Hussein Abdel-Wahab is a Professor of Computer Science at Old Dominion University. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in 1976. He has published several papers in the areas of multimedia collaborative and teleconferencing systems, distance learning and teleteaching, and distributed systems. His research has been funded by NSF, MITRE, IBM, and ONR.
Prasun Dewan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He received a Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986. He has worked in the areas of distributed operating systems, user-interface generation, object-oriented database systems and collaboration systems. His work has been funded by grants from IBM, NSF, and the Software Engineering Research Center, an Industry-University Cooperative Research Center. He has published more than forty papers in refereed journals and conferences and served on the program committes of more than twenty conferences. He has given tutorials on collaborative systems for the NTU satellite program, the IEEE Data Engineering Conference, and the ACM and European conferences on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. He is an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Collaborative Computing, Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, and is a Foundation Editor responsible for Group and Organization Interfaces of the Electronic Journal for Universal Computer Science. He is also a member of the IFIP working group WG 2.7 on User-Interface Engineering.
Kevin Jeffay is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1989. He has published over forty papers in the areas of real-time systems, operating systems, multimedia networking, and collaborative systems, served on the program committees of over twenty conferences in these areas, and given tutorials on real-time and multimedia systems for for several conferences. Presently he is program chair for the IEEE Symposium on Real-Time Technology and Applications (RTAS '96) and an IEEE workshop on resource allocation problems in multimedia systems.
John McHugh is Associate Professor and chairman of the Department of Computer Science at Portland State University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas in 1983. He has worked and published in the area of security and software engineering, served on several program committees, and given several tutorials on security. His work has been sponsored by ARPA, NSA, EPA, TRW, and U.S. Army. He won the best paper award at the 1986 International Conference on Computer Design.
John Smith is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1970. He has published several papers in writing, hypertext, human-computer interaction, and collaboration infrastructures and theory. His work has been funded by NSF, Army Research Institute, and IBM. He has the Co-chair of the 1994 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and the Hypertext '87 conference.
Dave Stotts is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1985. He has published more than fifty papers in the areas of software engineering, visual programming languages, hypertext, and collaborations systems. His research has been funded by ARPA, ONR, and NSF. He has served on several review panels and program committees, is an Associate Editor, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, is the general chair of ACM Hypertext '96 conference, and was the program co-chair of ACM Hypertext '93 conference.