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PROFESSOR WŁODZISŁAW "WLODEK" DUCH
Włodzisław "Wlodek" Duch, Ph.D., DSc. is
Professor of Theoretical Physics and
Informatics, Department of Informatics, Faculty of Physics,
Astronomy and Informatics,
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland and
President of the
European Neural Network Society. He is President of the
DuchSoft research and development company which makes the
GhostMiner software package marketed by
Fujitsu.
Wlodek's research fields, in order of present interest:
- Theory and applications of computational intelligence, including
neural networks, similarity-based systems, relations with fuzzy systems,
pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, selection of relevant
information, visualization of multidimensional data and relations.
- Natural language processing, computer linguistics, information
retrieval and extraction, connections with human memory models, word
games, medical informatics.
- Computational cognitive neuroscience, cognitive science, cognitive
robotics, cognitive informatics, cognitive psychology, developmental
psychology, large scale simulations of brain functions, human-computer
interaction, humanized software interfaces.
- Informational dynamics: concept of information, brain-mind
transition, theory of complex systems.
- Philosophy of mind, foundations of physics, quantum computing,
philosophical problems of physics, history of physics.
- Education, development of new educational programs, application of
computers in education, development of computational science educational
programs.
His active projects include
Neurocognitive approach to language,
Semantic spaces and word games,
A test-bed for integration of different Humanized Interface Technologies
(HIT),
Computational creativity,
Consciousness in artificial systems, and
Platonic theory of mind.
Wlodek is on the Editorial Boards of
Cognitive Neurodynamics,
International Journal of Information Technology and Intelligent
Computing,
International Journal of Neural Systems (IJNS),
Neural Information Processing Letters and Reviews,
NeuroQuantology: An Interdisciplinary Journal of NeuroScience and
Quantum Physics,
and
Nonlinear Biomedical Physics, and is
Book and Media Review Editor for
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.
He is cofounder and scientific editor of the
Polish Cognitive Science
journal.
He recently coedited
Challenges for Computational Intelligence
(Studies in Computational Intelligence) and 8 books on
artificial
neural networks.
He coauthored
Towards Avatars with Artificial Minds: Role of
Semantic Memory
and over 360 other papers.
Read the
full list of his publications!
Wlodek did his undergraduate study in Physics at the Nicolaus
Copernicus University,
Torun, Poland from 1972 to 1977.
He earned his
Master of Science diploma (highest honors, "blue diploma") in Physics at
the Nicolaus Copernius University in 1977. He did his graduate study
in Quantum Chemistry at the Nicolaus Copernicus
University from 1977 to 1980. He earned his PhD in Quantum Chemistry
with the thesis
Direct Configuration Interaction Method at the
Nicolaus Copernicus University in 1980. He earned his DSc. in Many Body
Physics with the thesis "Graphical Representation of Model Spaces" at
the Nicolaus Copernicus University in 1987. Both theses won the
Ministry of Education Award.
In 1997 he earned the title of a "professor of theoretical physics and
informatics".
His advisor's advisor's advisor's advisor's advisor
was Albert Einstein.
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