This page contains a list of talks and workshops at EMF2016. During the event, some speakers will add links to slides or resources here. After the event, links to recorded talks will be posted here.
You can find the full schedule, with times and any last minute changes here.
Friday
Stage A
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Speaker
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Video
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Slides/Resources
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| EMF 2016 Opening Ceremony
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Jonty Wareing
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| MicroPython: What is it? What does it do? Why is it suddenly everywhere?
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Nicholas Tollervey
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| The science of laughter
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Sophie Scott
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| A Brief, Incomplete, Slightly Biased, and Mostly Fact-Checked History of the UK Computer Industry
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PJ Evans
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| Smashing Physics - latest news from CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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Jon Butterworth
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| It's Only Rocket Science
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James Macfarlane
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| Shape-changing in nature and puny human efforts to emulate it
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Scary Boots
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| Scientifically ruining the interfaces in movies
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Sarah Wiseman
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| Sex! Robots! Sex Robots!
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Kate Devlin
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Stage B
| Title
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Speaker
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Video
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Slides/Resources
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| The history and future of books
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Katie Eagleton
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| From transistor to processor
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Piet De Vaere
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| Riddles on Rails
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Dan Hagon
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| 'Off Grid' : a game about circumvention tech and hacking
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Rich Metson
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| 3D printed sculptures of 4D things
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Henry Segerman
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| Home made hacks to fully registered maker charity.
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Rory Gallagher
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| CANUTE, The worlds first working refreshable multiline braille display.
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Russell Couper
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| Numbers Stations: Cold War, short waves
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Henry Cooke
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Stage C
| Title
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Speaker
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Video
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Slides/Resources
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| What even is a "maker"? How we see ourselves and how other people see us
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Emma O'Sullivan
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| The Final Nail in DES's Coffin
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David Hulton
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| Hacking Your Head : Managing Information Overload
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Jo Pearce
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| Biological Computation
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Chris Binny
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| Osmocom - Open Source Mobile Communications
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Harald Welte
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| Getting Physical with Web Bluetooth in the Browser
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Dan Jenkins
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| How to make your own wearable color organ dress
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moko/zakx
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| The Red String
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Dragica Kahlina
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| Swing Dancing for Engineers
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Jo Franchetti
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Workshop 1
| Title
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Speaker
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Video
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Slides/Resources
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| 35mm pinhole camera building workshop/photo walk
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Jame Nixon
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| Introduction to Japanese Bookbinding
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Ben Dornan
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| Introduction to Mixology - making the Old Fashioned cocktail
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Ryan Alexander
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Workshop 2
| Title
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Speaker
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Video
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Slides/Resources
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| A Fresh Look At Mental Health
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Andrew Gordon
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| Random Neural Style Transfer for revenge
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KRN & MX
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Saturday
Stage A
| Title
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Speaker
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Video
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Slides/Resources
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| Magic: Tricks, puzzles, or illusions?
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James Merlin
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| LEGO Punk - Silly things to do with LEGO
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Steven Goodwin
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| Impostor Syndrome and Individual Competence
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Jessica Rose
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| Cyber Security Myths and Monsters: how to change behaviours for the better
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Jessica Barker
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| Blood, Sweat & Carbon: Our Solar Car
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Tobias McBride
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| A hacker's guide to satellites
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Dave Rowntree
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| Mars, the Bringer of Wub
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Tim Burrell-Saward
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| Can you really hack an airplane? (myths & truths)
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Grigorios Fragkos
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| Penetrating Pandora: Dismantling Dangerous Devices
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Calum
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| The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets
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Simon Singh
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| WhiteSpace
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Beth Healey
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| How I used to rob banks (and other fun stories)
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Freakyclown (@__freakyclown__)
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Stage B
| Title
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Speaker
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Video
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Slides/Resources
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| Connecting computers together over 1,000s miles without using the Internet
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GB8EMF Amateur Radio Station
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| Internet of Things with MATLAB and Raspberry Pi
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Jeff Homer
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| Socio-technical evolution for hackers
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Igor Nikolic
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| How I built my diesel powered motorcycle.
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Russell Couper
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| Designing for data
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Sarah
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| Inside the MIT Media Lab
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Rebecca Kleinberger
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| Four Stories about Recreational Maths
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Matthew Scroggs
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| Using printed circuit boards to make snowflakes.
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MIke Harrison
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| Saving milliseconds and wasting hours: a survey of tool-assisted speedrunning
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Philip Potter
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| Getting the kids on board: tales from 10 years of schools outreach in technology
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hannah dee
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| Lightning Talks
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Eireann Leverett
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YT Dyg5tzi-H4s
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| LT: Make Your Laws
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Sai
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YT Dyg5tzi-H4s @ 49:23
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https://www.makeyourlaws.org/files/emf.pdf
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| GEEK SHOWOFF
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Geek Showoff
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Stage C
| Title
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Speaker
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Video
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Slides/Resources
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| I never knew SMS could do that.
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Sam Machin
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| The story behind $50SAT, a new approach to Amateur satellite design which became the world’s smallest operational satellite, built for £125 in a garden shed.
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Stuart Robinson
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| Sustainable open source?
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Caroline Graham
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| My Ubertooth Year
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Michael Ossmann
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| Apocalypse Later
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Tim Lossen
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| photons to electrons: how imaging sensors work from quantum mechanics up
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Dan Weatherill
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| A call to arms - let's hack USB devices, it's mostly easier than you think
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Dan Weatherill
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| My self built eco house.
