Wendy K. Tam Cho is Professor in the Departments of Political Science, Statistics, and Asian American Studies, Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Faculty in the Illinois Informatics Institute, and Affiliate of the Cline Center for Democracy and the Computational Science and Engineering Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 420 david kinley hall . 1407 w. gregory drive . urbana, il 61801 217 333 3881 . 217 244 5712 fax . wendycho@illinois.edu