Steven Sol Skiena is a Computer Scientist and Distinguished Teaching Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. He is also Director of AI Institute at Stony Brook.

Herbert Edelsbrunner is a computer scientist working in the field of computational geometry, the Arts & Science Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Duke University, Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), and the co-founder of Geomagic, Inc. He was the first of only three computer scientists to win the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award.