Nokia Bell Labs Shannon Luminary Lecture – The Future of Human Agency – Dr. Stephen Friend

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 May 2017 lecture will be given by Dr. Stephen Friend, scientist, physician, entrepreneur, Chairman of Sage Bionetworks and member of the Apple Health team. In his career, he has played a major part in understanding how gene expression affects health and disease, from the first discovery of a cancer susceptibility gene in the 1980s to the launch of a vast collaboration of researchers to greatly accelerate genetics research, aiming to tackle diseases at a fundamental level.

Dr. Friend will present “The Future of Human Agency – Exploration of the Role of Art and Technology in Determining Risk, Awareness and Free Will”. 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, Yann LeCun, and David Eagleman.

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 April 27.

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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. Stephen Friend,

Agenda:

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