Keynote/ Plenary Speakers

Bogdan Galwas, M.Sc.('62), Ph.D. ('69), D.Sc. ('76), Microelectronics, Microwave Electronics, Tenured Professor, full time, Head of Microwave Electronics and Photonics Division (‘84-‘09), Pro-Rector of WUT (‘87-'90), Member of Electronics and Telecommunications Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (‘88-), Member of Scientific Council of Industrial Institute of Telecommunications (‘90-), Chairman of the International Management Committee of the International Travelling Summer Schools (‘91-), Director of Ph.D. Studies in Electronics and Telecommunications (‘92-), Senior Member of IEEE (‘94-), Member of Scientific Council of Institute of Telecommunications (‘97-), Member of IACEE (’97-), Member of SEFI (‘97-), Rector's Plenipotentiary for New Technologies and Forms of Education (‘99-), Director of WUT Center for Distance Learning – OKNO (‘00-), Dean of the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology(‘05-‘08), WUT Rector’s Individual Award for Didactic Achievements (’08).

Stevan Harnad was born in Hungary, did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University - B.A. (hon. psych.) McGill 1967; M.A. (psych.) McGill 1969; M.A. (psych.) Princeton 1971; Ph.D. (psych.) Princeton 1991. Currently Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at Université du Québec à Montréal and Professor in Electronics and Computer Science at University of Southampton, UK. His research is on categorisation, communication and cognition. Founder and Editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (a paper journal published by Cambridge University Press), he is Past President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science, and author and contributor to over 300 publications. More information on: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/harnad