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CEO of Fab Lab Norway and the Fab Foundation.

Fab labs provide widespread access to modern means for invention. They began as an outreach project from MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA). CBA assembled millions of dollars in machines for research in digital fabrication, ultimately aiming at developing programmable molecular assemblers that will be able to make almost anything.

Fab labs fall between these extremes, comprising roughly fifty thousand dollars in equipment and materials that can be used today to do what will be possible with tomorrow's personal fabricators.

Fab labs have spread from inner-city Boston to rural India, from South Africa to the North of Norway. Activities in fab labs range from technological empowerment to peer-to-peer project-based technical training to local problem-solving to small-scale high-tech business incubation to grass-roots research. Projects being developed and produced in fab labs include solar and wind-powered turbines, thin-client computers and wireless data networks, analytical instrumentation for agriculture and healthcare, custom housing, and rapid-prototyping of rapid-prototyping machines.

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Quelles implications pour l'émergence des connaissances à partir d'immenses gisements de données?

Personal fabrication: what does it mean? What are the opportunities?
Currently Amit Zoran is a PhD student in the Smart Cities Group, MIT Media Lab, working an several aspects of designing artifacts in mixed technological - cultural space. Amit graduated from Ben-Gurion University at Bear-Sheva, Israel, in 2003 with B.Sc. in Communication System Engineering. He worked as an image and audio processing engineer for five years, developing on a variety of signal processing projects. In 2003 Amit started a Master’s degree at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Israel, which he graduated from in 2007. In 2008, Amit joined the MIT Media Lab, where he finished his Master's degree in 2009. For his thesis, Amit focused on hybrid object design, merging traditional crafted element with digital technologies.

How can open public data become reality? The "Free our data" initiative.
Michael Cross has worked as a journalist on seven continents. Nowadays he spends most of his time in the UK, exploring the intimate labyrinths of government IT and information policy.
He runs Free Our Data, a campaign for free public access to data about the UK and its citizen.

Disruptor, blogger, cofounder of The Mine! project.

Professor Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Professeur EPFL

Filmmaker and anthropologist

Documentariste et anthropoliste.

In charge of ICT for the city of Rennes I successively deployed websites, extranets and multimedia power of information before developing numerous experiments related to the concept of augmented territory with a target of services to residents.

Chargé de mission TIC à la ville de Rennes j'ai successivement déployé des sites web, des supports multimédia et des extranets d'alimentation d'information avant de développer de nombreuses expérimentations en rapport avec la notion de territoire "augmenté" avec un objectif de services aux habitants.

Hacker les machines industrielles pour concevoir des objets désirables