Playing God?: Toward machines that deny their maker

Tue 2 November 2010

Emmanuel College

Playing God?: Toward Machines that Deny Their Maker. A public lecture by Prof. Rosalind Picard of MIT Media Lab on technical and theological aspects of affective computing.

Emotion is fundamental to human experience, influencing cognition, perception, and everyday tasks such as learning, communication, and even rational decision-making. However, technologists have largely ignored emotion and created an often frustrating experience for people, in part because affect has been misunderstood and hard to measure. Professor Picard's research with the 'Things That Think' consortium develops new technologies and theories that advance basic understanding of affect and its role in human experience, we the aim of restoring a proper balance between emotion and cognition in the design of technologies for addressing human needs.

Prof. Rosalind Picard is known internationally for envisioning and conducting research in affective computing—computing that relates to, arises from, or deliberately influences emotion or other affective phenomena.

Cost: free