ANNE SCRIVENER AGEE (aagee@gmu.edu)  is the Executive Director of the Department of Instructional Improvement and Instructional Technologies at George Mason University.  She was previously the Head of Client Services at St. Mary's College of Maryland and the Coordinator of Instructional Technology at Anne Arundel Community College. She has taught undergraduate writing and literature courses as well as graduate courses in Composition Instruction and Educational Research. She holds a doctorate in rhetoric from the Catholic University of America and has published and presented extensively on instructional technology issues.

RANDY BASS (bassr@gusun.georgetown.edu) is a professor of American Studies at Georgetown University and a Pew Scholar in the Carnegie Foundation's Teaching Academy Project. In the fall of 1998, he was a visiting professor at New Century College, George Mason University.

CHRIS DEDE (cdede@gmu.edu) is a professor at George Mason University, with a  joint appointment in the Schools of Education and of Information Technology & Engineering. His research interests span technology forecasting and assessment, emerging technologies for learning, and leadership in educational innovation. He is the Editor of the 1998 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Yearbook, Learning with Technology. He currently has a major grant from the National Science Foundation to develop educational environments based on virtual reality technology. 

PETER J. DENNING (pjd@gmu.edu) is Professor of Computer Science and University Coordinator for Process Reengineering at George Mason University.  He is founding director emeritus of the Hyperlearning Center, formerly the Center for the New Engineer, founded in 1993.   He was president of the Association for Computing Machinery 1980-82, chair of the ACM publications board 1992-98 where he led the development of the ACM digital library, and is now chair of the ACM Education Board. He has won the ACM Outstanding Contribution Award, the ACM SIGCSE Outstanding CS Educator Award, and the prestigious ACM Karl Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award.

CYNTHIA M. LONT (clont@gmu.edu) is an Associate Professor in the Communication Department where she teaches courses in visual theory and production, women and media, and advertising. Her doctorate is from the University of Iowa in Communication Studies. She is the author of numerous books and articles on everything from gender and the media to women's music and has won many awards for educational videos.  Lont is Director of the MA and the newly created undergraduate minor in Telecommunications. Presently, she is the Director of STAR (Student Technology Assistance and Resources).