Tom M. Mitchell is the E. Fredkin Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University. He was Chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) section on Information, Computing and Communication, Past President of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and a recent member of the US National Research Council"s Computer Science and Telecommunications Board. His current research projects include machine learning approaches to modeling human brain function using fMRI and behavioral data, and statistical machine learning approaches to reading the web automatically. Mitchell believes the field of machine learning will be the fastest growing part of computer science during the next 25 years.