Cameron Hughes (Youngstown, OH) is a professional software developer with over fifteen years of experience. He is a staff programmer/analyst at Youngstown State University and a software epistemologist for Ctest Laboratories. Tracey Hughes is a senior software and graphics programmer at Ctest Laboratories where she develops information and epistemic visualization software. Both Cameron and Tracey Hughes are long time robot enthusiasts with a collection of over 100 robots. They have sponsored and participated in local robot competitions and robot programming workshops for the Lego NXT and RS Media platforms through their local ACM chapter. Cameron and Tracey are the authors of seven books on software development, multithreaded programming, and parallel programming in C++. Bob Kramer has been a full-time Computer Science Professor at Youngstown State University. Bob's research interests include using Lego robotics as a tool to teach computer science concepts, as well as the development and extension of programming tools for Lego robots.
He has helped extend the nxtOSEK environment to enable C++ programs to execute on the NXT platform, and has developed an interface for a third-party sensor in the LeJOS environment. Bob Kramer has used Lego robotics to teach basic programming concepts in summer enrichment programs for high school students. He has spoken at numerous workshops about robot design and pedagogical uses of robots. Trevor Watkins is currently the systems engineer at the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County, where he assists with the development, operation, maintenance and evaluation of the library's use of technology resources with an emphasis on application and system software. Trevor is also a cognitive systems engineer at Ctest Laboratories and part-time faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Youngstown State University. His current research interests include swarm intelligence in robot anatomy and Intelligent Ontology-based systems. Trevor has been a robot hobbyist for over 20 years with the past 5 years focused on the Vex and Arduino-based robot kits.