Graham Katz. is a Lecturer in Computational Linguistics at the University of Osnabrück, where he has been since 2001.  He teaches  in the Cognitive Science Program there. Dr. Katz's focus of research is in the formal and computational semantics of temporal expressions  and adverbial modification, where he has published a number of articles and presented widely at international conferences.  Dr. Katz is a graduate of Stanford University, where he recieved a BS degree in Symbolic Systems in 1988.  He went on to do graduation work in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Rochester, and was awarded a PhD in 1995.  Dr. Katz subsequently spent a semester teaching at Ben Gurion University in Israel, and then two years as a  post-doctoral fellow at the University of Tübingen followed by three years as a researcher at the University of Stuttgart. He has been involved  in the organization of a number of conferences and workshops in the field, including the LREC 2002 workshop on Temporal Semantic Annotation, the second DGfS Fall School on Computational Linguistics, the Sixth Annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik, and the first European Cognitive Science meeting.