Seymour Simon has been called "the dean of the [children's science book] field" by the New York Times. He has written more than 200 books for young readers and is the recipient of the Science Books & Films Key Award for Excellence in Science Books, the Empire State Award for excellence in literature for young people, and the Educational Paperback Association Jeremiah Ludington Award. Mr. Simon lives in Great Neck, New York.
Sean Owen has been a practicing software engineer for 9 years, most recently at Google, where he helped build and launch Mobile Web search. He joined Apache's Mahout machine learning project in 2008 as a primary committer and works as a Mahout consultant.Robin Anil joined Apache's Mahout project as a Google Summer of Code student in 2008 and contributed to the Classifier and Frequent Pattern Mining packages with algorithms that run on the Hadoop Map/Reduce platform. Since 2009, he has been a committer at Mahout and works as a full-time Software Engineer at Google.