Jim Ieronimo, a teacher at Platt High School and a consultant on the project, said the computerized system would reinforce research skills.

She became a child and family psychiatrist at Bromley Hospital in 1949, and a consultant in 1960.

"This race is on everybody's radar screen," said Stephen A. Salmore, a professor of politics at Rutgers and a Republican political consultant.

Eve stepped into the staff room, and glanced briefly at a beefy consultant gulping down a mint-green nutri-drink.

Her father is a professor of organic chemistry at Temple University in Philadelphia and a consultant to the United States Army on nerve gas.

Arnold Barnett, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a consultant on aviation safety, said it was difficult to measure safety simply by accidents.

In addition, he has been a process architect at Baan from 1996 to 2002 and a consultant at Emendas for another year.

But Stephen A. Salmore, a professor of political science at Rutgers University and a Republican consultant, was more skeptical.

A Democrat, she is also an educator, serving as an instructor at the University of Minnesota, and a nonprofit consultant by profession.

He was a senior lecture at the University of Colombo and a consultant to the ICTA.