Nell Dale received a B.S. in Mathematics and Psychology from the University of Houston in 1960, a M.A. in Mathematics, from the University of Texas at Austin, in 1964, and a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin in 1972. Nell Dale has been on the faculty at the University of Texas, Austin since 1975. She retired from full-time teaching in the summer of 1994 and is now teaching each fall semester and spending the spring and summer writing and traveling.

Chip Weems, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Chip Weems is an Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Oregon State University in 1977 and 1979, respectively. He received the Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in 1984. Over the last 23 years, he has taught courses in introductory programming, software engineering, computer architecture, and parallel processing. Since 1986 he has co-authored 13 textbooks that have helped over a million students learn to program computers. His books have been translated into French, Spanish, and Russian. He conducts research in computer architecture, compilers, parallel processing, and compiler-architecture co-optimization.

Mark Headington , University of Wisconsin, La Crosse

Mark received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Iowa State University. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science, specializing in Operating Systems, C++, and Computer Architecture.

Mike McMillan, Pulaski Technical College

Mike McMillan is an instructor of Computer Information Systems at Pulaski Technical College, where he is the lead instructor of the Programmer/Analyst option. Mike teaches courses in Visual Basic, C++, Perl, and Java. In addition to research and writing, Mike also does research in Computer Science Education, where his interests are in developing interactive programming development and debugging systems.