Online Chat for Schools with Ray Kurzweil about Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
October 26, 2005From the Becta ICT Research Network:
On Monday 7 November 2005 at 15:00 CET, Xplora (www.xplora.org), the gateway to science education in Europe, is holding an online chat for schools with the inventor, Ray Kurzweil. All teachers are invited to register their classes for the event. Pupils can pose questions about computer, robots, artificial intelligence and more.
An engaging personality, Ray Kurzweil has been a pioneer in many fields. He invented the first optical character recognition machine, which involves computer software designed to translate images of typewritten text. Not only that, he also made the first digital scanner, using a charge-coupled device.
If that weren’t enough, together with pop artist Stevie Wonder, he created the first music synthesizer and he’s also worked in the areas of speech recognition and voice synthesis.
To register for the chat, send an email to Karl Sarnow at karl.sarnow@eun.org.
European Schoolnet (www.eun.org) a network of 28 Ministries of Education across Europe - operates the Xplora portal. It is supported by the PENCIL project, a project funded by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Research as part of Science and Society.
The PENCIL project is part of the wider Nucleus framework, a cluster of science education projects including Europe’s major research laboratories. Read more about the PENCIL project.
Read more about Ray Kurzweil.
