Joseph Mariani's research activities relate to language technology, multimodal human-machine communication, speech recognition, spoken language resources and evaluation. He was president of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA), president of the European (now International) Speech Communication Association (ISCA), a member of the board of the European Network on Language and Speech (ELSNET) and the coordinator of the AUF FRANCIL Network. He was the director of the LIMSI CNRS laboratory from 1989 to 2001, and the head of its "Human-Machine Communication" department. He is since 2001 director of the "Information and Communication Technologies" department at the French Ministry of Research.
Masakazu Higuchi is a noted artist of manga comic books style illustration who has made it his life's work to bring the Bible to life for Japanese young people and adults. He authored the Manga Bible StoryJapanese which covers the whole Bible. Now he continues the story of biblical faith in this new series. History editor Satoshi Nakamura Niigata Japan is a graduate of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School IL and pastors Niigata Bible Church while also teaching at Niigata Bible School and Japan Bible Seminary.
