Keynote Speech:

Walter Freeman, University of California at Berkeley, USA
"Thermodynamic Model of Information Processing in Brain Dynamics."

Benjamin W. Wah , University of Illinois, USA
"On Data Mining".

Charles Falco, University of Arizona, USA
"A Novel Approach to Computerized Image Analysis: Learning from the Old Masters"

Thomas Huang, University of Illinois, USA

Meyya Meyyappan, NASA, U.S.Government
" Nanotechnology in Information Processing"

Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Featured Invitation Speech:

Chengde Mao, Purdue University ,USA
"Elements of DNA Computing."

Manuel Grana Romay, EHU, Spain
"Emotion from facial expression recognition."

Etienne Kerre ,U. Gent ,Belgian
"The Power of Fuzzy Relational Calculus for Knowledge Representation."

Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Paris University IV., France
"Resemblance, Perception, Analogy"

Heather Carson, University of Michigan, USA
"Protein -Ligand Datasets : Updates and Data Mining for Fundamental Properties of Enzymes and Non-Enzymes"

Borko Furht , Florida Atlantic University, USA

Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada

John Mordeson, Creighton University, USA

Burhan Turksen, University of Toronto, Canada
"TOBB-Economics and Technology University"

Katsutoshi Yada, Kansai University, Japan
"Data Mining Application for Time-series Data"

David Overhauser, I EEE, USA

Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada

Andrew K.C.Wong, University of Waterloo, Canada

Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan

Yukio Ohsawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
"Chance Discovery Overviews"

Ching Y.Suen, CENPARMI, Concordia University, Canada
"High Performance Pattern Recognition Systems"

Walter Freeman Celebration Workshop:

H. John Caulfield, Fisk U. USA and Andrew Parker, Oxford U ,UK.
"The Visual System: A 'Chicken and Egg' Problem Solved"

Andrew A.Fingelkurts,Alexander A Fingelkurts ,Carlos F.H.Neves ,Brain &
Mind Technologies Research Center, Finland
"Brain Operational Space- Time and Operational Modules"

Kunihiko Kaneko, Tokyo University, Japan (Bio-complexity)

Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand (Neuro-informatics)
"Dynamic Interaction Networks for Modeling and Discovery of Brain Dynamics at Different Functional Levels"

Frank Ohl, Leibnitz Institute, Magdeburg, Germany (Neurobiology)
"Neurodynamics in Auditory Category Learning"

Leonid Perlovsky, Harvard University and AFRL, MA, USA (Neuro-cognition)
"Dynamic Logic and Neurodynamics of Consciousness"

Takeshi Yamakawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan (Neuro-hardware)
"Bio-Inspired System Modeling - SOR Networks"

Wen-Ran Zhang, Georgia Southern University, USA
"YINYANG Bipolar Universal Modus Ponens (BUMP) - a Fundamental Law of Non-Linear Brain Dynamics Foremotional Intelligence and Mental Health"

Ren¨¦ Doursat, Brain Computation Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
"Of Tapestries, Ponds and RAIN: Toward Mesoscopic Neurodynamics on Excitable Media"

Robert Kozma , University of Memphis, TN, USA
"Nonlinear Brain Dynamics for Computational Intelligence" 

WEN-RAN ZHANG, Department of Computer Science, GSU, USA
"YINYANG BIPOLAR UNIVERSAL MODUS PONENS (BUMP) - A FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF NON-LINEAR BRAIN DYNAMICS FOR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH"  

SMU Annual Meeting:

John N. Mordeson, Creighton U. USA
"Message From the President "

Shou Yee Shao, Shanghai, China
"The Rise & Fall of Fuzzy Logic Research in China for the Last two Decades of the Twentieth Century"

Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, U. Paris 6, France
"Mathematics to Cope with Real World Complexity"

Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane U. Japan
"The Past, Present & Future of Rough Sets"