Professor Jacek M. Zurada, University of Louisville, USA Dr. Jacek M. Zurada serves as the Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He is the author of the 1992 PWS text Introduction to Artificial Neural Systems, co-editor of the 1994 IEEE Press volume Computational Intelligence: Imitating Life, and of the 2000 MIT Press book Knowledge Based Neurocomputing. He is also the author or co-author of more than 280 journal and conference papers in the area of neural networks and computational intelligence. In 1998-2003, Dr. Zurada was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, and in 2004-05 he was the President of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He is an IEEE Fellow and IEEE CIS Distinguished Speaker.