Prof. Chris Bishop is the Assistant Director of Microsoft Research at Cambridge, UK and Professor at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research is concerned with the development and application of probabilistic methods for inference and learning. He has written numerous papers and is the author of the well known textbook “Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition”, by Oxford University Press.

Dr. Colin Campbell is Lecturer at the Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol. He has investigated neural networks largely from the perspective of a statistical mechanics approach. More recently he has developed an interest in Support Vector Machines and computational learning theory. His research interests lie in the application of support vector machines to practical problems.

Prof. Susan Craw is Professor in Knowledge Based Systems at the School of Computing, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK. Her research interests include knowledge refinement and machine learning techniques for knowledge acquisition. She is particularly interested in case based reasoning and its applications.

Dr. Richard Dearden is Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing, University of Birmingham. His research interests include planning, scheduling, diagnosis, and machine learning. After his PhD from University of British Columbia, Canada, he worked at NASA Ames Research Centre on Model Based Diagnosis and Recovery before joining University of Birmingham.