PROGRESSBAR opening party - lectures program :: Something smarter than us is going to emerge

LECTURES PROGRAM
Saturday 19.02, 13:00 - 20:00

13:00 Of Brains and people
Jakub Benko
The human brain is certainly the most complex structure in the universe and thus it is also the most unknown one. In recent decades, with the advent of modern technologies, we began to progressively untangle its mysteries. A talk about how clever experiments and disorders give us clues about its correct function.

14:00 Close look (dive) into mobile phone hardware
Tomislav Arnaudov
Introduction to mobile phone hardware from hackers side of view -ESD intro -Power managment : close view and some interesting relations to phone software -User Interface from hardware side of view ;) -CPU/DSP / Flash / RF part overview and correlations

15:00 The Central Dogma of Life
Maroš Pleška
The Central Dogma of Life - Short talk about life. About its essence, its different forms and about its meaning from a view of a molecular biologist who will try to explain why we should be asking all the essential questions about life on a molecular level.

16:00 On the route to free infrastructure - FunkFeuer Vienna
Michael Bauer
FunkFeuer networks are free infrastructure IP-networks in Austria. They rely heavily on wireless lan and dynamic routing. In this talk I will shortly touch upon the history of FunkFeuer in Austria, specifically Vienna; elaborate a bit on fundamental rules and technologies; and finally proceed to my vision of free infrastructure.

17:00 Food Hacking
Frantisek Apfelbeck
To food hack means to improve and update traditional ways of food preparations or create completely new ones. Harnessing the energy of hacker movement and focusing it on our nourishment will result in revolutionising of the field. Deeper understanding of physical properties of these sources of energy is combined with usage of current technology to improve these techniques of food preparation.

18:00 Bitcoin - New peer-to-peer currency
Juraj Bednar
A short lecture about digital currencies in general and Bitcoin in particular. We will talk about fiat currencies, fully or partially backed currencies, how to store and transfer value. This will be a short introductory talk about Bitcoin, much more detailed talk will be presented in Progressbar few weeks later.

19:00 The Inanna Project
Kyrah
An experiment in art, technology, and the transformative power of Free Hardware and Software. In June 2010, two Austrian artists/hackers went to Damascus to make an experiment. We wanted to challenge the notion that art and technology are somehow opposites, so we decided to teach artists to use micro controllers and programming. We wanted to challenge the notion that technology is somehow a "guy thing", so we decided to work specifically with women artists. And we wanted to make people aware that freedom of expression is inseparable from free access to knowledge, so we decided to use only Free Hardware and Free Software in our workshop. The presentation is about this experiment and its results. But it is also about the general potential of technology as a medium for self-expression and as an agent of change - and about what that means for us who want to be the creators of our future and not only its product.

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