Since receiving his Ph.D. from The University of Notre Dame, Ralph Bravaco has been a member of the faculty of Stonehill College, where he has taught more than a dozen computer science courses ranging from introductory programming to compiler design. He has written papers for several journals, spoken at conferences, and been the co-recipient of three National Science Foundation grants. He has also had the honor of receiving Stonehill College’s Hegarty Award for Excellence in Teaching. His current interest is the "symbiotic relationship between mathematics and computer science." With Shai Simonson, he has developed a course and recently published a journal article on this fascinating topic.

Shai Simonson(http://web.stonehill.edu/compsci/shai.htm) earned his B.A. in mathematics at Columbia University and M.S. and Ph.D in computer science at Northwestern University.  He is currently professor of computer science at Stonehill College.  Simonson has taught mathematics and computer science courses for almost 30 years at various universities and also at the middle school and high school levels.  He has published numerous articles in theoretical computer science, computer science education, mathematics education, history of mathematics, and popular mathematics.  At the height of the dot-com boom in 2000, he directed a corporate-sponsored one-year post-baccalaureate computer science program in Cambridge, MA called ArsDigita University.  Videotaped lectures located at the university's website are used all over the world by thousands of people (http://aduni.org).  Simonson was awarded a number of grants and awards from the National Science Foundation for a variety of projects, both pedagogical and scholarly, including one award with Ralph Bravaco that led to the writing of Java Programming, From the Ground Up.