Dr William Mahoney

William (Bill) Mahoney received his B.A. and B.S. degrees from Southern Illinois University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Nebraska. He is a Research Fellow and Graduate Faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Peter Kiewit Institute. His primary research interests include compilers, hardware and instruction set design, and VLSI. Prior to the Kiewit Institute Dr. Mahoney worked for 20+ years in the computer design industry, specifically in the areas of embedded computing and real-time operating systems. During this time he was also on the part time faculty of the University of Nebraska at Omaha.  His outside interests include bicycling, photography, and more bicycling.

Bill Mahoney

Leigh Armistead

Currently the Senior Program Manager for Information Operations and Information Assurance for Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc, Leigh is  also the editor of Information Operations: Warfare and The Hard Reality of Soft Power and Information Warfare: Separating Hype from Reality.   A retired U.S. Naval Officer and former Master Faculty of IO at the Joint Forces Staff College, he is currently enrolled in a PhD program at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia. Leigh has published a number of articles on IO in addition to chairing numerous professional IO conferences around the world, including the International Conference on Information Warfare in 2006 and 2007, as well as the IQPC IO Conference in the United Kingdom from 2002 to 2005. Selected five years in a row as a research fellow for the International National Security Studies program to conduct IO-related research, he also helped to develop an online IO course for the National Security Agency.

Leigh Armistead

Updated 28 April 2008