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Project CETI: How to Decode the Language of Other Species (emf2026)
Project CETI is an interdisciplinary research project that uses new techniques in data collection, analysis, and artificial intelligence to understan…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
I make things in schools, you can too (emf2026)
If you remember me from "I gave up investment banking to become a digital artist", you'll know that I've spent the last 17 years being an artist. Ove…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
SMolSTM: an open hardware scanning tunnelling microscope for creating single-molecule circuits (emf2026)
As the energy consumed by datacentres grows, finding energy-efficient alternatives to conventional electronics becomes increasingly urgent. Molecular…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Building a tiny paging network (emf2026)
Beep! A Brief History of UK Paging — and How to Build Your Own Transmitter Before smartphones, before SMS, before push notifications — there was the …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
An Introduction to Automated Software Testing using Symbolic Execution (hackover2026)
This talk provides a foundational introduction to symbolic execution. Symbolic execution is an automated software testing technique that enumerates a…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Expanded Radio Art (emf2026)
Dr. Magz Hall is a sound artist and radio art pioneer who treats the airwaves as a canvas. In her talk, she explains how she moves radio out of the s…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Hacking APRS to warm my camper van whilst I’m still in the pub (emf2026)
This brief talk will describe a personal remote-control protocol that can be run over APRS and potentially other similar location messaging protocols…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Sonus ex nihilo (emf2026)
Join me on an audible journey through the history of electronic audio synthesizers. You'll learn how popular analog synths from the 1970s operate, ho…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
An Appreciation of Ecological Sanitation (or Turds for Nerds) (emf2026)
Our modern sewage system relies on vast amounts of water and this causes huge problems. Perhaps the greatest being that the anaerobic microbes that …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Mountains, Rescues, and Risks (emf2026)
It's human nature to ignore or downplay risk until it actually happens - but how do you handle it in a high-consequence environment? How do you take …
2 months, 3 weeks ago