Keynote Erdi
Channel: emcsr
Date: 20/10/2012

Péter Érdi is a Hungarian and now also Hungarian-American researcher and teacher. His ambition has been to work in the spirit of cybernetics and systems theory. He serves as the Henry Luce Professor of Complex Systems Studies at Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan, and also keeps his position in Budapest in the Complex Systems and Computational Neuroscience Group of the Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In addition, he is the founding Co-Director of BSCS -- Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science study abroad program.
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