P MowforthPeter Mowforth was born in Sheffield, England in 1953. He studied Neurophysiology and Physics in London and then moved to Cambridge to study human psychophysics and neurophysiology. He gained a PhD from Sheffield on the requirements and constraints fr human stereo vision. He went to Edinburgh's Machine Intelligence Research Unit in 1982 to investigate the role of induction in 2D vision systems. In 1983, the Turing Institute was formed and the group moved to Glasgow. Since that time, he has been one of the Institute's Directors and has had overall responsibility for a wide range of commercial and basic research projects in the areas of computer vision and advanced robotics in addition to providing a wide base of consultancy for many international companies. He has published over 40 recent articles in artificial intelligence whilst maintaining a particular interest in the representational requirements for early visual processing. The author is a member of the British Computer Society and the IEEE, Chairman of the British Computer Society (Scottish branch), academic editor of Turing Institute Press and is the organiser and chairman of the First International Robot Olympics held in Glasgow in 1990. Read More Read Less