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Manana del primer dia: Inteligencia Artificial y Robotics

This track focuses on intelligent machines. The main topics are: (1) Introduction to intelligent machines: perception, actions, representation, reasoning, learning, dealing with uncertainty. (2) AI technology: efficient exploration of state space, planning, logical inference, probabilistic inference, representation languages, machine learning, and language understanding. Alternative approaches for producing artificial general intelligence (AGI) or strong AI. (3) Robotics technology: hardware systems (sensors, manipulators), mobility, localization and mapping, human-robot interactions, multi-agent systems, autonomous vehicles, scaling to micro- and nano-machines. (4) Applications in home, transportation, medicine, security, internet, entertainment, space, and other areas. (5) Future directions: technology trends, solving the hard problems. AI ethics, potential for runaway AI, friendly vs. unfriendly AI. Uncertainties concerning when computers will match various capabilities of the human brain. Will computers become conscious?

TRACK CHAIRS & ADVISORY (AI & Robotics)

• Co-Chair: Neil Jacobstein, CEO, Teknowledge; Visiting Scholar, Media X Program, Stanford University
• Co-Chair: Dan Barry, President, Denbar Robotics, former NASA astronaut
• Teaching Fellow:  Rod Furlan, Singularity University

Tarde de ese mismo dia:

This track covers the exponential growth in biotechnology and bioinformatics, focusing on four areas: (1) genome technologies (genomics and proteomics, ultra-rapid, low-cost gene sequencing, and statistical and computational extrapolations of large biological databases); 2) Personalized medicine (4P medicine: personalized, predictive, preventative, participatory; high-speed, full-genome, consumer-based sequencing; personal SNP analysis and ethics); (3) Intelligent design (ultra-rapid, low-cost DNA writing, selective gene manipulation/substitution, ethics of germline modification, RNA interference); and (4) Microfludics and single-molecule technologies.

TRACK CHAIRS & ADVISORY (Biotechnology & Bioinformatics)

• Co-Chair: Daniel Reda, Co-Founder, CureTogether
• Co-Chair: Andrew Hessel, Founding Director, Pink Army Cooperative
• Teaching Fellow: Shawna Pandya, Singularity University