Raja Thiagarajan was born in Madras, India in 1965, but moved to Bloomington, Indiana by the age of two in order to get a 25-year headstart on writing "An Unofficial Guide to the Palette Manager." Raja has college degrees in Astrophysics and Computer Science, but will never understand NASA's priorities, the C preprocessor, Scheme's call/cc, or Prolog's cut operator. Raja would love to hear from you; send e-mail to sthiagar@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu. Raja has written the following article: The Unofficial Guide to the Palette Manager (March 1993)