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Will Technology Save the World?

Atheist and Christian MIT Professors Discuss

March 9, 2012 at 06:00 PM
Kresge Auditorium
Presenters: Rosalind Picard, Founder and Director of the Affective Computing Research Group, MIT Media Laboratory
George Barbastathis, Singapore Research Professor of Optics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Jose Gomez-Marquez, Program Director, Innovations in International Health Initiative, MIT
Susan S. Silbey, Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, and Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, MIT

What are the world's biggest problems? Can technology solve them, even in theory? And if not, then what? Join 2 Christian and 2 Atheist MIT professors, Rosalind Picard, George Barbastathis, Jose Gomez-Marquez, and Susan S. Silbey in a conversation on technology, faith, and the future. Discussion moderated by MIT Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering Ian Hutchinson


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Will a video recording of this be posted?
Posted by Nicholas Roche on 3/31/2012 6:26:33 PM


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