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Stephen Wolfram was educated at Eton, Oxford, and Caltech, receiving his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1979 at the age of 20. His early work in physics and computer science was recognized by a MacArthur award in 1981. In the early 1980s he made a series of now-classic discoveries about systems known as cellular automata, leading to numerous applications in physics, mathematics, computer science, biology, and other fields. In 1986 he founded Wolfram Research, Inc. and began the creation of Mathematica---now the world\'s leading software system for technical computing and symbolic programming (and tool which made A New Kind of Science possible). Over the past decade Wolfram has divided his time between leadership of his company and pursuit of basic science. The results of Wolfram\'s fifteen years of work were presented for the first time in his book, A New Kind of Science (May 2002). An instant bestseller, A New Kind of Science constituted international science news and quickly emerged as one of the most-discussed science books in decades.

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Behrokh Khoshnevis is a professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and is the Director of the Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies (CRAFT) and the Director of Manufacturing Engineering Program. He is active in CAD/CAM, robotics, and mechatronics related research and development projects that include the development of three novel Solid Free Form (Rapid Prototyping) processes called Contour Crafting, SIS and MPM, a technology for automated construction of housing structures, development of mechatronics systems for biomedical applications (e.g., restorative dentistry, rehabilitation engineering, and tactile sensing devices), autonomous mobile and modular robots for assembly applications on earth and in space, and automated equipment for oil (petroleum) and gas industries.

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Mass Matrix Studies: Systematic Heterogeneity Mass Studies was founded in 2003 by Minsuk Cho in Seoul, Korea, as a critical investigation of architecture in the context of mass production, intensely over-populated urban conditions, and other emergent cultural niches that define contemporary society. Amid the many frictions defining spatial conditions in the twenty-first century, namely past vs. future, local vs. global, utopia vs. reality, and individual vs. collective, Mass Studies focuses on the operative complexity of these multiple conditions instead of striving for a singular, unified perspective. For each architectural project, which exist across a wide range of scales, Mass Studies explores issues such as spatial systems/matrixes, building materials/techniques, and typological divergences to foster a vision that allows the discovery of new socio/cultural potential.

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Vicente Guallart was born in Valencia in 1963. He opened his studio in Barcelona, GUALLART ARCHITECTS (www.guallart.com) in 1993. Since then, he has been working in project of different scales “from bits to geography” and participating in electronic publishing and research projects. He works in the confluence of architecture, nature and new technologies. Some of his more relevant projects are the Denia Mountain (reconstruction of an old quarry, in an environment that hold and old Arab castle, selected for the Venice Biennale 2004), 3 ports in the North of Taiwan that will improve the tourism in the island (winners of 2 international competitions), the artificial mountain of Wroclaw (Poland), selected for the biding for the Expo 2012, or the Sharing Tower in the neighborhood of la Torre (Valencia). His work have shown in the Venice Biennale, MOMA, Arkitertur Zentrum or IVAM (www.guallartblog.com), and he have been lecturing at MIT, Columbia, Princeton, Mexico DF, Taipei, Beijing among others. Actar publishing house have published a book based in his ideas and projects called “GeoLogics”.

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ReD is a Research and Design Office in Architecture and Digital Technology established as a company in 2007 by architects Marta Male-Alemany and José Pedro Sousa , after 3 years of intensive collaboration. Operating internationally from Barcelona and Porto, ReD merges research and design endeavors both in academic and professional practice. Specialized in the implementation of advanced digital CAD/CAE/CAM technologies in architecture, ReD is committed to explore the new design possibilities that emerge from the cultural and technological context of today’s digital era.

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The understanding of architecture as ‘meaning-form’ is a departure of an architecture, which used to define itself in style or form, into an architecture as process.- “It is the development of a proper theory of complex systems that will be the capstone to this transition from the material to the informational” says John L. Casti, in “Would-be Worlds”. A generative architecture learns from the intelligence of Industrial design, which is always reactive to, and an integral part of, new production systems and material qualities. Product development integrates performative studies, marketing analyses and rapid prototyping.

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Hanif Kara is a London based structural engineer. Since founding a practice his particular ‘design-led’ approach and interest in innovative form, material uses, prefabrication, sustainable construction, complex analysis methods have allowed him to work on award-winning and unique projects such as the Peckham Library (Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize), Caspar in Birmingham (British Construction Industry Small Building of the Year Award) and Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany (RIBA European Award). His approach extends beyond the structural engineering disciplines and has led to his appointment on the Design Review Panel and subsequently to commissioner for the UK government watchdog CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment), which monitors the quality of design throughout the United Kingdom. Hanif was selected for the Master Jury for the 2004 cycle of the Aga Khan Awards for Architecture and was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2004. He was recently appointed as one of the 15 members of the ‘Design for London’ Advisory Group to Mayor of London Ken Livingstone.

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Continuing with the Lecture Series 2007 - 2008, IaaC offers open to public conferences in its facilities at Poble Nou. Qualified specialists coming from different fields of knowledge share their experiences and projects with the students and public.

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Alfonso Vegara (Alicante, Spain 1955) is an Urban Architect with Doctorate in City and Regional Planning. He has been a professor of urbanism in architecture schools in Madrid and Navarra as well as a visiting professor in diverse European and American Universities. He is the author of many books covering territorial and regional themes including \"Intelligent Territories\" which is a summary of years of investigation over the development of cities. He is currentlythe President of the Fundacion Metropoli (www.fundacion-metropoli.org), a non-profit institution dedicated to the investigation of the future of the cities.

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Caterina Tiazzoldi, M.Arch, PhD, licensed architect in Europe, she is the principal and founder of the Architecture firm Nuova Ordentra and the co-founder and co-director of the NSU research Lab at Columbia University. In her professional and academic work Caterina challenges the boundaries between the Measurable and the Non Measurable dimension of architecture. She collaborates actively with many architectural and engineering firms such as Impresa Rosso and Fiat and Engineering and foundations such as Fondazione ISI and Fondazione CRT. She teach at Columbia University, where she is co-founder and co-director of the advanced research lab Non Linear Solutions Unit (NSU). She is invited regularly to participate in international conferences and symposiums.

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