studio to another publisher.

Craig has extensive entertainment software and on-line experience overseeing Sierra's entry into the massively multiplayer Internet gaming segment.  In addition, Craig is also an experienced engineer, having worked at TRW Space and Technology on microprocessor designs.  Prior to his engineering work, Craig began his career at TRW in the project control office, scheduling large NASA spacecraft programs. 

Craig holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California and a MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.  Game credits include Gabriel Knight 2, Lighthouse, Phantasmagoria, Quest for Glory V, Space Quest 6, SWAT 1 and 2, and the pioneering massively multiplayer title, The Realm.

Mary Beam is Director of Product Engineering in the Personal Communication Sector of Motorola, Inc.  In this position, she is responsible for Quality Assurance, Digital Six Sigma, Software Test, Test Automation and Internal Tools for the Client Applications and Architecture Division.   Her organization spans several continents, including multiple US locations, Brazil, China, India and Russia.

Mary has focused on Software Testing for over 20 years, and has been a pioneer in Multi-Site and Global Software Engineering, helping to establish offshore organizations at several companies.  Her interest in managment has allowed her to develop the skills needed to manage remote teams, and determine best tools & practices for use with teams spanning multiple continents and time zones. 

Prior to Motorola, Mary held director level positions at VMware, RightWorks, Informix Software, and Tandem Computers.  She received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and did graduate coursework in Management & Economics at Arizona State University.

Dr. Bruck is the recipient of a 1997 IBM Partnership Award, a 1995 Sloan Research Fellowship, a 1994 National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, six IBM Plateau Invention Achievement Awards, a 1992 IBM Outstanding Innovation Award for his work on ``Harmonic Analysis of Neural Networks'' and a 1994 IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for his contributions to the design and implementation of the SP-1, the first IBM scalable parallel computer. He published more than 150 journal and conference papers in his areas of interests and he holds 22 patents. Dr. Bruck is a Fellow of the IEEE

Dr. Ljubomir Buturovic received the Ph.D. degree in 1991 from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia. He was Research Scientist at the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Electronics, Belgrade, Serbia, from 1984 to 1992, performing research in statistical pattern recognition and neural networks. From 1992 to 1994 he was postdoctoral scientist working with Prof. Temple F. Smith at Boston University on computational models for protein structure prediction. From 1995 to 2004 he held various positions at Incyte Corporation in Palo Alto, CA, most recently Director, Bioinformatics. He is currently Director of Microarray Data Analysis at Pathwork Diagnostics Inc., Sunnyvale CA, responsible for development of algorithms for microarray-based clinical diagnostics of cancer.

Dr. Buturovic has published research papers in leading peer-reviewed journals, including IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Pattern Recognition, Journal of Computational Chemistry and Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. Dr. Buturovic's current research interests are focused on applications of machine learning in computational molecular biology, in particular molecular diagnostics.

Robert E. Dunkle has more than 20 years' experience in general management, business development and marketing strategy in informatics, including bioinformatics and cheminformatics. Currently he is President and CEO at Scimagix, Inc., in San Mateo, California.  Scimagix is the pioneer of Image Informatics for pharmaceutical and biotech research and development.  Mr. Dunkle also served as president and CEO at the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR), a provider of bioinformatics software and computational biology products, where he developed and implemented a mission and strategic plan for the five-year-old Center.  Prior to NCGR, Dunkle served as vice president at MDL Information Systems, Inc., where he managed the successful launch of the company's ISIS(tm) cheminformatics software platform and played an integral role in increasing the company's valuation prior to its acquisition by Reed Elsevier in 1997.  He has also served as vice president of sales and marketing at Sierra Monitor, a start-up software and instrumentation provider.

Mr. Dunkle holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from Drexel University and an MBA with an emphasis in applied economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

His long time research interests include high-speed, wide area network based, distributed systems, widely distributed computational and data "Grids," Public-Key Infrastructure based security and authorization systems, and use of the global Internet to enable remote access to scientific, analytical, and medical instrumentation. Recent professional activities have included Dept. Head of the Distributed Systems Dept. in the Computational Research Division, and Principal Investigator for several US Dept. of Energy, Office of Science projects related to these topics, including the DOE Science Grid (doesciencegrid.org). In the Global Grid Forum he is an Area Director-at-Large (www.gridforum.org ). He is also co-founder (with Ian Foster and Charlie Catlett) of the Grid Forum (now merged with the European Grid Forum to form the Global Grid Forum).

Mr. Johnson has worked in the field of computing for more than 35 years, and has taught computer science at the under graduate and graduate levels. He has a Masters Degree in Mathematics and Physics from San Francisco State University.

He has been with the Computer Science Division at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as a research staff member since Sept. 1991, has managed the Image Information System Group from 1996 to 1999, and the Data Management Department between 1999 and 2000. He has been the senior manager for the E-commerce and Data Management Department since June 2000.

His research interests include broadband and wireless applications, which include digital library, information and media marketplace, content-based retrieval of images and image sequence, knowledge discovery and data mining, content adaptation, and pervasive commerce; broadband network and switching, which includes all-optical networks, storage area networks, and fiber channel; and broadband technologies, which include optical chip interconnects, opto-electronics, and high-speed analog/digital VLSI circuit design. He has initiated and coinitiated several research programs in IBM on fast tunable receiver for all-optical networks, content-based retrieval in the compressed domain for large image/video databases, federated digital libraries, and biosurveillance. He is currently the principal investigator for a environmentally related digital library funded by NASA and a bio-surveillance project funded by DARPA.

Dr. Li received an IBM Corporate Environmental Affairs Excellence Award in 2003 for his leadership and major technical contribution to the EpiSPIRE project which provides activity monitoring for environmental and public health information.   He received an Outstanding Innovation Award from IBM in 2000 for his leadership and major contribution to the IBM/ NASA digital library project, and a Research Division award from IBM in 1995 for his major contribution to the tunable receiver design for WDMA, and numerous invention and patent application awards. He is currently an associate editor for the Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding.   He has authored or coauthored more than 120 journal and conference papers and received a best paper award from the IEEE Transaction on Multimedia during 2003 and from IEEE International Conference on Computer Design in 1992. He is a Fellow of the IEEE Circuit and System Society, the IEEE Laser Electro-Optic Society, the IEEE Communication Society, and the IEEE Computer Society.