Neil H.E. Weste received a BSc, BE(Elec) and PhD from the University of Adelaide. He commenced working for Bell Labs in 1977 working on early VLSI design tools (the MULGA suite). He taught at Duke and UNC (Chapel Hill) in 1981/2 and was VP Design & Systems at MCNC in North Carolina.

In 1984 he joined Symbolics to lead an effort on the Ivory single chip Lisp machine. Following this, he co-founded a chip-engineering firm (TLW) in 1985. In 1995 he returned to Australia to join Macquarie University as Professor of Microelectronics. He co-founded Radiata Communications in 1997 (IEEE 802.11a chipsets), which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2001.

His interests are wireless networking, systems on a chip, analog, RF and digital IC design and technology incubation. Weste is just completing a term on the SSCS AdCom.

David Harris is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College. David received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1999 and his S.B. and M. Eng. degrees from MIT in 1994. His research interests include high speed CMOS VLSI design and computer arithmetic. He is the author of Logical Effort (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1999) and Skew-Tolerant Circuit Design (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000). He holds seven patents, has written numerous papers, and has designed chips at Sun Microsystems, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, and Evans & Sutherland. When he is not teaching or building chips, David enjoys mountain climbing and flying his Cessna.