Speaker: Joel Moses
                 Distinguished Institute Professor
                 Department of Computer Science and Engineering
                 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Title: The Anatomy of Large Scale Complex Systems

Date and Time: Friday, January 25, 2002, 3:30 PM.
Place: 143 Coates Hall

Professor Joel Moses

Abstract:

His talk will focus on understanding large and complex systems, and in understanding the architecture of the brain as it performs symbolic reasoning. Professor Moses also has interests in product design, software development and artificial intelligence.

About the Speaker:

Joel Moses is an Institute Professor, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT. His prior positions at MIT have included Provost, Dean of Engineering, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Associate Head of EECS, and Associate Director of the Laboratory for Computer Science.

Professor Moses is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, and of the IEEE. He is currently a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Research Directions for Information Technology, and Committee on Human Resources for Information Technology.

He is also a member of the NAE Committee on Engineering Education. Professor Moses is a member of the Boards of Directors of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and of Analog Devices, Inc. He serves on the advisory boards of the Columbia University Fu School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Hebrew University School of Engineering, and the University of Michigan School of Engineering.