Timothy Engström's research interests include Internet privacy, art and culture, health care policy and political philosophy. He has taught at RIT for over two decades and is the former chair of the Department of Philosophy.

Engström is the co-editor of the books Health Care Reform: Ethics & Politics and Rethinking Theories and Practices of Imaging. He previously taught at the University of Hawaii and holds a Ph.D. from Edinburgh University.

Stephen Jacobs’ areas of expertise include consumer electronics, computing hardware and software, DVDs, digital television and interactive television.

He currently teaches courses in video game design and development, interactive narrative and writing for the Web. He has also taught courses on Web site development, information architecture, human factors and interface design, Internet regulation (particularly concerning issues relating to free speech and pornography) and technology issues relating to the deaf. He directs a lab in Technological Literacy.

He is creator and senior editor of “What the Tech!,” a weekly science and technology show on WXXI-AM (1370). He has been involved in technology journalism for 15 years, including previous positions editor-in-chief of The Gadget Boy Gazette and contributing editor to CNET.com and Television 2.0. He has written freelance articles for Wired, The Washington Post feature "Fast Forward" and other publications.

Jacobs earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in media studies from the New School for Social Research.

Elizabeth Lawley is the director of RIT's Lab for Social Computing. Her current teaching and research interests focus on the development and use of social software and computing technologies, including weblogs, wikis, and real-time chat environments.

She also conducts research and speaks on the topic of gender imbalances in technology and education.

She holds a bachelor's in history (1984) and a master's of library science (1987) from University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Information Science from University of Alabama (1999).

Sam McQuade is a professor and graduate program coordinator for the cross-disciplinary professional studies master’s degree program in RIT’s Center for Multidisciplinary Studies.

He has 30 years of experience as a practitioner, teacher and researcher of criminal justice and security. He is a former Air National Guard security police officer, deputy sheriff, police officer and detective, police organizational change consultant, National Institute of Justice program manager for the U.S Department of Justice, and study director for the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Research Council of the National Academies of Sciences. He participated in and directed federally funded grant research projects on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice and Congress.

McQuade completed doctoral degree studies in 2001 at George Mason University, School of Public Policy, in Fairfax, Va. His dissertation combined content analysis, history construction and archival records analysis methodologies to articulate and provisionally test aspects of a new theory for understanding the technological co-evolution and perpetual relative complexity of crime, policing and security. In 1994, he earned a Master of Public Administration Degree from the University of Washington, Graduate School of Public Affairs. In 1992, he earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Human Services Management from the Western Washington University, Woodring College of Education.

McQuade has received numerous honors and awards, including a Presidential Management Internship award that placed him at NIJ in 1994 where he managed computer crime and other technology-related social science and criminal justice research projects. While in Washington, D.C., he also provided independent consulting services to the Urban Institute, among other clients, and served as Deputy Director of Research and Resource Development at the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia. In that capacity he worked with technology developers to experiment with new applications of crime and intelligence analysis software.

McQuade currently teaches courses in multidisciplinary professional studies including those relating specifically to high tech crime, information security, and infrastructure assurance. His textbook, Understanding and Managing Cybercrime, published by Allyn & Bacon (2006), provides an introduction to these and related topics. He has also taught several professional courses including grants administration and research methods at training institutions such as the FBI National Law Enforcement Academy in Quantico, Va. His university teaching experience includes adjunct faculty instruction at the University of Maryland, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice; and for both the Department of Sociology and the Department of Political Science at George Mason University. He has authored scholarly papers and awarded grants, managed peer reviews of grant proposals and book manuscripts, and presented and moderated at academic and practitioner conferences in areas of law enforcement, criminal justice and security technology administration, high tech crime and human services management and education.

Victor Perotti is an expert and consultant on the business implications of new technologies including: digital business, digital entrepreneurship, Web 2.0, ecommerce, Web business models and mobile work. His most recent research examines social networks (especially Facebook.com), social computing, Clean Slate Internet approaches, mobile collaboration, digital entrepreneurship, electronic communities and video game business models.

He currently leads the Digital Business initiative at RIT.

Perotti is an accomplished communicator and educator, and was awarded RIT’s highest honors for teaching: the Richard and Virginia Eisenhart Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2000) and the Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching (2004). His professional speaking engagements include academic conferences, small group meetings and large auditorium lectures.

Before joining RIT, Perotti completed Masters Degrees in Computer Science (1990) and Cognitive Psychology (1994) as well as a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (1997), all at Ohio State University. His doctoral thesis examined the visual perception of 3-D structure from motion information.

Perotti’s consulting work has ranged from conducting advanced business simulation experiences at Harris R.F. to business plan development for pre-seed video game companies to creating multimedia software for David Bowie’s “Jump” CD-ROM.