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[Richard Powers] [Rodney Brooks] [Anne Foerst]


Richard Powers:
  • Swanlund Chair in English - University of Illinois.
  • Author - Gain, Galatea 2.2, The Gold Bug Variations, Plowing the Dark, Prisoner's Dilemma, and more.
  • MacArthur Fellow and the recipient of a 1999 Lannan Literary Award.


Rodney A. Brooks:
  • Director - MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
  • Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science.
  • Chairman and CTO - iRobot Corp.


Anne Foerst:
  • Visiting Professor - Theology and Computer Science, St. Bonaventure University in Olean, NY.
  • Affiliate - Center for the Studies of Values in Public Life at Harvard Divinity School.
  • Former theological advisor for the Cog and Kismet Projects, AI Lab, MIT.

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