Cristianini, Nello: University of California in Berkeley. Machine learning, support vector machines.Joachims, Thorsten: Support vector machines, machine learning and natural language, statistical learning theory, text classification.Keerthi, Sathiya: SVM publications.Kim, Gene: Interests include support vector machines and genetics.P. Bennett, Kristin P.: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Interests: mathematical programming, machine learning, support vector machines, neural networks, artificial intelligence, parallel optimization, tabu search, automated drug discovery, data mining, bioinformatics.Tong, Simon: Machine learning, active learning, graphical models, support vector machines.