Prof. Victor Raskin earned all of his degrees in Structural, Computational and Mathematical Linguistics from Moscow State University, now Moscow Lomonosov University (Ph.D., 1970; M.A./M.S., 1966, B.A./B.S., 1964), with minors in mathematical logic, computer science, and cognitive psychology. He taught in his alma mater in 1966-1973, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (full time) and Tel Aviv University (part time) in 1973-78, University of Michigan (Spring 1978), and Purdue University (since Fall 1978), where he is now Distinguished Professor of English and Linguistics; Professor of Computer Science (courtesy); Co-Founder, Associate Director, and Charter Fellow, Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), Founder and Coordinator, Natural Language Processing Laboratory. He has published 17 books and over 200 papers on natural language semantics and its applications, from such soft ones as rhetoric and humor research to such hard ones as linguistic engineering, natural language and information processing, computational humor/social computing, natural language information assurance security, and—most recently—robotic intelligence and communication.