Meeting with fellow WEF Young Global Leader Olivier Oullier in London
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Meeting with 四方 敬之, Noriyuki Shikata, Political Minister, Embassy of Japan in the UK.
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Opening of City University London’s The Hangout @TheHangoutLDN with Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Curran and Leo Castellanos Manager of The Hangout.
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Opening of City University London’s The Hangout @TheHangoutLDN with Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Curran and Leo Castellanos Manager of The Hangout.
It was packed out, an amazing crowd of tech entrepreneurs, students, venture capitalists, academics. What a sizzling hot pot of creativity, and a place to invent the future!
The Hangout @TheHangoutLDN is an amazing interface between City University London’s research and teaching and the world of entrepreneurship, business, venture capital, and society. Just like the most amazing creatures appear where the land meets the sea, so too will the most amazing products come out of the Hangout. It is a catalyst for young people to live their dreams.
http://www.city.ac.uk/for-business/the-hangout
Adrian Cheok, Founder and Director of The Mixed Reality Lab will be presenting ‘The Future of Everysense Everywhere Technology’, to celebrate the launch of City University London’s incubator space ‘The Hangout’.
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About The Hangout: An interactive environment where talent meets tech. We foster relationships between student and graduates from City University London and Tech entrepreneurs.
This talk will outline new technologies that are arising in the hyperconnected internet era within human media spaces. These technologies allow new embodied interaction between humans, species, and computation, both socially and physically.
In this talk, Adrian will present an alternative computing environment and space based on an integrated design of real and virtual worlds. He will discuss some different research prototype systems and products for interactive communication, culture, and play.
Wednesday 21 August 2013 6pm – 9pm
Ready for a SMARTer World? by Adrian David Cheok
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Multisensory Human Communication: Speech by Adrian David Cheok at TEDxBarcelona
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Meeting and Presentation of Digital Taste and Smell to Andoni Luis Aduriz, Number 3 chef in the world
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Meeting and Presentation of Digital Taste and Smell to Andoni Luis Aduriz, Number 3 chef in the world at Mugaritz the number 4 restaurant in the world with Luis Castellanos CEO of Jardin de Junio http://www.eljardindejunio.com
I had the great pleasure to be invited to a meeting with Andoni Luis Aduriz, Number 3 chef in the world and Luis Castellanos CEO of Jardin de Junio. They wanted me to present our work in digital augmented taste and smell.
The restaurant is in a beautiful mountainous area around San Sebastián. At first we had lunch and discussions together. The lunch was simple yet so delicious. Tomato with olive oil and salt, baby lettuce, and lamb chops. I didn’t realize the lettuce was a sneak preview of the incredible dinner.
Next I gave a presentation on our research on multi-sensory mixed reality and I gave some demonstrations, such as the electric taste machine. I was really happy and excited that Chef Andoni was pleased and wants to work together on a project.
Next we watched a piano concert at the restaurant, and at next the most amazing dinner of my life. Andoni gave us a tour of the kitchens. It was incredible to see more than 70 staff prepare the dishes for only a small group of patrons, maybe 40 or 50. Each table at the dinner is given different dishes, to suit the mood and personality of the patrons. It is an individualized feast.
There were more than 20 courses at the dinner. It was an explosion of amazing tastes, textures, visions. The dishes were an incredible combination of traditional and modernist / molecular cuisine. For example what I thought were noodles were made from some kind of beef marrow. What looked like a chocolate sweet was made from duck’s blood. At first my brain forced me to think it was chocolate, because of the visual dominance, and next I could taste savory.
The whole dinner went on for hours and hours, accompanied by incredible local wines also. At the end of the night we were saturated and exhausted. It was one of the most incredible times of my life.
Sayonara Japan
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Sayonara Japan, Sayonara Keio. It has been so wonderful! Thank you to my wonderful students, colleagues, and friends. See you in London!!!
Adrian David Cheok joins City University London as Professor of Pervasive Computing
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I am very happy to announce that I will be joining City University London as Professor of Pervasive Computing, in the School of Informatics.
I was very excited with the great vision and passion to be a world leading research university, and a world leader in quantum step research and innovation.
It was a great honor to be able to join City University London in their quest to be a world leader by 2016, and I was impressed with the resources and funding they are putting into this goal.
I am very excited to be part of a movement, part of a radical positive change. I am looking very much looking forward to a new adventure in London.
The City Vision 2016
A leading global University committed to academic excellence, focused on business and the professions and located in the heart of London. We are proud of the quality of our education, research and enterprise and are ranked within the top 2% of universities in the world [Times Higher Education World University Rankings].
City University London Strategic Plan 2012-2016 (by City University London)
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Interview of Adrian David Cheok on Swedish National Radio Friday 12 July, about communication by touch via the internet. Den första som kramade en höna via internet – Tekniksafari | Sveriges Radio
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Interview of Adrian David Cheok on Swedish National Radio Friday 12 July, about communication by touch via the internet.
Mp3 File of the interview can be downloaded here: http://sverigesradio.se/topsy/ljudfil/4600924.mp3