Don’t miss your chance to register for the WEP 2018 lectures!
With over 40 speakers and 25 morning and afternoon lectures planned for WEP 2018, we hope you will enjoy the two weeks of Human-Machine Future talks we’ve planned. We have spread our lectures across campus and divided them by topic and day: data, sensors, robotics, security biometrics, brain, artificial intelligence, and networks. Visit our website now to organize your own schedule!
WEP Lectures – January 14-18, 2018
Opening lecture – Sunday, January 14
- 12:30 p.m. Art, Science And The Invention Of Things That Last – David Edwards
Data – Tuesday, January 16
- 2:00 p.m. Swarm Robotics – Andrew Vardy
- 3:00 p.m. Finding Shark Attacks In Data Streams – Thomas Hoover and Sebastian Steinke
- 4:00 p.m. Industry Research Teams In The Age Of Intelligent Systems – Luis Sarmento
Sensors – Wednesday, January 17
- 4:00 p.m. Mobile Intelligence – Siyuan Liu
Robotics – Thursday, January 18
- 12:30 p.m.. Movability Or Autonomy For Humans – Jeffrey Schnapp
- 2:00 p.m. Alumni Lecture Series – Sultan Safin, Lazlo Toth, Hanan Alshehri and Hussain Shibli
- 4:00 p.m. Lecture by Robert Langer
WEP Lectures – January 21-25, 2018
Security Biometrics – Sunday, January 21
- 11:00 a.m. Human Machine Past In The House Of Wisdom – Rebecca Mileham
- 12:30 p.m. New Approaches To Nuclear Power – Leslie Dewan
- 1:30 p.m. The Iris Project Presentation – Felix Mayrl and Olivier Colin
- 2:00 p.m. Measuring Online Behavioural Advertising – Nikolaos Laoutaris
- 4:00 p.m. Golden Ratio And Art – Andrea Baczynski and The Al Khwarizmi Group
Brain – Monday, January 22
- 12:30 p.m. How Ai Turned The Chess World Upside Down – Susan Polgar
- 2:00 p.m. The Forgotten Half Of The Brain – Pierre Magistretti and Yves Agid
- 3:00 p.m. A Human Brain Or A Supercomputer, Better Together? – David Keyes and Samar Aseeri
Artificial Intelligence – Tuesday, January 23
- 9:00 a.m. AI In Voice and Chat – Philipp Heltewig
- 12:30 p.m. Scaling Translation For a World With No Language Barriers – Vasco Pedrov
- 4:00 p.m. Visualizing The Human Machine Future – Anastasia Khrenova, Heno Hwang and Xavier Pita
Networks – Wednesday, January 24
- 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Intellectual Property: What Is It And Why Should I Care? – Janis Tyhurst, Mardson McQuay and Steven Dubois
- 12:30 p.m. Smart City Project – Ayman Al Harbi
- 2:00 p.m. The Role Of Energy In Human-Machine Relationship and Its Future – Edrisse Chermak and Tadeusz Patzek
- 3:00 p.m. Sensing Earth Vibration With Seismic Networks – Martin Mai
Closing Lectures – Thursday, January 25
- 9:00 a.m. The Rise Of The Nanomachines – Emilie Ringe, Laura Sagle, Niveen Khashab, Shahad Alsaiari and So-Jung Park.
- 12:30 p.m. When Random Matrices Meet Machine Learning – Jamal Najim and Romain Couillet