He received his BS from Bowling Green State University, his masters from the University of Michigan, and his PhD from Case Western Reserve University. He has served as the Program and General Chair of the IEEE Conference on AI in Applications and as the chair of the AAAI Workshop on Verification and Validation of KBS. He is the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Expert, and is a member of the AAAI, ACM, and IEEE Computer Society. Reach him at the University of Southern California, 3660 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1421; oleary@rcf.usc.edu.