Talk by Wojciech Matusik
Can Computers Beat Humans at Design?
We would like to invite you to Prof. Wojciech Matusik's talk "Can Computers Beat Humans at Design?":
Date: 15th May 2023
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Room: HG E 5
Abstract:
Design is everywhere: high-performance turbines, polymers
with outstanding material properties, unmanned aerial vehicles,
metamaterials, or computer algorithms. However, the best designs are a
product of tremendous work of high-skilled domain experts. I will show
that we are on the verge of a transition where computational methods
start beating humans at design. I will describe a series of questions
that need to be addressed to move the field of computational design
forward: how to represent a design, how to represent design space, how
to find designs with optimal performance, and how to bridge the gap
between simulation and reality.
Bio:
Wojciech Matusik is a professor in MIT's Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, and leads the Computational Design
and Fabrication Group at the Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory. His research interests are in computer
graphics, computational design and fabrication, computer vision,
robotics and human-computer interaction. Before coming to MIT, he
worked at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Adobe Systems and
Disney Research Zurich. He has received a Ruth and Joel Spira Award
for Excellence in Teaching, a DARPA Young Faculty Award and a Sloan
Foundation fellowship. He has been named one of the world's top 100
young innovators by MIT Technology Review and received a Significant
New Researcher Award from ACM Siggraph.
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