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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

DEDICATION CEREMONY: Newell Simon Hall

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