Tag: Future

A Dream of Robots
...talk by MIT CSAIL Professor Leslie Pack Kaelbling. Speaking at the "Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything" symposium commemorating MIT's 150th anniversary celebration back in April, Kaelbling described the emerging research frontiers at the intersection of robotics and AI. (from the CCC blog June 27th, 2011 by Erwin Gianchandani). April, 2011. (more)

IWSC / ASWC 2007 Invited Speaker: Chris Welty (IBM T J Watson Research Center) - How I was right even when I was wrong.
"For the past several years I have warned people not to ask me to predict the future, because my predictions are usually wrong. Undaunted by failure, in this talk I will try to predict the future of the semantic web based on a very personal view of its history, the history of the internet, web, semantic web, and AI, and the mistakes I've made predicting where and how they would be valuable." November 15, 2007. (more)

USC Presents...Closer To Truth: Can We See the Near Future - Year 2025?
"Close you eyes. Now fast-forward 25 years. Open your eyes. What do you see? Humanity has moved through the agrarian age to the industrial age and now, the information age. With what moniker will we label our future? Experts gather to argue where we've been, what we've learned, what the future holds in store, and if it really is possible to forecast the not too distant future. Joining host Robert Kuhn are creativity pioneer Edward de Bono; fuzzy logic expert Bart Kosko; artificial intelligence expert Edward Feigenbaum; futurist Graham T.T. Molitor; and planetary scientist Bruce Murray." June 2000. (more)

Will Small Step for Robots Lead to Giant Leap for Robotkind?
"Just how close are we to being replaced by robots? NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien examines the efforts under way to develop robots that are just like us." Video clips of many robots and interviews with researchers, including Marvin Minsky. Oct. 29, 2010. (more)