Keynote Speech Abstracts

1. FROM BRAIN-LIKE COMPUTING TO ARTIFICIAL LIFE

Leon 0. Chua Department of EECS University of California, Berkeley, CA94720, USA

Abstract A new information processing paradigm called Cellular Nonlinear Networks (CNN) which mimics the human brain and emulates real-world complexities will be presented in elementary terms and

profusely illustrated with interesting examples drawn from biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, psychology, and other disciplines. A fully operating hardware implementation ofthis paradigm, called a CNN Universal chip. will be shown to be sirpercomputers in solving many massively-parallel and ultra high-speed image recognition tasks. This multi-disciplinaly lecture will focus on the conceptual aspects of the CNNparadigm as a universal and ungfyingprinciple underpinning numerous complexity-relafedparadigms, including cellular automata, synergetics. self-organization and slaving principles, dissipative structure, collective and emergent phenomena, fur-from-thermodynamic nonlinear dynamics, and artificial life. Finally, the recently discovered principle of local activity will be identified as the genesis of complexity and emergent phenomena.
Leon 0. Chua Department of EECS University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Biography
Leon Chua received his MS and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, respectively. Since 1970, he has been with the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. He was awarded the IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award in 2000. Elected a Fellow in 1974, he has received many international prizes, including the IEEE Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize in 1972, the IEEE W. R. G. Baker Prize in 1978, the Frederick Emmons Award in 1974, the M. E. Van Valkenhurg Award in 1995, and again in 1998. He was awarded 7 USA patents and 9 Honorary doctorates (Doctor Honoris Causa) from major European universities and Japan. He is also a recipient of the top 15 cited authors in Engineering awarded in 2002, chosen from the Current Contents (IS) database of all cited papers in the engineering disciplines in the citation index from 1991 to October 31, 2001, from all branches of engineering. He was elected a foreign member of the European Academy of Sciences (Academia Europea) in 1997.

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