MARK T. MAYBURY, PhD, is an Executive Director at MITRE, a federally funded research and development center. In 2010, Dr. Maybury took a leave of absence from MITRE when appointed to the role of Chief Scientist of the United States Air Force. He is a former member of the board of directors of the Object Management Group and the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Maybury is a member of the ACM Intelligent User Interface Steering Committee and has served on the Advanced Visual Interfaces Program Committee for over ten years. He holds several patents and has edited, coedited, or coauthored a number of books on information retrieval and related topics.