Nokia Bell Labs Shannon Luminary Lecture - How to Create New Senses for Humans - Dr. David Eagleman, Guggenheim Fellow/Stanford
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.
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.
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- Date: 23 Mar 2017
- Time: 06:00 PM UTC to 07:30 PM UTC
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- 600 Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, NJ
- Murray Hill, New Jersey
- United States 07974
- Building: Bell Laboratories, Nokia, Hamming Innovation Hall
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Adriaan J. van Wijngaarden, Junior Past-Chair, IEEE North Jersey Section (avw@ieee.org)
Chair, IEEE North Jersey/New York Information Theory Chapter - Co-sponsored by IT, COMSOC, VTS
- Starts 25 February 2017 05:00 AM UTC
- Ends 15 March 2017 03:55 AM UTC
- No Admission Charge
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Dr. David Eagleman
How to Create New Senses for Humans
This presentation will describe 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.
Biography:
David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and a New York Times bestselling author. He heads the Center for Science and Law, a national non-profit institute, and serves as an adjunct professor at Stanford University. He is best known for his work on sensory substitution, time perception, brain plasticity, synesthesia, and neurolaw. Dr. Eagleman is the writer and presenter of the international PBS series, The Brain with David Eagleman, and the author of the companion book, The Brain: The Story of You. Beyond his 100+ academic publications, he has published many popular books. His bestselling book Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, explores the neuroscience "under the hood" of the conscious mind: all the aspects of neural function to which we have no awareness or access. His work of fiction, SUM, is an international bestseller published in 28 languages and turned into two operas. Why the Net Matters examines what the advent of the internet means on the timescale of civilizations. The award-winning Wednesday is Indigo Blue explores the neurological condition of synesthesia, in which the senses are blended. Eagleman is a TED speaker, a Guggenheim Fellow, a winner of the McGovern Award for Excellence in Biomedical Communication, a Next Generation Texas Fellow, Vice-Chair on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Neuroscience & Behaviour, a research fellow in the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Chief Scientific Advisor for the Mind Science Foundation, and a board member of The Long Now Foundation. He has served as an academic editor for several scientific journals. He was named Science Educator of the Year by the Society for Neuroscience, and was featured as one of the Brightest Idea Guys by Italy's Style magazine. He is founder of the company BrainCheck and the cofounder of the company NeoSensory. He was the scientific advisor for the television drama Perception, and has been profiled on the Colbert Report, NOVA Science Now, the New Yorker, CNN's Next List, and many other venues. He appears regularly on radio and television to discuss literature and science.
Agenda
| 14:00-15:30 | How to Create New Senses for Humans |
| Dr. David Eagleman |