Sharing Insights
President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Prof. Tony Chan led a delegation to the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual conference in Davos, Switzerland. In Davos, HKUST was the only Asian university to conduct an IdeasLab, where four professors shared their insights with some of the world’s top minds and decision makers on how a seamless merging of virtual realities and our physical world could improve human life. The other six universities were invited to hold IdeasLab at Winter Davos this year: Oxford, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon.
Four of our senior faculty members spoke at the “HKUST IdeasLab” in the World Economic Forum 2015:
- 5G Disruptive Technologies and Ubiquitous Communications | Prof. Khaled Ben Letaief
- Blurring the Boundary Between the Digital and Physical World | Prof. Yang Qiang
- Talking to Machines | Prof. Pascale Fung
- Computer Graphics: Closing the Gap on Reality | Prof. Pedro Sander
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