Upcoming Talk: Dr. Edward Tunstel Weds 9/14 at 6:30 pm Namm 119

You are cordially invited to a talk by Edward Tunstel, entitled “Robotics: A Practitioner’s Perspective on Utility Now and Later” on Wednesday, September 14th from 6:30 – 7:30 PM in Namm 119, City Tech | CUNY, at 300 Jay Street in Brooklyn. This event is hosted by the college and the National Endowment for the Humanities Cultural History of Digital Technologies Colloquium.

Dr. Tunstel is a Senior Roboticist in the Research & Exploratory Development Department of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and has also served as space robotics & autonomous control lead in its Space Sector. He joined APL in 2007 after 18 years at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he worked on the NASA Mars Exploration Rovers mission as both a flight systems engineer responsible for autonomous surface navigation and as Rover Engineering Team lead for the mobility and robotic arm subsystems, which involved him in the daily performance assessment, planning, and operations of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers during their first four years on Mars. He is now engaged in robotics and autonomy research enabling next generation robotic systems and human-robot collaborative teams for future national security and space applications.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Talk: Weds May 11 ETHAN AKIN, Professor of Mathematics, City College of New York

NEH_AKINv2You are cordially invited to a talk by Ethan Akin, entitled “What is a Dynamical System” on Wednesday, May 11th from 6 – 8:00 PM in Namm 119, City Tech | CUNY,  at 186 Jay Street in Brooklyn, NY. This event is hosted by the college and the National Endowment for the Humanities Cultural History of Digital Technologies Colloquium. 
 
Dr. Akin is Professor of Mathematics at the City College of New York, CUNY. He focuses on the topological part of dynamical systems theory and is the author of two books, The General Topology of Dynamical Systems (1993) and Recurrence in Topological Dynamics: Furstenberg Families and Ellis Actions (1997).
This event is free and open to the public.
 
Click here for event registration. The full announcement poster is attached. For more information please contact aleonhardt@citytech.cuny.edu.

Exploring the Cultural History of Digital Technology at City Tech

Welcome to the website for City Tech’s newly funded NEH grant, A Cultural History of Digital Technology. The grant is an eighteen-month interdisciplinary faculty development project designed to equip faculty from both STEM and humanities disciplines with an understanding of the cultural, historical, and philosophical dimensions of three major contemporary technologies that are focal points in our curriculum: geospatial technology, digital fabrication, and robotics. Watch this space for more info as the site is developed from January 2016 through Summer 2017.