Minds Bodies Machines

Published 22 February 07 12:26 PM | robyn.owens 

Minds, Bodies, Machines:

A Cultural and Intellectual History of Technologies in the 21st Century

Minds, Bodies, Machines brings University researchers from the humanities and social sciences together with professionals from the IT community in order to explore questions that are central to our highly technological age: what is life, what is mind, can machines think and be self-aware, what does the human imagination bring to hard science?

This conference will take place in at Birkbeck College in London on July 6th-7th. Abstracts for papers should be submitted no later than 28th February 2007. A selection of papers arising from the conference will be published in the online journal 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century.

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About robyn.owens

I started my academic life doing a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics at UWA before going to Oxford to complete an MSc and a DPhil, also in Mathematics. I then spent three years in Paris at l'Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, continuing research in mathematical analysis and going to lots of movies before returning to UWA to work as a research mathematician. I have lectured in Maths and Computer Science at UWA, as well as for short periods at Berkeley, The University of Canterbury in Christchurch, and Prince Songkla University in Thailand. My research has focussed on computer vision, including feature detection in images, 3D shape measurement, image understanding, and representation.