[Mitworld] New: Creativity: the Mind, Machines, and Mathematics

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 23 | February 28, 2007
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[CREATIVITY: THE MIND, MACHINES, AND MATHEMATICS: PUBLIC DEBATE]

SPEAKERS:
Raymond Kurzweil
Chairman and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
Author, The Singularity is Near

David Gelernter
Professor of Computer Science, Yale University
Chief Scientist, Mirror Worlds Technologies

Rodney A. Brooks
Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory (CSAIL)


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/422/>

[QUOTE]
"Can we build a robot with a physical need for a non-physical thing?
Maybe, but don't count on it."
-- Carol Sanford


EVENT HOST: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
(CSAIL)
<http://www.csail.mit.edu/>

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[ALAN TURING: CODEBREAKER AND AI PIONEER]

SPEAKER:
B. Jack Copeland
Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Turing Archive for the
History of Computing, University of Canterbury, New Zealand


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/423/>

[QUOTE]
"Nowadays when nearly everyone owns the physical realization of a
universal Turing machine, Turing's idea of a one-stop-shop computing
machine is apt to seem as obvious as the wheel. But in 1936, engineers
thought in terms of building specific machines for particular purposes.
Turing's idea was revolutionary."
-- B. Jack Copeland


EVENT HOST: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
(CSAIL)
<http://www.csail.mit.edu/>

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