Brendan Burns (PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst) teaches game development in the department of Computer Science at Union College in Schenectady, New York. At Union, he also researches the role that games can play in general Computer Science education. In addition to his academic work, Brendan is a maintainer of the port of Id Software's bestselling game, "Quake II" to Linux and the author of several games for the Palm platform.