TÜLAY ADALI, PhD, is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Machine Learning for Signal Processing Laboratory at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her research interests are in statistical and adaptive signal processing, with emphasis on nonlinear and complex-valued signal processing, and applications in biomedical data analysis and communications. Simon Haykin, PhD, is Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory in the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University. A world-renowned authority on adaptive and learning systems, Dr. Haykin has pioneered signal-processing techniques and systems for radar and communication applications, culminating in the study of cognitive dynamic systems, which has become his research passion.