Multis and Monos; What the Multicultured Can Teach the Monocultured Towards the Creation of a Global State
Prof. Dr. Hugo de Garis, an Australian by birth, is a full professor of Computer Science in the Cognitive Science Department of the School of Information Science and Technology (SIST) at Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, where his research specialties are "Artificial Brains" and Topological Quantum Computing (TQC). He is the Director of the "Artificial Brain Lab (ABL)" which aims to build China's first artificial brain that will consist of tens of thousands of evolved neural net modules, each with its own little job. He teaches graduate students topics in Pure Mathematics, Theoretical Physics and Computer Science so that they can understand the principles of Topological Quantum Computing (TQC), which promises to revolutionize computer science. Prior to his professorial jobs in China, he was an associate professor in Computer Science at Utah State University, and worked eight years in Japan on an "Artificial Brain."Prof. de Garis has lived and worked in seven countries: Australia, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Japan, America, and China, which makes him a real "multi" (to use his terminology) allowing him to have the insights that are so fundamental to this book.