Dr. Keener was previously Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University in South Bend. He served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at IUSB from 1986 to 1989. From 1972 to 1983 he was on the mathematics faculty at Dalhousie University. His Ph.D. in Mathematics is from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and he also holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Oregon. He has authored or co-authored a large number of journal articles, technical reports, and reviews and is Associate Editor of the series Advances in the Theory of Computation and Computational Mathematics. His research interests have centered on approximation theory and functional analysis, though papers have ranged from complexity of computation and neural networks to the application of mathematical techniques to problems in archaeology. He is a regular reviewer for the Mathematical Reviews and has refereed for a number of mathematical journals. From 1997-98, Dr. Keener was acting dean of the College of Science and Management at UNBC. Dr. Keener is an enthusiastic skier and has an avocational interest in the history and languages of the Ancient Near East.