Robert Buckley is a Research Fellow with the Xerox Imaging & Services Technology Center in Webster, NY. He is the Xerox representative on the US JPEG 2000 committee and was the Project Editor for Part 6 of the standard, which defines the JPEG 2000 compound image file format. He was the General Co-Chair of the First IS&T Archiving Conference in 2004. In addition, he will co-chair the IS&T/SID 12th Color Imaging Conference and chairs the CIE Technical Committee on the Communication of Color Information.
Colleen R. Cahill has an M.L.S and a Masters of Science in History from Kent State University. A cataloger for over 25 years, she has worked at the Library for Congress for more than thirteen years, the last nine as a Digital Conversion Coordinator of the Geography & Map Division's Digital Team.
Simon Cope has a Bachelor of Science from Curtin University in Western Australia. He has worked at Earth Resource Mapping Ltd for eleven years on a wide range of software solutions for the geospatial industry. For the last five years he was Chief Technology Officer of the companies internet products which included ongoing development of the Image Web Server product. Simon has held the position of Chief Software Architect for the last 2 years and is responsible for a number of ERM's technical firsts in the software industry including the ability to efficiently deal with multi-terabyte images on low cost commodity desktop computers.
Vladimir Misic received his BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, and his MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Rochester. He is currently a visiting professor at Computer Science Department, Rochester Institute of Technology. His research interests are in artificial intelligence, digital halftoning and image processing algorithms. Dr. Misic acknowledges the assistance of Jim Kang and Jordan Sissel with his research.
Robert A. Morris is Professor of Computer Science at UMASS-Boston and Principal Investigator on the UMB Electronic Field Guide Project. His lab has a number of image-centric projects in Biodiversity Informatics, including work on collaborative annotation of JPEG 2000 images for large image databases.
Robert Mungovan has nineteen years of experience in the digital imaging industry. His current position is the Vice President of Advanced Products at Aware, Inc. Before working at Aware Mr. Mungovan held engineering and product manager positions at several companies that manufacture digital imaging hardware and software. He has experience working with digital still and video technologies, image compression technologies, digital and analog electronic cameras, image capture electronics, and image processing software. Mr. Mungovan holds a BS in Physics and an MBA from Boston College and an MS in Biomedical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Rutherford Witthus has been involved with automation in archives for a number of years. His early involvement with the Berkeley Finding Aids Project and his long service as the MARBI representative for the Society of American Archivists provided opportunities to participate in innovative archival projects, the results of which he has presented at numerous library and archives conferences. Witthus retired from UConn in 2004 to become a full-time art student at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.