Are we destined to build smarter and smarter machines until we engineer our species out of existence? Meet Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robopocalypse this Thursday or Friday, June 19th and 20th, 2014 while he is in the area.
On Thursday, educators, school media specialists and librarians are encouraged to attend a free professional development dinner titled ‘Hot Tips for Infusing Arts, Literacy and Contemporary Fiction Into STEM Education. CPOUs will be available for educators who particopate. Food will be created by Tapa La Luna. Register here.
On Friday, June 20th at 12pm noon, the public is invited to have lunch and chat with Robopocalypse author Daniel H. Wilson at the Sycamore Library. A book discussion will follow lunch. Learn more at the Sycamore Library’s website, stemread.niu or contact Debbie Pixton at dpixton@niu.edu.
“Not far into our future, the dazzling technology that runs our world turns against us. Controlled by a childlike—yet massively powerful—artificial intelligence known as Archos, the global network of machines on which our world has grown dependent suddenly becomes an implacable, deadly foe.”
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