John Lawrence joins us today from his previous job at EDS. John will be working on the Dialectical Argumentaiton Machines project, initially looking at developing the link between dialogue and monologue in implemented argumentation support systems.

John maintains his homepage at www.johnlawrence.net

Floris Bex joins us today having recently completed his PhD at the University of Groningen under the supervision of Henry Prakken, Bart Verheij and Peter van Koppen on the Making Sense of Evidence project. Floris will be working on the Dialectical Argumentation Machines project, initially exploring the links between structured and abstract argumentation and the link to visualization.

Floris maintains his homepage at www.florisbex.com