Dr. Dr. Hidenari Kiyomitsu is an Associate Professor at Kobe University who will be visiting the ebiquity group for the Spring 2004 semester. His research interests that include multi-media databases, web personalization and web adaptation. He is also interested in how the semantic web technologies can be used to represent and reason over metadata. Hide spent the Fall 2004 semester visiting Jim Hendler's Mindlab in College Park. Hide's UMBC office is room 358 ITE (the corner office near the parking lot door, shared with Chris Giannella). He will give a talk on his research shortly after the semester begins.