Abraham Kandel received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, his M.S. from the University of California, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of New Mexico. Dr. Kandel, a Professor and the Endowed Eminent Scholar in Computer Science and Engineering, is the Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida. Previously he was Professor and Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Florida State University as well as the Director of the Institute of Expert Systems and Robotics at FSU and the Director of the State University System Center for Artificial Intelligence. An Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, and a member of the editorial board of the international journals Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Information Sciences, Expert Systems, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, The Journal of Grey Systems, Control Engineering Practice, Fuzzy Systems - Reports and Letters, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Book Series on Studies in Fuzzy Decision and Control, Applied Computing Review Journal, Journal of Neural Network World, The Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics, and BUSEFAL - Bulletin for Studies and Exchange of Fuzziness and its Applications. Dr. Kandel has written over 300 research papers for numerous professional publications in Computer Science and Engineering. He is co-author of Fuzzy Switching and Automata: Theory and Applications (1979); author of Fuzzy Techniques in Pattern Recognition (1982); co-author of Discrete Mathematics for Computer Scientists (1983), and Fuzzy Relational Databases - A Key to Expert Systems (1984); co-editor of Approximate Reasoning in Expert Systems (1985); author of Fuzzy Mathematical Techniques with Applications (1986); co-author of Designing Fuzzy Expert Systems (1986), and Digital Logic Design (1988); co-editor of Engineering Risk and Hazard Assessment (1988); co-author of Elements of Computer Organization (1989), and Real-Time Expert Systems Computer Architecture (1991); editor of Fuzzy Expert Systems (1992); co-editor of Hybrid Architectures for Intelligent Systems (1992); co-authored Verification and Validation of Rule-Based Expert Systems (1993) and Fundamentals of Computer Numerical Analysis (1994), and co-editor of Fuzzy Control Systems (1994). Dr. Kandel is a fellow of the IEEE and a member of the ACM, NAFIPS, IFSA, ASEE as well as Sigma-Xi and the New York Academy of Sciences.