About the Authors

Jan Rune Holmevik is a visiting assistant professor and doctoral candidate in the Department of Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen, Norway. He holds a Cand. Philol. degree in the history of science and technology from the University of Trondheim, Norway 1994. He is co-editor of High Wired: On the Design Use and Theory of Educational MOOs Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998 with Dr. Cynthia Haynes of the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). His MA. thesis, Educating the Machine: A Study in the History of Computing and the Construction of the SIMULA Programming Languages, was published by the Center for Technology and Society, Trondheim, Norway in 1994. His other publications on history of computing and science policy have appeared in journals such as Annals of the History of Computing, Forskningspolitikk, and Kairos. With Cynthia Haynes, Holmevik is co-founder and administrator of Lingua MOO (1995), a synchronous Internet-based learning environment hosted by UTD. Holmevik is also the principal architect and maintainer of The High Wired enCore, the first publicly available educational MOO core database, and the author of enCore Xpress, a web-based graphical user interface designed to make MOOs more accessible and easier to use.

Cynthia Haynes is Assistant Professor in the School of Arts & Humanities and Director of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Dallas where she teaches graduate and undergraduate rhetoric, composition, and electronic pedagogy courses. Her publications have appeared in Pre/Text , Composition Studies, Keywords in Composition, St.Martins Guide to Tutoring Writing, Works & Days, The Writing Center Journal, Kairos, and CWRL. She is co-editor of Pre/Text: Electra(Lite), and with Jan Rune Holmevik, she is co-founder of Lingua MOO. With Jan Rune Holmevik, Dr. Haynes is co-editor of High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs published by University of Michigan Press. Her interests in rhetorical delivery and electronic scholarship spawned the C-FEST series of online real-time meetings at Lingua MOO where these issues are debated year-round. She is currently at work on her book BETA Rhetoric.