Dr. Richard Hackathorn is CTO of Maya Realities, an innovative traffic analytics service firm in Second Life. Richard has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry as a well-known technology innovator and international educator. Richard has published numerous articles in trade and academic publications, written three books, presents regularly at leading trade conferences, and conducts professional seminars in eighteen countries. Richard was a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and at the University of Colorado. He received his B.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Irvine.