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TERRENCE J. SEJNOWSKI, a pioneer in Computational Neurobiology, is regarded by many as one of the world's most foremost theoretical brain scientists. He is Francis Crick Professor, Salk Institute; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and Professor of Biology and Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego. Sejnowski is one of only ten living persons to be a member of all three national academies: The National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine.

He is coauthor of The Computational Brain;Thalamocortical Assemblies: How Ion Channels, Single Neurons and Large-Scale Networks Organize Sleep Oscillations; and most recently coauthor (with Steven Quartz) of Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are.