ESI UT Austin - Robotics and AI - In Person

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You DO need to visit this page to register -- Robotics and AI -- https://www.esi.utexas.edu/community-engagement/hot-science-cool-talks/

The Environmental Science Institute has this to say...

Advancements in AI have unleashed astonishing capabilities, but it is not magic. Peter Stone reveals his insights into cutting-edge AI and robotics and explores how they may reshape our world. Someday these technologies could win the World Cup, and they are already outperforming the best humans at complex tasks like high-speed racing. Registration open now.

Peter Stone serves as the Executive Director of Sony AI America, and as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the Director of Texas Robotics, and a founding member of Good Systems, a UT Grand Challenge focusing on ethical and responsible AI. Leading the Learning Agents Research Group within the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, he researches AI, robotics, and machine learning. His work is inspired by real-world challenges with applications including robot soccer, autonomous bidding agents, autonomous vehicles, and Human-Agent Interaction.

The ESI Hot Science Cool Talks series is an extremely popular event and you should register ASAP (Registration is open three week before the event date). These events fill up almost immediately when registration opens. It does help to be on the ESI mailing list (very low traffic).

Environmental Science Institute - Jackson School of Geosciences:

Hot Science Cool Talk -- https://www.esi.utexas.edu/community-engagement/hot-science-cool-talks/ (Bookmarking this page is a good idea. Mailing list subscription information is to the right.)

Hot Science Cool Talks Archive -- https://www.esi.utexas.edu/community-engagement/hot-science-cool-talks/archives/

Nature Nerds has this to say...

Don't confuse this Dr. Stone with the other Dr. Stone :)

Dr. Peter Stone (this one) -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stone_(professor) -- https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/

Dr. Bill Stone (the other one) -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stone_(caver) -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Aerospace -- https://stoneaerospace.com/

Dr. Stone is well known in the robot soccer community, his team won the world championship multiple times. -- https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/robosoccer.html

Robot Soccer -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_robot

Here is where we will be meeting prior to the presentation -- https://www.google.com/maps/place/30%C2%B017'21.0%22N+97%C2%B044'08.8%22W/@30.2891568,-97.7357906,55m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d30.289172!4d-97.735764

Please be there no later than 6:15pm CST.

ESI wants to seat everyone by 6:50pm CST. There may be pre-event activities so the crowd can be expected to be large and have many young ones full of enthusiasm :) We'll walk across the street to Welch Hall and go through registration and seating. Don't forget to turn all audible alerts on your phone OFF please.

I'll be wearing a black cap with the "Hi How Are You?" frog on it -- https://thedailytexan.com/2017/08/04/jeremiah-the-innocent-deserves-more-recognition/

UT Austin Parking & Transportation -- https://parking.utexas.edu/

If anyone is interested in socializing after the presentation we can go to the Drag and pick a place :)