Luděk Müller, prof., M.Sc., Ph.D. Current position: Cybernetics, University of West Bohemia (UWB), Czech Republic. Work experience: technical diagnostics (R&D base Škoda Works, Pilsen), speech recognition at SpeechTech, s.r.o., co-author of IBM's ViaVoice embedding and SpeechTech S2T, teaching courses in technical and medical diagnostics, decision making and knowledge systems at the UWB, senior researcher at the NTIS Center of Excellence, Faculty of Applied Sciences, UWB. Research interests: in the field of artificial intelligence, especially in the field of speech recognition, technology of voice dialogue systems, sign language processing, technical and medical diagnostics. Awards: Prof. Danilevsky Literary Prize, Czech Technical Foundation, 2007.