LECTURES

Socially Intelligent Robots

Socially Intelligent Robots

How do we make the computers, smartphones and robots of the future socially intelligent? So that it is not only always us who should try to understand how the machines think, but they can also begin to understand a little of how we humans think? Intelligence – whether natural or artificial – is not just about doing what you are asked for, but also understanding a social situation well enough to know for yourself what to do. It requires social intelligence, something that is often mentioned as being among the 3 most difficult human abilities to simulate on a computer. In the lecture, Thomas Bolander will point to the challenges of socially intelligent robots, compare human and artificial social intelligence, and share his bid for solutions. 

Thomas Bolander is a very special-class intermediary. He researches in artificial intelligence (AI), on the boundary between logic, mathematics and computer science. He is passionate about both research and the dissemination of his subjects.

Medal Award by Hans Christian Ørsted Medal of silver for Thomas Bolander

The Executive Board of the Society for the Naturalteacher's dissemination has decided to award the H.C. Ørsted Medal for excellent dissemination to Thomas Bolander. The medal ceremony takes place before the lecture.

The H.C. Ørsted Medal for excellent research dissemination was most recently distributed 3 years ago to Astrophysier, Professor Anja Cetti Andersen, after a 16-year break. Before that was the latest dispensation in the year 2000 to Jens Martin Knudsen and the year before in 1999 to Ove Nathan. 

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Socially Intelligent Robots

Date: 16. SEP 2019
Time: 19.30-22.00

Lecturer: Professor Thomas Bolander
Institution: DTU Compute
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The Lecture is held: Auditorium 1, H.C. Ørsted Building, University Park 5, 2100 Copenhagen Island.

Comments:
Registration for the event is necessary.
Send an e-mail to snu@naturvidenskab.net as soon as possible and no later than 15 September 2019.
Seats are allocated according to a first-to-mill principle, with the result that a certain number of seats are reserved for SNUs members in advance. Registrations will be confirmed on an ongoing basis.

Please note that you must not park in front of the main entrance to the University Park 5. You can park between the H.C. Ørsted building and the August Krogh building, on the slightly makeshift parking lot right next to the new building, but it requires a special P-permit. P permission can be obtained from SNUs representative at the main entrance to the University Park 5 between noon. 18:45-19:15 and must be filled with the car number and date and placed in the windscreen. The Easypark can be parked along the Nørre Allé.
There is good public transport to the University Park, buses 184, 185 and 150S all have stops at the University Park, and bus 6A has a stop nearby.