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SYMPOSIUM:
Earthware a good world in 2950
will computers help or hinder?

The School of Computer Science is inaugurating Newell Simon Hall,
its new building named for Allen Newell and Herbert Simon, computer
pioneers and builders of Carnegie Mellon computer science, with a
symposium on 19 October 2000. Bill Joy, in a recent "Wired"  magazine
article, 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 speakers will address the evoling influence of information
technology on the human spirit and self-image, education, entertainment,
and social behavior.

The symposium concludes with a lecture by Herbert Simon, followed by
a ceremony and reception in the Perlis Atrium of Newell Simon Hall.

DATE:    Thursday, 19 October 2000
DETAILS: www.cs.cmu.edu/~earthware  (free to cmu-campus)

SYMPOSIUM LOCATION:  McConomy Auditorium, University Center
Carnegie Mellon University


										   SPEAKERS:


										   Bill Joy      Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems
											      (synthetic interview)

											      Arthur C. Clarke  Physicist, Author, and
											                        Chancellor of the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka,
														                  and Chancellor of the International Space University
																                (synthetic interview)

																		David Gelernter  Professor of Computer Science, Yale University
																				 and Chief Scientist, Mirrow World Technologies

																				 Robert Kraut  Professor of Social Psychology and Human Computer
																				               Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University (only if
																					                     needed: with joint appointments in the Department
																							                   of Social and Decision Sciences, the Human Computer
																									                 Interaction Institute, and the Graduate School
																											               of Industrial Administration.

																												       Raymond Kurzweil Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Kurzweil
																												                        Applied Intelligence, and Founder and Chief
																															                 Executive Officer, Kurzweil Educational Systems


																																	 Hans Moravec      Principal Research Scientist, Robotics, Institute
																																	                   Carnegie Mellon University

																																			   Raj Reddy         Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Computer
																																			                     Science and Robotics, School of Computer Science,
																																					                       Carnegie Mellon University

																																							       Herbert A. Simon  Richard King Mellon University Professor of Computer
																																							                         Science and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
																																										                   (if needed: also a faculty member of the Departments
																																												                     of Philosophy and of Social and Decision Sciences,
																																														                       and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration)

																																																       Alexander Singer  Film Director

																																																       Lee Sproull       Professor of Business, Stern School,
																																																                         New York University