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Public Presentations<\/strong> by John Long about Darwin’s Devices<\/em> \u2014<\/p>\n

The future:<\/p>\n

\u2022 4:30 p.m., Sunday, 26 October 2014.\u00a0 “Il tempo delle specie e il tempo dei robot: <\/a>Quando le macchine giocano al gioco della vita.<\/a>”\u00a0 Join us at the Festival della Scienza in Genoa, Italy.\u00a0 Palazzo Ducale, Sala del Minor Consiglio, P.zza Matteotti 9.<\/p>\n

The past:<\/p>\n

\u2022 3:30 p.m., Friday, 10 January 2014.\u00a0 \u201cDarwin\u2019s Devices: Biorobots Reconstruct the Evolution of Ancient Animals.\u201d\u00a0 Florida Atlantic University\u2019s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science will launch its Frontiers in Science 2014 public lecture series with a presentation by John Long, Ph.D., titled \u201cDarwin\u2019s Devices: Biorobots Reconstruct the Evolution of Ancient Animals.\u201d The lecture will take place in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Room 126, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus.<\/p>\n

\u2022 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, 18 June 2013.\u00a0 “Robot (R)Evolution.”\u00a0 Public presentation, The Secret Science Club<\/a>, Bell House, 149 7th St., Brooklyn, NY.<\/p>\n

\u2022 10:00 p.m., Wednesday, 31 July 2013.\u00a0 “Through the Wormhole:\u00a0 Did God Create Evolution?”<\/a>\u00a0 Science Channel. Broadcast debut.<\/p>\n

* Monday, 18 March 2013.\u00a0 “Darwin’s Devices: Evolving Robots Reanimate Ancient Animal Evolution.” Science Communication Series<\/a>, Brown University.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Monday, 18 March 2013. “Writing Science: When Robots Evolve, People Listen.”\u00a0 Science Cafe, Brown University.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wednesday, 9 January 2013. “Why is a Biologist Evolving Robots to Study Biology?”\u00a0 Vassar Club at the Columbia Tower Club, Seattle, Washington.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Monday, 7 January 2013. “Why is a Biologist Evolving Robots to Study Biology?”\u00a0 Vassar Club at the Arlington Club, Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Monday and Tuesday, 17 and 18 December 2012.\u00a0 “Animals and Robots Behave and Evolve.”\u00a0 Presentation at Vassar College for the seventh-grade science students from Pierre Van Cortland Middle School, under the auspices of their teacher, Dr. Geral Ardito.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Friday, 15 December 2012.\u00a0 “Are Robots Good Models of Animals?”\u00a0 Theory Lunch program at the Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n

