Peter Szolovits has taught at MIT for more than 35 years as a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

He has served on journal editorial boards and as program chairman and on the program committees of national conferences. He has been a founder of and consultant for several companies that apply AI to problems of commercial interest.

He received his bachelor's degree in physics and his PhD in information science from Caltech. Szolovits was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and is a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He also serves as a member of the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board.

Seth Teller earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992. His focus was on accelerated rendering of complex architectural environments. After postdoctoral fellowships at the Computer Science Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Computer Science and Princeton University's Computer Science Department, Teller joined MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Lab for Computer Science and the Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1994. (In 2004, the two labs merged into CSAIL, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.)

At CSAIL, Teller heads the Robotics, Vision, and Sensor Networks group (RVSN), where his research focuses on enabling machines to become aware of their surroundings and interact naturally with people. Some of his lab's recent projects include: hand-held and body-worn devices that provide navigation assistance indoors; a voice-commandable robotic wheelchair; a self-driving Land Rover; and an unmanned outdoor forklift commanded through speech and gestures.

Graham Walker’s research is concentrated in two major areas: The first is the regulation and mechanism of action of proteins involved in DNA repair and mutagenesis and in controlling cellular responses to DNA damage; the second deals with identifying the bacterial functions required for the development of nitrogen-fixing nodules on legumes and with the relationship between rhizobial functions required for nodule invasion and mammalian pathogenesis.

John L. Wyatt Jr. is a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at MIT. He received an SB from MIT in 1968; an MS in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1970; and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979. He conducted postdoctoral research at the Medical College of Virginia before joining the MIT faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1979.

Wyatt is co-director of the Boston Retinal Implant Project. He also headed an MIT project on analog integrated circuits for machine vision from 1988 to 1995. His other research interests include circuit theory, delay estimation in digital integrated circuits, nonlinear circuits and systems, random processes and electrical noise.