March 25, 2025
Doors: 6:30 PM - Show: 7:00 PM
BCT and Science on Screen
Blade Runner (1982): Science on Screen Pre-film Talk with David Crandall - Dir. Luddy Artificial Intelligence Center FREE!
Buskirk-Chumley Theater
114 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN, 47408
Date & Time
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
7:00 PM
Location
Buskirk-Chumley Theater
114 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN, 47408
FREE event, in honor of National Evening of Science on Screen
The Science on Screen® grant initiative brings science to cinemas nationwide.
There will be a Pre-Film Talk with David J. Crandall – Director of IU’s Luddy Artifical Intelligence Center – on the topic of “AI’s Promises and Perils”.
David Crandall received the Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University in 2008 and the M.S. and B.S. degrees in computer science and engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, in 2001. He worked as a postdoctoral associate at Cornell from 2008-2010, and as a research scientist at Eastman Kodak Company from 2001-2003.
Dr. Crandall’s main research interest is computer vision, the area of computer science that tries to design algorithms that can “see”. He is particularly interested in visual object recognition and scene understanding. He is also interested in other problems that involve analyzing and modeling large amounts of uncertain data, like mining data from the web and from online social networking sites.
Take a look at Dr. Crandall's Computer Vision Lab website.
Blade Runner – The Final Cut (1982)
Harrison Ford stars in this fascinating, dark vision of the “near future” as a policeman who tracks engineered humans--a Blade Runner. In the year 2019, the police department forces Rick Deckard out of retirement to hunt four genetically engineered humans who have come to earth. Designed to do difficult, hazardous work, the manufactured humans are stronger, faster and smarter than non engineered humans. They feel no pain or remorse; they are almost indistinguishable from other humans ... and they are killing people. Now Deckard must stop them before they kill again.
The Coolidge Corner Theatre's series has enhanced film and scientific literacy with this popular program, which launched at the Coolidge in 2005 in partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and its pioneering nationwide film program. This series puts together creative pairings of current, classic, cult, and documentary films with lively introductions by notable figures from the world of science, technology, and medicine.
RATED R
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