Some of the world’s leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will gather in ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ this week to look at everything from the influence of science fiction on our dreams of the future, to ‘trust in the age of intelligent machines’.
The anticipation is over: The Force Awakens is with us. To a self-confessed geek like Karen Yu from the Institute for Manufacturing, this is like all of her Christmases coming at once. It also raises some very important questions: what is the Force, how do you make a lightsaber – and does the new film finally put to rest the ghost of The Phantom Menace?
New film series Novel Thoughts reveals the reading habits of eight ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ scientists and peeks inside the covers of the books that have played a major role in their lives. In the third film, Karen Yu talks about how the novelisation of Star Wars sparked her interest in lasers and nanoscale manufacturing.
They’ve had viewers cowering behind the sofa since ‘Doctor Who’ began – but what exactly is it that makes people so frightened of the Daleks? A new study by a ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ researcher claims to have the answer.
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