Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) at The Hub

A special LASER to celebrate Stanford Research Park's 75th anniversary. Join us at The Hub at Stanford Research Park. #SRP

About this Event

What to Expect

Short, accessible talks on art and science

Informal discussion and audience Q&A

Networking with speakers and fellow attendees

Speakers

Piero Scaruffi (Stanford University) on "A History of Silicon Valley"

Ge Wang (Stanford University) on "Artful Design for Innovation"

Elise DeMarzo (City of Palo Alto) on "Art and Innovation"

Mihai Codreanu (Google) on "The Impact of University Research Parks"

Piero Scaruffi is a cultural historian who has lectured in three continents and published several books on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. He pioneered Internet applications in the early 1980s and the use of the World-Wide Web for cultural purposes in the mid-1990s. His poetry has been awarded several national prizes in Italy and the USA. He has written extensively about music history, cinema and literature. His latest book on technology is "A History of Silicon Valley" (2011, revised edition in 2022). He founded the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) in 2008.

Ge Wang is an Associate Professor at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He researches artful design of tools, toys, games, and social experiences. Ge is the architect of the ChucK music programming language, director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, co-founder of Smule and designer of the Ocarina and Magic Piano apps for mobile phones. He is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow and the author of "Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime", a photo comic book about the ethics and aesthetics of shaping technology.…