Stevens Russell Amidon (The Complex, Adaptive, Dynamic, Autocatalytic, Multicultural Hypertext Poem): a recent graduate of the MFA-In-Writing Program at Goddard College, I am an 18-year veteran of submarines, a columnist for Navy Times, and the author of a DLB article on novelist, screenplay writer and short story author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. I have had poetry published in several small literary magazines. Last May I testified before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee in favor of lifting the ban on Gays and Lesbians serving in the military. SAMIDON@delphi.com
Steven Elmer Baker (The Internet and the Writer;Electronic Pocket Change on the Internet): I am 26, married, and live in Houston, Texas. I have recently published material in Connect Magazine about elite/pirate BBS systems. I am active on the Internet and submit most of my material via email.STEVENBAKER@delphi.com
One Night on the Internet) is a southwestern writer. He can be reached at rbarb@deltos.com.
Jonathan Baskin (Route 66): I am director of communications for a FORTUNE 500 based in Ohio. IBM launched its first "portable" when I was a sophomore in high school. 72203.2102@compuserve.com
Jim Clarage (High Bawd Helena): My atoms jiggle around in Houston, Texas. The rest of me and my art hang out in the Netsam. clarage@rice.edu
Luke Duncan (graphics in The Complex...Hypertext Poem): Want to know more about Luke, our humble assistant editor? Dare to enter Luke's World. duncan@vmedia.com
John K. Fitzpatrick (Three Pieces): When I was a kid, I thought I would really be an adult when I turned thirty. Perhaps I was wrong. My WWW home page is here. jfitz@teleport.com
William Gough (Our Internet Poem), born in Nova Scotia, moved to Newfoundland at the age of two months where he stayed for 33 years of looking and listening and savoring the sheer delight of thought and people pushing dreams around in wheelbarrows and floating them at sea. He works now In Los Angeles where he writes in many forms, including screenwriting and stage-plays. Has novels/books of poetry/nonfiction published and writes lyrics for music he holds in his heart. Is married to Anna Sandor, the screenwriter, they have a daughter--Rachel Alice, and he has two other children, Jim and Sarah from a previous marriage. Has returned to college where he dances with words and delights with the fine people he's meeting in the MFA program at Goddard College in Vermont. "Take those words and shake them in your own rattles--what echoes--what echoes!" goddardman@aol.com
Christopher Griffin (MiceLives): I am studying for the Master of Arts degree at Baylor University; I have published poems in the campus journal Phoenix and in Manana, a regional journal published in Austin, Texas. I have presented papers at conferences in the South and Midwest, and have published a note in Notes and Queries. I am an avid mountain biker, and I enjoy rock-climbing when I can afford weekends away from the responsibilities associated with teaching Freshman composition classes. I am a fan of musician David Wicox, and had a chance to perform at his stomping ground, McDibb's, before that Black Mountain, North Carolina bar and music room closed down. Christopher_Griffin@baylor.edu
Ralph Ivy (Notches): My e-mail name is "rivy", which I pronounce like in the word "rivet" and which I like. I am 56 years old and art has been my life. And from those years I have come to find I need both words and images to reflect back a little of that life. I like what I do. rivy@comp.uark.edu
John Adam Kaune (Another Teleological Matter) is a part-time poet-wanderer from Peterborough, Ontario. He is one of the three editors of the Sand River Journal, a collection of the best poetry from rec.arts.poems (currently available in the e-text archives at U. Mich). Next project: figuring out how to set up a Web site for the SRJ. JKAUNE@TrentU.ca
Shriram Krishnamurthi (The Pi Painting): look for a home page coming soon! shriram@cs.rice.edu
R.J. (Jumpin' Johnny) LaRoe (Two Worlds Collide! and Perilous Educations): R.J. (Jumpin' Johnny) LaRoe has been developing, for the past several years, classroom applications for Internet services from News to MOOs. Prior to that, he worked as a journalist on the finance and leisure beats--mixing business and pleasure, as it were. These days, LaRoe specializes in interactive computer media. He continues to write and edit professionally, but now creates on a variety of computing platforms--including PC, Macintosh and DEC--and in a variety of environments--including MOO (multi-user, object-oriented) and HTML (hypertext mark-up language). You're welcome to visit his Jive Pad page. rjlaroe@cctr.umkc.edu
Joshua Lateiner (Of Man, Mind and Machine): Joshua S. Lateiner's research has long focused on interactive computer graphics, interface usability and computer simulations. At the New Jersey Institute of Technology, he was involved in constructing interactive computer simulations of physical phenomenon merging computer graphics with video imagery. This research later led to the development of Dataspace: an alternative method of representing three-dimensional models based on voxel datastructures. At the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), he further developed the Dataspace concept and designed an interactive volume-rendering system. While at Tufts University, the Dataspace concept expanded to incorporate a three-dimensional, distributed object store and metacomputing engine. He founded Lateiner Dataspace to realize the vision of Dataspace as a three-dimensional computing paradigm. In 1993, using Lateiner Dataspace's technology, he helped Vox-L Inc. develop the Vox-L Stereoscopic Workstation which allows the interactive, stereoscopic viewing of volume data.
