报告题目：Methods for XAI inspired by Nature
报告人：德国哈根大学Herwig Unger教授
报告时间：2022年7月1日（周五）下午15:00
报告地点：腾讯会议（会议号：798-698-993）
主持人：李天瑞教授
报告摘要：
       While modern methods of AI can be used for many applications, it is still hard to understand why certain decisions are made in a given manner and whether they obey manifold rules and laws, e.g. of society and applicants. Consequently, there is a need for new technologies for the autonomous self-management, timely information handling, processing and user’s interaction with huge amounts of data, which also explain the made approach.  
       Indeed, Einstein’s saying ‘Look deep into the nature, then you will understand everything better’ is a big inspiration and challenge to find the required, new solutions. At this point, a short overview is given on existing organizational and functional principles, which have been derived and -so far- understood from nature and in particular the human brain and which could be adapted to realize the desired, new methods for natural language processing. The methods mostly follow the strict natural design principle of locality, i.e. work without overseeing the whole system or full set of data and exhibit a high degree of parallelism.
Last but not least, some applications of the new design principles will be presented.
报告人简介：
       Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Herwig Unger (∗1966) received his PhD with a work on Petri Net transformation in 1994 from the Ilmenau University of Technology and his doctorate (habilitation) with a work on a fully decentralized web operating systems from the University of Rostock in 2000. Since 2006, he is a full professor at the FernUniversität in Hagen and the head of the Department of Communication Networks. In 2019, he obtained a honorary PhD in Information Technology from the King Mongkut’s University of Technology in North Bangkok (Thailand). His research interests are in decentralized systems and self-organization, natural language processing, Big Data as well as large- scale simulations. He has authored more than 150 publications in refereed journals and conferences, published or edited more than 30 books and gave over 35 invited talks and lectures in 12 countries. Besides various industrial co-operations, e.g. with Airbus Industries, he has been a guest researcher/professor at the ICSI Berkeley (USA), the University of Leipzig and other universities in Canada, Mexico and Thailand.