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Professor, Computer Science DepartmentDirector, Modern Heuristics GroupVirginia Commonwealth University, USA
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Dr. Manic is a Professor with Computer Science Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has over 20 years of academic and industrial experience. His previous positions include tenured positions with University of Idaho, director of the Computer Science Program at Idaho Falls, University of Nis, Serbia, and a Fellow of the Brain Korea 21 Program. He has completed over 30 research efforts in the area of data mining and machine learning applied to energy optimization, resilient control, and human-machine interaction. Dr. Manic has given over 30 invited talks around the world, authored over 180 refereed articles in international journals, books, and conferences, holds several U.S. patents and has won 2018 R&D 100 Award. Dr. Manic is an IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Officer and is a member of various standing and technical committees and boards of this Society. He is also involved in various capacities in Technical Committees on Education, Industrial Informatics, Factory Automation, Smart Grids, Standards, and Web and Information Committee, and is a co-founder and past chair of Technical Committee on Resilience and Security in Industry, and a general chair of IEEE IECON 2018, IEEE HSI 2019.
AI - Science Fiction or a Threat
This talk will start with brief overview of currently considered state of the art Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning techniques and continue with some statistics and reasons for adoption as well as resistance towards AI. The talk will continue with the overview of latest improvements over existing techniques. The presentation will conclude with challenges and directions in which AI/ML techniques are developing, as well as vision for the future of AI and towards the society where AI is everywhere.