Simon Haykin is University Professor at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His research interests include nonlinear dynamics, neural networks and adaptive filters and their applications in radar and communications systems. Dr. Haykin is the editor for a series of books on Adaptive and Learning Systems for Signal Processing, Communications and Control published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. He is both an IEEE Fellow and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Bart Kosko is a past director of the University of Southern California’s (USC) Signal and Image Processing Institute. He has authored several books, including Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems, Neural Networks for Signal Processing (Prentice Hall, 1992) Fuzzy Engineering (Prentice Hall, 1997) and Fuzzy Thinking (Hyperion, 1993), as well as the novel Nanotime (Avon Books, 1997) and Heaven in a Chip (Random House, 2000). Dr. Kosko is an elected governor of the International Neural Network Society and has chaired many neural and fuzzy system conferences. He is a faculty member of electrical engineering at USC.