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MARK H. ELLISMAN is professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the School of Medicine and
the Department of Bioengineering, director of the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Re-
search at UCSD, and chair of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Executive Committee. Dr.
Ellisman’s research focuses on cellular neurobiology and the dynamic interplay between structure and
function in the nervous system, with a focus on excitable membrane properties and enabling remote
access to large-scale scientific instrumentation. At UCSD, Dr. Ellisman is director of the Center for
Research in Biological Structure and director of the Neurosciences Laboratory for Neurocytology. Since
1997, he has been the neuroscience thrust leader and cross-disciplinary coordinator for the National
Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure. Dr. Ellisman is a member of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, Society for Neurosciences, and American Institute for
Medical and Biological Engineering. He has served on numerous editorial boards and has been associ-
ate editor of the Journal of Neurocytology since 1980. Dr. Ellisman is a also grant reviewer for organiza-
tions such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, and a consultant for
associations such as the Association for Advanced Technology in the Biomedical Sciences and Pfizer.
He has published numerous journal and conference articles and technical reports. He holds a Ph.D.
degree in biology and an M.A. degree in neurophysiology both from the University of Colorado,
Boulder, and an A.B. degree with honors from the University of California, Berkeley.
MARCUS W. FELDMAN is a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University. He uses applied
mathematics and computer modeling to simulate and analyze the process of evolution. Specific areas of
research include the evolution of complex genetic systems that can undergo both natural selection and
recombination and the evolution of learning as one interface between modern methods in artificial
intelligence and models of biological processes, including communication. He also studies the evolution
of modern humans using models for the dynamics of molecular polymorphisms, especially DNA vari-
ants. He is managing editor of Theoretical Population Biology and associate editor of Genetics and of
Complexity. Dr. Feldman is a member of the American Society of Naturalists, and the American Society
of Human Genetics, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received his B.Sc.
in 1964 from the University of Western Australia, his M.Sc. in 1966 from Monash University, Australia,
and his Ph.D. in biomathematics from Stanford in 1969.
DAVID K. GIFFORD is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He is working on the analysis of RNA expression data using graphical models.
Professor Gifford has also developed programmed mutagenesis, a technique for programmatically
rewriting DNA sequences by incorporating sequence-specific oligonucleotides into newly manufac-
tured strands of DNA. Dr. Gifford serves as group leader for the Programming Systems Research
Group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. This group is dedicated to finding new ways of
programming existing systems and developing new programmable systems. The group’s efforts con-
centrate on combining existing technologies and inventing new ones to deliver new ways of computing
in selected areas: programming language development; information discovery, retrieval, and distribu-
tion; algebraic and computational video; and most recently, computation using biological substrates.
Dr. Gifford earned his S.B. in 1976 from MIT and his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from
Stanford University in 1978 and 1981, respectively. He is a tenured member of the MIT faculty, which he
joined in 1982. He was appointed to the Karl Van Tassel Career Development Chair at MIT in 1990.
TAKEO KANADE received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1974.
After being on the faculty in the Department of Information Science, Kyoto University, he joined the
Computer Science Department and Robotics Institute in 1980. He became associate professor in 1982, a
full professor in 1985, the U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor in 1993, and a University Professor in
- He has been the Director of the Robotics Institute since 1992. He served as the founding chairman
(1989-1993) of the robotics Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon University, probably the first of its kind in