Sergei Nirenburg is on the faculty of the Cognitive Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Harold Somers is Professor of Language Engineering and Director of the Centre for Computational Linguistics at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK.

The late Yorick Wilks was Emeritus Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sheffield, a Research Associate of the Oxford Internet Institute, and a Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition. His books include Close Engagements with Artificial Companions and Artificial Believers: The Ascription of Belief (with Afzal Ballim).