{"id":12961,"date":"2020-01-16T10:12:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T14:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=12961"},"modified":"2022-08-15T10:36:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T14:36:29","slug":"south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"K Professor Addresses Forums in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12965\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12965\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/01\/Peter-Erdi-in-South-Africa-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Erdi in South Africa\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/01\/Peter-Erdi-in-South-Africa-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/01\/Peter-Erdi-in-South-Africa-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/01\/Peter-Erdi-in-South-Africa-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/01\/Peter-Erdi-in-South-Africa.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">P\u00e9ter \u00c9rdi, the Luce Professor of Complex Systems Studies at Kalamazoo College, recently spoke at two conferences in Johannesburg, South Africa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>P\u00e9ter \u00c9rdi, the Luce Professor of Complex Systems Studies at Kalamazoo College, recently visited Johannesburg, South Africa, where he served as the keynote speaker at the sixth International Conference on Soft Computing and Machine Intelligence (ISCMI) and spoke at the Biomath Forum at the University of Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p>The annual ISCMI conference Nov. 19 and 20, organized by the India International Congress on Computational Intelligence (IICCI), presented soft computing and machine intelligence research, and allowed delegates to exchange ideas while finding global partners for collaborations. Soft computing, inspired by the human mind, is an area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/academic\/programs\/computer-science\/\">computer science<\/a> that targets possible solutions to complex problems. Machine learning, related to yet different from artificial intelligence, enables a computer system to learn from inputs, rather than only by linear programming. \u00c9rdi\u2019s keynote was titled <em>The Reality, Illusion and Manipulation of Objectivity<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Biomath Forum aids mathematical modeling and qualitative analysis to enable scientific understanding of biological processes. \u00c9rdi\u2019s lecture, titled <em>Dynamical Systems and Perspective in Neuroscience\u2013Historical and Current Approaches<\/em>, addressed systems of learning that use the human brain as a prototype. These systems are possibly uncovering some hidden links between epilepsy and Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c9rdi has been a prolific researcher with more than 40 publications and three books published in addition to editing two books since joining K. In that time, he has given more than 60 invited lectures across the world and earned the 2018 Florence J. Lucasse Fellowship for Excellence in Scholarship, honoring his contributions in creative work, research and publication. <a href=\"http:\/\/people.kzoo.edu\/~perdi\/\">Visit our website<\/a> for more information on his career and achievements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P\u00e9ter \u00c9rdi, the Luce Professor of Complex Systems Studies at Kalamazoo College, recently visited Johannesburg, South Africa, where he served as the keynote speaker at the sixth International Conference on Soft Computing and Machine Intelligence (ISCMI) and spoke at the Biomath Forum at the University of Pretoria. 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Soft computing, inspired by the human mind, is an area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/academic\/programs\/computer-science\/\">computer science<\/a> that targets possible solutions to complex problems. Machine learning, related to yet different from artificial intelligence, enables a computer system to learn from inputs, rather than only by linear programming. \u00c9rdi\u2019s keynote was titled <em>The Reality, Illusion and Manipulation of Objectivity<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Biomath Forum aids mathematical modeling and qualitative analysis to enable scientific understanding of biological processes. \u00c9rdi\u2019s lecture, titled <em>Dynamical Systems and Perspective in Neuroscience\u2013Historical and Current Approaches<\/em>, addressed systems of learning that use the human brain as a prototype. 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