Steve Mann, inventor of WearComp (wearable computer and personal imaging system), pictured here wearing an eyeglass-based prototype of his invention, is currently a faculty member at the University of Toronto, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Mann has been experimenting with wearable computing and personal imaging as a hobby, since his high school days in the 1970s and early 1980s. More recently, in 1991, he brought his inventions and vision to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and established a new direction of research there. He received his PhD degree from MIT in 1997. His previous degree is Master of Electrical Engineering (MEng) from McMaster University. Mann also holds undergraduate degrees in physics (BSc) and electrical engineering (BEng). He was also guest-editor of a special issue on wearable computing and personal imaging in Personal Technologies journal, and one of four organizers of the ACM's first international workshop on wearable computing. He also proposed, to the IEEE, the first International Symposium on Wearable Computing (IEEE-ISWC-97), and was publications chair for that symposium. Mann has also given numerous keynotes and invited plenary lecturs, including, for example, the keynote address at the first International Conference on Wearable Computing in Fairfax VA, May 1998. His present research interests include quantigraphic imaging, formulation of the response of objects and scenes to arbitrary lighting, creating a self-linearizing camera calibration procedure, and wearable, tetherless computer-mediated reality -- inventing the camera of the future. Mann has also exhibited his photoquantigraphic image composites and lightspace renderings in numerous art galleries from 1985 to present. See http://www.wearcomp.org and http://www.wearcam.org