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European Future Technologies Conference, FET09

Conference Programme for Day 3, Thursday 23rd April 2009

DAY1 - DAY2 - DAY3

Time Conference session Room
09.00-09.45 Keynote: Alain Berthoz
Collège de France, Paris
"New Frontiers between IST, Robotics and Cognitive Neuroscience"
Zenit/Nadir
09.45-10.30 Keynote: Albert-László Barabási
Northeastern University, USA
"From Networks to Human Mobility Patterns"
Zenit/Nadir
Coffee break
11.00-12.30 Parallel Sessions
"Presence: Real Actions in Virtual Environments"
Giulio Ruffini, Starlab, Spain & Heinrich Bültoff, Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany
Taurus
"Unconventional Computing" (invited session)
Andy Adamatzky, University of the West of England, UK
Milan Stojanovic, Columbia University, New York, US
Jerzy Gorecki, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw
Virgo
"Trust & Security Inter-relationship"
Alessandro Zorat, University of Trento, Italy
Leo
"Aesthetic as the Heart of Science"
Paul Bourgine, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Tycho
"Self-Powered Nanodevices"
Violeta Gràcia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Aquarius
"Through the Crystal Ball: Europe´s Position in the Digital Revolution by 2030"
Gian M. Maggio, COST Office, Belgium
Kepler
Lunch break
14.00-15.30 Parallel Sessions
"Bodily Intelligent Modular Robots"
Kasper Støy, University of Southern Denmark
Leo
"Visual Analytics - Mastering the Information Age"
Jorn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research, Germany
Aquarius
"The Body & the Urban Space"
Ingi Helgason, Napier University, UK
Tycho
"Neurofunctional Materials"
Victor Erokhin, University of Parma, Italy
Virgo
"Challenges & Visions for Global Computing"
Martin Wirsing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Taurus
"Language & the Mind"
Jan Hajic, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Kepler
Coffee break
16.00-17.00
Closing Address & Award of the Best Exhibitor Prize
Ondřej Liška,
Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic

Closing Performance: "Multimodal Brain Orchestra"
SPECS, Spain
Zenit/Nadir

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