Nokia Bell Labs Shannon Luminary Lecture – How to Create New Senses for Humans – Dr. David Eagleman, Guggenheim Fellow/Stanford

Co-sponsored by: IT, COMSOC, VTS

In honor of Claude Shannon – the father of information theory and arguably of all communications and networked systems – Bell Labs has created the Shannon Luminary Lecture Series and Award, to explore all topics of high impact and relevance to the future of human existence, with an annual series of ten talks by the leading visionary researchers, developers, thinkers and entrepreneurs from all fields of scientific, technological, engineering, mathematical, or related artistic endeavor.

The March 2017 lecture will be given by Dr. David Eagleman, neuroscientist, author, Guggenheim Fellow, and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stanford University. Dr. Eagleman also starred in the PBS series “The Brain”, an exploration of what we know about the human brain today. A highly awarded luminary across neuroscience, society, ethics, and education, Dr. Eagleman has also spun out several companies in neuroscience.

David Eagleman will present “How to create new senses for humans” in his lecture, describing how “alternative” sensory inputs can be used to replace “missing” inputs or to create additional inputs in humans, allowing us to experience new kinds of feelings. The presentation will be held in the Hamming Innovation Hall on the Murray Hill Bell Labs Campus.

Prior awardees include Eric Schmidt, Irwin Jacobs, Bob Metcalfe, Amber Case, Henry Markram, Zhenan Bao, and Yann LeCun.

As space is limited, please confirm your attendance as soon as possible. Registration will close as soon as the capacity of the Hamming Innovation Hall has been reached, or, at the latest, by March 14.

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If you are unable to attend after you have registered then please contact info@bell-labs.com with a copy to avw@ieee.org,  to cancel such that seats can be made available to others.

This event is co-sponsored by the IEEE North Jersey Section and its IEEE Information Theory Society Chapter.

Speaker(s): Dr. David Eagleman,

Agenda:

Location:
Bldg: Bell Laboratories, Nokia, Hamming Innovation Hall
600 Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, NJ
Murray Hill, New Jersey
07974