PROGRAM and LABORATORY, Selmer Bringsjord, Director

www.rpi.edu/dept/ppcs/MM/mm.uc.html

 

 

Creative Minds/

Creative Machines

Minds and Machines Free, Public Lecture Series • Fall 1999

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Sage Auditorium, Sage Building • 7:30 p.m.

 

September 30 THE DECADE OF THE BRAIN Larry Reid

Rensselaer

Professor of Psychology and pioneer in Addiction Research

October 7 THE PARROT’S LAMENT: TALES OF ANIMAL CREATIVITY Eugene Linden*

Naturalist and writer on science and nature for TIME MAGAZINE and author of THE PARROT’S LAMENT

October 14 COMMANDER DATA

AND THE POSSIBILITY OF MACHINES WITH MINDS Ron McClamrock*

University at Albany, SUNY

Author of EXISTENTIAL COGNITION:COMPUTATIONAL MINDS IN THE WORLD

October 21 THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN COGNITION AND CREATIVITY Dean Falk*

University at Albany,SUNY

Author of BRAINDANCE and the forthcoming PRIMATE DIVERSITY

October 28 CAVEMAN IN THE COCKPIT: EVOLUTION AND CREATIVITY Alan Stokes

Rensselaer

Author of FLIGHT STRESS: STRESS, FATIGUE AND PERFORMANCE IN AVIATION

November 4 CREATIVITY AND COMPUTERS Margaret Boden*

University of Sussex

Author of THE CREATIVE MIND: MYTHS AND MECHANISMS

November 11 CAN A COMPUTING MACHINE BE GENUINELY CREATIVE? Selmer Bringsjord

Rensselaer

Director of the Minds & Machines Program & Laboratory

November 18 TELEBOTS: CREATING PSYCHOPRESENCE Ron Noel

Rensselaer

Director, Graduate Cognitive Science Program, PP&CS

December 2 CREATIVITY: AN IDEA IS JUST THE BEGINNING Burt Swersey

Rensselaer

Senior Lecturer Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering and Mechanics

December 9 SECOND ANNUAL LEGO-ROBOT ROUNDUP Minds & Machines Students

Rensselaer

 

 

* Sponsored by a grant from the Minds & Machines Program and Laboratory

Franklin J. Matchette Foundation Philosophy, Psychology & Cognitive Science

QUESTIONS? Contact James Fahey Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

(518)276-2321, faheyj2@rpi.edu Troy, NY 12180-3590