Barbara Chapman is a Professor of Computer Science at the Unversity of Houston, where she teaches and performs research into parallel programming models and their implementation. Her group has created the open-source OpenUH compiler that implements OpenMP and has been used to explore extensions to this model as well as to develop tools to support parallel application development and tuning. In 2001, Dr. Chapman formed the not-for-profit corporation cOMPunity in order to enable researchers to participate in the work of the OpenMP Architecture Review Board. Since that time she has been involved in the work of defining new versions of OpenMP and in efforts to promote the use of this programming interface. She co-authored a book on OpenMP that describes OpenMP and how to use it in practice.

Dr. Kindratenko is a senior research scientist in the Innovative Systems Laboratory (ISL) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and a lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).  His research interests include high-performance computing and special-purpose computing architectures. He leads NCSA's efforts in the exploration of next-generation computational accelerators, such as FPGAs, Cell, and GPUs, for advanced science and engineering applications. Dr. Kindratenko is the Novel Architectures department editor for the IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering magazine and a co-editor of several special issues on accelerator-based HPC. Dr. Kindratenko also serves on the Board of Directors for OpenFPGA, a non-profit organization concerned with the development and promotion of standards for reconfigurable computing.