Theater at ICTP tomorrow, Wednesday 9 March.

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*Theater at ICTP tomorrow, Wednesday 9 March.*


Would you like to live in a world where there areno jobs to do, where 
everything is done by living machines, and where human beings are free 
from work?

This is the world imagined in 1920 by the Czech author Karel Čapek in 
his play /R.U.R./ that will be performed by the students from the 
Trieste Secondary School "G. Corsi".

The one-hour performance takes place next Wednesday, 9 March 2016, in 
ICTP's Budinich Lecture Hall at 12:00 and at 17:30. The play is in 
Italian with English subtitles.

Several ICTP staff members and scientists are involved in the project 
and will be joining the student performers aged 12-13, including:

- Tarig Mahgoub Hassan Abdelgadir

- Sananda Biswas

- Alaa Aly Elsayed Aly Elshorbagy

- Najmeh Foroozani

- Ali Hassanali

- Fernando Villegas
- Valerio Cappellini

- Muhammad Iqbal

- Gordana Omanovic

The show's original text is inspired by the play /R.U.R./ standing for 
/Rossum’s Universal Robots/ (where Rossum is a wordplay with the Czech 
word for "reason"). Karel Čapek's play, in which the word "robot" is 
invented, came nearly a century in advance of many currently relevant 
topics: artificial intelligence, biotechnologies, losing jobs to robots, 
and the moral and social implications of widespread robot use. ICTP 
scientists enriched the script with personal reflections on the 
frontiers of science.

You are most welcome to attend any of the two performances.

We hope to see you there!





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