BCS Edinburgh Branch Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture - Are Friends Electric? Our Future Lives with Robots
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Are Friends Electric? Our Future Lives with Robots
The BCS Edinburgh Branch Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture (about Sidney Michaelson)
In partnership with the Edinburgh International Science Festival.
Saturday 31st March 2018, 15:00 pm - 16:30 pm
Speaker: Prof Tony Prescott, Director of Sheffield Robotics
Venue: Auditorium, National Museum of Scotland.
Tickets for this event must be purchased from the EISF here
Synopsis
From books and TV to movies and games, our lives are full of images of our possible future lives with robots - some appealing, some nightmarish, some simply weird. What might future robots be like and might we want to be friends with them? Why are we so fascinated with robots anyway, and what does this tell us about ourselves? Join Prof Tony Prescott, psychologist, neuroscientist, and director of Sheffield Robotics, to explore how far we've come in creating the robots of our science fiction dreams, where we might get to in the future, and whether all of this is really such a good idea.
This event is dedicated to Prof Sidney Michaelson (1925-1991), a champion of computer science
About the speaker
Prof Tony Prescott (http://www.abrg.group.shef.ac.uk/people/tony/) is Professor of Cognitive Robotics at the University of Sheffield, and Director of Sheffield Robotics, a cross-disciplinary research institute with over one hundred researchers. He is the co-creator of the animal-like robots Scratchbot and Shrewbot. He also writes and speaks about the societal and cultural impacts of future robotic, AI, virtual reality and telepresence systems, with particular focus on how these technologies are changing how we see ourselves.
An exciting, brand new conference hosted by the family of Alan Turing themselves!
Come hear about how innovative technology is Challenging the Way We Change Our World - with a focus on development in Africa!
Hear from:
Steve Clayton (Chief Storyteller and former CEO of Microsoft (via live Skype from Seattle))
Stephen Kelly (CEO of Sage)
Amanda Regan (Engineer of the European Space Agency)
Roland Bone (VP of the Barclays Financial Crime Unit)
Sir Tim O'Shea (Principal of Edinburgh University)
Dr Geoffrey Siwo (Researcher at IBM)
The whole conference will be chaired by:
Sir Dermot Turing (nephew of Alan Turing) and,
Bernie Hollywood OBE (Lloyds Colleague - raised over £39.6 million for charity).
All proceeds from the conference will be going directly to support the work of the Turing Trust in Ghana, Malawi and Kenya (bridging the digital divide through provision of refurbished computers for education).
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