In the three-day, four-event Thought Experiments festival, five local playwrights and five scientists collaborate on five original plays that ask: What does it mean to be human when robots and AI become an integral part of our lives?
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Infinity Box Theatre Project: Thought Experiments on the Question of Being Human: Robots and Artificial Intelligence (Set A)
Saturday, June 15, 2013, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5-$17.
Infinity Box Theatre Project: Thought Experiments on the Question of Being Human: Robots and Artificial Intelligence (Set B)
Friday, June 14, 2013, 7:30 – 9:30pm
In the three-day, four-event Thought Experiments festival, five local playwrights and five scientists collaborate on five original plays that ask: What does it mean to be human when robots and AI become an integral part of our lives?
Infinity Box Theatre Project: Thought Experiments on the Question of Being Human: Robots and Artificial Intelligence (Set A)
Thursday, June 13, 2013, 7:30 – 9:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5-$17.
In the three-day, four-event Thought Experiments festival, five local playwrights and five scientists collaborate on five original plays that ask: What does it mean to be human when robots and AI become an integral part of our lives?
Christopher Wills: The Vital Balance of Humans & Nature
Monday, June 10, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Field biologist Christopher Wills, author of Green Equilibrium, explains the idea behind nature’s delicate balancing acts with vignettes of ecological processes in action in many different ecosystems, from coral reefs to the high Himalayas.
Jessica Wapner: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer
Friday, June 7, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Double feature!
Jessica Wapner, author of The Philadelphia Chromosome, tells the epic tale that arose from the first glimpse of a genetic mutation, dubbed the Philadelphia chromosome, in 1959; its role in causing chronic myeloid leukemia; and the development of Gleevec, a groundbreaking drug that made this once-fatal cancer treatable with a single daily pill.
UW Science Now: Ethan Ahler: What Cancer Eats & Why it Matters
Friday, June 7, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Double feature!
Understanding how cancerous cells differ from normal cells is key to improving our ability to design smarter drugs, says UW researcher Ethan Ahler. One such difference is their diet, and by understanding such differences, Ahler says, we can potentially develop therapies to exploit them.
Shane Lopez: Mobilizing the Life-Changing Power of Hope
Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Gallup Senior Scientist Shane Lopez, a leading authority on the psychology of hope and author of Making Hope Happen, shows how to mobilize the power of hope to improve our lives—and our children’s, and our neighbors’.
Jaron Lanier: Digital Technology Can Save Our Economy (and Humanity)
Thursday, May 30, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Double feature!
In explaining why digital efficiencies haven’t made us all rich, Virtual Reality research pioneer Jaron Lanier, author of Who Owns the Future?, presents paths to getting us back on track, advocating revolutionary concepts such as monetizing data now treated as cost-free, an idea that just might save our economy—and our human dignity.
UW Science Now: Makrand Sinha: P vs. NP: The Limits of Computers AND Jingda Wu: NCQD: Print Your Own Solar Cells
Thursday, May 30, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Double feature!
In this double feature, UW researcher Makrand Sinha explores the P vs. NP question, one of computer science’s biggest unsolved mysteries, which asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified by a computer also can be quickly solved by a computer, and Jingda Wu explains how NCQD could let us print our own solar cells.
Infinity Box Theatre Project: Thought Experiments on the Question of Being Human: Robots and Artificial Intelligence (Set B)
Saturday, June 15, 2013, 8:30 – 10:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5-$17.
In the three-day, four-event Thought Experiments festival, five local playwrights and five scientists collaborate on five original plays that ask: What does it mean to be human when robots and AI become an integral part of our lives?