Yair Weiss is Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Bernhard Schölkopf is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany. He is coauthor of Learning with Kernels (2002) and is a coeditor of Advances in Kernel Methods: Support Vector Learning (1998), Advances in Large-Margin Classifiers (2000), and Kernel Methods in Computational Biology (2004), all published by the MIT Press.
John Platt is the Manager of the Knowledge Tools group at Microsoft Research, and Program Chair of the 2006 NIPS conference.