Held at the Pavilhão do Conhecimento/Ciência Viva in Lisbon, and organised by the University of Lisbon Centre of Philosophy and the Instituto Superior Técnico / Institute for Systems and Robotics and the CLAWAR Association, this first iteration of the International Conference on Robot Ethics (ICRE) can definitely be called a success. With notable keynote speakers like […]
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On my “to-watch” list for quite a while, I very recently used a 12+ h flight to spend a couple of hours with Sean Carroll, Jerry Coyne, Richard Dawkins, Terrence Deacon, Simon DeDeo, Dan Dennett, Owen Flanagan, The official description for this conference reads: Over four centuries of scientific progress have convinced most professional philosophers […]
Continue Reading →ETHICOMP 2015 celebrated it’s 20th anniversary in the place of its inception: De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. While the city it self, well, is not exactly a crown jewel of the United Kingdom, the De Montfort University itself certainly has its charm and proofed to be an excellent venue for the conference. Greeted by […]
Continue Reading →A couple of weeks ago, Jumstart Magazine visited DimSumLabs (Hong Kong’s first and only hackerspace) and featured a couple of ongoing projects in an article aptly named “Inside Dim Sum Labs”. Among those, two of my own projects, the Uranium Marble Ring Oscillator Pendant and the Haptic Compass Belt*. Yours truely also on the picture […]
Continue Reading →Just a couple of particularly well-done audio-visual representations of the wired life (WARNING: full of subtleties!)
Continue Reading →As outlined in a recent Policy Paper by India’s Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, all Indian government office will shift to the use of Open Source Software only. They write: “Government of India (GoI) is implementing the Digital India programme as an umbrella programme to prepare India for a knowledge based transformation into a […]
Continue Reading →Heralded as one of the strongest signs of a new industrial age, a time where one no longer depends on the production facilities of large corporations, a time where one just scans and prints whatever one needs, the 3D printer has made somewhat of a splash in the last couple of years. Technically, the little […]
Continue Reading →Known for his rather lengthy lectures on software freedom, the GNU operating system, Creative Commons and so on, Richard Stallman condensed the prime message of free software into a less than 15 minute presentation at TEDx Geneva 2014. Of course I am by no means against lengthy lectures. Many topics simply are too complex to […]
Continue Reading →For one of their panels, this year’s HopeX conference managed to connect Edward Snowden and Daniel Ellsberg and invited the crowd to listen to an open conversation between the two, covering matters of surveillance, privacy, whistle-blowing and how to fix things that are broken. Particularly with regards to the last point, Edward Snowden repeated what […]
Continue Reading →This project is the outcome of me trying to replicate the results study run by some researchers at Osnabrück University and published in the Journal of Neural Engineering under the title “Beyond sensory substitution–learning the sixth sense” The abstract reads: Rapid advances in neuroscience have sparked numerous efforts to study the neural correlate of consciousness. […]
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