“Wissen ist Macht”

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.