CMU-Q welcomes the community to the Dean's Lecture Series
The Dean’s Lecture Series at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar is a forum that brings together prominent industry leaders, government officials and business community to give talks and share their expertise on topical issues to faculty, staff, students and members of the wider community.
The talks are open to the public and will take place between 12-1 p.m. at Carnegie Mellon Qatar. A question and answer session will follow the presentation, after which a light lunch will be served.
Carnegie Mellon Qatar has hosted a wide variety of talks by prominent scholars and leaders in their fields. Other notable speakers have included Sheikh Hamad Bin Jabor Bin Jassim Al-Thani, President of the Qatar Statistics Authority and Hassan Al-Thawadi, Secretary General of the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy.
Dean’s Lecture Series: Takeo Kanade
“Smart Headlight: A new active augmented reality that improves how the reality appears to a human”
Monday, September 15th
Carnegie Mellon Qatar: Moot Board Room (Room 1131)
Takeo Kanade, a computer and robotics professor at Carnegie Mellon will deliver a talk on campus on a new active augmented reality that will improve how humans perceive reality.
The talk will present the Smart Headlight Project being developed at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. Through the use of programmable headlights, this project will enable drivers to take full advantage of their high beams without fear of blinding oncoming drivers or suffering from the glare that can occur when driving in bad weather or at night.
Kanade works in multiple areas of robotics: computer vision, multi-media, manipulators, autonomous mobile robots, medical robotics and sensors. He has written more than 400 technical papers and reports in these areas. He has been the principal investigator of more than a dozen major vision and robotics projects at Carnegie Mellon.
Kanade is a U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University.
For more information and to RSVP, please visit: http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/dlkanade
Dean’s Lecture Series: Justine Cassell
“The Future of Technology-Enhanced Learning in a Global Context”
Monday, September 22nd
Carnegie Mellon Qatar: Moot Board Room (Room 1131)
Justine Cassell, associate vice provost of technology strategy and impact at Carnegie Mellon University, and co-director of the university’s Simon Initiative, will talk about the impact of technology on global education.
Cassell will comment on the importance of using knowledge about learning and its context to design technology-enhanced learning tools.
The promise of new digital technologies to improve education has raised expectations around the world, but so far the results have been limited. While the Internet and video lectures provide wide access to content, access alone does not deliver strong learning outcomes.
Cassell will explore the need for tools that engage learners actively in the discovery of new skills and ideas, using continuous practice and targeted feedback.
For more information and to RSVP, please visit: http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/cassell
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