Chris Ferrie is an award-winning physicist and Senior Lecturer for Quantum Software and Information at the University of Technology Sydney. He has a Masters in Applied Mathematics, BMath in Mathematical Physics and a PhD in Applied Mathematics. He lives in Australia with his wife and children. Veronica Goodman is an economist and children's book author. She has graduate degrees in economics and management from Johns Hopkins University, and a bachelor's degree from The George Washington University. She lives in the Washington, D.C., area with her husband and children.