Biography :
Dietrich Brandt holds a PhD in Physics, University of Mainz, Germany. He taught Physics at several German Universities, the University of London and M.I.T. (USA). From 1974 until 2003, he worked as Senior Researcher at the Cybernetics Lab, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He was then structuring control and automation engineering projects towards AI. From 1993 to 1999, he was chairman of the Committee on Social Impact of Automation, International Federation of Automatic Control IFAC. He has widely published in prestigious journals and contributed to many conferences world-wide, and he has been the author and editor of several books.