Professor Toyoaki Nishida from Kyoto University, Japan gave a series of invited lectures on Social Intelligence Design and Conversational Informatics to the students and research workers of our Faculty. The lectures were funded by Wrocław Information Technology Initiative (WITI) is a program sponsored by Wroclaw Council and Wroclaw University of Technology. The aim of the program was to promote information technologies in Wrocław. The initiator of the visit was Dr. Radosław Katarzyniak.

Prof. Toyoaki Nishida’s short bio

Toyoaki Nishida is a professor at Kyoto University in Japan. He is an acknowledged authority in artificial intelligence and human computer interaction. He founded an international workshop series on social intelligence design in 2001. He opened up a new field of research called Conversational Informatics in 2003. He is an associate editor of the AI&Society journal, the New Generation Computing journal, a technical committee member of Web Intelligence Consortium, the IFIP TC12 representative from Japan, a director of Information Processing Society of Japan, and an associate member of the Science Council of Japan.