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12.7.2018 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm PST | Event

VES Bay Area Holiday Party 2018!

The VES Bay Area Section Holiday Party.  

 

WHEN 

December 7, 2018

7:00pm – 10″00pm

 

WHERE

AutoDesk Gallery

1 Market St #200,

San Francisco, CA 94105

 

 

FEATURING ADOBE RESEARCH PRINCIPAL SCIENTIST 

AARON HERTZMANN

 

CAN COMPUTERS CREATE ART?

This entertaining talk discusses whether computers, using Artificial Intelligence (AI), could create art. Aaron will cover the history of automation in art, examining the hype and reality of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for art together with predictions about they will be used. The fundamental question of whether an AI system could be credited with the authorship of artistic work is examined and how humans and AI may collaborate in the future. 

 

 

BIO

Aaron Hertzmann received a BA in computer science and art & art history from Rice University in 1996, and a PhD in computer science from New York University in 2001. He was a Professor at University of Toronto for 10 years, and has also worked at Pixar Animation Studios, University of Washington, Microsoft Research, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab, and Interval Research Corporation. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and IEEE Senior Member, and holds courtesy faculty appointments at University of Washington and University of Toronto.

 

 

His awards include the MIT TR100 (2004), an Ontario Early Researcher Award (2005), a Sloan Foundation Fellowship (2006), a Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship (2006), a UofT CS teaching award (2008), the CACS/AIC Outstanding Young CS Researcher Award (2010), the Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences (2010), and Rice Outstanding Young Engineering Alumnus (2011).