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Sri Dharma Mittra has spent most of his life in service to humanity, disseminating the ancient knowledge of how to achieve radiant health and spiritual development. Dharma was born in the late 1930s and has studied yoga since 1958. After meeting his teacher guru, Sri Swami Kalaishananda, he immersed himself in intense study and practice of the classical eight limbs of yoga and nine years of dedicated full-time practice of karma yoga. He was accepted and initiated as a sannyasi, one who renounces the world in order to realize God. During these years Dharma had the esteemed honor of being the personal assistant to the Guru attending to all his needs. Sri Swami Kailashanada is known as the first Guru to bring the practice of live-food Yoga Diet, Zone Therapy, and hatha yoga to the West in the early 1950s.
http://www.dharmayogacenter.com
Lecture: "The Purpose of Yoga" - click to view video
Thursday, April 23, 4:00 - 5:30pm, Stephenson Research and Technology Center On the campus of the University of Oklahoma. 101 David L. Boren Blvd. Norman, Oklahoma (405) 325-9800. Admission is free.
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Ken Feingold has been exhibiting his work in film, video, objects, and installations since 1974. After first studying at Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio) he received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in “Post-Studio Art” from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA. Among the numerous awards and honors Feingold has received, the including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2004) and a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship (2003). He has taught at Princeton University and Cooper Union, among others. His work “If/Then” (2001) was included in the Whitney Biennial 2002, and three of his installations were in the Corcoran Biennial 2002. Self Portrait as the Center of the Universe (1998 – 2001) was shown at Tate Liverpool in Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance (2004), and a “mid-career survey” of his work was shown at Ace Gallery in Los Angeles between October 2005 and February 2006. His works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (Film Study Collection) NY; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Kiasma, Helsinki; ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, and others. He has traveled widely, living for extended periods of time in India, Japan, and Argentina and working for shorter periods in many other countries. He lives in New York City.
http://www.kenfeingold.com
Lecture: "Potential Space and the Mind of the Robot" - click to view video
Thursday, March 26, 4:00 - 5:30pm, Fred Jones Museum
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http://www.indiana.edu/~cogdev/
Lecture: "Grounding toddler learning in sensory-motor dynamics" - click to view video
Monday, March 9, 2009, 4:00 - 5:30pm, Stephenson Research and Technology Center
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llah R. Nourbakhsh is an Associate Professor of Robotics and head of the Robotics Masters Program in The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was on leave for the 2004 calendar year and was at NASA/Ames Research Center serving as Robotics Group lead. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1996. He is co-founder of the Toy Robots Initiative at The Robotics Institute, director of the Center for Innovative Robotics and director of the Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment (CREATE) lab. He is also co-PI of the Global Connection Project, home of the Gigapan project. He is also co-PI of the Robot 250 city-wide art+robotics fusion program in Pittsburgh. He is director of education for the NSF-funded ERC, Quality of Life Technologies. His current research projects include educational and social robotics and community robotics. His past research has included protein structure prediction under the GENOME project, software reuse, interleaving planning and execution and planning and scheduling algorithms, as well as mobile robot navigation. At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory he was a member of the New Millenium Rapid Prototyping Team for the design of autonomous spacecraft. He is a founder and chief scientist of Blue Pumpkin Software, Inc., which was acquired by Witness Systems, Inc. Illah recently co-authored the MIT Press textbook, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots.
Lecture: "Humanity in Robotics"- click to view video
Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 4:00 - 5:30pm, Stephenson Research and Technology Center (tentative location)
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