Thinking Machines in the Physical World” (IEEE 2016 Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century) The conference “Thinking Machines in the Physical World” (IEEE 2016 Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century), which will be held at the University of Melbourne, Australia, 13-15 July 2016, following the successful inaugural conference in Boston in 2014. Attached is the Call for Papers, including greetings from Professor Graeme Clark, AC Laureate Professor Emeritus, leader in pioneering cochlear implant research. We are also pleased to announce our initial confirmed list of keynote speakers: - Prof Thomas Kailath, Professor, Stanford University - Prof Brian Anderson, Distinguished Professor, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science - Dr. James Hughes, Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies - A speaker on Cognitive Computing from IBM Watson Details on these speakers and on the conference itself can be found at http://21stcenturywiener.org. Dr Greg Adamson President, IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology |