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How much thought does it take to pick up your pint? Come listen to Prof Mark Mon Williams, Dr Richard Wilkie and Dr Faisal Mushtaq discuss the implications of your brains organisation on how we perceive and interact with our environment, and hear Dr Mehmet Dogar talk about why robots struggle to do so.
Can computers really play chess?
Dr Mehmet Dogar
(Academic Fellow)
Robotics and artificial intelligence research taught us a counter-intuitive fact: It requires more "intelligence" to grasp a pawn than to come up with the next move in chess. This talk will present the recent advances in robotic manipulation which is the research area that deals with robot arms and hands, and develops programs to make them interact with the physical world. Mehmet Dogar is an Academic Fellow in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds. Previously he was a postdoctoral researcher at CSAIL, MIT. He received his PhD from Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
In two minds (but not left and right)
Dr Faisal Mushtaq
(*)
Dr Richard Wilkie
(*)
Professor Mark Mon Williams
(*)
Scientists reject the proposal that humans can be classified as left or right brain thinkers. But there is increasing evidence to suggest that there are two somewhat separate systems in the human brain. We will review some of this evidence and then highlight the profound implications of such brain organisation for: childhood development, understanding surgical skills and driving cars. Mark, Richard and Faisal are members of the Perception Action Cognition Laboratory at the University of Leeds*. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/paclab/
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