Braden Allenby is Professor at Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Prior to that he was Vice President, Environment, Health and Safety at AT&T, an adjunct professor at The University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and at Princeton Theological Seminary, and the inaugural Batten Fellow at Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. He is well known for his work in industrial ecology, and works with information systems and technology from an earth systems engineering and management perspective, studying the economic, environmental and social implications of technological systems, communications, infrastructure, and services. Dr Allenby has co-edited, authored and coauthorednumerous textbooks in industrial ecology and systems engineering. He received his B.A. cum laude from Yale University, J.D. and Masters in Economics from the University of Virginia, and Masters and Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers.

Massoud Amin is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, directs the Center for the Development of Technological Leadership, and holds the HW Sweatt Chair in Technological Leadership at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on global transition dynamics for resilience and security of national critical infrastructures. He has over 20 years of security-related research and development experience. Before joining Minnesota in March 2003, he was with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), where he coined the term “self-healing grid,” led the development of over 24 technologies being transferred to industry, and after 9/11 directed all security-related research and development. He has led programs with military, governmental and private agencies, on national infrastructures, complex networks, adaptive intelligent controls, on-line decision making, system optimization and differential game theory. He is a member of numerous boards and committees, including the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE) (US National Academy of Engineering), and is a senior member of IEEE, AAAS, AIAA, and ASME. Dr Amin received his B.S. (cum laude) and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in systems science and mathematics from Washington University.

Timothy Beatley is Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for the last eighteen years. His primary teaching and research interests are in environmental planning and policy, emphasizing coastal and natural hazards planning, environmental values and ethics, and biodiversity conservation. He has published extensively and his recent books are Ethical Land Use (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994); Habitat Conservation Planning: Endangered Species and Urban Growth (University of Texas Press, 1994), Natural Hazard Mitigation (Island Press, 1999, with David Godschalk and others); and An Introduction to Coastal Zone Management (Island Press, 2002, Second Edition, with David Brower and Anna Schwab). In addition, he co-authored The Ecology of Place (Island Press, 1997, with Kristy Manning) on sustainability practices, Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities (Island Press, 2000), and authored the forthcoming book Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age. He received his Bachelors in Urban Planning from the University of Virginia, MUP from the University of Oregon, M.A. Political Science and PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Christopher Cluett is a Research Leader in the Transportation Division of Battelle in Seattle, Washington. He has 27 years of experience with Battelle in behavioral science research and project management, managing numerous Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) research and evaluation projects over the past decade. He recently led a research project for the Transportation Research Board (TRB) on the impact of information and communication technologies on state Departments of Transportation. Research areas include evaluation, institutional and societal analysis, public outreach and involvement, and focus group and survey implementation. He served from 1995 to 2000 as Chairman of the Societal Issues Task Force for ITS America and was a member of the Coordinating Council of that organization. He presents papers at national and international transportation meetings, and has published in a variety of professional journals. He is an active member of ITS America, the TRB, and the American Sociological Association. He is currently on the Board of ITS Washington, and is Co-Chair of the University of Washington’s Department of Sociology Advisory Board. He received a B.A. from Williams College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Washington.

Jesus Dumagan is Senior Economist with the Office of Policy Development (OPD), Economics and  statistics Administration, US Department of Commerce. His current research concentrates on the impacts of information technology on productivity and inflation, and appears in three US Department of Commerce reports. He was awarded (with collaborators) a Commerce Department Silver Medal for outstanding research on the transformative effects of information technology on the US economy. His current research focuses on decomposing aggregate productivity growth and overall inflation into component contributions (e.g. output and input categories). Publications appear in international academic journals (Economics Letters, Economic Modeling, Energy Economics, and Resource and Energy Economics) on superlative index formulas, computing cost-of-living indexes, modeling and estimation of consumer demand systems, measuring consumer welfare effects of environmental penalties and benefits from energy conservation, and analyzing trends in food-away-from-home consumption. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University (Phi Kappa Phi), and was also a Fulbright-Hays Fellow at the University of Minnesota, where he earned an M.A. in Economics.

