Bruce Spencer was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of New 
Brunswick's Faculty of Computer Science from 1990 until 2001 and was a full professor 
with tenure.  He is now founder and group leader of the Internet Logic Group at the 
Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council of Canada, which is 
Canada's national laboratory.  The Internet Logic group specializes in e-Business and in 
particular in reasoning systems for Internet applications, which includes work in 
electronic marketplaces, automated policy evaluation and validation, monitoring and 
diagnosing e-business systems, and the development of systems for expressing and 
implementing rules governing Internet usage.  

He has a BSc (Dalhousie, 1980), a MMath (Waterloo 1983), and a Ph.D.(Waterloo, 
1991) and is the current president of the Canadian Society for the Computational Study 
of Intelligence, a member of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, and of the 
Association of Automated Reasoning. He is a member of the editorial board the 
international journal Computational Intelligence and recently edited a special issue of 
that journal. Bruce has chaired or co-chaired workshops at international conferences for 
each of the past ten years.