Will spiritual robots replace humanity by 2100?

From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 00:26:23 MST


A Stanford Symposium organized by Douglas Hofstadter
FREE and open to the public
April 1, 2000, 1pm - 5:30. TCSEQ room 200.
(Parking in "A" lots OK on Saturdays)

Primary speakers:

Ray Kurzweil (inventor of reading machine for the blind, electronic
keyboards, etc., and author of "The Age of Spiritual Machines")

Hans Moravec (a pioneer of mobile robot research, and author of "Robot: Mere
Machine to Transcendent Mind")

Bill Joy (co-founder of, and chief scientist at, SUN Microsystems)

John Holland (inventor of genetic algorithms, and artificial-life pioneer;
professor of computer science and psychology at the U. of Michigan)

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/symbol/Hofstadter-event.html

See you there!!

-Zero

"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson

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