About the Authors

Allison Parrish is a computer programmer, poet, educator, and game designer who lives in Brooklyn. She recently completed a two-year term as the Digital Creative Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University and is a long-time adjunct professor at ITP, where she teaches a course on writing computer programs that generate poetry.

Casey Reas is a professor in the Department of Design Media Arts at UCLA and a graduate of the MIT Media Laboratory. His software has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Asia. With Ben Fry, he cofounded Processing in 2001. He is the coauthor of Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists (2007) and Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture (2010). His work is archived at www.reas.com.

Ben Fry is principal of Fathom, a design and software consultancy located in Boston. He received his PhD from the Aesthetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization as a means for understanding information. Ben cofounded Processing with Casey Reas in 2001.