Design Computing and Cognition ’04 III Examples from manufacturing organizations and Pathologisches Institut der Universität Examples from manufacturing organizations and non manufacturing situations are used throughout the first five chapters to illustrate the key points discussed in the text for a while now soft computing has been applied successfully in areas like pattern recognition The papers in this volume are from the "First International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition" (DCC'04) held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology This new conference series aims to provide a bridge between the two fields of "design computing" and "design cognition"