Dawn or Doom

2014 Conference schedule:
Concurrent sessions (Details below)

Presentations will be held on the Purdue campus in various locations including Loeb, Fowler, Krannert Auditorium 140 and the Krannert Exec Ed Center Rm 108.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening movies will be shown at twilight in front of the Union. On the day of the conference they will be shown on the AGAD lawn.

Movies on the PMU lawn

Monday Sept. 15 - Wednesday Sept. 17
Sunset at 7:48 PM
Replayed at 10PM Monday & Wednesday
Monday 8:00 PM Transcendence (119 minutes)

A scientist's drive for artificial intelligence, takes on dangerous implications when his consciousness is uploaded into one such program.

Monday 10:00 PM Transcendence (119 minutes)

A scientist's drive for artificial intelligence, takes on dangerous implications when his consciousness is uploaded into one such program.

Tuesday 8:00 PM AI (146 minutes)

A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become 'real' so that he can regain the love of his human mother.

Wednesday 8:00 PM Jurassic Park (127 minutes)

During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.

Wednesday 10:10 PM Jurassic Park (127 minutes)

During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.

Conference Schedule

Thursday Sept. 18
12 - 1 PM Armchair Discussion: What do you need to know about AI? - Fowler Hall
Introduction by Gerry McCartney - System CIO and VP of Information Technology
James Barrat
Dean Gary Bertoline
1 - 5 PM Krannert Auditorium - Room 140
Loeb Playhouse
Krannert Exec Ed - Room 108
Fowler Hall
5 - 6 PM Keynote: Can We Coexist with Superintelligent Machines? - Fowler Hall
Introduction by President Mitch Daniels
James Barrat

Krannert Auditorium Room 140

1 - 1:45 PM Man versus Machine and the Future of Work
David Hummels - Professor of Economics and Interim Dean, Krannert School of Management
2 - 2:45 PM Artificial Intelligence and the Appearance of Wisdom: Connecting AI with Our Knowledge of what is Good
Professor Patrick Kain
3 - 3:45 PM Robot applications might be the key to understanding the human mind
Professor Zygmunt Pizlo
4 - 4:45 PM Synthetic Life: Our Hybrid Future
Professor Jenna Rickus

Loeb Playhouse

1 - 1:45 PM Are we too smart for our own good? How large-scale machine learning systems can vastly exceed human level decision-making abilities
Professor Jennifer Neville
2 - 2:45 PM Will robots insure our safety or place us at risk?
Professor Eric Matson
3 - 3:45 PM Mythbusting today’s Nanotechnology and Knowledge Transfer through nanoHUB.org
Professor Gerhard Klimeck
4 - 4:45 PM Digital Nature
Professor Bryan Pijanowski

Krannert Exec Ed Room 108

1 - 1:45 PM Personalized Learning and the Future of Educational Technology
Professor Jeffrey D. Karpicke
2 - 2:45 PM Global Vitamin Enhancement of Maize Grain: Wonderful Opportunities for Genomic Selection
Professor Torbert Rocheford
3 - 3:45 PM Minds, Culture and the Evolution of Intelligence
Professor Dan Kelly
4 - 4:45 PM The Moral Status of Future Machines
Professor Mark Bernstein

Fowler Hall

1 - 1:45 PM Faster than Our Understanding
Professor Eugene Spafford
2 - 2:45 PM The Machine in the Game: Technology and the Contemporary Evolution of Sport
Professor Rayvon Fouché
3 - 3:45 PM Why ain't you rich?: why our current understanding of 'rational choice' isn't good enough for superintelligence
Nate Soares- MIRI Research Fellow
4 - 4:30 PM Just Looking? – Motivations and Mechanisms for Machine Vision in the 21st Century
Professor Fabian Winkler
Professor Shannon McMullen
4:30 - 5 PM Visual Intelligence and the Terminator
Professor Eugenio Culurciello
Alfredo Canziani

Movies in the tent in front of AGAD

Thursday 10:00 AM Tron (96 minutes)

A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.

Thursday 12:00 PM Gattaca (108 minutes)

A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.

Thursday 2:00 PM Dr. Strangelove (95 minutes)

An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.