[ILUG] [OT] Professor Kevin Warwick to talk in UCD.

[John Malone]

On Tuesday the 27th of March professor Kevin Warick, of the University of
Reading, will deliver a presentation entitled:

Will it be Super Intelligent Machines or Cyborgs? 

The presentation will take place in Theatre A of the Science Lecture
Building, Belfield, University College Dublin, at 7.30pm.

Abstract:
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Professor Kevin Warwick, Cybernetics Department, University of Reading

As we look to the future, the possibility of machines appearing that are
more intelligent than humans becomes more and more certain. But is this
really likely? If so, what will it mean for humans? In this presentation
Kevin Warwick looks at what intelligence in humans and machines actually
means and investigates whether robot machines can really be intelligent.

In recent years many scientists have pointed to a way in which humans
can stay in control of machines, no matter how intelligent they are. But
this requires a human/machine symbiosis with the two entities physically
linked together in order that humans can directly harness machine
intelligence. In late 1998 Professor Warwick carried out a widely
publicised experiment when a silicon chip transponder was surgically
implanted into his arm. The results of this experiment are reported and
a potential future with implant technology is considered. However, will
it provide the answer hoped for? 

Biography:
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Professor of Cybernetics University of Reading

Dr. Kevin Warwick is Professor of Cybernetics at the University of
Reading, UK where he carries out research in artificial intelligence,
control and robotics. His favourite topic is pushing back the frontiers
of machine intelligence. Professor Warwick began his career by joining
British Telecom with whom he spent the next 6 years. At 22 he took his
first degree at Aston University followed by a PhD and research post at
Imperial College, London. He subsequently held positions at Oxford,
Newcastle and Warwick Universities before being offered the Chair at
Reading, at the age of 32.

Professor Warwick has published over 300 research papers and his latest
paperback "In the Mind of the Machine" gives a warning of a future in
which machines are more intelligent than humans.  He has been awarded
higher doctorates both by Imperial College and the Czech Academy of
Sciences, Prague and has been described (by Gillian Anderson of the
X-Files) as Britain's leading prophet of the robot age. He appears in
the 1999 Guinness Book of Records for an Internet robot learning
experiment. 

In 1998 he shocked the international scientific community by having a
silicon chip transponder surgically implanted in his left arm. A series
of further implant experiments is now planned in which Professor
Warwick's nervous system will be linked to a computer. This research
led to him being featured in February 2000, as the cover story on the US
wired magazine Wired.

Professor Warwick presented the Year 2000 Royal Institution Christmas
Lectures



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John Malone
www.johnmalone.org
Auditor UCD Internet Society
2000 - 2001


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-- 
John Malone
www.johnmalone.org
Auditor UCD Internet Society
2000 - 2001