OSCAR FIRSCHEIN is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University whose current research concerns image and video database storage and retrieval. He has served as manager of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Image Understanding Program, staff scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International, and Senior Scientist at the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratories. He co-author of Intelligence: The Eye, the Brain, and the Computer (Addison Wesley, 1987); co-editor of Readings in Computer Vision (Morgan Kaufman, 1987); editor of RADIUS: Image Understanding for Imagery Intelligence (Morgan Kaufman, 1997); and editor of Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition for the Unmanned Ground: Providing Surveillance "Eyes" for an Autonomous Vehicle (Morgan Kaufman, 1997).
ANTHONY LIOI is a student in the Graduate Program of Literatures in English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is writing "The Worlds' Green Laughter: Modernity, Cosmology, and the American Essay, 1945-95," a dissertation on ideas of cosmic order in environmental literature.
EUGENE O'BRIEN teaches at the University of Limerick and at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland. He also works as a tutor for Oscail, the Irish distance learning project. He has published articles in Imprimatur, Minerva, Hermathena, Irish Studies Review, The International Review of Modernism, and H-Net, the Humanities on-line book review project. His first book, The Question of Irish Identity in the Writings of W. B. Yeats and James Joyce, has been published by Edwin Mellen Press. He is also the editor of a new Irish studies series, Ireland in Theory.
WILLIAM RUEGG is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Florida. This article is adapted from his dissertation, "Spectres of Utopia: Science, Modernity, and the Emergence of Blake's Hyper-Text," which examines the multiple trajectories of Blake's attempt to contest the configuration and figurability of modernity as a socio-political imaginary.
SUZANNE SHIMEK, doctoral candidate in English at the University of California at Los Angeles, is writing a dissertation, "In Uncertain Terms: Poetry, Physics, and Representation in the Quantum Era," under the direction of N. Katherine Hayles. Ms. Shimek holds a B.S. from Stanford and began her professional career as a mechanical engineer, work which taught her that mathematics and materials are not the only factors that influence how structures are made.
JULIE ROBIN SOLOMON is Associate Professor of Literature at American University and author of Objectivity in the Making: Francis Bacon and the Politics of Inquiry (Johns Hopkins, 1998). She is currently writing a book on addiction and culture in the Renaissance entitled Fixing Thought.