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==Bio for EUKIDS online Nordicom Book== | ==Bio for EUKIDS online Nordicom Book== | ||
Yiannis is a social and business entrepreneur, a neuroscientist and systems engineer, currently working as Senior Scientist and Chair of the Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute and as Director of CyberEthics, the Cyprus Safer Internet Center. He is interested in research and applications of broadband technologies as tools to bridge the digital; economic educational and inter-personal divides in our planet. He has published >50 papers in peered reviewed journals, in neuroscience, in applied systems science and peace, and in IT-children and neuroscience of learning. He contributed chapters in >20 books and >130 conference papers and presentations. | Yiannis is a social and business entrepreneur, a neuroscientist and systems engineer, currently working as Senior Scientist and Chair of the Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute and as Director of CyberEthics, the Cyprus Safer Internet Center. He is interested in research and applications of broadband technologies as tools to bridge the digital; economic educational and inter-personal divides in our planet. He has published >50 papers in peered reviewed journals, in neuroscience, in applied systems science and peace, and in IT-children and neuroscience of learning. He contributed chapters in >20 books and >130 conference papers and presentations. | ||
==Bio for Benjamin Book== | |||
Laouris is a social and business entrepreneur, a neuroscientist and systems engineer working as Senior Scientist at the Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute. He holds an MD and a PhD in Neurophysiology from Germany (Leipzig) and an MS in Systems and Industrial Engineering from the University of Arizona. He applied linear/non-linear digital processing to biological signals from experimental animals to study brain signals. He published several books, book chapters, over 60 peered-reviewed publications and >160 conference papers. In the 90ties, he founded CYBER Kids (www.cyber-kids.net), a chain of franchised computer learning centers (numerous prestigious awards), which introduced IT in the lives of over 15,000 children and 10,000 adults in Cyprus and thousands in 7 other countries. | |||
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