He can be found speaking on the subject of Dataspace as a three- dimensional computing architecture and on the application of Virtual Reality technologies to scientific visualization at the following conferences:
Alexander Robert (Cyber Poet) was born in 1966 in the county of Cheshire, England, and spent his early childhood between the suburbs of Manchester and his family's country cottage in Wales. At the age of ten he was sent away to boarding school and was educated by the Jesuit priests at the rurally situated Stonyhurst College in Lancashire. It was at Stonyhurst that Mr. Robert first began writing poetry at the age of seventeen. Mr. Robert went to the City of London Polytechnic and majored in geology; afterwards he retrained in computing and now works for International Computers Limited. Both Mr. Robert's parents studied art to degree level and his father is an artist, author and geneologist.
Mr. Robert had his first poem published in JADE (Journal of Art and Design Education) magazine in 1983 and has since had his poetry published in his local press and has had his book The Fabulist published in Britain. Mr. Robert has also had his poetry read and read his poetry on BBC radio. Among Mr. Robert's favorite poets are Emily Bronte, T.S.Eliot, Robert Frost, Alexander Pope and Lord Byron. Alexander Robert is now writing his second book of verse which he hopes to have completed in 1995. arm@wg.icl.co.uk
J. B. Rourke (illustrations in Accounting for the Cards) was born twisted, and has been that way ever since (she was exposed to disco in her formative years). She is a graphic artist during the day and a ceramic artist at night. She would like to thank H. R. Valimaa for fleshing out the skeleton and breathing life into it. The illustrations were created in Adobe Illustrator. They are intended to be archetypes. If you see any resemblance to anyone at all in them--boy, do you need help. Sadly, J. B. Rourke has no email address. You could try telepathy.
Ram Samudrala (The Pi Painting): check out Ram's homepage! ram@elan1.carb.nist.gov
Suzanne Uher Schaefer (Cyberbabies): I am a former elementary school teacher and now stay-at-home mom of a two-year-old boy. I am a graduate student at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, pursuing a master's degree in Instructional Computing. Although I was inspired to write the article in response to a ongoing dialog in one of the newsgroups, I have been interested in exploring the idea of introducing very young children to the computer for over a year. "Cyberbabies" presents the theme around which I hope to do my thesis/project next year. INST1215@cl.uh.edu
Dykki Settle (Ecstatic Mechanism): To learn more than you ever really wanted to know about Dykki, why not enter Dykki's World? settle@vmedia.com
Todd Terwilliger (A Day in the Life of a Diku MUD): tat2@Lehigh.EDU
H. R. Valimaa (Accounting for the Cards) was born in Alpena, Michigan, but moved south in the Second Great Yankee Invasion of '83. She spends her days editing articles on tax law and divides her evenings between writing, biking, teaching, annoying her roommate's small house pets, X-Files, and looking for a different day job. (The seventh night she rests.) The OEC is a figment of her repressed imagination. The characters are an equally figmentary combination of her own twisted mind and J. B. Rourke's (the graphic artist) exquisite card readings. If they resemble you or anyone you know, it's purely coincidental, not her fault, a hiccup in an otherwise random universe. Don't worry about it. heather_valli@launchpad.unc.edu
Stephen Ward (Netting in the Office): saw5@columbia.edu
Jess Weiss (Virtual Love) is a student of philosophy and political science at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently working on a series of short stories about Key West. Visit his homepage. jess@mail.utexas.edu
