MIT Public Debate & Lecture
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CREATIVITY: the mind, machines, and mathematics
A Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of Alan Turing's Seminal Paper "On Computable Numbers" featuring a debate on the limits of intelligent machines and a lecture on Turing's contributions.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLICThursday, November 30, 2006
THe Ray & Maria Stata Center
Room 32-123
32 Vassar Street (intersection of Main & Vassar Streets)
Cambridge, MA., 02139
In Celebration of:
- 100 years anniversary of the birth of Kurt Gödel
- 70 years since Alan Turing's seminal paper "On computable numbers"
- 50 years since the start of Artificial Intelligence research at Dartmouth College
4:30 – 5:30PM : A Public Debate
"Are we limited to building super-intelligent robotic 'zombies' or will it be possible and desirable for us to build conscious, creative, volitional, perhaps even 'spiritual' machines?"
David Gelernter vs. Ray Kurzweil
Moderated by: Rodney Brooks, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
5:30 – 6:15PM : Pizza & Soda
6:15 – 7:15PM : A Special Public Lecture
"Alan Turing's Contribution to World History:
The future of AI and Super-Turing Machines"
by B. Jack Copleland
In Conjunction with: The Humble Approach Initiative symposium on "Creativity: Mind, Machines, and Mathematics," 30 November, 1 and 2 December, 2006, MIT
Sponsored by:
