Paul has been a software developer for the past 35+ years. One would've thought that by now he would have seen the futility of it all and changed careers to be, say, a monk or a groundskeeper. However, a few years ago he decided to stop working for a long succession of idiot bosses and become his own idiot boss. This has worked out splendidly, apart from income that is.

Neil Fleming is a noted astrophotographer, specializing in areas allowing for the production of very high-quality images from light-polluted locations, such as the Boston area. Most of his astrophotography is done from Westwood, MA.

His work has been featured on the NASA, "Astronomy Picture of the Day" (APOD) site, and has been published in both the "Sky & Telescope" and "Astronomy" magazines. Other credits include work in the Timothy Ferris PBS documentary, "Seeing in the Dark".

By day, Alan Friedman is an artist, award winning greeting card designer and president of Great Arrow Graphics. By night he is an avid planetary astro-photographer. His images of the planets, sun and moon are featured frequently on NASA's popular wesbites Spaceweather.com and Astronomy Picture of the Day. His techniques for planetary imaging have been the subject of articles in Sky and Telescope magazine and a column at Space.com. Alan enjoys sharing his love for the night sky through public outreach.

Bob Denny has been involved full time for over ten years developing new-generation astronomy software. His focus has been on astronomy automation as well as remote observatory operation through a web browser (for which automation is a prerequisite). He is also the originator and still a primary evangelist for the ASCOM Initiative, which has transformed astronomy software by applying the driver/client model.

Alan Erickson is a Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe Systems. He joined Adobe in 1996, working on Photoshop and related products. His feature work has included video layers, animation, clone palette, and adjustments palette.