Keith Bain  Atlantic Centre of Research, Access, and Support for Students with Disabilities, Saint Mary's University, 923 Robie Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3C3, Canada (keith.bain@smu.ca). Mr. Bain is currently the international manager of the Liberated Learning consortium based at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is responsible for leading a multidisciplinary team that is researching and developing speech recognition solutions for accessibility. In addition to managing interuniversity alliances and representing the consortium at public events, he also leads business development and commercialization activities. Mr. Bain has a B.Ed. degree from the University of Alberta and an M.B.A. degree from Saint Mary's University.

Sara Basson  IBM Global Services, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (sbasson@us.ibm.com). Dr. Basson currently works in IBM Global Services, where she is driving work on accessibility opportunities. Her roles include creating accessibility-relevant assets, identifying suitable offerings and customer targets, and establishing processes to evaluate the impact of accessibility incorporation. Dr. Basson holds an M.B.A. degree from Stern School of Business, New York University, and a Ph.D. degree in speech and hearing sciences from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She was recently granted an Honorary Doctorate degree from Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dr. Basson is on the Board of Directors of AVIOS (Applied Voice Input/Output Society), a speech-technology-applications professional organization, and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Speech Technology.

Alexander Faisman  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (alexf@us.ibm.com). Mr. Faisman is a software engineer at the IBM Thomas J. Research Center. He joined IBM in 2000 after receiving an M.S. degree in mathematics and computer science from Tashkent University. His most recent projects involve the development of semi-automatic information management frameworks. Other interests include multimodal interfaces, distributed systems, telematics, and systems and application integration.

Dimitri Kanevsky  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (kanevsky@us.ibm.com). Dr. Kanevsky is currently a research staff member in the Human Language Technologies department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He has been responsible for a number of speech recognition projects, including development of the first-ever Russian automatic speech recognition system, the Broadcast News Transcription Technologies System, for which he received a Research Award, and a project for embedding speech recognition in automobiles, which was recognized by IBM in 2003 as a Technical Accomplishment. Dr. Kanevsky has worked at a number of centers for higher mathematics, including the Max Planck Institute in Germany and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. In 1979, Dr. Kanevsky invented a multichannel vibration-based hearing aid. Dr. Kanevsky holds 68 patents and was named an IBM Master Inventor in 2002. He received a Ph.D. degree in mathematics in 1977 from Moscow University.