Presentation of Essay 1, Understanding the Technical World

Your assignment was to choose a recent (max 1 year old) news story in a popular national or international news source concerning novel technology. You had to read the news article and prepare an analytical in-class presentation that you will give.

The presentation should focus on:

  1. summarise the article (±7 minutes)
  2. evaluate the news story from technical, rhetorical and sociological points of view (±2 minutes)
  3. include the merit and shortcomings the story has and the possible impact the topic in the article have on society (±3 minutes)
  4. You should close your presentation with an outlook into the future and with the ideation of new use-cases for this technology. (±3 minutes)

The overall presentation (±15 minutes) should be followed by q&a and discussion (±15 minutes) that the presenter will moderate.

Presentation Dates

SUN, 09-25-16

Student 1 Miha Responsible AI Design
Student 2 Daniel Artificial Neuronal Networks
Student 3 Jennifer Future of Human Computation

SUN, 10-09-16

Student 4 Megan The New Robotic Arm Is Your Own Arm
Student 5 Anastassiya Making a robot more humane
Student 6 Halil SpaceNet Satellite Image Interpreting AI System Analysis
Student 7 Shunya Watanabe The Future of Agriculture

SUN, 10-16-16

Student 8 Yousra Intelligent Fridges: Both Dumber and Smarter Than You Think
Student 9 Janar Perspective on Robotic Surgery

SUN, 10-30-16

Student 10 Rick The Seabin Project
Student 11 Raghav Ke Cellulose Nanofibers

SUN, 11-06-16

Student 12 Hamza Driverless Cars
Student 13 Raghav Ku Affordable Hypersonic Aircrafts