The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Prof Tshilidzi Marwala

NISTH Distinguished Lectures

30 August 2018
HASS Conference Room

The fourth industrial revolution is characterized​ by making systems as well as machines intelligent and connected. The underlying technologies of the fourth industrial revolution include artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain. Artificial intelligence is a paradigm where physical and social phenomena are programmed to solve complex problems. AI enables machines to learn, adapt, evolve and optimize and has had a profound impact in diverse fields such as engineering, medical sciences and social sciences. This lecture explores applications of the fourth industrial revolution technologies to engineering, social sciences and medical problems. The implications of these on society as well as the underlying costs are also explored.

Tshilidzi ​Marwala​ is the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg. Previously, he was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Internationalization and the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment​ both at the University of Johannesburg. He progressively held the posi​tions of Associate Professor, Full Professor, the Carl and Emily Fuchs Chair of Systems and Control Engineering as well as the SARChI Chair of Systems Engineering at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand. Before then, he was the Executive Assistant to the technical director at South African Breweries and a post-doctoral research associate at the Imperial College (then University of London).


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