Rex A. Barzee is a professor of Computer Information Technology at Brigham Young University - Idaho. He is an inventor of two United States patents and the author of numerous courses and books. He holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. Before becoming a professor he worked in industry for eight years as a software developer for the Southwest Research Institute, Hewlett-Packard Company, and the Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory. He worked on various projects including the HP-UX kernel, HP-UX OpenGL 3D Graphics Library, full-text indexing, image processing, and VoiceXML applications.