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Hiroshi Ishii, Director of Tangible Media Group at MIT Media Lab to Keynote at AWE 2014

Hiroshi Ishii, Director of Tangible Media Group at MIT Media Lab to Keynote at AWE 2014

Ishii, a Pioneer in Human Computer Interaction, to Reveal the Future of HCI Santa Clara, CA, March 23, 2014 – The organizers of Augmented World Expo 2014 are proud to announce that Hiroshi Ishii, a noted professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab and pioneer in Human Computer Interaction, will kick off the final day with a Keynote address on the future of HCI. AWE 2014 will take place on May 27-29th at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Well-known tech evangelist Robert Scoble will provide the keynote on May 28th. Augmented World Expo, now in its fifth year, is the world’s largest international event for augmented reality, wearable computing, gesture devices, and the Internet of Things. This year’s show will boast over 200 exhibits from elite brands like Epson, Qualcomm and Intel to pioneering startup such as Daqri, Arqetype, Ngrain, and many more. Attendees will also experience a Wearable Fashion Show produced by Living in Digital Times, the Auggie Awards, a wearable tech Hackathon, the Glass Class: Designing Wearable Interfaces by Mark Billinghurst and 100 additional talks. Hiroshi Ishii is Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab. He joined the MIT Media Lab in October 1995. He founded and directs the Tangible Media research group, and co-directs the Things That Think (TTT) consortium. Professor Ishii’s research focuses upon the design of seamless interfaces between humans, digital information, and the physical environment. His team seeks to change the “painted bits” of GUIs to “tangible bits” by giving physical form to digital information. “Today’s mainstream Human Computer Interaction research addresses functional concerns – the needs of users, practical applications, and usability evaluation,” explains Professor Ishii. “At Augmented World Expo I’ll be revealing our vision for the future, which we call Radical Atoms – in which all digital information has a physical manifestation so that we can interact directly with it. This will actually re-invent the way people interact with computers by taking advantage of the richness of human senses. I will be showing a variety of interaction design projects that utilize this new approach.” “Professor Ishii is a pioneer in Human Computer Interaction and his research and vision have already influenced everything that AWE is all about – augmented reality, wearable technology, and the Internet of Things,” said Ori Inbar, executive director of AWE 2014 and cofounder of Augmentedreality.org. “Truly, it is an honor to have him participate in AWE 2014 and give us a window into the future.” For more information and to register to attend, please visit www.augmentedworldexpo.com. Please follow Augmented World Expo on twitter at @ARealityEvent and #AWE2014. Meta to host Official VIP Party of AWE 2014 In addition, Meta, creator of the hotly anticipated and upcoming Meta Pro augmented reality glasses, will host the Official VIP Party of Augmented World Expo, from 6:30 pm to 10 pm on Tuesday May 27th at its campus in Portola Valley.  Please use the contact information above to request an invitation. For more information contact: Ethan Rasiel Lightspeed PR ethan@lightspeedpr.com 917-770-9435...

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Brian Yetzer is CEO and Art Director of Yetzer Studio, LLC. Brian is passionate about using augmented reality technology to inspire and educate. For over fifteen years as a 3D Artist, Animator, and Multimedia Designer, he has contributed to museums, galleries, and educational institutions in North America and Europe. In January 2014, he launched a successful crowdfunding campaign to develop an augmented reality app and interactive poster series to honor Nikola Tesla. Brian is a board member for the Tesla Science Foundation in Philadelphia. www.brianyetzer.com...

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Ask Ziggy provides a patented, localized or hybrid natural language understanding platform enabling easy content creation and effective content routing for wearable devices. Leveraging Ask Ziggy’s innovative natural language processing solutions coupled with unique machine learning, summarization and artificial intelligence techniques, wearable device users can now receive the content they need, and when they need it. This solution solves the two key problems for wearable users– information overload and short battery life. To address the input challenges for wearable users, Ask Ziggy has created a naturally voice driven solution for content creation. Ask Ziggy’s NLU platform can also act on touch and gesture besides voice input....

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When she’s not busy getting the first ticket for driving with Google Glass and fighting it in court, Cecilia is a passionate evangelist about everything digital, a Google Glass Explorer, and a pioneer who spreads the word about wearable devices and the many ways they can change our world. As the founder and CTO of Byte an Atom, she is part of a global development team that researches and develops wearable and mobile applications to deliver experiences that innovate and disrupt the personal and the enterprise realms. Cecilia was born in Argentina and raised in Uruguay, which is where she got her Master Degree on Information Systems, and where she began her career as an international software consultant and developer....

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Jan Rabaey holds the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department of the University of California at Berkeley. After receiving his Ph.D degree in applied sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, he joined UC Berkeley in 1983 as a Visiting Research Engineer. From 1985 until 1987, he was a research manager at IMEC, Belgium. Professor Rabaey has created and/or directed a number of high-impact research centers, including the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), the FCRP multi-university Gigascale Systems (GSRC) and MultiScale Systems (MuSyC) Research Centers, and most recently the Berkeley Ubiquitous Swarm Lab. He is also the executive director of the MAS-IC program, the first fully online degree program offered by UC Berkeley engineering. He is the recipient of a wide range of awards, amongst which the IEEE CAS Society Mac Van Valkenburg Award, the European Design Automation Association (EDAA) Lifetime Achievement award, and the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Researcher Award. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium. In 2012, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund, Sweden. He has been involved as an advisor with a number of start-up companies and ventures, including Epic, Morphics, Sonics, Sequence, Simplex, ViMicro, Flarion, Cortera Neurotechnology and others. He serves on the advisory board of a broad range of semiconductor, design technology and wireless companies. His current research interests include the conception and implementation of next-generation integrated wireless systems, as well as exploring the interaction between the cyber and the biological world....

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