Francesc Esteva,
Institut d'Investigació en Intel.ligència Artificial, Bellaterra, Spain
Enric Trillas,
European Center for Soft Computing, Mieres, Spain.
A prominent scientist and scholar, a person of extraordinary academic, personal and organizational qualities, who has discovered the huge potential of fuzzy logic since its early days, and who has since then been both contributing to its development through impressive and influential publications, initiating and supporting research in foundations and applications of fuzzy logic in Spain and elsewhere, and founding first ESTYLF, transformed into EUSFLAT, as the most relevant academic and professional organization on fuzzy logic in Europe.