James M. Conrad received his bachelor′s degree in computer sciencefrom the University of Illinois, Urbana, and his mater′s anddoctorate degrees in computer engineering from North Carolina StateUniversity.
He is currently an engineer at Ericsson, Inc., and an adjunctprofessor at North Carolina State University. He has serve as anassistant professor at the University of Arkansas and as aninstructor at North Carolina State University. He has also workedat IBM in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and Houston,Texas; at Seer Technologies in Cary, North Carolina; at MCI inresearch Triangle Park, North Carolina; and at BPM Technology inGreenville, South Carolina.
Dr. Conrad is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery,Eta Kappa Nu, and IEEE Computer Society. He is also a Senior Memberof IEEE. He is the author of numerous articles in the areas ofrobotics, parallel processing, artificial intelligence, andengineering education.

Jonathan W. Mills received his doctorate in 1988 from Arizona StateUniversity. He is currently an associate professor in the ComputerScience Department at Indiana University and director of IndianaUniversity′s Analog VLSI and Robotics Laboratory, which he foundedin 1992. Dr. Mills invented Stiquito in 1992 as a simple andinexpensive walking robot to use in multirobot colonies and withwhich to study analog VLSI implementations of biological systems.In 1994 he developed the larger Stiquito II robot, which is used inan eight–robot colony in his laboratory. Since 1992 IndianaUniversity has distributed more than 3,000 Stiquito robots, leadingto the idea for this book.
Dr. Mills is currently researching biological computation in thebrain using tissue–level models of neural structures implementedwith analog VLSI field computers. Field computers offer a powerfulbut simple paradigm for adaptive robotic control. They are smalland light enough to be carried by Stiquito, yet still performsensor fusion and behavioral control.
Dr. Mills has written a series of papers on his analog VLSI androbot designs; he has one patent with several others pending andapplied for on his work. He also freely admits that Stiquito isjust the start of what he hopes will be a series of improved andfunctional miniature robots, and he encourages the readers of thisbook to be inspired and build them.

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