Bernhard Scholkopf is Professor and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen, Germany. He is coauthor of "Learning with Kernels" (2002) and is a coeditor of "Advances in Kernel Methods: Support Vector Learning" (1998), "Advances in Large-Margin Classifiers" (2000), and "Kernel Methods in Computational Biology" (2004), all published by the MIT Press.