\u2022 November, 2012.\u00a0 Discovery Channel, Latin America, season two of “2111,” episode on the future of robotics.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Saturday, 29 September 2012. “Evolving Robots to Study Animal Evolution.”<\/a>\u00a0 Maker Faire NY 2012.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Friday, 28 September 2012.\u00a0 Speaker for the Engaging Science book club, organized by the Center for Collaborative Approaches to Science, Vassar College.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wednesday, 12 September 2013. “Chasing Our Tale: Remembrance of (Evolutionary) Things Past.”<\/a> Convocation address, Vassar College.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Friday, 18 May 2012.\u00a0 Radio interview<\/a> with Shelley Irwin, host of “The Morning Show” on WGVU, Grand Rapids, MI.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tuesday, 8 May 2012.\u00a0 Live radio interview<\/a> and call-in program with Krys Boyd, host of “Think”<\/a> on\u00a0 KERA, Dallas-Ft. Worth.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wednesday, 9 May 2012.\u00a0 The Empiricist League<\/a>. Theme:\u00a0 “Darwin v. Robot!” \u00a0 266 Broome St., New York, NY.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Thursday, 3 May 2012. Vassar College Bookstore.\u00a0 A presentation designed for high school and middle school students from New Paltz.\u00a0 We talked about evolving robots and the serious fun of doing science.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Thursday, 3 May 2012. Todd Middle School, Spackenkill Union Free School District.\u00a0 A presentation designed for seventh grad students .\u00a0 We talked about building robots to test our ideas about the evolution of vertebrates and building robots.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Saturday, 28 April 2012.\u00a0 Interview with Bob McDonald<\/a>, host of “Quirks & Quarks.”\u00a0 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Thursday, 26 April 2012.\u00a0 Live interview with Diego Mulligan, host of “The Journey Home with Diego Mulligan.”\u00a0 KSFR-FM radio, Santa Fe, NM.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2022 Thursday, 19 April 2012.\u00a0 Orations & Libations.\u00a0 Vassar Alumnae Club, New York City.\u00a0 Time-Life Building.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2022 Monday, 16 April 2012. \u00a0 Live interview with Brian Lehrer <\/a>with Brian Lehrer, host of The Brian Lehrer Show. \u00a0WNYC radio<\/a>, New York, NY.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Thursday, 12 April 2012. \u00a0 Live interview with Dylan Ratigan,<\/a> host of\u00a0The Dylan Ratigan Show<\/a>.\u00a0 MSNBC.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wednesday, 4 April 2012.\u00a0 Live presentation.<\/a>\u00a0 Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wednesday, 4 April 2012.\u00a0 Interview with Libby Denkman, producer of the Ron and Don<\/a> show.\u00a0 KIRO radio, Seattle, WA.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wednesday, 4 April 2012.\u00a0 Live VideoCast, hosted by CoroWare, Inc.\u00a0 A conversation about robots and Darwin’s Devices<\/em>.\u00a0 The discussion was led by public radio reporter Keith Seinfeld, and featured Dan Kara, robotic industry analyst, James Tangorra, robotics engineer, and John Long, author of Darwin’s Device.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wednesday, 4 April 2012, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Seattle<\/a>, Seattle, WA.\u00a0 Public presentation about the book, Q&A, and then a book signing.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tuesday, 3 April 2012.\u00a0 Interview with\u00a0 John Moe, host of “The Marketplace Tech Report,” on Marketplace.\u00a0 The podcast is here at Marketplace:\u00a0 <\/a>the lead story in the weekly ReMarket Podcast.\u00a0 Hear the interview about the interview!\u00a0 American Public Media.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wednesday, 8 February 2012.\u00a0 Live presentation.\u00a0 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.\u00a0 Professor Jodi Schwarz<\/a>, of the Biology Department at Vassar, had prepared some kind remarks for my introduction.\u00a0 She ended up NOT introducing me \u2014 professor Ken Livingston was crazy enough to do so instead.\u00a0 Here’s what Dr. Schwarz would’ve said:<\/p>\n

It is a pleasure to introduce John Long as our Darwin Days speaker today. John is a Professor in the Biology and Cognitive Science programs here at Vassar College and serves as Director of Vassar\u2019s Interdisciplinary Robotics Research Laboratory, which he co-founded.<\/p>\n

John and his collaborators live in a futuristic world populated by fish robots and their offspring. I inhabit an office directly across the hall from the space where their research takes place, and to say the least, it is not the standard research environment. Rather than being brightly lit and filled with lab benches and centrifuges, it is a vast and cavernously dark space filled with cameras, strobe lights, and housing an enormous round aquatic tank inside of which the robots live their lives. John and his collaborators build robots that compete against each other to overcome challenges. By selecting robots with the highest performing characteristics, and virtually breeding multiple generations of robo-offspring, they are able to test hypotheses about the evolution of biological traits.<\/p>\n

John has now written a book entitled Darwin’s Devices<\/em>, which would make a wonderful birthday present to Darwin on his 203rd birthday. In his book, John explains how biologists have taken Darwin’s core ideas about “descent with modification” and “natural selection” and are testing these ideas using robots to model and simulate biological processes. His book hits the shelves (if Amazon has shelves) in April. John is an immensely entertaining and thought provoking writer, and I am looking forward to hearing him tell us in person about his work and his book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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