scIence LAb: RICH WALKER technical director
sc
ALIen – Is tHeRe ReALLY AnYbodY of Shadow Robots, whose expertise
OUT THERE? is in robotics research and
development.
This panel discusses the likelihood of
meeting an alien species and the KLAUS-PETER ZAUNER senior
I
ence
necessary etiquette for First Contact. Lecturer in the science and
Engineering of Natural Systems
Speakers include:
Group of the school of electronics
PROFESSOR MARK BRAKE Author, and Computer Science at the
science communicator and University of Southampton.
lecturer in Astrobiology
IAN PEARSON Futurologist who
LEWIS DARTNELL Astrobiologist and tracks developments across the
space researcher investigating the whole field of technology and
lab
possibility of microbial life surviving society, figuring out where it is all
in the surface dust of Mars in going next, and how that will affect
the face of the constant rain of our everyday lives.
radiation from space.
JAMES AUGER Designer who
JONATHAN COWIE Environmental explores the role of technology
scientist and science communicator in society and how it affects our
behaviour, our relationships or
DR RACHEL ARMSTRONG sf author
our quality of life.
and medical Doctor with an interest
in non Darwinian techniques of sAt 2nd MAY 3.45PM
evolution and the challenges of the

extra-terrestrial environment.
scIence LAb:
sAt 2nd MAY 11.30AM DYSTOPIA – ARE WE DOOMED?
Apocalyptic scenarios dominate
scIence LAb: science fiction cinema today. Is
Robots – RIse of tHe MAcHInes our fearful attitude to the future
different to the cold-war terrors of
This panel examines the relationship
the fifties?
between humans and machines
and considers what may happen in What fuels our sense of doom,
the future when robots are capable and is it justified by reality?
of directing their own evolution.
Speakers include:
Speakers include:
TIMANDRA HARKNESS writer,
PROFESSOR NOEL SHARKEY
comedian and explorer
Professor of AI and Robotics at
of humanist issues.
the University of Sheffield. He has
held a number of research and
JON GOODBUN Multitalented
teaching positions in the UK (Essex,
academic and Senior Lecturer at
Exeter and Sheffield) and the USA
the University of Westminster who
(Yale, Stanford, Berkeley). He is also
is known for his attempt to theorize
creator of Robot wars.
the links between modern digital
environments,
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