Dawn or Doom

2015 Conference schedule:
Concurrent sessions (Details below)

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.