Engineering the Future

As a complement to the L.A.S.E.R. series and to the  S.M.M.M.A.S.H. series, we picked disciplines that will change the world in the near future and invited a visionary speaker for each one. These will be interactive talks (originally we wanted to call them "Q&A") in which you will have a chance to ask all the questions you always wanted to ask.

• 1pm Piero Scaruffi, Cultural Historian and L.A.S.E.R.founder, on Creativity and the Bay Area
• 1:30 pm Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google  on Artificial Intelligence
• 2:30 pm Daniel Kaufman, Director of the Information Innovation Office at DARPA, on DARPA's high-tech projects
• 3:30 pm Jennifer Dionne, founding director of the Stanford Nanotech Lab
• 4:30 pm Chris McKay, Chief Planetary Scientist at NASA Ames, on Space Exploration and Life in the Universe
• 5:15 pm Alvy Ray Smith, Co-founder of Pixar, on Graphics/Animation