This year’s conference of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), ISTAS 2015, was held close to Dublin, in the lovely 12th century heritage town of Malahide and featured a wealth of tracks, covering topics ranging from Technology and Development and Professional and Research Ethics all the way to Robot Ethics and Technological […]
Continue Reading →This first edition of the Social Implications of Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) conference was hosted by Solutions for the Future (SFS) at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul. Its declared goal was to discuss “various social issues related to the future impact of robotics on humanity”. In their very first iteration, SIAI managed to secure […]
Continue Reading →This is my first self-build, remote controlled quadcopter. It is clearly built with racing and air-acrobatics in mind. No place for such features as self-leveling, GPS or “return to home” features. This is a bare, naked racing machine. Think not of a street-legal sports car, think of the kind of gutted, no-comfort racing cars you […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
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