Author affiliations

William H. Press holds the Warren J. and Viola M. Raymer Chair in Computer Sciences and Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to June, 2004, he served for five years as Deputy Laboratory Director for Science, Technology, and Programs at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Before that, he was for twenty years Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Harvard University, and a member of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Saul A. Teukolsky is Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics and Astrophysics at Cornell University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Astronomical Society and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003.

William Vetterling is a Research Fellow and Director of the Image Science Laboratory at ZINK Imaging, LLC in Waltham, MA. His career includes eight years on the physics faculty at Harvard, and 20 years of numerical modeling and laboratory research on digital imaging at Polaroid Corporation.

Brian P. Flannery is Science, Strategy and Programs Manager at Exxon Mobil Corporation.