Brian C. OConnor together with Rich Anderson founded the Visual Thinking Laboratory in The College of Information at the University of North Texas. He holds degrees in Greek and Latin literature, Film Production (Fine Art), and earned his Ph.D. in theory of organization of information at the University of California, Berkeley. He made his first photograph in 1952 and has remained immersed in image making since. He has produced documentaries and art films, has written on photography, chaired several dissertations on various aspects of the use of images, and has recently received the inaugural Teti Research Fellow at the New Hampshire Institute of Art where he studied nineteenth century photographic processes.Richard L. Anderson is currently Director of Information Security for the University of North Texas System. He has a background and publications in Behavior Analysis and earned his Ph.D. at the University of North Texas doing research on functional ontology construction and the information environment. He is an accomplished photographer, he conducts courses in both photography and cybersecurity, and he mentors doctoral students conducting research in various aspects of information theory.