Jonathan Gifford is Professor of Public Management and Policy in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. Dr Gifford is a specialist on transportation policy. His expertise includes highway and urban transportation policy, aviation policy, and advanced technology in transportation systems. He recently completed Flexible Urban Transportation (Oxford: Pergamon, 2003), and is currently completing The Interstate Highway System: A Policy Retrospective (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, forthcoming). Dr Gifford directs and teaches in the Master’s in Transportation Policy, Operations and Logistics program. He also teaches information technology, public policy analysis, and risk analysis in the Master of Public Administration program. Dr Gifford has worked in the US Office of Management and Budget, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Office of Technology Assessment. He is trained as a civil engineer and received his Master of Science and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

David Henry is Senior Industry Analyst in the Office of Policy Development (OPD), Economics and Statistics Administration, US Department of Commerce, where he provides economic analyses for planned or existing policies on a wide variety of issues. He has co-authored the Department’s Digital Economy reports over the past few years that address the economic conditions and importance of the IT sector of the economy. The reports estimate the share of IT industries in the economy, their contribution to US economic growth, effects on inflation, productivity, and the size and composition of the IT workforce. His work has extended to other issues including homeland security, crude oil price increases in response to supply disruptions, impacts of steel tariffs, and impacts of reducing emissions in connection with global climate change. Mr. Henry was the Chief Economist for the 1993 and 1995 Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission. Prior to Federal service, Mr. Henry was the Senior Engineer for the National Association of Home Builder’s Research Foundation, Inc. He received his B.S. in Forest of Commerce reports. He was awarded (with collaborators) a Commerce Department Silver Medal for outstanding research on the transformative effects of information technology on the US economy. His current research focuses on decomposing aggregate productivity growth and overall inflation into component contributions (e.g. output and input categories). Publications appear in international academic journals (Economics Letters, Economic Modeling, Energy Economics, and Resource and Energy Economics) on superlative index formulas, computing cost-of-living indexes, modeling and estimation of consumer demand systems, measuring consumer welfare effects of environmental penalties and benefits from energy conservation, and analyzing trends in food-away-from-home consumption. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University (Phi Kappa Phi), and was also a Fulbright-Hays Fellow at the University of Minnesota, where he earned an M.A. in Economics.

Thomas Horan is Associate Professor, School of Information Science, Claremont Graduate University and Director of the Claremont Information and Technology Institute (CITI). Dr Horan’s work investigates the management, social, and environmental implications of information technologies. In addition to his recent book, Digital Places, he has authored numerous technical articles and book chapters on digital technologies, some of which have appeared in Communications of the ACM, Information Systems Frontiers, Journal of Urban Technology, and Handbook of Public Information Systems. Dr Horan has led a variety of academic and applied research studies on the deployment of advanced technologies in local, regional, national and international settings. His research has been funded by the US Department of Transportation, the National Science Foundation, and the Fletcher Jones Foundation and has been used to devise private sector telecommunications systems, local e-government programs, and national technology policies. He is a member of the Academy of Management, the Association of Information Science, and the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management. Dr Horan received his B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Vermont, his M.A. in Public Policy and Ph.D. in Public Affairs and Organizational Psychology from the Claremont Graduate University.

Mitchell Moss is Professor and Director of the Taub Urban Research Center at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Dr Moss teaches and conducts research on urban planning and development, and has written extensively on telecommunications and the future of cities. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, American Express Foundation, Andrew Mellon Foundation, and Charles H. Revson Foundation. Professor Moss is currently doing research on the way in which the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center has shaped planning and politics in the New York Metropolitan Region. His essays have appeared in the New York Times, New York Post, New York Daily News, and the New York Observer. Dr Moss received his B.A from Northwestern University in Political Science, his M.A. from the University of Washington in Political Science, and his Ph.D. in Urban Studies from the University of Southern California.

