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Cem Kaner, J.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Computer Sciences
at Florida Institute of Technology. He is also an
attorney, licensed in California (he worked in Silicon
Valley for 17 years before joining Florida Tech), with a
practice focused on the safety and satisfaction of
software customers and workers. Resume and Publications.
Kaner has been actively involved in legislation affecting
the law of software quality. He attended, as a
participating observer, Drafting Committee meetings for
Uniform Commercial Code Article 2B, the Uniform Computer
Information Transactions Act, the Uniform Electronic
Transactions Act, and the Revision for Article 2 of the
Uniform Commercial Code. He was recently elected to the
American Law Insitute. He has also served pro bono as a
Deputy District Attorney, and as an investigator/mediator
for a California county's Consumer Affairs Department.

David Pels is a native Californian who grew up in Silicon
Valley. He has worked in computer and software support and
sales since 1981. His positions have included management
of sales administration and customer operations (including
product support) for a publisher of advanced automotive
diagnostics; director of client support and services for a
financial application publisher; group manager of product
support for a large mass-market maker of computer
peripherals and software applications; director of world
wide client support and services for a maker of high end
color copy, and printing systems; manager of product
support for a mass-market productivity software publisher;
supervisor of product support for a publisher of game and
productivity/small business software; and retail sales of
consumer electronics. Pels has attended several meetings
of the Uniform Commercial Code Article 2B Drafting
Committee. He is member of the Association of Support
Professionals. He is also an active scout leader in the
Boy Scouts of American and is a member of the National
Eagle Scout Association.

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