Dr. David G. Stork is a graduate of MIT and the University of Maryland and studied art history at Wellesley College. He is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. Dr. Stork holds 64 U.S. patents and has published over 220 peer-reviewed scholarly works in machine learning, pattern recognition, computational optics, and image understanding of art. His many books include Seeing the Light, Pattern Classification Second Edition, and HAL’s Legacy. He is a Fellow of IEEE, OSA, SPIE, IS&T, IAPR, IARIA, and AAIA, and a 2023 Leonardo@ Djerassi Fellow.