{"id":88387,"date":"2020-07-20T08:21:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T08:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flad.pt\/?p=88387"},"modified":"2020-07-20T08:44:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T08:44:25","slug":"arlindo-oliveira-on-atlantic-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flad.pt\/en\/arlindo-oliveira-on-atlantic-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlindo Oliveira at the Atlantic Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fifth episode of our podcast, Atlantic Talks, is now available. This week’s guest is Arlindo Oliveira, Professor at the Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico<\/strong>, of which he was president, and expert in areas such as algorithms and complexity, and Machine Learning. He is the author of several books and more than a hundred scientific articles in these areas.<\/h3>\n

His interest in computers began in the 1980s. Like some young people at the time, he had a ZX Spectrum \u2013 a rarity, obsolete at the present times \u2013 when he joined Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico to graduate in Electronic and Computer Engineering.<\/p>\n

In 1984, he was sending emails, another rarity in those times. Ten years later, he completed his PhD in Computer and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n

In this episode of Atlantic Talks, Arlindo Oliveira – a self-confessed fan of science fiction – explains why he thinks reality will continue to surpass fiction in the coming decades, and gives as an example some of the classics.<\/p>\n

“In science fiction films such as the 2001 Space Odyssey and other good films, most of these innovations were not there. These technologies have all taken people and researchers by surprise, and I am convinced that in the coming decades, whatever these technologies are, they will continue to do so.” \u2013 Arlindo Oliveira<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The conversation went through the infinite complexity of the brain \u2013 which he does not believe we will fully know \u2013 and the ability of the human being to create an intelligence, different from the way the human brain works.<\/p>\n