Invited Speakers

Dr. Aladdin Ayesh - UK

Abstract – Gaming is an expanding industry that keeps pushing the technology to its limits. Now, advanced graphics and sound facilities available with supporting haptics, game development is taking serious applications to heart, such as surgery simulation, remote control, and educational entertainment. Equally, artificial intelligence found a good host in many games for experimentation and proof of concept starting from search algorithms to believable characters. In this talk, this interaction between AI and gaming will explored with particular emphasis on cognitive agents, which are the backbone of believable characters and robo-assistants that are emerging. The talk will also cover some of the related, previous and ongoing, projects supervised by the speaker including agent communication, ad hoc networks, remote sensing, and natural language processing.

Aladdin Ayesh, MSc, PhD, CEng, CSci, MBCS/CITP, MIEEE,MAAAI
Senior Lecturer (AI, Cognitive Systems, and Robotics),
Coordinator of Intelligent Mobile Robotics and Creative Computing Group
(IMRCC-Group) - Centre for Computational Intelligence (CCI)
De Montfort University
School of Computing, Computer Engineering Division
The Gateway
Leicester, LE1 9BH

He works on various aspects of cognitive systems including physical mobile robots and intelligent agents. He heads the Laboratory for Advanced for Mobile Robots and Intelligent Agents (LAMRIA) and coordinates Intelligent Mobile Robots and Creative Computing research group (IMRCC).

Ihsan Anabtawi / Microsoft

Title: Microsoft in Government
Technology Specialist, Public Sector
Microsoft Corporation, Jordan
Cell: +962 7 95087180
Tel: +962 6 4626969
Fax: +962 6 4637686
http://www.microsoft.com/publicsector

Prof. Marwan Al-Akaidi - UK

Title: "The Revolution in Wireless and Signal Processing:'The Way Forward'"
Head of School - Engineering & Technology
De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK.
Chairman of IEEE UKRI - SPC
IEEE UKRI Conferences coordinator
Tel: 0044 (0)116 2577083 /87
Fax: 0044 (0)116 2577062
http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/communications
http://biomath.ugent.be/~eurosis/conf/mesm/mesm2006/index.html

Dr. Natasa Milic-Frayling - UK

Title: "Modelling and Analyzing Complex Networks"
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research Cambridge
United Kingdom
http://research.microsoft.com/users/natasamf
http://research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/labs/cambridge/default.aspx