Night of Ideas
Institut francais

  • Opening Event: Sharing Space

    17:00-18:45 - Institut français
    Booking
    Opening address by Jean-Pierre Jouyet, French Ambassador to the UK
     
    Talk
    Discover the brave new worlds of outer space with astronauts Timothy Peake and Thomas Pesquet and British space scientist and presenter of BBC’s The Sky at Night, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock. We will examine the new challenges for space exploration and assess the impact of space discoveries. Why, though, do we need to project ourselves into the universe in the first place? Jean-Yves Le Gall (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) and Graham Turnock (UK Space Agency) will also join the debate.

     
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    Chair

     
    M.C.



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  • Turing’s Machine: The Genesis of the Computer Revolution

    18:00-19:00 - Imperial College London
    Side
    event
    Demonstration
    We travel back to the genesis of the computer revolution with Marc Raynaud, Professor of Mathematics and inventor, who will demonstrate at Imperial College a prototype of a Turing Machine that he conceived and implemented using the technology available when the momentous idea and the related conceptual model were put forward by Alan Turing in the mid-1930s.

     
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  • AI Tech Showcase

    18:00-19:00 - Imperial College London
    Side
    event

    Imperial College AI Network and the French Tech London present a set of pioneering AI tech, created by leading inventors, artists and researchers. Exploring the practical, theoretical or poetical uses of AI, this interactive showcase will take place in the foyer and main entrance hall of Imperial College London. Open to a wide audience, the show includes a drawing robot, dancing drones, and an AI app for visually impaired people, amongst other innovations.

     
    Speakers

    • Imperial College AI Network – Imperial academics working at the forefront of AI science and application.
    • French Tech London – bringing together actors of the French London Startup and Tech scene.
      • Patrick Tresset, Artist and Scientist – with RNP-II, his drawing robot
      • Jean-Dominique Lauwereins, CEO at BeTomorrow and CTO at Dronisos
      • Pierre-Frederic Jaffre, Chief of Staff, Data and AI, at Microsoft


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  • CreAItivity – Artificial Intelligence and Creativity

    19:00-20:15 - Imperial College London
    Booking
    Debate
    Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly defying the realms of possibility in fields ranging from brain science, engineering and medicine to art, music and design. We venture into these new territories with leading researchers including Simon Colton, François Pachet and Aldo Faisal. Can human brain capacity be translated into technology? Will artificial intelligence be capable of creativity and imagination? How creative can we be in a world of AI?

     
    Speakers

    • Simon Colton, Professor in Digital Games Technologies (Falmouth) and Computational Creativity (Goldsmiths)
    • Dr Aldo Faisal, Director of the Brain & Behaviour Analytics Lab, Imperial College London
    • François Pachet, Director of Spotify Creator Technology Research Lab

     
    Chair

     
    M.C.



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