Benjamin Schumacher is Professor of Physics at Kenyon College in 
Gambier, Ohio.  Over the years he has made many contributions to the 
emerging field of quantum information science, including the discovery 
of quantum data compression and the coinage of the term "qubit".  
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2005)
and winner of the 2002 Quantum Communication Award from the International
Organization for Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing.  He has
been a Rosenbaum Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute at Cambridge 
University and a Moore Distinguished Scholar at Caltech.