Scott Aaronson is a theoretical computer scientist and blogger.   This is his fourth paper in Theory of Computing.

Salman Beigi received his B.Sc. at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran in 2004. He is currently finishing his Ph.D. at the MIT Math Department under the direction of Peter Shor. The title of his thesis is "Quantum Proof Systems and Entanglement Theory." He will continue his research as a postdoc at the Institute for Quantum Information at Caltech. His interests include quantum complexity theory, quantum coding theory, photography, and playing daf, a traditional Persian musical instrument.

Andrew Drucker is a Ph.D. student in theoretical computer science at MIT, supervised by Scott Aaronson. He has broad interests in complexity theory, and also enjoys running, live jazz, and the game of Go.

Bill Fefferman is a Ph.D. student in computer science at Caltech and at the Institute for Quantum Information. He started this research while visiting MIT, and continued it at the University of Chicago, where he was an undergraduate. His research interests are quantum computing and computational complexity.

Peter Shor is a professor at MIT.   He is known for his factoring algorithm.