Dr. William Lesso

Professor Emeritus of the University of Texas at Austin
Former Associate Dean of the College of Engineering of the University of Texas at Austin

Dr. H. John Caulfield

Chief Scientist, Alabama A&M University Research Institute
Distinguished Research Professor at Fisk University.
'One of America's 10 Top Scientists'- Business Week. 'One
of the Most Influential People in the World in Minicomputers'
-Byte, 'A Pioneer on Optical Processing'- Fortune.

Keynote Address

Artificial and Biological Consciousness - The ABCs

Dr. W. Curtiss Priest

Principal Research Associate Emeritus, MIT
Director, Center for Information, Technology & Society
(Formerly the Center for Information, Technology & Society at
MIT) Cyber-Educator of the Year, Newsweek

Keynote Address

Reusability in Knowledge and Pedagogical Objects:
Digital Resource Reusability (as Objects) Only Occurs When
Libraries are near-Isomorphic to the Structures that Pertain: From
Math to Bookkeeping; From Rigid Organizations to Unbounded, Fluid
Social Organizations and Societies

Professor Louis H. Kauffman

University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science
Past President of the American Society for Cybernetics

Keynote Address

Reflexivity

Professor Ray Bareiss

Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley
Director of Educational Programs

Keynote Address

Software Engineering Education at Carnegie Mellon
University: One University; Programs Taught in Two Places

Professor Stuart A. Umpleby

The George Washington University
Former President of The American Society of Cybernetics

Keynote Address

The Financial Crisis: Cybernetics Can Explain What
Happened and How we Need to Change our Thinking

Associate Teaching Professor Mel Rosso-Llopart

Carnegie Mellon University
Director for the Distance Education program

Keynote Address

Software Engineering Education at Carnegie Mellon University:
One University; Programs Taught in Two Places

Dr. Michael J. Savoie

The University of Texas at Dallas
Director, Center for Information, Technology and Management
Director of E-Business Initiatives

Keynote Address

Training and Educating Millennials
Using Their Technology Platforms

Professor Ranulph Glanville

President of The American Society for Cybernetics
The Royal College of Art, UK; RMIT University, Australia

Keynote Address

Darkening the Black Box

Dr. Michael Lissack

Institute for the Study of Coherence and
Emergence: ISCE, USA

Keynote Address

Complexity is more than a Label: A look at
Affordances and Homologies

Dr. Karl H. Müller

University of Vienna, Austria
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Director of the
Wiener Institute for Social Science Documentation (WISDOM)

Keynote Address

The New Science of Cybernetics:
Vision and Research Designs

Dr. Bill Tait

The Open University, UK
Centre for Open Learning of Mathematics, Science,
Computing and Technology

Keynote Address

A Software Model of Teaching and Learning

Eng. Gustav R. Grob

Dean em, SGS-REDWOOD
International Petroleum Training Institute, Switzerland
Executive Secretary ISEO, Geneva
President International Clean Energy Consortium ICEC
Chairman ISO Committee on Energy Systems Analyses and Statistics
Founder-Chairman of ISO/TC197 on Hydrogen Energy Technologies

Keynote Address

Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy

Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Blankenbach

Pforzheim University, Germany
Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering

Keynote Address

Interdisciplinary Overall IT Education Concept and
Implementation

Dr. Roberta Mugellesi Dow

European Space Agency, Germany
European Space Operations Centre

Keynote Address

Bringing Knowledge Management to Space Operations: From Theory to Real World

Prof. Alfred Schaetter

Pforzheim University, Germany
Department of Industrial Engineering

Keynote Address

Interdisciplinary Overall IT Education Concept and Implementation

Dr. Susan S. Nash

University of Oklahoma, USA
Director, Education and Professional Development
American Association of Petroleum Geologists

Keynote Address

New Directions in E-Learning in Response to Global
Environmental and Energy Issues

Dr. Susu Nousala

The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
RMIT University, Australia
Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory: SIAL

Keynote Address

Tacit Knowledge Networks and their Implementation in Complex Organizations

Dr. Béatrice Hasler

University of Zurich, Switzerland
Leads The international research team of a global higher
education initiative ''The ShanghAI Lectures''

Keynote Address

''The ShanghAI Lectures'': A Mixed-reality Approach for Global
Teaching and International Student Collaboration

Dr. Houman A. Sadri

University of Central Florida
Political Science Department

Keynote Address

Intercultural Communication from an Interdisciplinary Perspective

Dr. Slava Kalyuga

University of New South Wales, Australia

Keynote Address

Evidence-based Instructional Design Principles for Multimedia Learning Environments

Dr. Madelyn Flammia

Associate Professor at University of Central Florida

Keynote Address

Intercultural Communication from an Interdisciplinary Perspective

Dr. Nagib Callaos

Retired Professor of the Simón Bolivar University
Former Dean of Research and Development of the Simón Bolivar University
www.iiis.org/Nagib-Callaos