Gil Weinberg, Ph.D. is a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Music and the founding director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, where he leads the Robotic Musicianship group. His research focuses on developing artificial creativity and musical expression for robots and augmented humans. Among his projects are a marimba-playing robotic musician called Shimon that uses machine learning for jazz improvisation, and a prosthetic robotic arm for amputees that restores and enhances human drumming abilities. Weinberg will discuss this and other robotics projects as an allegory to unlocking our own creative potential. If we can teach a robot to be creative – to improvise, to think on its feet, to draw cues from others for where to head next – surely we can unlock that same potential within ourselves.

Very soon, almost every product and application will include artificial intelligence (AI). On the afternoon of Wednesday, October 3, at the Global Summit 2018 in San Antonio we're pulling together experts from InterSystems and from the front lines of the AI industry to discuss the current and future state-of-the-art for AI solutions. Please register for the Solution Developers Conference, and we'll let you know as soon as registration for the post-Summit AI Symposium opens. Just a reminder: Global Summit 2018 takes place September 30 -- October 3 in San Antonio. The deadline for our Super Early Bird Discount on Summit registration (a savings of $651) is August 10.