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boating, biking, traveling and learning Thai and Dutch (his wife is Thai and they
live in Amsterdam, which explains the bike and the boat).

Søren Rolighed is a data warehouse consultant, working on building and main-
taining databases for telco-data in the largest data warehouse in Denmark. Like
almost all Danish kids, he started playing with LEGO at an early age. As an
adult he has continued with his passion for LEGOs, and the introduction of the
LEGO Technics and LEGO MINDSTORMS kits opened up a whole new world of
possibilities! Søren enjoys building LEGO Mindstorm robots and programming
them with his computer. He would like to thank his three great children, Emma,
Oscar, and Victor, for their patience and understanding when dad has to requisi-
tion all of their interesting motors, gears, and special parts for his own LEGO
creations. Søren and his family live in Copenhagen, Denmark.

J.P. Brown is a Consultant Environmental Conservator who has worked on such
historical sites as Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA and George Washington’s
mansion, Mount Vernon, VA. He first became interested in LEGO MINDSTORMS
in July 1999, but his interest did not really take off until he discovered Dave
Baum’s Not Quite C (NQC) programming environment for the RCX brick later
that year. He quickly became involved as a moderator for LEGO MINDSTORMS
forums on the Web, and was later selected by LEGO as a preview builder for the
MINDSTORMS Vision Command system (along with Søren Rolighed and several
others). His robot, Biped II, won the February 2001 MINDSTORMS Hall of Fame,
Special Competition, but he is perhaps best known for his Rubik’s Cube solving
robot, CubeSolver, which was featured in the New York Times in October 2001
and other papers around the world.

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