The Cambridge Robot Projecthttp://people.csail.mit.edu/kathleen/robotproject.htm
THEATRE, FILM, EXHIBITION, DISCUSSION 15TH TO 28TH MAY 2006 ALL EVENTS TO BE HELD AT MICHAELHOUSE, TRINITY STREET, CAMBRIDGE
The Cambridge Robot Project is a non-profit student initiative and an event to raise issues of technology and human life by using theatre, photography and film.The Cambridge Robot Project will mark the 85th anniversary of the invention of the robot by performing the play that brought us the first robots, R.U.R (Rossum's Universal Robots) as well as examining what it means to behuman in an age of technology.
THE CAMBRIDGE ROBOT PROJECT IS A PUBLIC EVENT AND ALL ARE WELCOME
Speakers include:
Dr Katy Price, Department of English, Communication, Film & Media, Anglia Ruskin University
Dr Alan Blackwell, The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Dr Murray Shanahan, Department of Computing, Imperial College London
William Newman, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Peter Jaeckel, Robotics Laboratory, University of West of England
Dr Joanna Bryson, Department of Cognitive Science, University of Bath
Dr Dawn Heather, Associates Consultancy Services
Dr Mark Witkowski, Department of Computing, Imperial College London
Professor Steve Torrance, Informatics, University of Sussex
Professor Owen Holland, Department of Computer Science, University of Essex
Rob Clowes, Department of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex
The Cambridge Robot Project Is Produced By Kathleen Richardson, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RF (44) 01223 334402
The Cambridge Robot Project http://people.csail.mit.edu/kathleen/robotproject.htm