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Witold Kinsner

Kinsner, Witold

Kinsner, Witold

Fellow, WAAS; Professor, University of Manitoba (UofM); Director, Cognitive Systems Group

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Fellow, WAAS; Professor, University of Manitoba (UofM); Director, Cognitive Systems Group

Witold Kinsner is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba (UofM), Winnipeg, Canada, and Director of the Cognitive Systems Group. He was a co-founder of the first Microelectronics Centre in Canada and was its Director of Research from 1979 to 1987. He is a Co-founding member of the International Institute of Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICIC), Calgary, and the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA). Since 1971, he has been very active at all the IEEE levels, including IEEE International, Region 7 (IEEE Canada), Society, Council, Section, Chapter, and Student Branch. He has organized many conferences and has been on numerous editorial boards of journals and magazines. He is a member of 10 IEEE Societies and many committees. In 2017, he was elected IEEE Vice President of Educational Activities Board for 2018.

His current research focuses on entropy-based mono-scale, multi-scale, and poly-scale complexity metrics for cognitive systems. He has authored and co-authored over 780 publications in the above research areas, as well as supervised over 76 Master's and Doctorate graduate students, over 200 undergraduate final-year thesis/capstone project students, and mentored over 35 summer research students. He has received a number of awards. Since 2010, he has been the University Advisor for the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge (CSDC) University of Manitoba team consisting of over 100 students from 16 departments and 50 advisors from the academic, aerospace, industrial, business, and military sectors.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

Towards Human Security through Personalized Trans-disciplinary Evolving Symbiotic Education Based on Cognitive Digital Twins   ( Knowledge, Science & Values )
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract Education has been evolving through a complicated roadmap to serve varying objectives from the understanding of the world we live in through training of servers of production lines, after the first industrial revolution (IR1) to other commercial targets throughout the next three industrial revolutions. With the current scientific and technological progress, human security and sustainability were expected to take care of themselves and evolve naturally. Not only...
Transformation into a New Education Paradigm and the Role of Ecosystemic Leadership
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract The Education subgroup of the GL-21 project recognizes that education plays a triple role in regard to the new model of leadership. First, we need education to serve leadership, to help educate leaders of the 21st century. In order to do so, education itself needs to be transformed so it can deliver new curricula and new pedagogies and thus it needs new models of leadership to carry it forward. Finally, as the educational sector itself transforms, it can evolve...
Global Transformative Leadership in the 21st Century: A Science, Engineering, Technology Integrated and Strategic Perspective   ( International Organizations ), ( New Paradigm ), ( Knowledge, Science & Values )
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract The goal of this paper is to focus on the Global Leadership Challenge in the 21st Century with an integrated and strategic perspective in science, engineering and technology (SET). “In any crisis, leaders have two equally important responsibilities: solve the immediate problem and keep it from happening again. The COVID-19 pandemic is a case in point. We need to save lives now while also improving the way we respond to outbreaks in general. The first point is more...