Event ID # 56364
Date:
Monday, August 18, 2008
 Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Event:

Power to the People: Robots and Representational Democracy
Host:

Down to a Science
Location:

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Atlas Cafe
3049 20th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Contact:
Kishore Hari		 Phone:
415-440-1792
Email:
info@sciencecafesf.com
Website:
http://www.sciencecafesf.com
Price:
Free.
Full details:
Is there decision-making strength in numbers? Professor Ken Goldberg, of UC Berkeley, and his students are looking into questions raised by robots and social networks -- and working on a new class of interfaces and games based on networked robots and cameras that quantify a measure of "leadership" to bring about group discovery and decision-making based on the power of crowds.

Ken will report on experiments and questions raised by robots and social networks, ranging from Ouija boards to human "tele-actors,"and tell a true story about how invasions of privacy led him and his students to study how robots can assist in monitoring the natural environment. Ken will describe a robotic system they've deployed to assist the search for the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, a bird of extreme interest to birdwatchers, ornithologists, and conservationists whose last confirmed sighting was in 1944. Ken will also describe the Berkeley Center for New Media, a highly cross-disciplinary center with over 110 affiliated faculty from 30 Cal Departments.

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