Don’t miss this premier event
The Merriwa District Progress Association is proud to present Professor Stephan Chalup from the University of Newcastle. This is an interactive session with Professor Stephan Chalup who will help demystify AI in today’s world.
The cost is just $10 per person. Bookings can be made via Try Bookings (a link will be provided soon).
Robotic Soccer (yes, it's a "thing")!
A morning with Professor Chalup
Professor Chalup is one of our foremost academics working the area of AI. This is your opportunity to gain a better understanding of AI, what it is, how it is evolving and what it means for us in the not-too-distant future.
If you have children, you don’t want to miss this event. If you use the internet, you don’t want to miss this event. In fact, if you participate in every day life, this event will be eye-opening.
Professor Chalup will share with you his deep knowlege of AI, including:
- what AI is (its evolution and exponential growth over the last 20 years)
- how it will affect our lives and our workplace
- and the ethics of AI (its potential use and abuse).
There will be an opportunity to ask questions after Professor Chalup’s presentation.
Bookings can be made online at Try Booking (web address to be provided soon).
Professor Stephan Chalup
About Professsor Chalup
Professor Chalup completed his undergraduate studies in Germany at the universities of Konstanz, Erlangen-Nuernberg, and Heidelberg where he graduated in mathematics with neuroscience. In 2002 he received his PhD from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane where he studied at the Machine Learning Research Centre.
Professor Chalup then came to Newcastle where he started the Interdisciplinary Machine Learning Research Group which is now part of the Newcastle Robotics Lab. These groups have the common objective to advance research in the area of Anthropocentric Biocybernetic Computing. It investigates the complex interactions between humans and their environment on all levels.
When applied to real-world computing and autonomous agents the aim is to develop artificial systems that approximate human-like skills on tasks such as vision processing, facial expression analysis, space representation, and human-robot interaction. Machine learning techniques are employed for fine tuning the parameters of general models until they perform at extraordinary levels of skill on selected tasks.
Professor Chalup is also Head of the Newcastle Robotics Lab and NUbots. NUbots is a team in the University of Newcastle’s robotics research group focused on developing humanoid soccer-playing robots for the international RoboCup competition. The ultimate goalof the Nubots team is to develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world champions by 2050 (watch this space).