Near futures

Lift 11 Session

February 4, 2011 - 14:00

This session will explain show technologies that will invade our daily lives in the near future. See tomorrow's techs, their usages and applications.


Presentations


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Those algorithms that govern our lives

Kevin Slavin (Area/Code & Starling, USA)

Digital technologies and on-line platforms are essential to the way we work and live. Interestingly, they are defined by algorithms which are not neutral. Kevin discusses how they ...
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What about a web of things?

Vlad Trifa (ETH Zurich / MIT SENSEable City Lab, Switzerland)

The Internet of Things (IOT) has been portrayed as the ideal solution to many problems in various disciplines. After describing the problems with our current approaches to build ...
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Robotics today

Sabine Hauert (EPFL / Robots Podcast, Switzerland)

Sabine aims at truthfully portraying how robots are changing the way we live and work today. Despite new and accelerating developments, the future of robotics is in the labs, ...
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Open Stage: From Ballet Dancing to 3D Hip Simulation

Caecilia Charbonnier (artAnim, Switzerland)

In this 5 minutes talk, Caecilia presents the work she did in collaboration with the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the University Hospital of Geneva. Starting from the ...
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