Aniket Maithani is a budding engineer and is currently pursuing a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Amity University. He is primarily interested in contributing to open source projects and believes in the FOSS/FLOSS ideology. He has been working in the field of embedded systems and open hardware for the last two years. Apart from coding and hacking around with regular stuff, he loves to play the guitar and write on his blog. He can be reached at <[email protected]>.

Atmaram Shetye is a Computer Science and Engineering Graduate from Goa University. Having worked in a variety of companies, from start-ups to large multinational enterprises, he is a strong supporter of polyglot programming. He has spent most of his time programming in Python, while also using C, Objective-C, C++, and JavaScript at work. His areas of interest include artificial intelligence and machine learning. He is currently working as a Principal Software Engineer at CA Technologies, Bangalore.

Giuseppe Vettigli is a data scientist who has worked in the research industry and academia for many years. His work is focused on the development of machine learning models and applications to utilize information from structured and unstructured data. He also writes about scientific computing and data visualization in Python on his blog at http://glowingpython.blogspot.com.

Ron Zacharski completed a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, focusing on artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. He is the author of the free online Python-based book, A Programmer's Guide to Data Mining: The Ancient Art of the Numerati (http://www.guidetodatamining.com). He is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Mary Washington. Ron is a novice Zen Buddhist monk.