Dr. Richard Mercer attended Case Western Reserve University, Ohio State University, and University of Washington. He received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Washington in 1980, and has held a faculty position at Wright State University since then in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. In 1991 and 1992, Professor Mercer received two grants from the National Science Foundation to develop a computer laboratory program using Mathematica, and in 1997 he won the Mathematica programming contest at the Mathematica Developers Conference