Toby Walsh - Machines That Think: The Future of Artificial Intelligence

TOBY WALSH has spent his life dreaming and researching about machines that might think in universities around the world. He was named by the Australian newspaper as one of the hundred rock stars of Australia's digital revolution. He is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at UNSW and at Data61, Australia's Centre of Excellence for ICT Research. He has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He has also won a number of prizes, including the Humboldt Research Award. He has held research positions in Australia, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Sweden.

He regularly appears on TV and radio talking about the impact of AI and robotics. He also writes frequently for print and online media such as New Scientist, American Scientist and Cosmos. His Twitter account, @TobyWalsh, has been voted one of the top ten to follow to keep abreast of developments in AI. He has given talks in venues like CeBIT, TEDx and the World Knowledge Forum, Asia's answer to Davos. He has spoken at the United Nations and elsewhere about the need to ban lethal autonomous weapons (aka killer robots). You can read more at his blog, http://thefutureofai.blogspot.com.

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