British-Serbian AI veteran George Rzevski honoured with OU workshop – AI and complexity A Workshop in Honour of Emeritus Professor George Rzevski 10:00 – 16:00 21 June 2023 Systems Seminar Room, Walton Hall

An unusual source and nisam znala ko George Rzevski – who I invited to speak at SCiO many years ago – was Serbian.

More and more founding figures of Artificial Intelligence are making tsunami-scale waves with headlines of imminent doom. Our community can boast one such innovator who is celebrating his 90th year with an open invitation to hear him speak on how our lives will change.

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A Workshop in Honour of Emeritus Professor George Rzevski

10:00 – 16:00

Wednesday 21st June 2023

Systems Seminar Room, Walton Hall

For half a century George Rzevski has made many original contribuons to Arficial Intelligence, Complexity Science and Design. What sets George apart from many other researchers in these fields is successful praccal applicaons in areas such as dynamic scheduling of taxis, a fleet of oil tankers, and private jet aircra. George has published widely on his work. His latest book, The Future is Digital: How Complexity and AI will Shape Our Lives and Work, will be published this year by Springer.

09:30 – 10:00 Welcome

10:00 – 11:00 George Rzevski – How Complexity and AI will Shape our Life and Work

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee

11:30 – 13:00 Phil Picton – Deep Learning – What’s New? Soria Psoma – Biosensors for Intelligent Healthcare Systems Vikram Goolaup – Spintronics Neuromorphic Systems Miguel Valdez – AI, Complexity and Starship robots Marian Petre – to be announced Viktoriya Pyeshkova – to be announced Jeff Johnson – AI, Complexity and Designing the Future

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:30 Serhan Cosar – Machine Vision and Robocs Alistair Wyllis – to be announced Claudia Eckert – The Data Challenge in Complex Engineering System Design Jon Hall – to be announced Lucia Rapano – to be announced Ihor Sobianin – Harvesng Energy for Bio-implants Anthony Lucas-Smith – to be announced

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee and Discussion: Is Arficial intelligence a subfield of Complexity Science? Everyone is welcome to attend, and everyone is invited to give a 5-minute presentation on their ideas. The more controversial the better !

jeff.johnson@open.ac.uk 12-June-2023