Challenges of Science and Technology in the 21st Century

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Schedule:

09:15 - Greetings

09:30 - Isaac Ben Israel, TAU - The Growing Dimensions of Cyberspace

10:20 - Ranit Aharonov, IBM Research, - IBM Debating Technologies: How Persuasive Can a Computer Be? 

11:10 - coffee break 

11:30 - Hagai Netzer, TAU - Black Holes Shaping the Universe 

12:20 - lunch break 

14:00 - Eytan Ruppin, UMD - Can We Defeat Cancer? 

14:50 - Kathryn Hess, EPFL - The Hidden Structure of the Neocortical Column 

15:40 - coffee break 

16:00 - Gabriele Veneziano, CERN and College de France - A Quantum Universe before the Big Bang? 

16:50 - Yaron Oz, TAU - 21st Century Academy: New Paradigms in the Information Age 

17:40 - David Horn, TAU - Closing Remarks 

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