Professor Gutiérrez (Salvador Jesús Gutiérrez Martínez) was born in Mexico City, where he grew up very fast (not having to achieve a large stature). He was privileged to attend the "Colegio del Tepeyac" from kindergarden to highschool. Having had great teachers he developed a passion for mathematics. When he was about to get in the UNAM or IPN (main institutions that offered degrees in mathematics at the time in Mexico), student revolts and social unrest caused those schools to close down for some time and so he entered the "Universidad Anáhuac", a private college that offered no degrees in Mathematics but had a program in "Actuarial Science" that had at that time a significant overlap with some formal programs in Mathematics. He became an actuary and worked several years in different companies doing pension fund valuations and operations research. Later on, he became interested in "General Systems Theory", getting an MSc. degree in "Advanced Technology" in SUNY-Binghamton, working with Dr. George J. Klir. At that time he had the opportunity to work for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. He then went back to Mexico and there was a time when he was simultaneously a Professor at the Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia, a consultant for Banco de México FIRA, and an entrepreneur owning a school. Some time afterwards he obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science in CIMAT (Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, A.C.), a very special enclave in the sierra in Guanajuato, México, where researchers from all over the world meet to work and teach. Following his Ph.D. he spent two years as a postdoc in the MERS Lab (Microwave Earth Remote Sensing Laboratory) of Brigham Young University), after which he spent a year as a visiting professor in BYU's Computer Science Department. Prof. Gutiérrez has published on different topics ranging from stereo vision, to fuzzy sets, and remote sensing.