Yumei Dang is a computer scientist working for Lucent Technologies. This book is based on her doctoral thesis at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Lou Kauffman is a mathematics professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He works in knot theory, differential topology, and diagrammatic mathematics.
Dan Sandin is the director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a pioneer in the fields of virtual reality and video.