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Philip Zimbardo
November 20th, 2009
The UBC Departments of Psychology and Sociology are proud to present the 2009 Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture, which will be held on Friday, 20 November 2009, in the Frederic Wood Theatre (6354 Crescent Road), from 1:00 - 2:00 pm. A reception will follow, from 2:00 - 3:30 pm, in the Theatre’s foyer.
The lecture is titled "A journey from evil to hedonism" and it will be given by Philip Zimbardo. Professor Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. As you know, Professor Zimbardo is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning scholar, researcher, educator and media personality. His recent books include The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil and The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life (with John Boyd), and the video: Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment. Professor Zimbardo is noted for his social psychological contributions as a public intellectual, especially through his popular PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, along with many text and trade books, among his 300 publications.
If you’re teaching, please make an announcement to your students about this lecture. Also, bear in mind that seating in the Freddie Wood Theatre will be first-come, first-served for everyone (faculty, grad students, undergrads, and staff). Professor Zimbardo is certain to draw a large audience, so get there early if you can.
At a glance: news and info
Masters of Digital Media Open House
Event: MDM Open House
Date: Thurs. Nov. 26, 2009
Time: 6pm - 7pm PST (check-in @ 5:30pm)
Location: Great Northern Way Campus & Online with Live Streaming Video in Realtime
Registration: http://mdm.gnwc.ca/calendar/2009/11/26/mdm-open-house-nov-26-dont-miss-it
Details:
This Open House will feature information about MDM admission requirements, curriculum, include a tour of the Centre for Digital Media and showcase samples of student work. If you can't make attend in person, join us for this event Live Online! Watch the entire event through your web browser and get your questions answered by our staff, faculty and current students through our live chatline. Online connection details will be sent by email upon registration.
Posted on November 18th, 2009, 11:18 am
Masters of Digital Media Open House
Event: MDM Open House
Date: Thurs. Nov. 26, 2009
Time: 6pm - 7pm PST (check-in @ 5:30pm)
Location: Great Northern Way Campus & Online with Live Streaming Video in Realtime
Registration: http://mdm.gnwc.ca/calendar/2009/11/26/mdm-open-house-nov-26-dont-miss-it
Details:
This Open House will feature information about MDM admission requirements, curriculum, include a tour of the Centre for Digital Media and showcase samples of student work. If you can't make attend in person, join us for this event Live Online! Watch the entire event through your web browser and get your questions answered by our staff, faculty and current students through our live chatline. Online connection details will be sent by email upon registration.
Posted on November 18th, 2009, 11:18 am
Claytronics: realizing programmable matter
Mark your calendars for this month's ICICS DLS speaker - Please note the LOCATION (Dempster 110)
Seth Copen Goldstein, Carnegie Mellon University
"Realizing Programmable Matter"
Thursday October 22nd, 3.30-4.30 PM, questions/discussion until 4.50 PM
LOCATION: Hugh Dempster Pavilion 110 - 6245 Agronomy Road (between Main and East Mall)
Abstract: The Claytronics Project is working on realizing programmable matter. Programmable matter is any substance that can be programmed to effect a change in one or more of its physical characteristics. In claytronics, the substance is a collection of individual units, each of which can sense, compute, communicate, and actuate. The long-range goal for claytronics is for the collection to behave as a coherent mass and mimic, with high fidelity and in 3-dimensional solid form, the look, feel, and motion of macro-scale objects. In this talk, I will describe possible applications for claytronics and some of the hardware and software challenges.
BIO: Seth Copen Goldstein is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. His research focuses broadly on ensembles: large collections of interacting agents. In the area of reconfigurable computing, he has investigated compiling high-level programming languages directly into configurations that can harness the large ensemble of gates for computing. Later work has involved harnessing ensembles of molecules in the area of molecular electronics. Currently, his main focus is on realizing claytronics.
Posted on October 14th, 2009, 2:06 pm
CO-OP info session for COGS: Computational Stream
COGS students in the Computational Intelligence and Design stream are encouraged to attend one of the info sessions about the co-op program this week.
There will be two sessions hosted by CPSC covering the same info:
September 23, 2009 - 5-6:30 pm, DMP 101 or September 24, 2009 - 12-1:30 pm, FSC 1613
Posted on September 21st, 2009, 3:16 pm
Attention COGS Alumni!
Are you an alumni of the COGS program? We are interested in finding out where our graduates are going with their Cognitive Systems degrees. Please fill in the our graduate contact form so that know where you are and how to contact you for future reference.
Posted on April 9th, 2009, 11:28 am
