Dr. ir Patrick Bergmans is emeritus professor with research and teaching assignments at various Belgian (Ghent, Leuven) and US (Stanford CA, Cornell NY, R.I.T. NY) universities. His industrial employment involves consulting assignments for Belgian technology institutions and executive management positions at Barco and Xerox. Patrick’s research interests are widespread, with focus upon information technology applications, statistical aspects of data processing, computer architecture, applications of computer graphics and document management.