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Steve Mann, ‘father of wearable computing’, to keynote Toronto wearable conference

November 7, 2014

TORONTO, ON — Steve Mann, wide­ly rec­og­nized as the ‘father of wear­able com­put­ing’ and pio­neer in the field of wear­able tech­nolo­gies, will keynote the Future.Innovation.Technology.Creativity. (FITC) Wear­ables con­fer­ence in Toron­to on Novem­ber 13, 2014.

Mann will unveil a new inven­tion that makes sight itself vis­i­ble, and can be used to “see” com­put­er vision and sur­veil­lance in a way nev­er before pos­si­ble. Dubbed ‘sur­veil­lu­mi­nes­cence’, the tech­nol­o­gy reveals a cam­er­a’s “sight­field” as a pat­tern of glow­ing lights.

He is cur­rent­ly a pro­fes­sor in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Depart­ment of Elec­tri­cal & Com­put­er Engi­neer­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, where he directs the Human­is­tic Intel­li­gence Research Lab­o­ra­to­ry and is Chief Sci­en­tist at the Cre­ative Destruc­tion Lab at the Rot­man School of Man­age­ment. Mann is also Chief Sci­en­tist of Meta, the mak­ers of Space­glass­es.

Event Details

What: Pro­fes­sor Steve Mann keynotes FITC Wear­ables
When: Thurs­day, Novem­ber 13, 2014
Keynote: 10:10 – 10:40 a.m.
Where: Glenn Gould Stu­dio, 250 Front St. West, Toron­to, ON  M5V 3G5

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Mann will be avail­able for inter­views after 12 noon on Mon­day, Novem­ber 9, 2014. To arrange an inter­view, please con­tact:

Alexan­dra Mush­ka
alexandra@eyetap.org
416–046-5321

More infor­ma­tion:
Mar­it Mitchell
Senior com­mu­ni­ca­tions offi­cer, The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Depart­ment of Elec­tri­cal & Com­put­er Engi­neer­ing
416–978-7997; marit.mitchell@utoronto.ca