Wednesday, 12 Apr 2006
When Humans Transcend Biology - Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil, the Human Computer Interaction Forum keynote speaker, successfully founded and developed nine businesses in OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality, financial investment, cybernetic art, and other areas of artificial intelligence. His Web site, KurzweilAI.net, is a leading resource on artificial intelligence.
The Art of Scientists - Robert Root-Bernstein
Robert Root-Bernstein is a professor of physiology at Michigan State University and a MacArthur Award recipient. He is the author of numerous books, including Discovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge, a book about how discoveries are made in science, and Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People. He is currently working on a project titled "The Essential...
International War Crimes Tribunal in Rwanda - Stephen Rapp
Stephen Rapp , a former U.S. attorney in Iowa, has spent the last four years rounding up and prosecuting suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide that left 800,000 dead. As chief of prosecutions for the head of the United Nations' International War Crimes Tribunal of Rwanda, he is coordinating at least 40 more trials, assisting in international efforts to find suspects hiding abroad, and teaching what he's learned practicing a largely uncharted area of international law. Part of the World Affairs series on Global Justise and Human Rights.