Elizabeth D. Liddy is interim dean and Trustee Professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University (SU). In 1999, she was appointed director of the school's Center for Natural Language Processing, which advances the development of human-like language understanding software capabilities for government, commercial, and consumer applications. Liddy is also an adjunct professor at Upstate Medical University, where she conducts research on medical informatics. Liddy has led 65 research projects, with the support of numerous government agencies and commercial enterprises. In addition, she is a co-inventor on five patents in the area of natural language processing (NLP). Among her many honors, Liddy is a recipient of the Tibbetts Award from the SBIR Program of the U.S. Small Business Administration (1998), the Enterprise Award for Technology from the Upstate New York Technology Business Forum (1998), and the Outstanding Alumni Award from SU (2000). She holds a bachelors degree in English Language and Literature from Daemen College and a M.L.S. in Information Studies and a Ph.D. in Information Transfer, both from SU.

Christa Phillips, better known by her online persona “TriXie” is the Community Editor at Xbox.com where she manages columnists, interviews gamers, covers industry events such as E3 and Tokyo Game Show, and runs Xbox LIVE programming events Frag Doll Friday, Family Game Night, and Xbox All-Nighter. She also manages and co-founded GamerchiX, an international group for women who play video games. Since starting the group in June 2006 GamerchiX membership has grown to over 3,400 women in 29 countries. GamerchiX has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Escapist.com, and The Chicago Tribune. Phillips has been in the Games industry for 13 years. She began her career as an Assistant Editor at InterAction magazine, and then became a packaging and advertising copywriter at Sierra On-Line before coming to Xbox in 2002 where she worked on the launches of Xbox LIVE, Xbox 360, Halo 2 and Halo 3. Her interests include reading, music, raising her two kids and of course playing video games.