Nine keynote talks are scheduled for WIC 2014. All will take place in the Auditorium.
Wednesday, August 13 - 13:30-14:30; Plenary Session Chair: Andrzej Skowron
Quantum Computing: A Great Science in the Making
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Andrew Chi-Chih Yao is currently the Dean of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He received his BS in Physics from National Taiwan University (1967), PhD in Physics from Harvard University (1972), and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois (1975). From 1975 onward, Yao served on the faculty at MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley and, during 1986 – 2004, as William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University. In 2004, he left Princeton to join Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is also a Distinguished Professor-at-Large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
Monday, August 11 - 14:30-15:30; Plenary Session Chair: Ning Zhong
Free energy, the brain and life as we know it
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Karl Friston is a theoretical neuroscientist and authority on brain imaging. He invented statistical parametric mapping (SPM), voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and dynamic causal modelling (DCM). These contributions were motivated by schizophrenia research and theoretical studies of value-learning – formulated as the dysconnection hypothesis of schizophrenia. Mathematical contributions include variational Laplacian procedures and generalized filtering for hierarchical Bayesian model inversion. Friston currently works on models of functional integration in the human brain and the principles that underlie neuronal interactions. His main contribution to theoretical neurobiology is a free-energy principle for action and perception (active inference). |
Tuesday, August 12 - 9:20-10:20; Plenary Session Chair: Andrzej Czyżewski
Modern rehabilitation methods in communication disorders
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Henryk Skarżyński, MD, PhD is a worldwide known otosurgeon, expert in otorhinolaryngology, audiology and phoniatrics. He is a full professor at the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, and its originator and director since foundation in 1996. He is also the Chair of the Faculty of Audiology and Phoniatrics at the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw and Poland’s national consultant in otorhinolaryngology. |
Tuesday, August 12 - 13:30-14:30; Plenary Session Chair: Hung Son Nguyen
Ontologies on the Web: an alternative model
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Stefan Decker is a full professor at the National University of Ireland and the director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) in Galway. Prof Decker obtained in 1995 a masters in Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern (awarded with distinction). From 1995 to 1999 he worked towards a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe (awarded 2002 with distinction). From 1999-2002 he worked as a Postdoc and Research Associate at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University and established one of the first Semantic Web research groups. From July 2002 to July 2005, he worked as a Computer Scientist and Research Assistant Professor at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California, USA. In October 2003 Prof Decker moved to Ireland to help to set up a new Research Institute concerned with the Semantic Web. Since July 2006 Prof Decker is full professor and director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute. |
Thursday, August 14 - 13:30 - 14:30; Plenary Session Chair: Barbara Dunin-Kęplicz
Natural Language as an Inspiration for a Unifying Framework for Computing
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Robert Kowalski is Emeritus Professor and Distinguished Research Fellow at Imperial College London. He studied at the University of Chicago, the University of Bridgeport, Stanford University, the University of Warsaw, and the University of Edinburgh, where he completed his PhD in 1970. He joined Imperial College London in 1975, becoming Professor of Computational Logic in 1983 and Professor Emeritus in 1999. |
Tuesday, August 12 - 14:30 - 15:30; Plenary Session Chair: Hung Son Nguyen;
Theories of Clustering
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Sadaaki Miyamoto is currently a professor of the Department of Risk Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan. He was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1950. He received the B.S.,M.S. and the Dr. Eng. degrees in Applied Mathematics and Physics Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1973, 1975, and 1978, respectively. Prior to his professorship at the University of Tsukuba, he was an Assistant Professor from 1980 to 1987 and Associate Professor from 1987 to 1990 in the University of Tsukuba. He also was a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria in 1986. He was a Professor with the Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokushima, where he was working from 1990 to 1994. |
Wednesday, August 13 - 14:30 - 15:30; Plenary Session Chair: Andrzej Skowron
Data Mining on Cloud Computing Platforms - Challenges and Solutions
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Yi Pan is a Distinguished University Professor of the Department of Computer Science and an Interim Associate Dean at Georgia State University, USA. Dr. Pan received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in computer engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, in 1991. His profile has been featured as a distinguished alumnus in both Tsinghua Alumni Newsletter and University of Pittsburgh CS Alumni Newsletter. Dr. Pan's research interests include parallel and cloud computing, wireless networks, and bioinformatics. |
Monday, August 11 - 13:30 - 14:30; Plenary Session Chair: Ning Zhong
Quantum Cognition
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John F. Sowa spent thirty years working on research and development projects at IBM and is a cofounder of VivoMind Research, LLC. Keynote talk slides |
Thursday, August 14 - 14:30 - 15:30; Plenary Session Chair: Barbara Dunin-Kęplicz
Light tools for tough jobs
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Andrzej Szałas is a full professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland and the University of Linkoping, Sweden. In 1980 he obtained an M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Warsaw. Then he has been a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Mathematics of Polish Academy of Sciences and, in 1984, he was awarded a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Warsaw. At the same university he obtained habilitation in 1991 and, in 1990, the President of Poland has granted him a scientific title of professor. |