By james art 
Pramod Khargonekar is one of the speakers for the upcoming lectures sponsored by the Memorial Committee of J. Robert Oppenheimer. A photo of the kind assistance
Jromc News Message
We are pleased to cooperate with two partner organizations to present you two free lectures on the following fascinating topics:
History of the Indian School in Santa Fe, by Bernie Gurul, February 13, 2025.
Jromc is pleased to host together with the Los Alamos Public Library of a new conversation about the history of the Indian School in Santa Fe from the headmaster, Bernie Gurule, on Thursday, February 13 to 19:00 at the Public Library of the Public Library Meat, in Los Alamos NM.
Title:
History of the Indian School in Santa Fe
Summary:
The Santa Fe Indian School trains young people from 19 local tribes from New Mexico. Approximately 700 grades 7th to 12 students study their native languages, participate in the culture of their communities and develop skills to pursue their future.
The long history of the Santa Fe Indian School in our region began in 1890, when it was established as part of the initiative of the Federal School-International for Assimilation of Native American children. Starting in the 1920s and 1930s, changes in federal Indian policy led to the creation of the Indian Bureau and the beginning of a new direction for the Indian School in Santa Fe. In 2000, the Santa Fa Indian School Act returned the land to the school, which was kept in trust to the 19 Pueblo governors of New Mexico. Today, this Trust has built a program based on educational sovereignty, supporting their own cultural and traditional beliefs.
Speaker biography:
Bernie Gurule, a native of Los Lunas, has a long career in education. After retiring from his role as director of Alaska High School, he returned to his family in New Mexico and held the position of principal at the Santa Fe high school.
“The future of work and workers in the era of II” by Prof. Pramod Hargonecar, February 19, 2025.
Jromc is pleased to host this lecture as part of the 2025 engineers Week Prof. Pramod Hargonecar, Deputy Research and Professor of Electrical Science and Computer Science at the University of California, will speak on February 19, 2025. From 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm in Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Title: The future of work and workers in the era of II
Summary:
As automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies continue their remarkable fast development, many aspects of workers’ work and life are expected to be affected. In this lecture, we will begin with some data and insights from historical examples of technological impact on work and workers in the Industrial Revolution. This will be followed by AI discussion as “general purpose technology”. We will then look at the emerging knowledge of how current and forecast developments of AI have an impact on work and workers. We will also discuss how human -oriented AI approach can help shape the future of work and workers.
This event is sponsored by:
- The National Laboratory Management Board in Los Alamos and Education Center for National Security
- Los Alamos Scientific Festival
- Memorial Committee of J. Robert Openheimer
- New Mexico Consortium
Speaker biography:
Prior to arriving at the University of California in Irvin in 2016, Hargonecar was a lecturer at the University of Florida, the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan. In 2013, he was appointed by the National Scientific Foundation (NSF) to serve as an assistant director of the Directorate of Engineering and served as a member of the senior management and management team of NSF. Khargonekar’s research and teaching interests include systems and control theory, machine learning and applications for intelligent electrical network and neural engineering. He is an associate of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Federation of Automatic Governance and the American Science Progress Association and has won the Award for Management Systems, the Baker Award, the Lecture Award for Systems and CSS Systems Axelby Award from IEEE.