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Norbert Wiener – Governance with Probabilities - [T V Gopal and Greg Adamson]
“Prof. Norbert Wiener is the father of cybernetics, a formalization of feedback with myriad applications in engineering. We, in India, had the privilege of two visits by him in 1953 and 1956. I am happy we have a conference Chennai in July 2020 on the importance of his work.” – N. R. Narayana Murthy, Indian IT industrialist and the Co-Founder of Infosys
“I was at MIT during 1949-50 when Prof. Wiener was Professor at MIT. Prof. Wiener was at Maths Department but his reach covered cybernetics and software. I would like to say the software industry in United States came into being because of Norbert Wiener.
Prof. Wiener cared for the students apart from the discipline and I would often ask him about software in the developing countries like India. He always provided the advice and methodology. It was an honor for me to have known him and learn from him. I wish the Function on 16th July 2019 all success.” – (Late) F C Kohli , Indian industrialist, Father of the Indian Software Industry.
(Late) F C Kohli addressed in India event at IIT Bombay 2018.
I was honored to present 21st Century Norbert Wiener Memorial lecture, “THINKING MACHINES IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD IN THE CONTEXT OF 21st CENTURY” at IEEE 2016 Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century India Events, April 22-23 2016 (part of IEEE 2016 Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century India Events on 13 - 15 July 2016, Melbourne Australia) [Link] in association with IEEE India Council [Link], National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore , NASSCOM and it has gained wide popularity.
The organizing committee of "IEEE 2016 Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century" have also uploaded the lecture artifact at official page of this conference :- [Link]
Also, I feel glad to recall that this was one of the world prestigious honor -"Norbert Wiener Award" (organized by IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics Society endowment administered by IEEE Foundation) - 1st prize in the 1st year was awarded to me in 1977 for globally appreciated and acknowledged innovatory paper entitled "Cybernetics and General Systems Theory – A Unitary Science ?". The end of that award winning lecture by me was nothing but a new beginning of wide opportunity in Science and Technology and it opened thousands of doors in future Technological and Industrial growth. The lecture material was requested/communicated/released (or proposed) at various Indian and International institutions and organizations like :-
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT
Oxford University
IITs
Jadavpur University ……. and many more on the way. - (Late) Dwijesh Dutta Majumdar, Honorary Director-Secretary of the Institute of Cybernetics Systems and Information Technology, Kolkata.
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2021 @ Chennai : The Cultural Capital of South India & Member, UNESCO Creative Cities Network
Dr. Iven Mareels: 2014 Conference Highlights
Dr. Iven Mareels: 2014 Conference Highlights
Norbert Wiener & Thinking Machines
SSIT president Dr. Greg Adamson discusses the connections between Norbert Wiener and 2016 conference theme.
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SPEAKERS – 2021
Opening Keynote Speaker
Kumpati S. Narendra -
Harold W. Cheel Research Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Director, Center for Systems Science Yale university, USA.
Brains or Machines: Who Will Be In Control?
A Look Into The Crystal Ball
On 22 July 2021
Valedictory Keynote Address
Keynote Speakers
Prof Ashok Jhunjhunwala -
Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras.
Some steps for India to move towards 100% Renewable Energy
Dr. Junzo Watada-
Professor of Emeritus, Waseda University, Japan.
Solving Problems by Artificial Neural Network
Dr Katina Michael -
Director, Centre for Engineering, Policy and Society, Arizona State University, USA & Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society.
Dr Russell Andrews -
Nanotechnology & Smart Systems NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA.
The Brain-Machine Interface: Nanotechnology and Cybernetics 60 Years After Norbert Wiener
Dr. Simone Garatti -
Associate Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Data-driven decision making via the scenario approach
Dr. Witold Pedrycz -
Canada Research Chair, IEEE Fellow University of Alberta, Canada.
Norbert Wiener : India Special Session
Raghu Krishnapuram,
- ARTPARK, [AI & Robotics Technology Park].
Anandi Giridharan,
- Principal Research Scientist,
Dept. of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (IISc).
M G P L Narayana,
- Formerly Vice President & Chief Scientist, Tata Consultancy Services [TCS].
Systems and Cybernetics approach for consulting problem solving..
Prof. Dipshikha Chakravortty,
- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
Life in a Vacuole: How certain pathogen like to live in a cage
Dr.Swagatam.Das,
- Associate Professor, ECE, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
Automated High Dimensional Clustering: Research Highlights and Key Challenges
Special Session: Powers of Projection: Contemporary Art & Cybernetics
Session Organizers
Dr. Madhan Karky, Lyricist, Screenwriter, Researcher, Chennai, India.
Zach Pearl, MFA, Media Arts Curator & PhD Candidate, University of Waterloo, Toronto, Canada.
Special Session: Geopolitics & Internet Governance
Samiran Gupta - Head of India for The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Special Session: Information Theory and Cybernetics
Featured Speakers
Prof. Greg Adamson -
Associate Professor and Enterprise, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
The research method of Norbert Wiener
Dr Heather Love -
Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Norbert Wiener’s India Connections: A Tour through the Archive
Dr Laurie Lau -
Chairman, APATAS, Hong Kong.
Dr Luis Homem -
Center for Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL), Portugal.
Prolegomena to a Critique of Cybernetic Reason
Dr Michael Rigby -
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, Acting Deputy Director at the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN), University of Melbourne, Australia.
Cybernetics of cities and towns: Digital twins and research infrastructures in Australia
Prof. Paul Pangaro -
Professor of Practice, Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
Wiener + Macy Meetings + AI = Piloting a New Course
Dr. Sarbani Banerjee Belur -
Senior Project Research Scientist, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay.
Relevance of Community Networks for meaningful sustainable connectivity in the last mile
Panel Discussion : Healthcare 2030
Dr K Ganapathy,
- Moderator,
- Formerly Adjunct Professor at IITM and Anna University.
Tamilnadu Dr MGR Medical University in Feb 2021 conferred the "Distinguished Professorship for Life" award.
Conference Supporter’s
• Bruce Schneier, security expert
• Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, authors, Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics
• Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), Adjunct Professor of Law.
• Dr Mary Catherine Bateson, writer and cultural anthropologist
• Dr Rafael Capurro, chair, International Centre for Information Ethics
• Dr Richard Stallman, President, Free Software Foundation
• Dr Robert Vallée, chair World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics
• Vernor Vinge, mathematician and multi-award winning science fiction writer
• Dr Vint Cerf, VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
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