Keynote speakers

Keynote and Invited Speakers

Towards a Smarter Web Wendy Hall, University of Southampton Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng is a professor of computer science at the University of Southampton, UK, and dean of the Faculty of Physical and Applied Sciences. She was head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) from 2002 to 2007. She was elected president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in July 2008, a...

Plenary and Keynote Speakers ABSTRACTS

Keynote Talk 1 Stream: Keynote Speakers Invited session

The placenta is a round, flat organ that forms during pregnancy to give the baby food and oxygen from the mother. During a normal pregnancy, the placenta stays firmly attached to the inside wall of the uterus until the baby has been born. The placenta provides the baby with nutrients and oxygen from the mother and carries away fetal waste. This paper proposes a mathematical model which could de...

IJCAI-07 Keynote and Invited Speakers

A grand challenge for AI in developing economies is improving the quality of life of the 4 billion people at the bottom of the pyramid who subsist on less than $2,000 per year income. One critical component of improving the quality of life is access to information and knowledge that is helpful for education, healthcare, food, and agriculture in rural communities. This talk will review why the w...

Keynote Speakers Computer-Based Systems for Aiding Global Health Challenges

Opportunistic HIV and TB co-infections are a dual epidemic resulting in significant mortality. According to the WHO, there are estimated to be over one million people worldwide who have the diseases, and the burden of disease is particularly high in sub-Saharan Africa and of growing concern in Asia. Meanwhile, levels of multi-drug resistant TB are increasing in several parts of the world. TB is...