Curt Bonk received his master's and Ph.D. degrees in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin. He is now Professor of Instructional Systems Technology and adjunct in the School of Informatics at Indiana University (IU). Professor Bonk is also a Senior Research Fellow with the Advanced Distributed Learning Lab within the Department of Defense. He has received the CyberStar Award from the Indiana Information Technology Association, the Most Outstanding Achievement Award from the U.S. Distance Learning Association, and the Most Innovative Teaching in a Distance Education Program Award from the State of Indiana. During the past two years, Dr. Bonk has presented over 175 talks around the globe related to online teaching and learning. Curt has more than 100 publications on topics such as online learning pedagogy, massive multiplayer online gaming, collaborative technologies, and synchronous and asynchronous computer conferencing. His recent "Handbook of Blended Learning Environments: Global Perspectives, Local Designs," was published by Pfeiffer Publishing in December 2005.

Dr. Chon received a Ph.D degree in Computer Science from UCLA and a BS degree in Engineering Science from Osaka University. He worked at Rockwell International as a distributed computer system designer in the late 60s, and at Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a member of the Technical Staff in the area of advanced mission control in the late 70s.

He joined the Korea Institute of Electronics Technology in 1979 to work on computer systems development, and became a professor of Computer Science at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1982.

Dr. Chon has worked on networking systems, including the Internet, since the early 1980s. He founded various regional Internet organizations  such as Asia Pacific Networking Group (APNG), Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN), and Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Name Forum (APTLD). Dr. Chon  developed the first Internet in Asia, called SDN in 1982, and organized
the first Internet conference (PCCS) in 1985.

Dr. Chon is the recipient of various awards including World Technology Forum (in the area of communication technology) and the presidential awards on the internet development and mountain climbing from Korean Government.

Lucifer Chu graduated from Taiwan’s National Central University in 1998 with a B.S in electrical engineering. He has dedicated himself in promoting fantasy literature because of his passion for PC games and fantasy fiction.

Since his first encounter with fantasy literature in 1991 during his high school years, Lucifer Chu has spared no efforts to popularize it through writing columns in newspapers and magazines as well as establishing websites. Almost all of the translated fantasy novels and manuals of PC games related to fantasy literature in Taiwan are the works of Lucifer’s. From the Dragonlance Chronicle published in 1998 to the Lord of the Rings Trilogy sold over 700,000 volumes, Lucifer has translated 30 fantasy novels from English into Chinese. His continuous and hard-working efforts made the fantasy world that used to be relatively unpopular finally win the praise and support from Taiwan’s domestic market. With the royalty received from his work on translation of the LOTR, he established the first “Fantasy Foundation” around the world which promotes fantasy literature and graphic design throughout the Chinese-speaking world.

With his savings, Lucifer Chu also established the Opensource Opencourse Prototype System (OOPS), which translates the vast library of resources within the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) on-line Open Courseware into Chinese. From just two persons the foundation has now grown to 1,900 volunteers from 16 countries around the world. He has featured in numerous newspapers and magazines for his work and is the recipient of numerous awards. Lucifer Chu now spends most of his time working on his two non-profit foundations; OOPs and the Fantasy Foundation.