Sam Hicken, Ph.D. has received two national awards for research related to the psychology of computer use. His 1991 doctoral dissertation was designated best in its field. He's been a professor, Director of Informatics for a cutting edge biotechnology company, and a consultant to the Infectious Diseases Division of the New Mexico State Health Department. His work spans computer science, cognitive psychology, and molecular biology, plus he's authored dozens of computer databases and two pieces of commercial mathematics software. (EasyQuant was one of the first simple-to-use statistics programs