AAAS News

The plenary speaker lineup for the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston is confirmed; find details below. The meeting’s theme, The Beauty and Benefits of Science, highlights the “unreasonable effectiveness” of the scientific enterprise in creating economic growth, solving societal problems, and satisfying the essential human drive to understand the world in which we live.

Browse the scientific program and find details on AAAS member discounts for registration and hotel by visiting the Annual Meeting website.

Sherry Turkle Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 “The Robotic Moment: What Do We Forget When We Talk to Machines?”

Friday, 15 February

Nathan Myhrvold, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Intellectual Ventures

 “Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking”

Saturday, 16 February

Robert Kirshner, Clowes Professor of Science, Harvard University

 “The Beauty of the Accelerating Universe”

Sunday, 17 February

Cynthia Kenyon, American Cancer Society Professor and Director of the Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging, University of California, San Francisco

“Mechanisms for Life Extension in C. elegans”

Monday, 18 February