Ernest Adams is an independent game design consultant, writer, and teacher, working with the International Hobo design group in the UK. He has been in the game industry for 16 years, 8 of them at Electronic Arts primarily on the Madden NFL Football product line. Mr. Adams has written two books, and a regular column on game design since 1997. He is also the founder of the International Game Developers’ Association. His website is at .

Department of Mathematics, FMF, University of Ljubljana andDepartment of theoretical computer science, Institute for Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Professor of Discrete and Computational mathematics, Ph.D. in Mathematics1986. Scientific interest: mathematics and computer science, combinatorics with emphasis on graph theory, algorithms on graphs and networks, combinatorial optimization, algorithms and data structures, cluster analysis, and applications of information technology in education. He is a chair of the Department of theoretical computer science, IMPM. With Andrej Mrvar he is developing Pajek http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/, a program for analysis and visualization of large networks. He wrote two books 'Generalized blockmodeling' (Vladimir Batagelj, Patrick Doreian, Anuska Ferligoj) and 'Exploratory Network Analysis with Pajek' (Vladimir Batagelj, Wouter de Nooy, Andrej Mrvar), Cambridge University Press. www: http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/

Michael Binder is Director of Strategy of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) since 06/2005 responsible for the development and implementation of mid- and long-term-strategies of the FFG. Former positions: Director of the Austrian Council for Research and Technolgy Development (2001 -05/ 2005), Head of Unit "Technology and Innovation Policy" Federal Ministry for Economy and Labour (1995-2000). http://www.ffg.at/

Ian Bogost is an academic videogame researcher, game designer, and educational publisher. Ian is Assistant Professor of Literature Communication and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he teaches and researches in undergraduate and graduate programs in digital media. Bogost's current research interests include videogame criticism (the subject of a forthcoming book from MIT Press, Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism) and videogame rhetoric (including the function of ideology, politics, advertising, and education in games). Ian is also the founder of two companies, Persuasive Games, a game studio that designs, builds, and distributes electronic games for persuasion, instruction, and activism and Open Texture, a publisher of cross-media education and enrichment materials for families. He has over a decade of experience in digital media production for film, music, games, advertising, and eBusiness. Ian holds a BA in Comparative Literature and Philosophy from the University of Southern California, and an MA and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA. Ian can be contacted at ian@persuasivegames.com.

Günther Bonn, born in Innsbruck, studied chemistry at the Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck. In 1995 he accepted an appointment as Full Professor for analytic chemistry at the Institute for Analytic Chemistry and Radiochemistry at the University of Innsbruck. Bonn was a member and consultant of the FWF until 2003. At present he is on the university council of the Medical University in Innsbruck. The Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture appointed him a member of the Council.

Moses Boudourides is Associate Prof. of Mathematics at the Univ. of Patras, previously at the Univ. of Thrace (1982-1998) and the Univ. of California at Irvine (1992-93). He has studied Chemical Engineering at the National Technical Univ. of Athens (1968-1973), Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at the Johns Hopkins Univ. (1978) and post-doc at the Univ. of Florence (1979-1980) and Paris VI (1981-2). His mathematical work is on fluid mechanics and dynamical systems. Since 1996 he is working on social networks, mathematical sociology, social informatics, social choice and social movements.

Bill Buxton is a designer and a researcher concerned with human aspects of technology. His work reflects a particular interest in the use of technology to support creative activities such as design, film making and music. Buxton's research specialities include technologies, techniques and theories of input to computers, technology mediated human-human collaboration and ubiquitous computing. He is currently principal of his own boutique design and consulting firm, Buxton Design, where his time is split between working for clients and trying to finish a long-delayed book. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. From 1994 until December 2002, he was Chief Scientist of Alias|Wave-front, and from 1995, its parent company SGI Inc.

