Bogazici University, Bebek, 80815, Istanbul, TURKEY

The last decade of this millennium is characterized by what might be called the intelligent systems revolution, as a result of which, it is now possible to have man– made systems which exhibit an ability to reason, learn from experience and make rational decisions without human intervention. Prof. Zadeh has coined the word MIQ (machine intelligence quotient) to describe a measure of intelligence of man-made systems. In this perspective, an intelligent system is a system which has a high MIQ. However, there is a basic difference between IQ of a person and MIQ of a machine. The former is more or less constant, whereas the latter changes with time and is machine-specific. Furthermore, the indicators of MIQ and IQ are not the same. For example, recognizing the face of a person or his voice is taken granted for a person, whereas, in the case of a machine, such abilities would attest to a high MIQ.

This lecture will first dwell upon how to define "intelligence" of man-made machines and continue with a discussion on computational intelligence, its main components and compare it with biological and artificial intelligence. The state-of-art reached in intelligent systems will be demonstrated with examples. The lecture will conclude with a perspective on the future.

Okyay Kaynak was born in Afyon, Turkey in 1948. He received his B.Sc. (First Class, Honours) and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of Birmingham, UK in 1969 and 1972 respectively. He started his professional life in 1972 at SEKA Pulp and Paper Mills in Turkey where he worked as a project engineer until 1975. He completed his national service during that period too at NATO Infrastructure Department in Ankara, Turkey. He then went to Saudi Arabia where he worked as an electronics expert for the General Directorate of Meteorology for three years, between 1975-78. After this industrial experience, in January 1979, he joined Bogazici (Bosphorus) University, Istanbul, Turkey, where he is currently a full professor and the holder of UNESCO Chair on Mechatronics. At this university, he has served as the chairman of Computer Engineering Department (3 years), as the Director of Biomedical Engineering Institute (1 year), as a member of the university senate (3 years) and as the founding Director of the Mechatronics Research and Application Center (2 years).

Okyay Kaynak is an internationally active person. He has held long term visiting professor/scholar positions in Japan (University of Tokyo, 1981-82 and 1989), Germany (Institute of Robotic Research, University of Dortmund, 1986-87), Canada (Université du Québec à Trois-Riviéres, 1984) and USA (Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, 1990; Michigan Technological University, 1990-91 and UC Berkeley, 1993). Currently he is a visiting professor at NUS.

He has been involved in the organization of many international meetings. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, a member of the management committee of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics and serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Spectrum and International Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and on the advisory board of the Journal on Industry & Higher Education. He is active in IEEE too, has been a vice president of Industrial Electronics Society since January 1994.

Dr. Kaynak's research interests are in the areas of mechatronics and intelligent control. He has authored two books and edited three. Additionally he has published more than 120 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. His most recent activity (completed in Singapore) has been the co-editing of a book with Prof. Zadeh on Computational Intelligence.