Date: Thursday, August 8, 2013. 6:45 PM.
Location: Building 200 (Lane History Corner, Main Quad)
The LASERs (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) are part of a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversation with an audience. The Stanford LASERs are jointly sponsored by the Office of Science Outreach and the Stanford Arts Institute. Each evening event presents four artists, scientists, thinkers, inventors and scholars who are working on paradigm shifts, allows the audience to socialize, and encourages people in the audience to briefly introduce their work. August 8, 2013 Presenters: Niki Ulehla (Puppet Maker) on "Marionettes, forms and relationships" How and why does a marionette move? How do the basic mechanics of the construction lead to the imitation of life David Israel (SRI International) on "Random Thoughts on Random Natural Language Processing Research" Research at SRI Intl to emulate human language Jeanne C. Finley (California College of the Arts) on "The Non-Fiction Imagination" How imaginative engagement with representational media has shifted and defined the individual's relationship to both the self and community Tony Pratkanis (Stanford University) on "Replacing the Office Intern: An Autonomous Coffee Run with a Mobile Robot" The adventures of Stanford's PR2 mobile robot as it traveled from the robotics lab to the coffee shop upstairs
Location: Building 200 (Lane History Corner, Main Quad)
The LASERs (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) are part of a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversation with an audience. The Stanford LASERs are jointly sponsored by the Office of Science Outreach and the Stanford Arts Institute. Each evening event presents four artists, scientists, thinkers, inventors and scholars who are working on paradigm shifts, allows the audience to socialize, and encourages people in the audience to briefly introduce their work. August 8, 2013 Presenters: Niki Ulehla (Puppet Maker) on "Marionettes, forms and relationships" How and why does a marionette move? How do the basic mechanics of the construction lead to the imitation of life David Israel (SRI International) on "Random Thoughts on Random Natural Language Processing Research" Research at SRI Intl to emulate human language Jeanne C. Finley (California College of the Arts) on "The Non-Fiction Imagination" How imaginative engagement with representational media has shifted and defined the individual's relationship to both the self and community Tony Pratkanis (Stanford University) on "Replacing the Office Intern: An Autonomous Coffee Run with a Mobile Robot" The adventures of Stanford's PR2 mobile robot as it traveled from the robotics lab to the coffee shop upstairs