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Watch Give Me More's Curator, Nicolas Henchoz, address the audience at the US premiere of Give Me More at swissnex San Francisco. ... "augmented reality" EPFL "ECAL Lab" "Camille Scherrer" "Fanny Riedo" swissnex

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Watch these audience reactions of Give Me More: Augmented Reality from EPFL+ECAL Lab at swissnex San Francisco. ... "augmented reality" EPFL "ECAL Lab" "EPFL+ECAL Lab" "Nicolas Henchoz" "swissnex San Francisco" art technology

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In the dreamy Le Monde des Montagnes (The World of Mountains), an ECAL graduate project by Camille Scherrer awarded the Pierre Bergé prize for Best European Design Diploma in 2008, a regular book about the Swiss mountains sits on a table. Above hovers a camera disguised as a desk lamp thats linked to a nearby monitor. But when a user adjusts the lamp or moves the book in her hands, the picture on the screen depicts a fantasy land where peculiar, other-worldy images—images that arent there in ...

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Your banknotes will come to life, taking a new shade, spelling desire and temptation. Banknotes will take on a whole new meaning for you; you just won't look at them the same way as before! "Cashback" will work with 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 Euro banknotes, gradually making the animations more and more suggestive. A pure and simple setup combined with the everydayness of banknotes offers an ideal field of investigation, showing at last the true strength of augmented reality

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A quick recap of the event, The Science of Meditation, held in honor of Matthieu Ricard's visit to swissnex San Francisco on Oct 16th.

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Swiss historian Hans-Ulrich Jost gave the keynote address on the history of Swiss neutrality at UC Berkeley on Wednesday, September 9, 2009, at the "090909 Nor Good, Nor Bad, Nor Neutral" conference, co-sponsored by swissnex San Francisco and the Berkeley Center for New Media. Jost is honorary professor of contemporary history at the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland. The speakers gave short presentations on all aspects of neutrality, from the definition of the word to its role in ...

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creating the perfect babies and commercialized DNA just around the corner? Join swissnex San Francisco for a intimate panel discussion with Prof. Georg A. Hollaender, Head of the laboratory of Pediatric Immunology at the University of Basel and Dr. Alan Trounson, Director of the California Center for Regenerative Medicine to flesh out these issues, with journalist Evan Ratliff on hand to moderate this timely conversation. - Swissnex Alan Trounson, Ph.D., is Head of the California Institute ...

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of life could exist. Lynette Cook, well-known portraitist of planets, will envision the outcome of this discussion through painting the imagined surface of one of the most recent discoveries: Gliese 581 c - Swissnex San Francisco Debra Fischer is a professor of astronomy at San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley. Fischer has co-authored over 80 papers on dwarf and sub-stellar mass objects in the galactic neighborhood, including many on extrasolar planets. ...

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We asked the audience what they thought about the panel discussion on Nov 9th (The Future of Business: How to Innovate with a Sustainability Strategy). ... sustainability "swissnex san francisco" innovation

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