Dr. Shimon Edelman is a cognitive expert and professor of psychology at Cornell University. He has authored a number of books including, ?The Happiness of Pursuit: What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About the Good Life.? His research interests, which range across many areas of cognitive science, led to publications in animal and machine vision, robotics and motor control, learning and learnability, theoretical neuroscience, neuroimaging, memory, computational linguistics, acquisition of language and of birdsong, consciousness, and metaphysics. Please visit his website at http://kybele.psych.cornell.edu/~edelman