Keynote Speakers Biographies and Abstracts

2008 2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control & Automation  
Extended Abstract In the fifties of last century, the question "Can machines think?" was an object of many spirited discussions and debates. Exaggerated expectations were the norm, with no exceptions. In an article "Thinking machines-a new field in electrical engineering," published in January l950, I began with a sample of headlines of articles which appeared in the popular press in the late forties. One of them read "Electric brain capable of translating foreign languages is being built."
more » ... y, half a century later, we have translation software, but nothing that approaches the level of human translation. In l948, on the occasion of inauguration of IBM's Mark l relay computer, Howard Aiken, Director of Harvard's Computation Laboratory, said "There is no problem in applied mathematics that this computer cannot solve." Today, there is no dearth of problems which cannot be solved by any supercomputer. Exaggerated expectations should be forgiven. As Jules Verne said at the turn of last century, "Scientific progress is driven by exaggerated expectations." xxxi Dr. Zadeh is a recipient of twenty-five honorary doctorates from: Paul- Extended Abstract Cryptanalysis, the science and art of breaking secret codes, is both a mathematically intensive and a computational intelligence intensive subject. Code-breaking used to be purely a military or government task, and in fact, the main task of the US National Security Agency NSA) is \to collect, process and disseminate foreign signal intelligence". The term \signal intelligence" here is interpreted as \encrypted messages". Surprisingly, with the advent of Internet, cryptanalysis is no more just a military or government task, but also an important task in e.g., secure e-commerce, since all the sensitive and encrypted business communications over the Internet must be unbreakable.
doi:10.1109/cimca.2008.227 fatcat:7duvmjrj4nhy5cbvd6txoglfee