LECTURERS Dr. Piero BONISSONE General Electric Global Research Center One Research Rd. Niskayuna, NY 12309, USA Phone: +1-518-387-5155 Fax: +1-518-387-6845 E-mail: bonissone@crd.ge.com Prof. Nicolo' CESA-BIANCHI Department of Information Technologies University of Milan via Bramante 65 26013 Crema (CR), Italy Phone: +39-02-503-30058 Fax: +39-02-503-30010 Email: cesa-bianchi@dti.unimi.it Prof. Loredana CRISTALDI Department of Electrical Engineering Politecnico di Milano piazza L. da Vinci 32 20133 Milano, Italy Phone: +39-02-2399-3715 Fax: +39-02-2399-3707 E-mail: loredana.cristaldi@polimi.it Prof. Marco GORI Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Universitŕ di Siena via Roma 56 53100 Siena, Italy Phone: +39 (577) 26.36.10 Fax: +39 (577) 26.36.02 E-mail address: marco@ing.unisi.it Prof. Gabor HORVATH Department of Measurement and Information Systems Budapest University of Technology and Economics Magyar tudósok körútja 2 H-1521 Budapest, Hungary Phone: +36 1 463-2677 Fax: +36 1 463-4112 E-mail: horvath@mit.bme.hu Prof. Nicholas KASABOV Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute Auckland University of Technology Auckland 1020, New Zealand Phone: +64 9 917 9506 Fax: +64 9 917 9501 E-mail: nkasabov@aut.ac.nz Prof. Baoding LIU Department of Mathematical Sciences Tsinghua University Beijing 100084, China Phone: +86 10 62787724 Fax: +86 10 62781785 Email: liu@tsinghua.edu.cn Prof. Massimo LAZZARONI Department of Information Technologies University of Milan via Bramante 65 26013 Crema (CR), Italy Phone: +39-02-503-30058 Fax: +39-02-503-30010 E-mail: lazzaroni@dti.unimi.it Prof. Witold PEDRYCZ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2V4 Phone: +1 (780) 492-3333 Fax: +1 (780) 492-1811 E-Mail: pedrycz@ee.ualberta.ca Prof. Barnara PERNICI Department of Electronics and Information Politecnico di Milano piazza L. da Vinci 32 20133 Milano, Italy Phone: +39-02-2399-3623 Fax: +39-02-2399-3411 E-mail: barbara.pernici@polimi.it Prof. Emil PETRIU School of Information Technology and Engineering University of Ottawa 800 King Edward Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5 Phone: +1 (613) 562-5800 x 2132 Fax: +1 (613) 562-5664 E-mail: petriu@site.uottawa.ca Prof. Vincenzo PIURI Department of Information Technologies University of Milan via Bramante 65 26013 Crema (CR), Italy Phone: +39-02-503-30066 Fax: +39-02-503-30010 E-mail: piuri@dti.unimi.it Dr. Roberto SASSI Department of Information Technologies University of Milan via Bramante 65 26013 Crema (CR), Italy Phone: +39-02-503-30056 Fax: +39-02-503-30010 E-mail: sassi@dti.unimi.it Dr. Fabio SCOTTI Department of Information Technologies University of Milan via Bramante 65 26013 Crema (CR), Italy Phone: +39-02-503-30053 Fax: +39-02-503-30010 E-mail: fscotti@dti.unimi.it Prof. Mel SIEGEL The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891, USA Phone: +1 412 260 2626 Fax: +1 412 268 5569 E-mail: mws@cmu.edu Prof. Andrea TETTAMANZI Department of Information Technologies University of Milan via Bramante 65 26013 Crema (CR), Italy Phone: +39-02-503-30068 Fax: +39-02-503-30010 Email: tettamanzi@dti.unimi.it Dr. Mario VALLE Data Mining and Visualization Group Swiss Center for Scientific Computing Via Cantonale, 6928 Manno, Switzerland Phone: +41 (91) 6108260 Fax: +41 (91) 6108282 E-mail: mvalle@cscs.ch