Terry J. Frederick received a B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics from Indiana State University and a Ph.D. in Intelligent Systems from the University of Wisconsin. He has held faculty positions at the University of Wisconsin and Purdue University. Subsequently, he was the founding chairman of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida, a position he held from 1977 to 1985. In 1985, he was named Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida and a Director of the Computer Science Research Institute, a not-for-profit corporation supported by business, academia, and government. In 1989, he returned to his current position of Chair of the Department of Computer Science. In addition, he is a consultant to industry and government. Dr. Frederick has been an active member in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society. He was instrumental in developing Self-Assesment for the Computing Professional under the auspices of ACM and served as General Chair for ACM's International Computer Science Conference held in Orlando in 1983. He has served on various review committees for computer science departments and has participated on CSAB accreditation teams. Dr. Frederick has had externally funded research projects from government and industry and has been extensively involved in forming partnerships with industry. He has published papers in the areas of mathematical modeling for learning systems, computer assisted instruction, and computer science education. Currently he is one of the co-principal investigators in a large grant from the National Science Foundation investigating Parallel Computation in the Undergraduate Curriculum and is the project manager on an internally funded grant in the area of virtual reality.