I'm happy to report that the final two lectures from the College of Science, Next: Science that Transforms series were uploaded this morning to iTunes U and this afternoon to YouTube. You can also downloaded these videos off the Podcasting website.
"Next: Visualizing Human Thought" presented on March 3, 2009, by Elena Plante, Professor and Head of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. [watch on Youtube]
The ability of the human brain to think and communicate one's thoughts is fundamental to our experience. For centuries, our ability to understand how human thought is represented and communicated had to be inferred from observing behavior following brain damage. The recent advent of new tools for noninvasive study of the normal brain has revolutionized our understanding of brain function, allowing us for the first time to visualize human thought. And we are only just beginning.
"Next: Really Intelligent Computers" presented on March 10, 2009, by Paul Cohen, Professor and Head of Computer Science. [watch on YouTube]
Halfway through its first century, artificial intelligence has delivered some astonishing successes on narrowly defined tasks: cars that drive themselves, airline reservation systems you can talk to, search engines for the Web. Yet these accomplishments have failed to match the general, flexible, adaptive mind of a two-year-old child. By understanding the differences between childlike and computer intelligence, we set the stage for the development of really intelligent computers.
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