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"The kind of research we do is leading edge in information technology."

"For example, the traditional approach to organizing images is a step-by-step analysis that says, 'if there's colour then do this, and once you've completed that step, then see if there's a border around the image and then do this,' and so on."

"Our approach is different: instead of a linear analysis, we look at all the possible variables all at once and put together hypotheses that simultaneously try to figure out what all the images are about.""

"For the millions of people on the planet who use digital cameras, the work of Dr. Frey and his team has the potential to make it easier to organize and sort through countless pictures stored on a computer's hard drive."

"Similar pictures - for instance, all pictures of beach vacations - would be grouped together automatically by a computer program."

"But the benefits of this technology go beyond digital photo albums, he says. "Medical researchers can use it to study hundreds of MRI images all at once and identify problems," he says, to give just one practical example."

"The same tools can also be used to analyze documents by grouping together similar sentences and summarizing their meaning.""

"I believe that if you work really hard on researching and coming up with new ideas, then everything else will fall into place."

"I was prompted to write this novel a few years after the Arab Spring began, when a volcano of dreams erupted then failed, as the utopia became dystopia. Evil religious forces joined the fight and the political struggle degenerated into military conflict and war."

"The novel revolves around the Yemeni revolution, against a background of politics and history that provides the constant for most Arab Spring scenarios. This explosion being suddenly confronted with the conflicts that plague our Arab societies was an inspirational moment and the starting point for my novel."

"In 2018, I took part in the Artistes & Robots show at the Grand Palais in the thanks to Miguel Chevalier who put my name forward to the exhibition’s curators, Jérôme Neutres and Laurence Bertrand-Dorléac. They in turn suggested I use the grand staircase area to hang one of my pieces."

"It was complex, and technical challenge to install my work there because there was only one suspension point for an otherwise large space. For the work to have relevance in this location, it needed to be large. The management of the Louvre museum saw this piece, called Grand HexaNet, while visiting the Artistes & Robots show, and thus the idea of ​​having a similar type of work in the Palace of the Louvre museum was born."

"I work with very simple geometry, lines, circles, even triangles and squares. I line them up, assemble them, make them concentric or intricate. So the shapes are usually simple and refined, we could say elegant in the sense of achieving a goal with minimal resources. I use as little visual resources as as I can simply the movement of the line, to explore the world of motion and matter moving in time."

"We set up maintenance and repair procedures with the department in the museum in charge of the piece. There is basic maintenance such as dusting, as well as more technical but feasible maintenance. Then there is the obsolescence of the various components, which we cannot anticipate ahead of time. For instance, the sculpture is ordered by WiFi. The piece is connected and remotely controlled by WiFi, stopped and started by WiFi."

"In fifty years, will WiFi still exist or not? We don’t know, but there will be an evolutionary path between WiFi and the next wireless communication system. We will have the authorizations (from my part) and the procedures to make these adaptations."

"Sometimes there is a misunderstanding that applications are easy, or easier than theory. I don’t think it’s a matter of easy or hard."

"When we are focused on making an impact and working on applications, we end up opening problems that are really new and very hard."

"When we began with the Internet here, we looked at each other sideways. I remember the lawyers told us that the Internet couldn’t happen here because there were no owners, no regulations, they kept assuring us it would be anarchy. But it happened, and in a way that nobody expected."

"We don’t know what is going to happen within 10 years, but the world advances and the speed with which it has changed in these last 20 years is impressive."

"One of my fondest childhood recollections is spinning 7” vinyl records on my plastic turntable, an RCA 45-EY. Becoming a composer-musician and recording artist was a natural recourse and fruition."

"I was stuck somewhere between originality and no gigs. My own colleagues called me the conceptualist, the maverick with the only too occasional stadium concert."

"I was just a kid inventing my own guitar chords because I did not have a teacher. Whatever sounded good to me was effectively correct. There were no rules."

"I am short sighted and also have trouble seeing when there is a lot of light in a room or certain environment. When I went to the optical center, I was asked to pay $180 for a new pair of glasses, which was really expensive. For a country where the average monthly income earned is $40, this is simply unaffordable. I also realized that optical centers are located disproportionately, mainly within the urban areas, leaving the people in rural areas to have to travel long distances to access eye care services. This gap drove me to start Wazi Vision whose long term goal is to make eye care accessible and affordable to everyone regardless of their income status."

