Richard Crandall currently holds the title of Apple Distinguished Scientist, having previously been Apple's Chief Cryptographer, the Chief Scientist at NeXT, Inc., and recipient of the Volum Chair of Science at Reed College. His primary interest is interdisciplinary scientific computation, though lie bas authored numerous theoretical papers in quantum physics, biology, mathematics, and chemistry as well as various patents across engineering fields.
Carl Pomerance received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1972. Currently, lie is Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia and a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories-Lucent Technologies. A popular lecturer and winner of the Chauvenet Prize for expository mathematical writing, Pomerance is well known for his research in computational number theory, his efforts having produced important algorithms now in wide use.