Kristóf Nyíri (nyiri@phil-inst.hu,  http://www.uniworld.hu/nyiri), born 1944, studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Budapest, where he has been Professor of Philosophy since 1986. He was visiting professor in Aarhus, Innsbruck, Helsinki, Graz, Santa Barbara, and Buffalo, and Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Bochum. His main fields of research are the history of philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the impact of communication technologies on the organization of ideas and social and political organization. He is author of some 150 articles and 8 books, including Tradition and Individuality (Kluwer, 1992), "The Concept of Knowledge in the Context of Electronic Networking" (The Monist, July 1997), "From Palágyi to Wittgenstein: Austro-Hungarian Philosophies of Language and Communication" (in: P. Fleissner - Nyíri, eds., Philosophy of Culture and the Politics of Electronic Networking, vol.1, Innsbruck-Wien: Studien Verlag / Budapest: Áron Kiadó, 1999), and "The Picture Theory of Meaning" (http://www.uniworld.hu/nyiri/krb2000/tlk.htm, forthcoming in: B. Smith, ed., Rationality and Irrationality, Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 2001). Nyíri is Director of the Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and founder of the UNIWORLD virtual university project (http://www.uniworld.hu).