Keynote Speakers

gjn2016white-mediumGrzegorz J. Nalepa is an engineer with degrees in computer science – artificial intelligence, and philosophy. He has been working in the area of intelligent systems and knowledge engineering for over 15 years.
He formulated the eXtended Tabular Trees rule representation method, as well as the Semantic Knowledge Engineering approach.
He authored a book “Modeling with Rules using Semantic Knowledge Engineering” (Springer 2017).
He co-edited a book “Synergies Between Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering” (Springer 2017). He co-authored over 150 research papers in international journals and conferences.
He coordinates GEIST – Group for Engineering of Intelligent Systems and Technologies (http://geist.re) cooperating with AGH University and Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. For almost 10 years he has been co-chairing the Knowledge and Software Engineering Workshop (KESE) at KI, the German AI conference, Spanish CAEPIA, as well ECAI. He is the President of the Polish Artificial Intelligence Society (PSSI), member of EurAI. He is also a member of IEEE, Italian Artificial Intelligence Society (AI*IA), KES, Polish Cognitive Science Society (PTK).
His recent interests include context-aware systems and affective computing.

 

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Philip Brey is full professor of philosophy of technology at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, and scientific director of the 4TU. Centre for Ethics and Technology. He has published extensively in the areas of ethics of technology and responsible research and innovation. He is president of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology, a former president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, and a member of the editorial board of over ten leading journals in his field. He is coordinator of the SIENNA project, an EU Horizon 2020-funded project on the ethical and human rights aspects of emerging technologies, including robotics and artificial intelligence, human genomics, and human enhancement.  Many of his publications are in the philosophy and ethics of information technology, including publications on virtual reality, computer mediation and computer games.

 

sybille-lammesSybille Lammes is professor New Media and Digital Culture at Leiden University. She has been a visiting Senior Research Fellow at The University of Manchester, and has worked as a researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick, as well as the media-studies departments of Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam. Her background is in media-studies and game-studies, which she has always approached from an interdisciplinary angle, including cultural studies, science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and critical geography. She is co-editor of Playful Identities (2015), Mapping Time (2017 fc.) The Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods (2018 fc.). and The Playful Citizen (2017 fc.). She is an ERC laureate and has been the PI of numerous research projects. She is a member of the Playful Mapping Collective.

 

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Mark Silcox was born and raised just outside of Toronto, Canada. He received his MA in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and his PhD from The Ohio State University. He is currently Professor and Chair of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Central Oklahoma.

He has worked as a freelance writer in the video game industry, and was on the design teams for the Nintendo 64 Game Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage and the MMORPG Earth & Beyond. He is a co-author (with Jon Cogburn) of Philosophy through Video Games (Routledge, 2008), and co-editor (with Jon Cogburn) of Raiding the Temple of Wisdom: Philosophy and Dungeons & Dragons (Open Court, 2012). His most recent publication in philosophy is an edited anthology of papers entitled Experience Machines: The Philosophy of Virtual Worlds (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017). He is also the author of several works of interactive fiction, a couple of storytelling games,  and the SF novel The Face on the Mountain (Incandescent Phoenix, 2015).

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