Paul A. Fishwick is Professor of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. He received the BS in Mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University, MS in Applied Science from the College of William and Mary, and PhD in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. He also has six years of industrial/government production and research experience working at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (doing CAD/CAM parts definition research) and at NASA Langley Research Center (studying engineering data base models for structural engineering). His research interests are based in modeling, simulation and computer arts. He is a Fellow of the Society for Computer Simulation (SCS), and a a Senior Member of the IEEE. He founded the comp.simulation Internet news group (Simulation Digest) in 1987. He has chaired workshops and conferences in the area of computer simulation, including General Chair of the 2000 Winter Simulation Conference in Orlando, Florida. he has served on numerous journal editorial boards and has published numerous books and papers.