THE FUTURE OF BIOLOGY

October 2-3, 1996
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Morning Session, October2, 9 a.m.-noon.

TOMASO POGGIO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Modeling Systems That Learn

DANIEL DENNETT, Tufts University

Where Is the Mind Not in the Brain

ROBERT BERWICK, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Computation and the Biology of Language

Afternoon Session, 2-6 p.m.

LYNN MARGULIS, University of Massachusetts

Protoaxis: Evolution of Superorganisms

RICHARD LEWONTIN, Harvard University

What Is Unique about Biology?

EVELYN FOX KELLER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Organization and Self-Organization

THOMAS STARZL, University of Pittsburgh

Information Versus Epistemology in Transplantation Immunology

Morning Session, October 3, 9 a.m.-noon.

WALTER GILBERT, Harvard University

The Future of Genetic Testing

TEMPLE SMITH, Boston University

The Rosetta Stone of Modern Biology

JAN SAPP, York University

Beyond the Gene: The Next Decade

Afternoon Session, October 3, 2-5 p.m.

WILLIAM WIMSATT, University of Chicago

Will Biology Force Psychology to Recognize the Social Sciences?

MARJORIE GRENE, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, emeritus

Philosophy of Biology 1996: Problems and Prospects

ALFRED TAUBER, Boston University

"Concluding Unscientific Postscript "