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.

Kimberly K. Eby (keby1@gmu.edu), an ecological-community psychologist, is an Assistant Professor in New Century College at George Mason University and a faculty affiliate with Women's Studies and the Department of Psychology.  She has taught multiple integrated studies learning communities, including "Violence and Gender" and "Self as Citizen", as well as courses in adolescent psychology and lifespan development.  Her research interests revolve around the scholarship of teaching, particularly examining faculty roles in collaborative work, and issues related to violence and gender, such as domestic violence, sexual assault, health sequelae of violence, and violence intervention and prevention.

Mary Furgol was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. She gained a First Class Honors MA in History from Edinburgh University in 1978, and followed a one-year teacher training at Craiglockhart College of education in 1979 with a Ph.D. in History, again from the University of Edinburgh, in 1987. She taught as an adjunct faculty member at Montgomery College from 1989 to 1992, when she became a full-time faculty member and subsequently chair of the History and Political Science department at the Rockville campus of Montgomery College. She specializes in European, British and Women's History primarily, and teachers an honors seminar on Victorian women. She also teaches for the Smithsonian on the Mall program, and speaks for the local chapter of NOW, and various groups during Women's History month.

Craig Gibson (jgibson1@gmu.edu) is Associate University Librarian for Public Services at George Mason University. He previously held positions in libraries at Washington State University, Lewis-Clark State College, and the University of Texas/Arlington. His research interests include information literacy, critical thinking, and assessment. He is active in the Association of College and Research Libraries and the American Library Association.

Paula Ruth Gilbert (pgilbert@gmu.edu) is Professor of French, Canadian, and Women's Studies. She teaches courses in nineteenth-century French literature, Quebec literature, comparative Canadian and Quebec fiction, violence and gender, women's studies, honors in general studies (Reading the Arts), and cultural studies (on Canadian and Quebec nationalism and on domestic violence). She is the former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and was one of the 1999 recipients of a Teaching Excellence award. She has published three books and numerous articles on Quebec women writers and French Symbolist poetry. Her co-edited collection of essays, Doing Gender: Franco-Canadian Women Writers of the 1990s, has just been accepted for publication, and her Violence and Gender: A Critical Reader, co-edited with Kim Eby, is under review for publication. She has just been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Fellowship for work on her book, Violence and the Female Imagination: Quebec Women Writers Confront Gendered Cultures.

Virginia Montecino (montecin@gmu.edu) presently teaches courses in digital information; cyberculture; internet literacy; "Community of Learners," the freshman interdisciplinary entry-level course in New Century College, and advanced composition for natural and applied science majors. Her research centers around enhancing and assessing teaching and learning with computer-mediated-communication. She created an extensive Web site of resources for teaching and learning with technology, which is used by many faculty and students at George Mason and other universities. She has presented at numerous conferences, including the Alliance for Computers and Writing, the Virginia Assessment Group, the Conference on College Composition and Communication. She has received grants for developing a distance learning section of English 302, Advanced Composition; for assessing student work which incorporates technology and for creating Web and text-based guides for composition for faculty and students. She has also consulted with publishers of software and texts on computer-mediated teaching and learning. 

Michael O'Malley (momalle3@gmu.edu) received his Ph.D. in American history from the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation, on the change from natural to mechanical sources for time, was published as *Keeping Watch: A History of American Time*. He taught at NYU and at Vassar College before coming to George Mason: since coming to GMU he has done extensive work in New Media, both course related projects and projects aimed at a larger public audience. He is currently writing a book on the history of money and value in the United States.

Hugh T. Sockett (hsockett@gmu.edu) is Professor of Education at George Mason University (GMU) working in the Department of Public and International Affairs of the College of Arts and Sciences. Before coming to George Mason in 1987, he was Dean of Education at the University of East Anglia (UK). He was Director of the Institute of Continuing Education at the New University of Ulster based in Londonderry from 1975-1980. At GMU, he was founding director of the Center for Applied Research and Development (CARD) which was merged into the Institute for Educational Transformation (IET) which he also directed from 1991 - 1998. He resigned as Director in February 1998 and joined the Department of Public and International Affairs in July 1999. He has published numerous articles and four books, including The Moral Base for Teacher Professionalism, published by Teachers College Press in 1993. With Pamela LePage-Lees, he has recently completed a book entitled Educational Reconciliation: A New Vision for Educational Controversy. In 2000 he expects to complete The Epistemological Base for Teacher Professionalism which will include a chapter on the Scholarship of Teaching. He is joint editor of Transforming Teacher Education, a work in progress with contributions from faculty and teachers about the work of IET.

Dean Taciuch (dtaciuch@gmu.edu) is a Visiting Assistant Professor in English at George Mason University. He is currently working with Technology Across the Curriculum and other electronic resources for teaching. His poems have been published in journals such as 14 Hills, online at the Wr-Eye-Tings scratchpad, and in a chapbook (certainty series) from Burning Press.

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