Ivan Chase is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution, SUNY at Stony Brook. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology, Harvard University. Postdoctoral work in mathematics and zoology. Research areas: social organization in humans and animals. He is currently investigating dominance relationships in cloned and non-cloned fish and the theory and methods needed to understand dominance hierarchy formation. Topics of interest are: dominance hierarchies, vacancy chain systems in humans and hermit crabs, and collective action in ants. Email: Ichase@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Kate Coronges is a member of University of Southern California's Transdisciplinary Drug Abuse Prevention Research Center (TPRC) involved in developing effective and innovative health behavior models. Her work is focused on the application of basic research of implicit cognition and information processing to social network concepts. Her main scientific interests is to understand how contagion of information and behaviors occurs through social groups, or the extent to which social positions and types of social interactions determines cognitive processes. She also works as a project consultant for social and organizational network analysis projects, and manages the peer review process for Connections: The Official Journal of INSNA(International Network for Social Network Analysis).

Wouter de Nooy teaches methodology and sociology of the arts at the Department of Arts and Culture Studies at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on networks in art worlds and their relation to artistic evaluation and classification. He specializes in social network analysis methods, being one of the authors of a handbook on network analysis (/Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek/, Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Jana Diesner is a Research Associate and Linguistic Programmer at the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). She received her Masters in Communications from Dresden University of Technology, Germany, in 2003. She had been a research scholar at the Institute for Complex Engineered System at CMU in 2001 and 2002. Her research combines computational linguistics, social network analysis and computational organization theory.

Nick Divehall, Vice President of Business Development for Massive Software has been entrenched in visual effects and animation circles since the early 1990s. Divehall oversees business development opportunities for the organization and managing its distribution channels. Divehall comes to Massive Software from leading 3D software developer Alias where he served as a Manager of the Asia Pacific region. In his tenure with Oscar(R)-winning software developer Alias, he also held several sales and marketing positions. Prior to joining Alias, Divehall built Digital Video Technologies (NZ) Limited to be the premier technology supplier to the New Zealand film and visual effects industry. The company was a key supplier to WETA Digital providing tools and systems to outfit the facility for the The Lord of the Rings production.

Roland Haring studied media technology and design at Hagenberg Technical College. A recent highpoint of his successful collaboration with the Ars Electronica Futurelab was “Gulliver’s World,” a complex Mixed Reality project that has been singled out for recognition with numerous prizes in Austria and abroad. Now, as key researcher for creative engineering, Roland Haring is an important member of the Futurelab staff and a driving force behind the lab’s R&D efforts. His current activities include a major joint venture at the interface of academic research, commercial interests and the mission of the Ars Electronica Center. On the side, he’s at work on a doctoral dissertation dealing with, among other issues, the development of a framework for location-based information on mobile systems.

Julia Harlfinger is a science journalist. She mainly covers topics from biology, medicine and technology and writes for a variety of print media, e.g. Universum Magazin, Der Standard. At the national radio (Ö1, ORF), she works as an editor of ‚Der Radiodoktor’, a weekly programme on health and medicine. Additionally, she supports different research institutions to communicate their work. Julia is a graduate of SciMedia, an Austrian university programme for science communication. Email: julia.harlfinger@chello.at

Horst Hörtner is Director of the ARS ELECTRONICA FutureLab since 1996. He is a musician, studied Civil-Engineering in Graz, Austria and Telematics at the Technische Universität Graz, Austria. Since 2002 he is an associate professor at the Universität für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung (Linz, Austria).

Jeffrey C. Johnson is a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Coastal and Marine Resources, and Professor in the Departments of Sociology, Biology, Anthropology, and Biostatistics, East Carolina University, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Social Science from the University of California Irvine. He has spent the last 15 years comparing group dynamics of the winter-over crews at the American South Pole Station with those at the Polish, Russian, Chinese, and Indian Antarctic Stations and working with the Inupiaq of arctic Alaska on modeling native ecological knowledge . He is currently interested in network visualizations of complex social and biological systems.

