Dr. Leonid Perlovsky is Principal Research Physicist and Technical Advisor at the AF Research Lab and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. He leads research projects on mathematical models of the mind, cognitive algorithms, language, and cultural evolution. As Chief Scientist at Nichols Research, a $500mm high-tech organization, he led the corporate research in intelligent systems. He served as professor at Novosibirsk Engineering Institute and New York University; as a principal in commercial startups developing tools for biotechnology and financial predictions. His company predicted the market crash following 9/11 a week before the event, detecting ripples from Al Qaeda trades and later helped SEC looking for perpetrators. He is invited as a keynote speaker worldwide, including most prestigious venues such as the Nobel Forum; published more than 465 publications, 4 books in Oxford and Springer, received 2 patents. Dr. Perlovsky participates in organizing conferences on Computational Intelligence, serves as Chair for the IEEE Boston Computational Intelligence Chapter; Chair for the IEEE Task Force on The Mind and Brain, on the International Neural Network Society (INNS) Board of Governors as Chair of The Award Committee. He serves on the Editorial Board of ten professional journals, has founded and serves as Editor-in-Chief for “Physics of Life Reviews,” (IF=7.2, ranked #4 in the world among 82 biophysics journals by Thomson Reuters). He received National and International awards including the Gabor Award; and the John McLucas Award, the highest US Air Force Award for basic research.
Dr. T. Grandon Gill is a professor of Information Systems & Decision Sciences and the Academic Director of the new Doctor of Business Administration program at the Muma College of Business of the University of South Florida. His MBA and DBA degrees are from Harvard Business School. He is a leading researcher in the transdisciplinary field of informing science, and is Editor-in-Chief of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline. He is internationally known for his research in the development and use of case studies and is currently working on a grant with the National Science Foundation to develop discussion case studies relating to cybersecurity. His principal research areas are the impacts of complexity on decision-making and IS education, and he has published many articles describing how technologies and innovative pedagogies can be combined to increase the effectiveness of teaching across a broad range of IS topics. His most recent book, Informing Business: Research and Education on a Rugged Landscape, deals with how we might better align business academia with the complexity of business practice. Professor T. Grandon Gill has also extensive experience in case method research, as well as in writing cases for classroom use and facilitating case discussions. His MBA and DBA are both from Harvard Business School, where the case method originated. He is author of the book Informing with the Case Method (2011, Informing Science Press) and recently became the founding editor of Journal of Information Technology Education: Discussion Cases, a publication outlet for case studies in the MIS, IT and informing science fields.
The main purpose of this Conversational Participative Session is to support an open forum for the identifications of the more effective means for 1) Inter-Disciplinary Communications and/or 2) Transferring Knowledge to the Society at large. Among the expected outcomes of this session are the following:
1. To identify feasible and effective ways that might be implemented 1) in future conferences organized by the International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, 2) by the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics in its both versions: English (JSCI) and Spanish (RISCI), and potentially by other journals and conferences.
2. To provide input to the attendees of this sessions so they feel enabled to write reflection-based invited or position papers, which, if accepted, will be included in the post-conference edition of the conference proceedings, as invited papers, with no additional costs for the respective authors. The best ones of these papers will also be published in the Journal, also as invited papers, with no additional cost for the respective author. The authors can refer to these papers “reflection paper” or “position paper”. In any case these papers should be reduced to abstract and should be related to the content of the conversations of the respective session.