"Focus on the product. A lot of questions will come up about how you make money. But if you focus on creating a quality product that people will use to solve real life challenges, there will always be opportunities to monetize your solution."

"In Uganda its mostly born out of necessity and the need to survive but nonetheless it is steadily growing. Now more than ever we have many programs supporting women equipping them for growth and sustainability – and many women are taking advantage of them."

"Success to me means being able to create impact or to inspire someone to do something they never thought they would be able to do."

"Disruptive – Enabling – Scalable"

"Technology plays a pivotal role in my life both personally and professionally – starting from things as easy as communication, to the core of what runs my business. Not only does it help me manage my tasks and communicate with literally every one that’s part of my network but it is also at the centre of how our manufacturing happens. We use technology to make everything come to life."

"While men are struggling for power women are organising themselves into clubs, associations and societies. When women gather they do not talk about the wars in various parts of the world or the deceitfulness of world politicians; they discuss educational problems, family planning, home economics; they learn new crafts, and improved methods of looking after the family."

"Oh! I can stand anything. I have learnt to live that way. There is no situation I can’t contain. Politics taught me that. I kept calm in very hard and provoking situations. The beauty with life is that it always moves on despite the challenges."

"“The desire to provide solutions to health problems within my community, and the need to provide sustainable solutions by training younger women scientists.”"

""You have to work harder and you have to prove yourself each time and you have to understand situations that are not so convenient, understand them and overlook them and move on. You have to do that many, many times. I think that’s how I overcame some of these prejudices.”"

"“But when I got into a room like that where there were scientists, I kind of thought of myself as a scientist and I left my woman hat outside so I could just be a scientist with all of them. So that is how I overcame some of these challenges."

"Jessica Capshaw - Blythe Hart"

"What I was trying to say in the article was that you can look ahead of the curve and say, ‘I know this isn’t going to go on forever. This will end.’ It’s all about being hopeful, but it’s also about remembering that you were somebody with a life and connections, and you will live that life again in time."

"Personalized education using AI for kids is going to be a huge game changer."

"On the other hand, such toys raise a host of issues that policymakers are only starting to get a handle on. The privacy implications alone of potentially having a toy — or a succession of them — collect a child's every utterance from the time they can talk until adulthood are tremendous. That is an issue that we really have to solve."

"The technology promises improvements to everything from industrial processes to agriculture to transportation, Firth-Butterfield said. But it also could lead to a raft of challenges and dangers, including massive job losses in a relatively short period of time, the illegitimate denial of goods or services thanks to flawed or biased algorithms, and citizens' loss of control of what was previously personal data."

"It's really important that we know that there are all these different tensions, because without addressing them, we are really left with, I suspect, a failing trust in the technology," she said. "What I certainly don't want to see are all the benefits of AI somehow being lost because we haven't put in the ethical underpinnings to help the public know that we're doing something safe"

"It's going to enable us to feed more people"

"It's really important" that we make sure that we're "not encoding own prejudices and taking them forward with us, because if do that, we will actually stultify the development of the world."

"We don't have the luxury of a long time to actually even out the effects on job loss with this revolution, because it's happening so quickly."

"AI's running fast, and we need to run as fast with governance mechanisms."

"Technologies as users interacting with other technologies as prompters, through other in-between technologies: this is another way of describing hyperhistory as the stage of human development"

"One of the most obvious features that characterizes any technology is its in-betweenness. Suppose Alice lives in Rio de Janeiro, not in Oxford. A hat is a technology between her and the sunshine. A pair of sandals is a technology between her and the hot sand of the beach on which she is walking"

"The illusion that there might be a single, correct, absolute answer independently of context, purpose and perspective, that is independently of the relevant interface, leads to paradoxical nonsense"

"According to recent estimates, life on Earth will last for another billion years, until it will be destroyed by the increase in solar temperature"

"The technophile and the technophobe ask the same question. What's next?"

"ICTs are modifying the very nature of, and hence what we mean by, reality, by transforming it into an infosphere. Infosphere is a neologism coined in the seventies. It is based on ‘biosphere’, a term referring to that limited region on our planet that supports life. It is also a concept that is quickly evolving."

"In 2011, the total world wealth1 was calculated to be $231 trillion, up from $195 trillion in 2010.2 Since we are almost 7 billion, that was about $33,000 per person, or $51,000 per adult, as the report indicates. The figures give a clear sense of the level of inequality. In the same year, we spent $498 billion on advertisements.3”."