Harald Katzmair is director at FAS.research, a non-universitary institute for social science research. He holds a degree in Sociology and Philosophy (University of Vienna). Since 1992 he has been lecturer at various universities (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, University of Vienna, Danube University in Krems, university course for communication in science, Faculty for Interdisciplinary Research and Advanced Training, NBC-Defense-School Austria, etc.). His main interests are social network analysis, complexity theory and ornithology. URL: www.fas.at, mail: office@fas.at

Friedrich Kirschner works as a senior researcher for Immersive Narration at the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz. He re-purposes computer games to create narratives or interactive performances. He's also the editor of an online magazine called machinimag, focussing on the development of the emerging artform of machinima moviemaking. www.zeitbrand.net

Current Position – Associate Professor of Science Education and Education Technology, Director of the MIT Teacher Education Program, Scheller Chairholder Education – B.S in Biology from Cornell University 1992 Ph.D. in Zoology from University of Wisconsin, Madison 1997 URL: http://education.mit.edu Email: Klopfer@mit.edu Research Interests: Computer simulations and games for learning in science, math and technology. Particular interests in programmable media for making modelling accessible to novices, and mobile simulations and games that encourage collaboration and problem solving in real contexts.

Günter Koch holds a master in Computer Science at Karlsruhe Technical University and a bachelor in Electrical Engineering at Karlsruhe University. From 1998 - 2003 he was the managing director of the Austrian Research Centers, Seibersdorf. Günter Koch is a regular commentator on science topics, he acts as a partner of a knowledge management firm, as a guest professor at the Danube University and as a consultant to governments, banks, industries, in specific software dependant industries, not the least in his role as a member of the board of the Association of the Austrian Software Industry.

Lothar Krempel is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and lecturer for Empirical Social Science Research at the University of Duisburg Essen, Germany. He has written a habilitation (second thesis) on network visualization as a multvariate graphical technology: how complex empirical information can be inspected with graphical means in a scientific way. His book " Visualisierung komplexer Strukturen" (visualizing complex structures) has recently been published by Campus Verlag. In his work he has applied network visualization technologies in various domains, to diverse topics such as patterns of scientific collaboration, inter- and intra- organisational processes, economic globalization and the world trade in cars, the economic transformation of transition societies, historical mobilization processes, symbolic exchanges in simple societies and the analysis of large text corpora.

König is currently the Head of the Unit in charge of CORDIS – the COmmunity Research and Development Information Service ( http://cordis.europa.eu.int). Since May 2004, this unit is integrated in the Office for Official Publication of the European Union in Luxembourg. Before he has been Head of Unit in other Directorates General of the European Commission in the fields of Communication; Innovation and Telecommunications Policy. Kurt König holds degrees in electrical and economic engineering.

Golan Levin is an artist/engineer interested in developing artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive expression. His work focuses on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general inquiry into the formal language of interactivity, and of non-verbal communications protocols in cybernetic systems. Through performances, digital artifacts, and virtual environments, often created with a variety of collaborators, Levin applies creative twists to digital technologies that highlight our relationship with machines, make visible our ways of interacting with each other, and explore the intersection of abstract communication and interactivity. Identified by TechnologyReview as one of the world’s “Top 100 Innovators Under 35,” and dubbed by El Pais as “one of the most brilliant figures in contemporary audiovisual art,” Levin has exhibited widely in Europe, America and Asia.

Zachary Lieberman (http://www.thesystemis.com) is an artist whose work explores the creative and human uses of technology. He produces installations, on-line works and concerts concerned with the themes of kinetic and gestural performance, interactive imaging and speech visualization.

Studied Computer Science at the University of Linz and Cultural Management in Salzburg. He worked as researcher in the field of scientific visualisation and as freelance developer for entertainment industry. Since 1997, based on his activities in the field of digital art, he is affiliated with the Ars Electronica and currently holds the position of the director of research and innovation in the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Beside this activity he works as a lecturer at several universities in Austria, Germany and UK.

Bob Martens is appointed as an associate professor at Vienna University of Technology and teaches simulation and (computer-aided) architectural design. Research activities related to environmental simulation cover virtual reconstruction of Viennese Synagogues as well as study projects in the area of full-scale modeling and architectural endoscopy. His current research interest is focusing on Electronic Publishing and Knowledge Management. Recently he has been appointed as Vice-dean of Studies related to continuing education activities (postgraduate courses).

