Oliviero Stock is the Head of the Cognitive and Communication Technologies Division at the Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (IRST) in Trento, Italy. His main research activities are artificial intelligence, natural language processing, intelligent interfaces and human-computer interaction. He has been the President of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Chairman of the European coordinating committee for Artificial Intelligence.