Elizabeth Croft

University of British Columbia

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Professor at the University of British Columbia, where she’s Director of the Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligences Systems Lab

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Remember Hal? The first conversation between a human being and a robot might well have happened in 1968 in Stanley Kubrick's iconic film  2001: A Space Odyssey .

The World of Robots -- in Love and War

Remember Hal? The first conversation between a human being and a robot might well have happened in 1968 in Stanley Kubrick's iconic film 2001: A Space Odyssey .

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Remember Hal? The first conversation between a human being and a robot might well have happened in 1968 in Stanley Kubrick's iconic film  2001: A Space Odyssey .

The World of Robots -- in Love and War

Remember Hal? The first conversation between a human being and a robot might well have happened in 1968 in Stanley Kubrick's iconic film 2001: A Space Odyssey .

from To the Point

The first conversation between a human being and a robot might well have happened in 1968, in Stanley Kubrick's iconic film  2001 : a Space Odyssey.

The World of Robots -- in Love and War

The first conversation between a human being and a robot might well have happened in 1968, in Stanley Kubrick's iconic film 2001 : a Space Odyssey.

from To the Point

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