Duane Hybertson is a Member of the Technical Staff at the MITRE Corporation in Houston, Texas. He investigates software engineering and technology issues for the Software Technology Branch in NASA Johnson Space Center's Information Systems Directorate. He is currently working on two software reuse tasks related to DoD's Software Reuse Initiative and originating from the Defense Information Systems Agency. He was previously a senior engineer with Lockheed on the Space Station Freedom Software Support Environment. Prior to that, he had an appointment at the Software Productivity Consortium in Virginia, where he developed part of the original SPC reuse synthesis system prototype. He received the B. A. in Math from Northwest Nazarene College in 1970, the Ph.D. in Educational Research Methods and Statistics from New Mexico State University in 1974, and the M.S. in Computer Science from the Johns Hopkins University in 1985.
David Eichmann is an Assistant Professor of Software at the University of Houston - Clear Lake. He is Director of Research and Development for the Repository Based Software Engineering Program, a NASA software reuse initiative, and lead for the metrics team supporting the Defense Information Systems Agency / Center for Information Management. He was previously on the faculty at West Virginia University, where he headed the SoRReL group. He received the B.S. in 1978, the M.S. in 1983 and the Ph.D. in 1989, all from the University of Iowa in computer science.