王志刚教授是英国肯特大学计算机学院的院长，肯特大学是英国顶级大学之一，其计算机学院是由女王伊丽莎白二世创办的。王教授的研究兴趣包括：忆阻器计算、云/网格计算、绿色计算、脑计算、数据存储及通信等。他在世界范围内多次应邀做主题演讲，并介绍其研究，比如美国普林斯顿大学，卡耐基·梅隆大学，欧洲核子研究中心，香港科技大学，台湾清华大学，印度加瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁大学，亚里斯多德大学以及南非约翰尼斯堡大学等。2004年他被任命为CCHPCF（剑桥-克兰菲尔德高新能计算中心）网格计算中心主任，CCHPCF是剑桥与克兰菲尔德出资四千万法郎建立的一个合作性研究组织。王教授及其团队曾赢得ACM/IEEE超级计算的决赛奖。2005年王教授被选为IEEE计算机协会UKRI地区主席（UKRI为英联合王国和爱尔兰共和国简称），他获得过英国计算机学会的会士荣誉，并且是爱尔兰科学基金（SFI）高端计算组和英国政府重点基金项目EPSRC e-Science评审专家组专家。

Professor Frank Z. Wang is Head of School of Computing, University of Kent, UK. The University of Kent is one of top UK universities and the School of Computing was formally opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Professor Wangs research interests include future computing using memristor, cloud/grid computing, green computing, brain computing and data storage and communication etc. He has been invited to deliver keynote speeches and invited talks to report his research worldwide, for example at Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon University, CERN, Hong Kong University of Sci. & Tech., Tsinghua University (Taiwan), Jawaharlal Nehru University, Aristotle University, and University of Johannesburg. In 2004, he was appointed as Chair & Professor, Director of Centre for Grid Computing at CCHPCF (Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facility). CCHPCF is a collaborative research facility in the Universities of Cambridge and Cranfield (with an investment size of ￡40 million). Prof Wang and his team have won an ACM/IEEE Super Computing finalist award. Prof Wang was elected as the Chairman (UK & Republic of Ireland Chapter) of the IEEE Computer Society in 2005. He is Fellow of British Computer Society. He has served the Irish Government High End Computing Panel for Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and the UK Government EPSRC e-Science Panel.

本讲座将讲述忆阻器发明，忆阻器是2500年前古中国神秘主义哲学家给出的一个设想，其发明可媲美门捷列夫化学元素周期表、发现太阳系行星、发现“上帝粒子”、发现宇宙超对称、捕捉到黑能量。忆阻器被称为电路世界中的第四种基本电路元件，将对未来计算和电子工程等领域产生深远的影响。