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James W. Cortada is a historian of information technology and a former IBM executive whose scholarship has shaped understanding of the digital revolution. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota, where his work focuses on the history of computing, business innovation, and the evolution of digital-era management practices.

Peter A. Cunningham is the founder and former CEO of INPUT, a leading provider of market intelligence, research, and advisory services on government technology markets. Under his leadership, INPUT became a central resource for companies seeking to understand federal, state, and local government procurement, helping shape business strategy for thousands of firms in the public-sector technology ecosystem.

Peter J. Denning is a leading computer scientist, educator, and author whose work spans operating systems, performance analysis, and the foundations of computing as a discipline. He is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where he chairs the Computer Science Department and directs the Cebrowski Institute for Information Innovation.

Esther Dyson is an investor, journalist, author, and philanthropist whose career has spanned the formative decades of the digital age. After studying economics at Harvard University, where she wrote for The Harvard Crimson, she began her professional life at Forbes, quickly rising from fact-checker to reporter. She later moved into Wall Street analysis, covering technology and emerging companies, before taking on a more entrepreneurial role in the tech industry.

George Dyson is a historian of science and technology whose writings explore the origins of digital computing, the evolution of intelligence, and the intersection of human and machine history. He is widely known for Turing’s Cathedral, his influential account of the mathematicians and engineers who built some of the first electronic computers at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Gerald Estrin was a computer scientist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), known for his influential work in computer architecture and reconfigurable computing. At UCLA he led the Machine Instruction Set Computer (MISC) and later the “reconfigurable processor” projects, both of which explored modular architectures and the idea that computer hardware could dynamically adapt itself to the needs of software—concepts that anticipated later developments in parallel processing and programmable hardware.