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title Closing
 
speaker Dr. Mike Reed Director
 
affiliation UNU-IIST
 
bio George Mike Reed is the Director of UNU-IIST. From 1986 to 2005, he was the General Electric Company Fellow in Computation at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University. He holds a doctorate in pure mathematics from Auburn University (USA) and a doctorate in computation from Oxford University (UK). His previous experience includes terms as a Senior Research Associate at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the US Naval Research Laboratory, and as a Manager of Postdoctoral Programs for the US National Science Foundation. He is a former Research Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and former Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Ohio University. He has numerous publications in both pure mathematics and in computation. He has also edited several research volumes and international research journal, has given over two hundred research presentations at various meetings, and has been the organizer of several international conferences. He was also a co-founder and former director of Formal Systems (Europe) Limited (UK). This company applies formal (mathematical) techniques to the development of software and hardware.