Pass the popcorn, please.
I've always found that quoting movies is easier than explaining myself.
I suppose I can add in a few clauses to better describe me/my page/my type of humor.
University of Oregon. Ska music. Vintage art and movies. English and Film Major, Philosophy Aficionado. Culture. Avocados. Cinema in general. Humor. Cynicism. Rocky Horror. Good television. Coffee.
and good times.
Absolutely adorable, I love the wonder woman comics on the table especially. Everything about this is just brilliant, I adore DIY wedding creations. Especially superhero related ones!
This is incredible
(via smelly-scraps)
Jack Lemmon is my best friend and he’s a very wonderful actor. A very talented, very funny man. A lovely man. We’re like brothers! We are gifts to each other. He’s such a fun personality. There will only ever be one Jack Lemmon. —Tony Curtis
(Source: mattybing1025, via vintagesonia)
“I’m here a week now… waiting for a mission… getting softer. Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter.”
(via brokenblossoms)
It’s Elementary My Dear Watson: The Philosophy & Science of Artificial Intelligence
Live Turing Test Simulation!
Tuesday, February 21, 7:00-8:30PM
Living Learning Center Performance Hall
Is intelligence what separates humans from other organisms? Is intelligence the ability to act in a way that results in optimal outcomes? Does intelligence defy simple definition—“I know it when I see it”?
This interactive event will explore the evolution in thought about human and machine intelligence. Ken Valente, Professor of Mathematics & Interdisciplinary Studies, and Director of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies at Colgate University will deliver an introductory presentation placing Alan Turing’s ideas and innovations regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI) and computer science in social and historical context. Valente will also share his original research into the gender and sexuality dynamics of Turing’s thinking.
UO Computer & Information Science (CIS) faculty Daniel Lowd, Dejing Dou, Stephen Fickas and Jim Allen will then invite the audience to participate in a live simulation of the “Turing Test” as envisioned by its namesake. The audience will assume the role of interrogators and engage in a “masked conversation” with a human and a computer hidden away from the questioners. After evaluating a series of simultaneous answers from the concealed respondents the audience will decide which is human and which is machine? Can the computer convince you it is human? If so, would that represent Artificial Intelligence?
The panel presentations will conclude with CIS faculty examining AI through the lenses of “moving and reacting,” competition, deep understanding, and creative design. Time for debrief and discussion will be reserved for last 20 minutes.
Panel:
Ken Valente: Ken holds a joint appointment as professor of mathematics and interdisciplinary studies at Colgate University, where he’s also the director of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Oregon in 1985 and held an NSF post-doctoral fellowship at Berkeley before joining the faculty at Colgate in 1987. An algebraist in his past life, he now focuses his scholarly attention on the history of mathematics, science, and ideas. Among his latest works is an essay on Alan Turing that will appear this spring in _Mathematics in Popular Culture: Appearances in Film, Fiction, Games, Television and Other Media_.
Daniel Lowd: Daniel Lowd is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Oregon. His research covers a range of topics in statistical machine learning, including statistical relational representations, unifying learning and inference, and adversarial machine learning applications (e.g., spam filtering). In 2009, he coauthored book on Markov logic with Pedro Domingos, published by Morgan & Claypool. He is also the recipient of graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Microsoft Research.
Dejing Dou: Dejing Dou is an Associate Professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Oregon and leads the Advanced Integration and Mining (AIM) Lab. He received his bachelor degree from Tsinghua University, China in 1996 and his Ph.D. degree from Yale University in 2004. His research areas include ontologies, data integration, data mining, biomedical and health informatics, and the Semantic Web.
Stephen Fickas:Dr. Stephen Fickas is a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Oregon. Professor Fickas has a general interest in both software engineering and wearable computers. He help found the UO Wearable Computing Lab in 1995, and remains the lab director. In the area of software engineering, he retains broad interests (he is general chair of ICSE09), but tends to focus on issues in requirements engineering. Recently, he has teamed with colleagues in the Cognitive Rehabilitation Department to specify, design and implement wearable computing for the traumatic brain injury (TBI) population. Professor Fickas’ research is funded by NSF, the Department of Transportation, and Intel.
Jim Allen: Jim Allen is an Adjunct Research Assistant in the Department of Computer and
Information Science at the University of Oregon.
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We’ll be making cards for cancer on Thursday night in honor Valentine’s Day, a little community service goes a long way right?!
What better way to do this than to do it in style with cookies, possibly a movie in the background, and awesome crafts to get creative.
Thursday at 8 pm, Schafer lounge!
Be there :)
