Lotfi Zadeh
From Search Engines to Question-Answer Systems - The Problems of World Knowledge, Relevance, Deduction and Precision
Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

Miomir Vukobratovic
Are We Going Towards Artificial Man? - Humanoid Robotics: Past, Present State and Future
Belgrade, Serbia

Asad M. Madni
Smart Configurable Wireless Sensors and Actuators for Industrial Monitoring and Control
Past President and Chief Operating Officer,
BEI Technologies Inc., USA

Charles Weisbin
Technology Assessment in Support of the Presidential Vision for Space Exploration
Deputy Program Manager, Strategic Systems Technology Office,
NASA JPL, USA

Takeshi Yamakawa
Special Speech: “Bio-Inspired System Modeling -SOR networks”
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan