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Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 14:50:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Evan Korth <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [Computers_and_society_announcements] HUMAN vs MACHINE 2011 this Saturday (fwd) Cool panel tomorrow at Courant! e. As part of The Courant Institute Celebrates 75 Years Celebration we have a special panel open to the public: Saturday, May 7, 2011 Warren Weaver Hall, Rooms 101 & 102 1:45-2:45 Human vs Machine 2011: Recent trends in A.I., Turing Tests, Uncanny Valleys, and Wisdom of Crowds. This panel brings several renowned experts together to discuss recent trends in human and artificial intelligence. Clay Shirky, NYU Tisch ITP and Journalism faculty, is the best selling author of Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus; he is a proponent of collaborative intelligence and crowd sourcing. Paul Horn, NYU Senior Vice Provost of Research, previously head of IBM Research, originated the Watson system, which recently won the Jeopardy Challenge on CBS against the 2 best human players. Raia Hadsell is an NYU Courant alumnus and the lead architect of the robot that won the DARPA grant challenge by getting off the road and navigating through forests and wilderness. Nava Rubin, NYU Neural Science and Psychology faculty, is a human brain expert with focus on visual perception and cognition. The moderator, Chris Bregler, is an NYU Courant faculty and an expert in faking human motion and replacing human actors in Hollywood productions. _______________________________________________ Computers_and_society_announcements mailing list [email protected] http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/computers_and_society_announcements </blockquote> Distributed poC TINC: Jay Sulzberger <[email protected]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
