High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! James Mason Bower (born February 17, 1954, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA) is an American neuroscientist and CEO and Chairman of the Board of Numedeon Inc., creator of the Whyville.net educational virtual world. He graduated from McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester, New York attending Antioch College and Montana State University as an undergraduate and then received his PhD in neurophysiology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, U.S. in 1982. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Rodolfo Llinas at NYU School of Medicine and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and then took a faculty position at the California Institute of Technology where he was promoted to Professor of Computational Neuroscience. Since 2002 he has held the position of Professor of Computational Biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and the University of Texas at San Antonio Since 1999, Dr. Bower has been CEO and Chairman of the Board of Numedeon Inc, founders of Whyville.net Whyville. Dr. Bower is also a member of Monitor Networks of Monitor Group.