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John McEntee
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| 3d Printing the World's Most Pointless Desk Fan
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Chris Lynas
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| Zebro: building a six legged robot
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Piet De Vaere
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| Black Hat Locksmithing
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Matt Smith
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| Hebocon (Low-tech robot fight)
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Jim MacArthur
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Workshop 1
| Title
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Speaker
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Video
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Slides/Resources
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| Having Daft Ideas
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Libby Miller, Richard Sewell, John Hawkes-Reed
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| Building an open source political platform
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James Smith
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| Kite mapping (or balloon mapping if there is no wind)
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Linda Sandvik
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| Yarn making 101
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Vicki Winter
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| Eggshell carving
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Rebecca Kleinberger
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| Skull Radio Workshop
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Jeffrey Roe
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| Dungeons and Dragons & board games open session
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Catherine Flick
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Workshop 2
| Title
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Speaker
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Video
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Slides/Resources
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| Running your own cellular network using OpenBSC & Co
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Harald Welte
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| DIY Solar Charger Workshop
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Matthew Little
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| a smartphone brain-computer interface workshop
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Colin Rowat
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| Tracing (U)SIM card communication using Osmocom SIMtrace
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Harald Welte
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| Musification
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Akito van Troyer
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Sunday
Stage A
| Title
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Speaker
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Video
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Slides/Resources
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| Ragequit! Game design principles for better online communities.
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Laurie James
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| Morality in video games: when it's not just a game
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Catherine Flick
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| X-Ray Audio: The Strange Story of Soviet Music on the Bone
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stephen coates
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| Beer for Everyone
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Sam Fidler
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| A guide to legal Dutch moonshine
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Lurwah
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| A brief history of effects in film
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Cat Harris
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| The coming of age of plastic electronics
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Radu Sporea
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| How is the Universe Like A Lightbulb?
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Michael Conterio
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| Katie Steckles does some maths
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Katie Steckles
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| 100 years of Shannon -- the man, his work and his legacy
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Matthew Ireland
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| Meatspace surveillance: The extent of Automated Facial Recognition (AFR) in the UK
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Alexander J. Martin
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| Here, hear: Sound-based illusions
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Ben Dornan
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| World Premiere of Tentman
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Alia Sheikh
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| Key Impressioning
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Jos Weyers
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| EMF 2016 Closing Ceremony
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Jonty Wareing
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Stage B
| Title
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Speaker
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Video
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Slides/Resources
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| How we created a hackathon with 50/50 female and male participants
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Caroline Arkenson
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| APIs for cyborgs
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Katy Moe
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| This Is Where We Are: A TIWWA @ Tate Modern Postmortem
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Chris Hunt
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| Digital Medical Imaging - from scanner to screen.
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Dave Harvey
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| Hobby electronics like a pro
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Gavan Fantom
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| Fail Map, visualizing security fail at trusted parties for your protection
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Elger "Stitch" Jonker
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| Receiving live video from the Space station
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Daniel Cussen
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| Designing and performing future instruments
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Alessia Milo and Christian Heinrichs
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| A mathematical view of voting systems
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Alex Bolton
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| Car Hacking - Back to the future 1970’s style.
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Dan Smith
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| Come and play: Collect ‘em all? Tech, fundamental rights and framing our future. Fact or fiction?
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Jen Persson, defenddigitalme
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| Mind Control - What is really possible with technology and the power of your mind?
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James Miller
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| Rebooting a Hobby: How Modern Digital Comms are Reviving Amateur Radio
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Ryan Sayre
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| Hacking Robot Dinosaurs
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Dr Lucy Rogers
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Stage C
| Title
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Speaker
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Video
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Slides/Resources
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| Holonomic robots, and why you should build one
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Tom Oinn
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| Chaotic Music: Oblique Strategies Against Humanity
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Giles Greenway
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| Lightning Talks
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Eireann Leverett
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| Asynchronous or Analogue Methods for Computation
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Matthew Ireland
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| Building a wearable camera
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Manoj Nathwani
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| 2FA, WTF?
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Phil Nash
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| The automated Sheet Music Librarian
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Charlotte Godley
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| Cyber security and the joy of the false positive
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Michelle D'israeli
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| Inside Our Toys - How to Hack Into an Embedded Device
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Kev Sheldrake
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| Freifunk - Free and Open Wireless Community Networks
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andre
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| The EMF 2016 Badge
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Jonty Wareing
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| EMF 2016 Infrastructure Review
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Will Hargrave, Arjan Koopen, David Croft
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| SHA2017
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Elger "Stitch" Jonker <script>alert('welcome to emf');</script>
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Workshop 1
| Title
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Speaker
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Video
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Slides/Resources
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| backyard optics
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Dan Weatherill
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| Learn to Knit!
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Kate Bolin
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| Realtime Web
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Ben Foxall
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| Surface-mount electronics (SMD) assembly for terrified beginners
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Kliment
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| Go workshop and open discussion
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Steven Gravell
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Workshop 2
| Title
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Speaker
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Video
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Slides/Resources
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| Imperfect VR Workshop
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Michael Straeubig
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| Make your own titanium spork
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Richard Sewell
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| Maths card tricks
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Katie Steckles
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| Meditation for Hackers
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Sai
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not recorded for participants' privacy
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