The Hedy Lamarr Lectures, which is hosted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Austrian Telecommunication Group and the Vienna Publishing House, is the series of 8 lectures starting on February, 22 nd, 2010, and focusing on the developments of knowledge and information in the modern society. The event was named after Hedy Lamarr to remember her significant invention of frequency hopping during WWII, without which, today’s mobile/wireless technology would have been impossible, or as my economics professor would say, “the natural log of people’s living standard curve would shift downward”. I’m so happy that they named the lectures after her!
The event gathers Austria’s scientists who have worked on the subject of telecommunications. For the schedule of the the series of lectures, please click on the picture on the left handed side. Also available on youtube is the opening lecture by general director of Austrian Telecommunication Group Hannes Ametsreiter, taken at the Austrian Academy of Science.
I wonder if there’s any Austrian fans of Hedy Lamarr who had attended the event? Could you provide me with more information? If you could and would be willing to, please email me: annpham@hedy-lamarr.org. Thank you!
For more information, please click here and here
First video below is the opening speech by Hannes Ametsreiter, and second video is about impressions/opinions of those who attended the event.
An Pham
Beyond just a fan website 
My grandfather traveled through Vienna last February and he told me briefly about this series of lectures. I can ask him for more information and get back to you. I didn’t recall him mentioning lots about Hedy though. Maybe it was only named after her, and not much more. But we’ll see!
Oh cool! Yes I can guess that there’s not much about Hedy in these lectures. But I’m interested in the contents. I wonder, since you said your grandpa talked about it, did he attend it? Is there any way that you can scan the power point slides copy for me if he had one?
Yes, I asked and he still kept the slides. I could email them to you tomorrow once they’re scanned.
Love your website!
Wass?! This lecture isn’t even subtitled in English! I guess we English-speaking Hedy fans will have to seek other sources of information instead of this German-speaking lecture.
At least she’s somewhat well-known in her home country and in other German-speaking countries despite the fact that her birthday is also the day of Kristallnacht.
I forget. It’s “Was” and not “Wass.” 😉
I can work on some translation even though my translating skill is absolutely betraying. I understand and speak German alright but it is not my mother tongue. Plus, this is Austrian German!