Tibor Vámos (1926 - vamos@sztaki.hu) is Professor at Budapest Technical University, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Chairman of the Board of the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Academy. He is Distinguished Affiliate Research Professor at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, and winner of the Chorafas Prize (Swiss Scientific Academies), 1994. Research fields: process control, robot vision, pattern recognition, knowledge based systems, knowledge representation and elicitation, epistemic problems. He is the author of over 200 scientific publications.