Andrej Mrvar is a Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana ,Slovenia. His studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia are: 1992, B. Sc. in Computer Science at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 1995, M. Sc. in Computer Science at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 1999, Ph. D. in Computer Science at Faculty of Computer and Information Science. Mrvars Scientific and Teaching Activity are: 1992 - 1996 Assistant of Statistics. 1996 - 2000 Assistant of Computer Science and Statistics. Since 2000 - Assistant Professor of Social Science Informatics. Research interests: Network Analysis, Graph Drawing, Electronic Timing and Data Processing of Sports Competitions. He is co-author (with Vladimir Batagelj) of program Pajek. Together with Wouter de Nooy and Vladimir Batagelj he wrote the book: Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Homepage: http://mrvar.fdv.uni-lj.si/ Email: andrej.mrvar@fdv.uni-lj.si

Nicolas Naveau was born on August 30, 1970 in Nantes, France. He completed his studies at the Angers Academy of Art in 1995, earning a Diplôme National Superieur d'Expression Plastiques. Following graduation, he worked as an artist, Web & graphic designer and DJ. Since 2003, Naveau has been a member of the Ars Electronica Center staff, since 2005 as key researcher for screen-based art at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Projects: Website of the Ars Electronica Center (flash tour), Ars Electronica Center Navigator and WikiMap. Interests: Web & graphic design and information design/visualization. Nicolas.naveau@aec.at

Wolfgang Neurath holds a degree in History and Philosophy from the University of Vienna. He is lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. He works for the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development: http://www.rat-fte.at. Currently, Wolfgang Neurath manages projects, which deal with innovative models for research and technology policy. Within these projects visualisation of research and development and the measurements of innovation potential are central themes.

Erich Neuwirth is the head of the Center for Didactics of Computer Science at the University of Vienna. Among other things he is a specialist for spreadsheets and wrote papers and a book about scientific and educational uses of spreadsheet programs. He is very active in the international community for educational uses of computers. He also is a LOGO enthusiast and uses LOGO as the basic vehicle for computer science ideas in his classes for teacher students and in service teachers. In a recent project he uses musical ideas and concepts as the basis for a computer science course. He also is the manager of SunSITE Austria, a web site dedicated to software support for mathematics, statistics, and science education. Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at

Born 1973, graduated in Architecture (M.sci.) and has been working since 1994 in animation, interactive environments and architecture. Between 2002 and 2004 Dietmar worked as key researcher of the Interactive Space department at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Since fall 2004 he is professor for animation and interactive media at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg/ Austria.

Ken Perlin is a professor in and was the founding director of the Media Research Laboratory, within the Department of Computer Science at New York University. He directed the NYU Center of Advanced Technology from 1994-2004. His research interests include graphics, animation, and multimedia. In January 2004 he was the featured artist at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2002 he received the NYC Mayor's award for excellence in Science and Technology and the Sokol award for outstanding Science faculty at NYU. In 1997 he won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his noise and turbulence procedural texturing techniques, which are widely used in feature films and television. In 1991 he received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Perlin received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University in 1986, and a B.A. in theoretical mathematics from Harvard University in 1979. He was Head of Software Development at R/GREENBERG Associates in New York, NY from 1984 through 1987. Prior to that, from 1979 to 1984, he was the System Architect for computer generated animation at Mathematical Applications Group, Inc., Elmsford, NY, where the first feature film he worked on was TRON. He has served on the Board of Directors of the New York chapter of ACM/SIGGRAPH, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Software Industry Association.

Robert Praxmarer studied Computer Science at JKU Linz Austria. Currently he teaches at Art University Linz at the institute of Interface Cultures. He is a guest lecturer at Trinity College Dublin and FH Hagenberg for Media Design. His research interests include interactive art, with a special focus on Interactive Video Manipulation, Computer Games and Software Art in general. He received various prizes for his work and exhibited internationally. Currently he is an Artist in Residence of the “Les pepinieres pour les jeunes artistes” program at CIANT in Prague. http://www.servus.at/cubic cubic@servus.at

Ronni Ramlogan is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Education and training: PhD, MA (Econ., University of Manchester); MSc (Econ., University of the West Indies) He is researching the field of Medical/Health Innovations related to Glaucoma and Coronary Artery Disease. Ronnie is interested in: Economic growth and development; economics of competition, innovation processes; complex adaptive systems and the emergence of new sectors. E-mail address: ronnie.ramlogan@manchester.ac.uk

