Dr. David Bailey (Chair)

• Chief Technologist, Computational Research Dept., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Recipient of the Sidney Fernbach Award from IEEE Computer Society
• Recipient of the Chauvenet Price by the Mathematical Association of America
• Recipient of the H. Julian Allen Award by the NASA Ames Research Center

Dr. Robert (Jack) Hansen

• Associate Director, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
• Executive Director of The University of West Florida Research Foundation
• Former Deputy Deputy Director for Research at the NASA Ames Research Center
• Former Associate Director and Chief Scientist for the Applied Research Laboratory

Dr. Noel Hinners

• Former Vice President, Lockheed Martin Astronautics (retired)
• Former Associate Deputy Administrator and Chief Scientist of NASA
• Former Director of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Former Director of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
• Former Associate Administrator of Space Science at NASA & Former Director of Lunar Programs at NASA

Dr. Dan Cooke

• Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Computer Science, Texas Tech
• Director, Center for Advanced Intelligent Systems, Texas Tech Univ.
• Formerly Program Manager National Strategic Initiative for Intelligent Systems, NASA Ames Research Center

Dr. Peter Norvig

• Director of Machine Learning, Search Quality, & Research, Google
• Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
• Formerly senior computer scientist & head of the 200-person NASA Ames Computational Sciences Division

Dr. Dan Weld

• WRF Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. of Washington
• AAAI Fellow and ACM Fellow – Venture Partner, Madrona Venture Group
• Co-founder of Netbot Incorporated, AdRelevance, and Nimble Technology

Prof. Dava Newman

• Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, MIT
• Director of Technology and Policy Program, MIT
• MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT

Dr. Paul Spudis

• Principal Professional Staff member at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
• Deputy Leader of the Science Team for the '94 DoD Clementine mission to the moon
• Principal Investigator of an imaging radar experiment on the Indian Chandrayaan-1 mission, to be launched to the Moon in 2007.
• Author or co-author of over 150 scientific papers and three books, including The Once and Future Moon, and (with Ben Bussey) The Clementine Atlas of the Moon

Mr. Ed McCullough

• Principal scientist at Boeing Phantom Works, and inventor of numerous patents
• Principal Investigator of numerous projects including Advanced Biotechnology, Integrated Vehicle Health Management, & Autonomous Deep Space Operations
• Chairman of numerous AIAA Committees including Space Exploration, Space Colonization
• Member of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, and Secretary of the Space Resources Roundtable

Mr. Keith Bennett

• Deputy Manager, Operations, Geosciences Node, NASA Planetary Data System
• Specialist in Digital Humanities, Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
• Researcher, Remote Sensing Lab, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Washington University
• Former Executive Director of the Center for Security Technology, Co-Director of the Aerospace Systems Lab, and Affiliate Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering departments at Washington University.
• Former Group Manager, Mission Planning Division, McDonnell Douglas Corporation