Title	Senior Staff Engineer
Affiliation	Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Address	901 San Antonio Road, MS UMPK14-202 Palo Alto, CA 94303-4900 UPS, Fed Ex: 14 Network Circle Menlo Park, CA, 94025
Email	henry.sowizral@eng.sun.com

Henry Sowizral is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems where he is the chief architect of the Java 3D API. His areas of interest include virtual reality, large model visualization, and distributed and concurrent simulation. He has taught numerous tutorials on topics including expert systems and virtual reality at conferences including COMPCON, Supercomputing, VRAIS, and SIGGRAPH. Henry has taught Java 3D at SIGGRAPH 96, JavaOne, and other conferences.

Henry is a co-author of the book The Java 3D API Specification, published by Addison-Wesley. He holds a B.S. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University.

David R. Nadeau

Title	Principal Scientist
Affiliation	San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Address	NPACI/SDSC, MC 0505 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0505
Email	nadeau@sdsc.edu
Home page	http://www.sdsc.edu/~nadeau

Dave Nadeau is a principal scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), a national research center specializing in computational science and engineering, located on the campus of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Specializing in scientific visualization and virtual reality, he is the author of technical papers and articles on 3D graphics and VRML and is a co-author of two books on VRML (The VRML Sourcebook and The VRML 2.0 Sourcebook, published by John Wiley & Sons). He is the founder and lead librarian for The VRML Repository and The Java 3D Repository, principal Web sites for information on VRML, Java 3D, and related software.

Dave has taught VRML at multiple conferences including SIGGRAPH 96-97, WebNet 96-97, VRML 97-98, WMC/SCS 98, Eurographics 97, and Visualization 97. He has taught Java 3D at Visualization 97. He was a co-chair for the VRML Behavior Workshop in October 1995, the first workshop on VRML behavior technology, and a co-chair for the VRML 95 conference in December 1995, the first conference on VRML. He was on the program committees for VRML 97 and VRML 98 and is SDSC's representative to the VRML Consortium.

Dave holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, and is in the Ph.D. program in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.

Michael J. Bailey

Title	Senior Principal Scientist
Affiliation	San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Address	NPACI/SDSC, MC 0505 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0505
Email	mjb@sdsc.edu
Home page	http://www.sdsc.edu/~mjb

Mike Bailey is a senior principal scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and an associate professor in both the Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences and the Computer Science departments at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). His areas of interest include scientific visualization, high performance computer graphics, geometric modeling, and solid freeform fabrication (see the TeleManufacturing Facility).

Mike has served as chair of the Graphics Performance Characterization Committee since 1993. He served on the SIGGRAPH Executive Committee from 1986-1990, and as chair of the courses program at the SIGGRAPH conferences in 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, and 1994. He also served as co-chair for the 1991 SIGGRAPH conference. He was the program chair for the VRML 95 conference in December 1995. He organized and presented at the SIGGRAPH 95, 96, and 97 Introduction to Computer Graphics courses, the SIGGRAPH 96 The Use of Touch as an I/O Device course, and presented at the SIGGRAPH 97 Introduction to Java 3D course.

Mike has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Graphics and Computer Aided Design from Purdue University.

Michael F. Deering

Title	Distinguished Engineer
Affiliation	Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Address	901 San Antonio Road, MS UMPK14-202 Palo Alto, CA 94303-4900 UPS, Fed Ex: 14 Network Circle Menlo Park, CA, 94025
Email	michael.deering@eng.sun.com

Michael Deering is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems where he is chief hardware graphics architect and a co-architect of the Java 3D API. He has published on computer graphics architectures, virtual reality systems, and 3D interface technologies. He is the inventor of geometry compression and co-inventor of 3D-RAM.

Michael is a co-author of the book The Java 3D API Specification, published by Addison-Wesley. He holds an A.B and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.