Mukul Shirvaikar earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Shirvaikar is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas, Tyler. His research focuses on real time image processing, and he serves as associate editor of the Journal of Real Time Image Processing. Theodore Elbert, who earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is emeritus professor of computer science at the University of West Florida. He served as chairman of the Computer Science Department, where he helped bring concepts of software engineering into the department's curricula.