Samuel D. Stearns is a professor emeritus at the University of New Mexico, where has been involved in adjunct teaching and research since 1960. An IEEE fellow, Dr. Stearns was also a distinguished member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories for 27 years. His principal technical areas are DSP and adaptive signal processing.

Don R. Hush is a technical staff member at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. An IEEE senior member, Dr. Hush was previously a technical staff member at Sandia National Laboratories and a professor at the University of New Mexico. He was also an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.