William O’Brien is an Assistant Professor in the Construction Engineering and Project Management program in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He focuses his professional efforts on improving collaboration and coordination among firms in design and construction. Dr O’Brien is an expert on construction supply chain management and electronic collaboration. He is especially interested in the use of the information technologies to support multi-firm coordination, and works with leading firms to implement web-tools to support practice. Previously, he was CSR/Rinker Assistant Professor in the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Building Construction and Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida. Prior to returning to academia, Dr. O’Brien led product development and planning efforts at Collaborative Structures, a Boston based Internet start-up focused on serving the construction industry. Dr O’Brien received a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Columbia University, an M.S. degree in Civil Engineering, an M.S. degree in Engineering-Economic Systems, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Carlos Restrepo is a Ph.D. candidate at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. His dissertation topic is the association between asthma and air pollution in New York City. He is a graduate research assistant at the Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems (ICIS) and Project Manager for the ICIS component of the South Bronx Environmental Health and Policy Study, funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency. This is a joint project between ICIS, NYU’s Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine, and four South Bronx community groups that relates transportation and waste management activities in the South Bronx, New York, to environmental quality and public health issues. His publications and conference papers, include co-author of the NSF funded workshop report, “Bringing Information Technology to Infrastructure” and co-author of a chapter on the NSF funded workshop on the September 11 attacks in Beyond September 11th (U. of Colorado, Boulder, 2003). Prior to joining ICIS, he was a research assistant in an NSF-funded research project on performance measures and infrastructure. Before coming to NYU, Carlos worked for three years in El Salvador, where he is from, as a policy analyst for FUSADES, a non-profit organization. He received his B.S. in Engineering Physics from Lehigh University and his M.S. in International Development and Appropriate Technology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Lucio Soibelman is an Associate Professor at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University where he teaches courses relating to construction management, construction information systems, and Civil Engineering Artificial Intelligence. The general direction of Dr Soibelman’s research has been the organization of diverse data into forms that are amenable to the application of Knowledge Discovery methods. His research in Knowledge Discovery concentrates on studying the increasing amount of available data, developing Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases methods, processes, and tools to generate novel knowledge from large construction databases, and organizing the large amount of available construction data with the development of improved information retrieval methods. Dr Soibelman received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and worked from 1998 to 2004 as an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

Roy Sparrow is Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University. He previously served as Acting Dean, Associate Dean and head of the management program at the Wagner School. He specializes in public transportation policy and management with a particular interest in research on strategic change in organizations that design and deliver urban infrastructure services. Since 1998, he has served as Director of the Education Program of the Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems (ICIS), a multi-university NSF-funded center for collaborative, interdisciplinary activities supporting infrastructure research, education, and outreach. He teaches graduate courses in Managing Public Service Organizations, Strategic Management, and Developing Management Skills. He received his B.A. from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Anthony Townsend is a Research Scientist and Lecturer of Public Administration at the Taub Urban Research Center at New York University. Dr Townsend has served as a technology consultant to major information technology companies including Nortel Networks, Quova, and Telegeography, Inc and has developed relationships with research groups at Ericsson, Intel Corporation, and AT&T. Prior to graduate school, Anthony worked as a technical support manager for several years at a regional Internet Service Provider in New Jersey and AT&T WorldNet. He is the author of over a dozen scholarly articles and book chapters on the impacts of new information and communications technologies on urban and regional development. His articles have also appeared widely in the trade press, including Computerworld, On (Corporate magazine of Ericsson), and Wired News. He received his Masters of Urban Planning from New York University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rae Zimmerman is Professor of Planning and Public Administration at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Since 1998, she has been Director of the Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems (ICIS), a multi-university National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded center for collaborative, interdisciplinary activities on infrastructure research, education, and outreach. ICIS is a partner in the Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Modeling of Terrorism Events with the University of Southern California, and her work focuses on critical infrastructure. She authored Governmental Management of Chemical Risk (Lewis/CRC), co-produced Beyond September 11th (Boulder, CO, University of Colorado, 2003), and is a co-editor of Sustaining Urban Networks (Routledge, 2004). She has authored numerous papers on how interdependencies among transportation, water, and related environmental protection infrastructure impact communities served by this infrastructure. She has been an expert for government and industry on large infrastructure projects especially in the context of extreme events, and has directed over a dozen infrastructure and environmental research projects with funding primarily from NSF and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She is a Fellow and Former President of the Society for Risk Analysis, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has served on government and academic boards on the social and environmental dimensions of infrastructure. Prior to NYU, she was with the US EPA. Dr Zimmerman received her B.A. in Chemistry from University of California (Berkeley), Master of Urban Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, and Ph.D. in Urban Planning from Columbia University.