Smellovision loses its stink

This year you’ll receive an SMS with a difference as technology is introduced to transmit scents through your smartphone, says Josh McNorton Imagine the next selfie you see posted is accompanied by the scent of perfume. The Instagram photo of your gourmet steak dinner comes with a whiff of buttery mashed potatoes. The olfactory overload…

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City’s Department of Computer Science is prominently featured in the 2014 Royal Institution Lectures

22 December 2014 During this year’s distinguished annual event, schoolchildren were treated to a robot orchestra performance and a taste of the electric lollipop developed by City’s Professor Adrian Cheok. City’s Department of Computer Science has played a prominent role in the 2014 Royal Institution (RI) Christmas Lectures, which were presented by Professor Danielle George,…

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Stephen Hawking: Sentient Machines ‘Could End Human Race’

By Lucy Draper 12/2/14 at 5:28 PM Professor Stephen Hawking has become the most recent high-profile expert to speak out about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI), telling the BBC that developing it fully “could spell the end of the human race”. Despite acknowledging that certain forms of AI that have been created so far…

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‘Humanoid’ robots are the future, pupils are told

by Andrew Robinson 17 Nov 2014, 16:17 scientists are creating lifelike robots which may one day help with the household chores or care for the sick, Yorkshire pupils were told. Robots have long been touted as the solution to a lot of mankind’s problems and yesterday scientists were just as optimistic about what the future…

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Adrian Cheok Keynote Speaker of Netgames 2014, Nagoya, Japan

NetGames 2014 Nagoya, Japan, December 4th-5th, 2014 Keynote: Everysense Everywhere Human Communication Adrian D. Cheok (City University London, UK) Date: Dec 4th, 9.30 – 10.30am Abstract: This talk outlines new facilities that are arising in the hyperconnected internet era within human media spaces. This allows new embodied interaction between humans, species, and computation both socially…

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