Tim Ritchey received his honors B.S. from Ball State University in Physics and Anthropology and is currently working toward his Ph.D. in Archaeology from Cambridge University, England. He has worked on artificial intelligence, high-performance parallel architectures, and computer vision. His honors thesis was the development of an inexpensive 3D scanner using structured lighting. Present interests include artificial intelligence, distributing computing, VRML, and Java. His Ph.D. includes adapting non-linear dynamics and artificial intelligence techniques to archaeological theory. In addition to computing and archaeology, he enjoys scuba diving, flying, and riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle.