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<P CLASS="p1"><SPAN CLASS="s1"><STRONG>Max Tegmark</STRONG>, Professor, MIT; Co-Founder, the Future of Life Institute</SPAN></P>
<P>What has artificial intelligence (AI) brought us? Where will it lead us? The story of AI is the story of intelligenceof life processes as they evolve from bacteria to humans, where life processes define their own software, to technology, where life processes design both their hardware & software. We know that AI is transforming work, laws & weapons as well as the dark side of computing (hacking & viral sabotage), raising important questions. <BR></P>
<P>A native of Stockholm, Max Tegmark left Sweden in 1990 after receiving his bachelor of science in physics from the Royal Institute of Technology. He studied physics at the University of California, Berkeley, earning his mastersin 1992 & his Ph.D. in 1994. Tegmark is the author of more than two hundred technical papers, & he has been featured in dozens of science documentaries. He has received numerous awards for his research, including a Packard Fellowship, the Cottrell Scholar Award & a National Science Foundation CAREER award. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. His work with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) collaboration on galaxy clustering shared the first prize in Science magazines Breakthrough of the Year in 2003.</P>
<P CLASS="MsoNormal"><STRONG>Location:</STRONG><SPAN>555 Post St., San Francisco<BR> <STRONG>Time:</STRONG>5:30 p.m. networking reception,<STRONG>6 p.m. program, </STRONG>7 p.m. book signing<BR> <STRONG>MLF:</STRONG><SPAN>Science & Technology</SPAN><BR> <STRONG>Program organizer</STRONG>:<SPAN>Gerald Harris</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><STRONG><SPAN><SPAN>All ticket sales are final & nonrefundable.</SPAN></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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