Paul M.B. Vitanyi received his Ph.D. from the Free University
of Amsterdam (1978). He is a CWI Fellow at 
the national research institute for mathematics and computer
science in the Netherlands, CWI,
and Professor of Computer Science
at the University of Amsterdam.  He serves on the editorial boards
of Distributed Computing (1987--2003), 
Information Processing Letters (1993--2009),
Theory of Computing Systems, Parallel Processing Letters,
International journal of Foundations of Computer Science,
Entropy, Information,
Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences (guest editor),
and elsewhere. He has worked on cellular automata,
computational complexity, distributed and parallel computing,
machine learning and prediction, physics of computation,
Kolmogorov complexity, information theory, quantum computing, publishing more
than 200 research papers and some books. He received a Knighthood
[[Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw]] and is a member
of the [[Academia Europaea]] (European Academy of Sciences). 
Together with Ming Li
they pioneered applications of Kolmogorov complexity
and co-authored ``An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity
and its Applications,'' Springer-Verlag, New York, 1993 (3rd Edition 2008),
parts of which have been translated into Chinese,  Russian and Japanese.
Web page: http://www.cwi.nl/~paulv/