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The Shannon Luminary Lecture Series at Nokia Bell Labs is named in honor of Claude Shannon – the father of information theory and arguably of all communications and networked systems. The series continues the tradition of the renowned Bell Labs General Research Colloquia of the past, but looks firmly towards the future. 

This lecture series is comprised of speakers who are luminaries in a wide diversity of fields and who will share their perspective on the most important technologies, science, engineering, mathematics – and even more aesthetic matters – that will transform human existence in the next decades.  

Miguel Nicolelis - The Future of Human Augmentation

Alain Aspect - The future of quantum technologies: the Second quantum revolution

Rodney Brooks - The Future of Innovation in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Alex "Sandy" Pentland - The future of AI and human society: HumanAI

Ben Ebert - The future of cancer prevention

The future of cancer prevention - A conversation with Marcus Weldon and Ben Ebert

The future of IoT - A conversation with Marcus Weldon and Vint Cerf

Vint Cerf - The Future of the Internet of Things: Desirable properties of an IoT ecosystem

Musings on A.I. from a curious mind - A conversation with Marcus Weldon and Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry - The future of humanity and technology

Stephen Friend - The future of human agency

Marcus Weldon interviews Yann LeCun about his career

Yann LeCun - Predictive Learning: The Next Frontier in AI

Zhenan Bao - Skin-inspired electronic materials and devices