Neil Gershenfeld at FCT
YDreams has invited Professor Neil Gershenfeld, Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, to give a talk at the Faculty of Science and Technology, at the New Lisbon University, on the 27th of November at 14:30.
Lecturing on “Beyond the Digital Revolution”, Neil Gershenfeld, selected as a Time/CNN/Fortune “Principal Voice” and one of the top 100 public intellectuals around today, will present recent advances and new forms of exploring scientific investigation in areas such as Quantum computation and personal fabrication.
Gershenfeld will also be focusing on work developed through Fab Labs (Fabrication Labs), part of the MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) which broadly explores how the content of information relates to its physical representation. The Fab Lab program has strong connections with the technical outreach activities of a number of partner organizations, around the emerging possibility for ordinary people to not just learn about science and engineering but actually design machines and make measurements that are relevant to improving the quality of their lives. The program is underway in countries that include Costa Rica, Norway, India, Ghana and South Africa.
Below, video of Neil Gershenfeld’s Ted Talk about The beckoning promise of personal fabrication.