Christa Sommerer is an internationally renowned media artist working in the field of interactive computer installation and interaction design. Together with Laurent Mignonneau she is Professor at the University of Art and Design in Linz Austria where they head the Department for Interface Culture at the Institute for Media. Sommerer and Mignonneau previously held positions as Professors at the IAMAS International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences in Gifu, Japan and as Researchers and Artistic Directors at the ATR Advanced Telecommunications Research Lab in Kyoto Japan. Since 1992 Mignonneau and Sommerer created around 15 interactive artworks they have been shown in around 170 exhibitions world-wide and are permanently installed in media museums and media collections around the world, including the Media Museum of the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, the NTT-ICC InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, the Cartier Foundation in Paris, the Millennium Dome in London, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Japan, the AEC Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, the NTT Plan-Net in Nagoya, Japan, Shiroishi Multimedia Art Center in Shiroishi, Japan and the HOUSE-OF-SHISEIDO in Tokyo. In 1994 Sommerer and Mignonneau were awarded the "Golden Nica" Ars Electronica Award for Interactive Art 1994.

born in Hall/Tyrol, Austria in 1976. She studied international business at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna and at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She also has a Master in journalism/ communication studies and psychology from the University of Vienna. Since 2002 Doris Spielthenner has worked as a network analyst in both, research and consulting, at FAS.research Vienna and now FAS.research San Francisco.

Don Steiny is a president of the Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy, a member of the Silicon Valley Network Analysis Project (SiVNAP), a Visiting Scholar at Stanford, an instructor at University of Oulu, Finland and an advisor to many businesses in the US, mostly in Silicon Valley.

Since 1995 Gerfried Stocker is artistic director of the Ars Electronica Center and together with Christine Schöpf artistic codirector of the Ars Electronica Festival. He is Media artist and musician and is a graduate of the Institute for Telecommunication Engineering and Electronics in Graz. Since 1990, he has been working as an independent artist. In 1991, he founded x-space, a team for the realization of interdisciplinary projects. In this framework numerous installations and performance projects have been carried out in the field of interaction, robotics and telecommunication. Stocker was also responsible for the concept of various radio, TV and network projects and the organization of the worldwide radio and network project Horizontal Radio in 1995. Projects and Installations have been shown among others at: EXPO ‘92 Sevilla; Kunsthalle Bonn ’92; Biennale Venedig '93; ISEA '93 Minneapolis; Interactive Media Festival Los Angeles '94; Digital World Conference Los Angeles '94; SIGGRAPH '94 Orlando; ISEA '94 Helsinki; Dutch Electronic Art Festival ’94 Rotterdam; steirischer herbst '94, '95; Ars Electronica '95; SIGGRAPH '95, Los Angeles; ISEA '95 Montréal; Frankfurter Buchmesse '95; New York Digital Salon '95; Biennale Venedig '97, Millennium Dome London 2000, SIGGRAPH '02 San Antonio. He is editor of Ars Electronica catalogues since 1996.

His interests revolve around methods and substances of social networks and social capital. They are investigating elites in the UK society using a new database of 12,000 business executives, patrons and trustees of the arts world, and political appointees to public policy organisations in 1,500 large organisations. Borrowing from Bourdieu, they estimate the extent and magnitude of the circulations of various forms of capital: economic, social and cultural capital. Quite separately, he is also working on technological innovation and economic development. In particular they are studying innovations in the treatment of heart failures and glaucoma over the last quarter century.

After completing her training Gabriele Zuna-Kratky worked from 1981 to 1988 at the Lehramt für Polytechnische Lehrgänge (polytechnical training courses.). In June 1988 she completed her doctorate in philosophy and then worked for the Federal Ministry for Education and Art in the department for school-TV, school-radio and media education. In October 1997 she was appointed director of the Austrian archive of sound recordings (Österreichische Phonothek). Since January 1, 2000 she has been the first woman director of a technical museum – Vienna’s Technical Museum. Zuna-Kratky is also on the university council of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, a member of the board of the Deutsches Museum in Munich and a member of the board of the foundation of the Berlin Museum of Technology. In September 2005 Gabriele Zuna-Kratky was appointed a member of the Council by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.