Dr. Bruce Katz is a leading thinker and researcher in the field of artificial intelligence with more than 20 years of expertise in designing and developing self-learning systems based on Artificial Intelligence.

He is the Chief AI Scientist at ColdLight Solutions and the author of Neuroengineering the Future: Virtual Minds and the Creation of Immortality. Dr. Katz received his Ph.D. in AI in 1990 from University of Illinois. Between 1990 and 1998 he was a lecturer on AI at the University of Sussex in the UK and serves as adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. His articles have appeared in many prestigious journals and he is the author of the book Digital Design: From Gates to Intelligent Machines (2005, Charles River Media).