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Artificial Intelligence lecture
Kenneth M. Ford, chief technologist at the NASA Ames Research Center, will discuss “AI and Space Exploration: Where No Machine Has Gone Before” Feb. 8 at 3:30 p.m. in room 109 Boyd Graduate Research Center. Sponsored by the Artificial Intelligence Center, the lecture will be preceded by refreshments in room 111.
Ford, who also is director of the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition at the University of West Florida, will describe the current and future research directions of NASA’s expanding information-technology effort with a particular emphasis on intelligent systems.
“Humans are quintessentially explorers and makers of things and are now making tools to do our exploring for us,” Ford says. “We are building computational machines that will carry our curiosity and intelligence with them as they extend human exploration of the universe. “Artificial intelligence plays a central role in space exploration because there is, literally, no other way to make it work.”
For additional information about the lecture, call the Artificial Intelligence Research Center, 542-0358.
Women golfers honored
Beans Kelly and Terri Moody Luckhurst, two legendary names in UGA women’s golf, have been inducted into the National Golf Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Kelly, the Lady Bulldogs’s current coach, and Moody Luckhurst, Georgia’s first national champion in the sport, were inducted along with former New Mexico State coach Paul Brilliant and former Florida player Cheryl Morley.
“You would be hard pressed to find two people who have made greater contributions to Georgia women’s golf and the collegiate game in general than Beans and Terri,” says Liz Murphey, retired Lady Bulldog coach and herself a member of the NGCA’s inaugural Hall of Fame class. “I’m also extremely proud that half of those inducted this year were representative of Georgia.”
Colloquium on Brazil
The colloquium “500 Years of Brazil: Global and Cultural Perspectives” will be held Feb. 11-12 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Participants will include representatives of the artistic, governmental and academic communities of Brazil, as well as scholars from the United States. They will address the interplay between elite and popular cultures, the situation of women and ethnic and racial minorities, and recent developments in Brazilian literature and the arts. All colloquium events are open to the public.
“While the colloquium will examine Brazil’s past, it will largely look to the country’s future,” says Susan Quinlan, who organized the colloquium with Anna Klobucka. Both Quinlan and Klobucka teach Portuguese in UGA’s department of Romance languages.
The colloquium will open at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 11 in Masters Hall with a keynote address by Rosiska Darcy de Oliveira, president of Brazil’s National Council on Women’s Rights. That evening, also in Masters Hall, there will be a screening of the film Child of the Dark, about Carolina Maria de Jesus, a black woman writer from the slums of São Paulo.
The colloquium will reconvene on Feb. 12 at 9 a.m. in conference room Q at the Georgia Center. Speakers will include Phyllis Peres of the University of Maryland, Robert Levine of the University of Miami and Russell Hamilton, dean of the graduate school at Vanderbilt University. At 2 p.m. there will be a literary reading by Sergio Sant’Anna, whom Quinlan calls “one of the five most respected contemporary writers in Brazil today.” A roundtable discussion on “National Identity and Perspectives for the Future” will conclude the conference, beginning at 3:30 p.m., and will include Marlos Nobre of the Brazilian Academy of Music.
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