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ROBOTICS AND AI

Prof. Henrik Schaerfe is Director at
the Center for Computer-Mediated
Epistemology. He researches what
technology can help us know and how
technology can help us understand
what it is to be human. In May 2011,
Henrik revealed a robotic version of
himself, called a Geminoid-DK. He
intends to use the robot to probe
‘emotional affordances’ between robots
and humans, as well as ‘blended
presence’. He has been listed as one
of the 100 most influential people in
the world by Time magazine. Henrik
says that machines are not rivals or
friends, they are tools.

Dr Oren Etzioni is CEO of the Allen
Institute for Artificial Intelligence. He
has been a professor at the University
of Washington’s Computer Science
department since 1991. He is also
the founder or co-founder of several
companies and has received numerous
awards, including one for long-
standing technical and entrepreneurial
contributions to Artificial Intelligence.
He is the author of more than 100
academic papers on topics including
Web search, data mining, agent
technology and various aspects of
AI. The goal of Oren’s research is to
solve the fundamental problems in AI,
particularly the automatic learning of
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