| Events take place in McConomy Auditorium, University Center except where marked. |
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| 7:30 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45 | Overview/Introductions Jim Morris |
| 9:00 | Ray Kurzweil Promise and Peril: Deeply Intertwined Poles of Twenty First Century Technology |
| 9:35 | Alex Singer The Chip and the Muse: At the Intersection of Science and the Humanities |
| 10:10 | Description of synthetic interview methodology |
| 10:20 | Bill Joy Synthetic Interview: Will the Future Need Us? |
| 11:00 | Hans Moravec Mass Utility Robots this Decade, Finally! |
| 11:35 | David Gelernter A good world in 2050 – will computers help or hinder? |
| 12:10 pm | Q&A for all speakers |
| 12:30 | Lunch, Rangos Ballroom |
| 1:45 | Lee Sproull Inventing New Social Organizations |
| 2:20 | Robert Kraut The Internet and Psychological Well-Being |
| 2:55 | Raj Reddy Implications of Infinite Memory and Infinite Bandwidth |
| 3:30 | Arthur C. Clarke Thoughts from Sri Lanka |
| 3:45 | Herbert Simon Is it our job to Forecast the Future or to Fashion it? |
| 4:30 | Q&A for all speakers |
| 5:00 | Move over to the Atrium in Newell Simon Hall for Ceremonial Opening |
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| The School of Computer Science is inaugurating Newell Simon Hall, its new building named for Allen Newell and Herbert Simon, builders of Carnegie Mellon computer science, with a symposium on 19 Oct 2000. Recently, Bill Joy in Wired magazine fretted that the future won't need us (humans), while others welcome startling advances in information technology as enabling, if not ennobling. Our symposium will explore whether computers will make the world better or worse, and how we can make "better" the more likely outcome. The invited speakers include David Gelernter (Yale), Ray Kurzweil, Alex Singer (film director), and Lee Sproull (NYU), joined by Bill Joy (Sun Microsystems) via a "synthetic interview" that showcases CMU's multimedia technology. Local speakers will include Robert Kraut, Hans Moravec, and Raj Reddy. The speakers will address the evolving influence of information technology on the human spirit and self-image, education, entertainment, and social behavior. The speakers will address the evolving influence of information technology on the human spirit and self-image, education, entertainment, and social behavior. Herbert Simon's lecture will close the symposium, followed by a ceremony and reception in the Perlis Atrium of Newell Simon Hall. |
