Plenary Lecture
The Emergence and Grand Challenges of Computing
Professor Matthew He
Division of Math, Science, and Technology
Nova Southeastern University
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
USA
E-mail: hem@nova.edu
Abstract: Historically, computing as a discipline was described as being at the intersection of mathematical, engineering, and empirical/scientific traditions. In recent scientific and technological advances, physical and biological, ecological and environmental, social and behavioral, cognitive sciences, engineering, and other emerging sciences, engineering and information technologies share a common need for efficient algorithms, system software, information systems and architecture, and efficient computing solutions to address large computational and interdisciplinary problems. Many boundaries among science, engineering and social systems are cross-linked in the face of combinations of knowledge and tools as demonstrated in the areas of computational mathematics, scientific computing, network computing, cloud computing, bio-molecular computing, quantum computing, soft computing, most recently perceptual computing. It is the time when the physical, biological and social sciences are joining forces with information computing sciences. It is the time when we will make extraordinary advances in the history of mankind through the field of computing. This talk covers the key elements of computing foundation, current development and landscape of computing, and grand challenges in computing research and its applications.
The outline of this talk is listed below:
Part 1 Foundation of Computing
- Logic, Control, and Data Structures
- The Principle of Computational Equivalence
- Computing with Numbers and Words
Part 2 What’s Happing in the Field of Computing?
- Computer Algebra Systems
- Network Computing, Cloud Computing, Perceptual Computing
- Molecular Computing and Quantum Computing
Part 3 Grand Challenges in Computing Research
- Neural Computing and the Architecture of Brain and Mind
- Mapping the Past and Future to Present
- Computing of the People, by the People, for the People
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Matthew He, Ph.D., is Full Professor and Director of the Division of Math, Science, and Technology of Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA. He is Full Professor and Grand Ph.D. from the World Information Distributed University in 2004. He has been awarded as an academician of European Academy of Informatization since 2004. He received the World Academy of Sciences Achievement Award in recognition of his research contributions in the field of computing in 2003 and 2010.
Matthew He received his Ph. D. in Mathematics from University of South Florida in 1991. He was a research associate at the Department of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England in 1986 and at the Department of Mathematics, Eldgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland in 1987. He was also a visiting professor at National Key Research Lab of Computational Mathematics of Chinese Science of Academy and University of Rome, Italy in 1998.
Dr. Matthew He has authored/edited 10 books and published over 100 research papers in the areas of mathematics, bioinformatics, computer vision, information theory, mathematics and engineering techniques in medical and biological sciences. He is an editor of International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence, International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, International Journal of Biological Systems, and International Journal of Integrative Biology. He is an invited series editor of Biomedical and Life Sciences of Henry Stewart Talk “Using Bioinformatics in Exploration in Genetic Diversity”. He is a Chairman of International Society of Symmetry in Bioinformatics and a member of International Advisory Board of "International Symmetry Association (ISA). He is a member of American Mathematical Society (AMS), Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE Computer Society, World Association of Science Engineering (WASE), and International Advisory Board member of Bioinformatics Group of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). He was an international scientific committee co-chair of International Conference of Bioinformatics and its Applications (ICBA 2004), a general co-chair of International Conference of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA 2009), a general co-chair of IEEE International Conference on Bioengineering and Computer Sciences (ICBECS 2010 and 2011) and a keynote speaker of many international conferences in the areas of mathematics, bioinformatics, and information science and engineering.