Hedy Lamarr Lectures
"Knowledge is power" is a quote by the famous English philosopher Francis Bacon made over 400 years ago. Yet never before were these words so fitting as today. While the body of knowledge is growing exponentially and its maximum usability period is constantly being reduced, the new information and communication technologies are radically changing the availability of and access to information and knowledge.
The possible social consequences of these changes on national and global level are at the focus of the "Hedy Lamarr Lectures", which are sponsored by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Telekom Austria Group and the Medienhaus Wien. The social science lecture series is named after the Austrian actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000). Without her invention of frequency hopping mobile communications technology would be unthinkable today. Lamarr, who emigrated to the USA and opposed National Socialism, originally developed this procedure for remote radio control of torpedoes, which however, was not deployed by the U.S. military. Since the 1990's her contribution to radio technology was honored with numerous awards.
Lectures
- Anton Pelinka, February 22 2010 - watch videos
- Helga Nowotny, March 15 - watch videos
- Kurt Imhof, April 12 - watch videos
- Pippa Norris, May 31 - watch videos
- Gerhard Vowe, June 14 - watch videos
- Otfried Jarren, October 11
- Ruth Wodak, November 29
- Matthias Rath, December 13
Sponsors
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) / Commission for Comparative Media and Communications Research
Medienhaus Wien
Telekom Austria Group
Venue
ÖAW, Festsaal
Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2
1010 Vienna
