PerAda team to run session at FET 2011: Heaven or Hell ? Visions for Pervasive Adaptation

30/03/2011

The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011 is the second instalment of a new forum dedicated to frontier research in information and communication technologies. fet11 is a unique conference on visionary, high-risk and long-term research in information science and technology. Featuring an exceptionally broad range of scientific fields the event will seed new ideas across disciplines that will reshape the future

http://www.fet11.eu/programme-and-exhibition/sessions


The PerAda team are leading the following session:

Heaven and Hell: Visions for Pervasive Adaptation

User heaven or user hell? Technology experts in artificial intelligence, adaptive systems, ambient environments and pervasive computing discuss the technological benefits and useful applications of pervasive adaptation, but also its potential threats. Based on themes from the PerAda book This Pervasive day, and featuring authors from the PerAda projects, it will appeal to anyone interested in the personal, social, economic and political impacts of pervasive, ubiquitous and adaptive computing.

Speakers

The session will be chaired by Ben Paechter, Edinburgh Napier University. Confirmed speakers:

Ben Paechter, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK

Nikola Serbedzija, Fraunhofer FIRST,  Germany

Katina Michael, University of Wollongong, Australia


 
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Associated people

Callum Egan
Mr Callum Egan
Multimedia Producer
callum.egan@napier.ac.uk
+44 131 455 2790
Ingi Helgason
Ms Ingi Helgason
Research Assistant
i.helgason@napier.ac.uk
+44 131 455 2750
Jennifer Willies
Jennifer Willies
Project Manager
j.willies@napier.ac.uk
+44 131 455 2768
Emma Hart
Professor Emma Hart
Director of CEC
e.hart@napier.ac.uk
+44 131 455 2783
Ben Paechter
Professor Ben Paechter
Associate Dean (Research and KT)
b.paechter@napier.ac.uk
+44 131 455 2764
PerAda (PANORAMA)
PerAda (PANORAMA)
PerAda (PANORAMA) was an EU Coordination Action coordinating research in a proactive initiative on Pervasive Adaptation. Although the project has now officially finished, the project website www.perada.eu remains an excellent resource for materials for teaching, research, and public engagement.
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