SIMUTools'09

About David Harel's Keynote

Tuesday, March 3 2009, 9:30 - 10:30

	Can we Computerize an Elephant?
	Pr. David Harel - The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The William Sussman Professorial Chair.
	Abstract: The talk shows the way techniques from computer science and software engineering can be applied beneficially to research in the life sciences. We will discuss the idea of comprehensive and realistic modeling of biological systems, where we try to understand and an entire system in detail, utilizing in the modeling effort all that is known about it. The ultimate dream is to produce an interactive, dynamic, computerized model of an entire multi-cellular organism.
Bio: David Harel has been at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel since 1980. He was Department Head from 1989 to 1995, and was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science between 1998 and 2004. He was also co-founder of I-Logix, Inc. He received his PhD from MIT in 1978, and has spent time at IBM Yorktown Heights, and sabbaticals at Carnegie-Mellon University, Cornell University and the University of Edinburgh. In the past he worked mainly in theoretical computer science (logic, computability, automata, database theory), and now he works in software and systems engineering, modeling biological systems, and the synthesis and communication of smell. He is the inventor of statecharts and co-inventor of live sequence charts, and co-designed Statemate, Rhapsody and the Play-Engine. Among his awards are the ACM Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award (1992), the Israel Prize (2004), the ACM Software System Award (2007), and three honorary degrees. He is a Fellow of the ACM, the IEEE and the AAAS.

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