Carnegie Mellon University President Jared L. Cohon invites you to a special event Leading Innovation: Los Angeles and Beyond Saturday, September 24, 2011 3:30–6:30 p.m. Lot Studios 1041 N. Formosa Avenue West Hollywood, CA 90046 (Located near the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Formosa Avenue.) Reception Expand your network in the Los Angeles area. Hear the latest news about CMU and the Inspire Innovation campaign. Cocktails and heavy hors d'oeuvres will be served prior to a panel discussion. Dessert and coffee will follow the program. Panel How do Hollywood's robots stack up to CMU's real-life innovations? Where's the line between fiction and reality? Are we at the dawn of a new robot era? What will the future hold for robotic technologies shaping our lives? Join in the conversation to explore these questions and others with experts from the worlds of entertainment, artificial intelligence, robotics and human-computer interaction. Scheduled Panelists Howie Choset Professor, Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University Jodi Forlizzi Associate Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute and School of Design Carnegie Mellon University Don Marinelli (Moderator) Executive Producer, Entertainment Technology Center Professor, Drama and Arts Management Carnegie Mellon University Daniel H. Wilson (CS'03, '04, '05), via live remote Alumnus and Author How to Survive a Robot Uprising and Robopocalypse (soon to be a Steven Spielberg film) RSVP Space is limited at this event. RSVP today. Questions Please contact Susan Tate Hiser at 412-268-6567 or sjt1@andrew.cmu.edu. Attire Business casual Carnegie Mellon University is on track to reach the $1 billion goal of our Inspire Innovation campaign. Thanks to the support of more than 45,000 alumni, parents, faculty, staff, students and friends, we are in the homestretch to achieve this historic milestone. www.cmu.edu/campaign