Dr. Bert Waits earned his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University and is currently Professor Emeritus of Mathematics there. Dr. Waits is cofounder of the international Teachers Teaching with Technology (T3) professional development program and has been co-director or principal investigator on several large National Science Foundation projects.

He has published articles in over seventy nationally-recognized professional journals. Dr. Waits frequently has given workshops, invited lectures, and minicourses at national meetings of the MAA and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics on how to use computer technology to enhance the learning and teaching of mathematics.

Professor Bert is co-recipient of the 1997 Glenn Gilbert National Leadership Award presented by the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics and is the co-founder (with Frank Demana) of the ICTCM. He is also co-recipient of the 1998 Christofferson-Fawcett Mathematics Education Award presented by the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics. He was one of the six authors of the high school portion of the groundbreaking 1989 NCTM Standards.