https://21stcenturywiener.org/
22-25 July 2021, Chennai, INDIA
Interview with Prof. V Rajaraman, Honorary Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
“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. A tribute to Mr. F C Kohli published in Hindu Business Line on 27th November 2020.
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.
Keynote Speakers
Prof Ashok Jhunjhunwala –Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras.
Dr Katina Michael –Director, Centre for Engineering, Policy and Society, Arizona State University, USA & Senior Editor – IEEE Consumer Electronic Magazine.
Dr Russell Andrews –Medical Advisor, Nanotechnology and Smart Systems, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center.
Dr. Simone Garatti –Associate Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Dr. Witold Pedrycz –Canada Research Chair, IEEE Fellow University of Alberta, Canada.
Norbert Wiener : India Special Session
Raghu Krishnapuram,– Chief Guest,
Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (IISc).
Special Session: Powers of Projection: Contemporary Art & Cybernetics
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).Featured Speakers
Prof. Greg Adamson –Associate Professor and Enterprise, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
Dr Heather Love –Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Dr Laurie Lau –Chairman, APATAS, Hong Kong.
Dr Luis Homem –Center for Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL), Portugal.
Dr Michael Rigby –Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, Acting Deputy Director at the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN), University of Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Sarbani Banerjee Belur –Senior Project Research Scientist, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay.
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.
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