Kenneth D. Forbus is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Education at Northwestern University. He received his degrees from MIT (Ph.D. in 1984). His research interests include qualitative reasoning, analogical reasoning and learning, spatial reasoning, sketch understanding, natural language understanding, cognitive architecture, reasoning system design, intelligent educational software, and the use of AI in interactive entertainment. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Association for Computing Machinery. He is the inaugural recipient of the Herbert A. Simon Prize, a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award and served as Chair of the Cognitive Science Society.

Gary Klein, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist at MacroCognition LLC. Dr. Klein received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1969. Dr. Klein has developed several models of cognitive processes: A Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model to describe how people actually make decisions in natural settings; a Data/Frame model of sensemaking; a Management by Discovery model of planning to handle wicked problems; and a Triple-Path model of insight. He is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. You can learn more about Gary Klein at: www.gary-klein.com

Dr. Yolanda Gil is the Director of Knowledge Technologies and leads the Interactive Knowledge Capture research group at USC's Information Sciences Institute (ISI). Her research focuses on intelligent interfaces for knowledge capture, which is a central topic in projects concerning knowledge-based planning and problem solving, information analysis and assessment of trust, semantic annotation tools, agent and software choreography, and community-wide development of knowledge bases. Her recent focus is assisting scientists with intelligent systems that analyze data, test hypotheses, and make new discoveries.

Dr. Drew Vandeth is an IBM Distinguished Researcher and Senior Intelligence Advisor at IBM Research. His work spans strategic computing technologies for the intelligence and national security community. Dr. Vandeth has previously held positions at the Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing where he was the Deputy Director, the Communications Security Establishment where he was a researcher and manager, and the University of Ottawa. He focuses on the use and development of high performance technologies for Intelligence and national security purposes. He received his B.Math and M.Math in Number Theory from the University of Waterloo and a Ph.D. in Number Theory for Macquarie University.

Dr. Michael van Lent leads research and development of artificial intelligence for training and serious games, transitioning research into engineered solutions. Dr. van Lent received a PhD at the University of Michigan in 2000. Prior to receiving his PhD, he worked at the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCARAI) at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. He joined the Institute for Creative Technologies in 2001, where he became the Associate Director for Games Research and a Research Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at USC. Dr. van Lent has participated in the design and development of many immersive training applications including Full Spectrum Warrior, Full Spectrum Command, the Joint Fires and Effects Trainer System (JFETS), and ELECT BiLAT. He serves on various editorial boards and edits IEEE Computer’s Entertainment Computing Column.