Talk presented in utopia series, Leuven, 10 February 2015

1. Technologie die
mensen
slimmer maakt
Utopia avond, 9 feb. 2015, Leuven, B
Prof. Erik Duval - @ErikDuval
Dept. Computerwetenschappen, KU Leuven
http://erikduval.wordpress.com
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http://www.slideshare.net/erik.duval

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Human-Computer Interaction
technology enhanced learning
music
research
personal health
data journalism

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Belangrijkste wet uit computerwetenschappen?

5. Moore’s law ‘the number of transistors
that can be placed inexpensively
on an integrated circuit
has doubled
approximately every two years’
(1965)
also: processing speed, memory capacity,
sensors, network capacity, …
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what does “exponential” mean?
if you fold a sheet of paper 50 times,
then how thick is the result?
about the distance to the sun...

7. wiring the ENIAC with a new program
ENIAC
1946
Mauchly and Eckert
stats:
3,000 cubic feet
30 tons
18,000 vacuum tubes
70,000 resistors
170 kilowatt power req.
~1 kilobit memory
approximate processing power of today’s
singing birthday card
but not a stored-program device
www.computinghistorymuseum.org/teaching/lectures/pptlectures/7b-eniac.ppt
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8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No8_mwiRiTc
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9. http://www.wired.com/2015/01/elon-musk-ai-safety/

10. http://futureoflife.org/misc/open_letter

11. artificial intelligence
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12. “to augment the human intellect”
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13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs#t=11913

14. “if, in your office, you, as an intellectual
worker were supplied with a computer
display backed up by a computer that was
alive for you all day and was instantly
responsive to any action you had. How
much value could you derive from that?”
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16. “unfinished revolution”

17. http://www.wired.com/2015/01/intel-gave-stephen-hawking-voice/

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"The future has arrived;
it's just not evenly distributed.”
--William Gibson

19. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_2.0

23. http://tillnagel.com/2011/10/interactive-exploration-of-geospatial-network-visualization/
Nagel, T., Duval, E., Vande Moere, A., Interactive Exploration of a Geospatial
Network Visualization. CHI 2012, May 5-10, Austin, USA

25. B. Vandeputte, E. Duval, and J. Klerkx. Interactive sensemaking in authorship
networks. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive
Tabletops and Surfaces, ITS11, pp. 246–247, 2011.

26. H. Van den Berg, G. A. Parra, A. Jentzsch, A. Drakos, and E. Duval. Studying
the history of philosophical ideas: supporting research discovery, navigation,
and awareness. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on
Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, pages 12:1–12:8, 2014.

27. technology-enhanced learning

28. T. Nagel, L. Pschetz, M. Stefaner, M. Halkia, and B. Müller. Mæve – An Interactive Tabletop
Installation for Exploring Background Information in Exhibitions. Human-Computer Interaction.
Ambient, Ubiquitous and Intelligent Interaction, Vol. 5612, LNCS, pages 483–491. 2009.

29. G. Zufferey, P. Jermann, A. Lucchi, and P. Dillenbourg. Tinkersheets: using paper forms to control and
visualize tangible simulations. In Proceedings of 3rd Int. Conference on Tangible and Embedded
interaction, pp. 377–384. ACM, 2009. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGRCA7aT3Uc)

30. http://chili.epfl.ch/page-92278.html
K. Bachour, F. Kaplan, and P. Dillenbourg. An interactive table for supporting
participation balance in face-to-face collaborative learning. Learning
Technologies, IEEE Transactions on, 3(3):203–213, July 2010.

31. AI: self driving car
<>
Augment: gps + dashboard
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32. pessimist
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33. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/1/181634-does-the-internet-make-us-stupid/fulltext

34. optimist…
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35. http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/

36. utopie…
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37. utopie
“ideale werkelijkheid die niet bereikt kan worden”
(wikipedia)

38. ?
@ErikDuval
erik.duval@cs.kuleuven.be
h5p://erikduval.wordpress.com
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