Demographics, Labor Markets, Robotics, and ICT
Professor Rodney Brooks (MIT)
CSIRO ICT Information Engineering LaboratoryDATE: 2006-08-29
TIME: 14:30:00 - 15:30:00
LOCATION: CSIT Seminar Room, N101
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ABSTRACT:
The CSIRO ICT Centre Information Engineering Canberra Laboratory is hosting a visit from Professor Rod Brooks on Tuesday 29th of August. Everyone is welcome to attend his seminar at 2.30pm on the topic "Demographics, Labor Markets, Robotics, and ICT":
The bulge of baby-boomers moving through the population of the west
has in many ways determined priorities in medecine, science, and technology
for the last 60 years. It will continue to do so for the next few decades.
We will see demand for increased productivity in jobs that have
traditionally involved manual labor. Robotics provides one way to meet
those demands, and the critical research areas in robotics and more
general information and communication technologies will be driven by
those demands. Australia provides interesting test cases in certain
areas while other regions of the world provide complementary cases.
BIO:
Rodney Brooks is Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Brooks http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/
