Summit will showcase the innovative technologies used at Yale

The second annual Yale Technology Summit —a showcase of innovative and emerging technologies used in teaching, research, entrepreneurial, and administrative activities at Yale — will take place on Friday, Oct. 30.

Faculty, researchers, students, staff, and alumni will present their work and engage in debate and discussion at this day-long event, which also will feature a technology expo and workshops.

The Yale Technology Summit will take place 9 a.m.–4 p.m. in the Yale School of Management’s Evans Hall building, 165 Whitney Ave. The event is open to the Yale community and to alumni. Those attending may stay the whole day, or just attend a session. Registration is not required to attend, but those interested can register for a box lunch.

Presentations, panels, workshops, and poster sessions will focus on three themes:

Teaching and learning: Professors, lecturers, practitioners, and others will talk about technology enhanced teaching and learning techniques used in Yale classrooms.

Scholarship and research: Faculty and students will discuss their research or scholarly work; a new use of technology in digital humanities, social science research, or science and medical applications will be explored.

Entrepreneurship and innovation: Developers, researchers, project managers, and practitioners will discuss novel experiences or developments in the construction and use of technologies involving issues specific to research data collection, manipulation, processing, visualization, and analysis.

There will also be a keynote address by Brian Scassellati, professor of computer science, cognitive science, and mechanical engineering, and director of the National Science Foundation Expedition on Socially Assistive Robotics. Scassellati focuses on building computational models of human social behavior, especially the development of early social skills. His research evaluates models of how infants acquire social skills and assists in the diagnosis and quantification of disorders of social development (such as autism). His other interests include humanoid robots, human-robot interaction, artificial intelligence, machine perception, and social learning

See the full schedule.

For more information, visit the summit’s website or send an email to techsummit@yale.edu.