Sandy Agbottah

How Artificial Intelligence Research Tries to Build Intelligent Autonomous Systems Can robots be creative enough to build their own language? Computational linguistics explores semiotics, its origins, evolution and dynamics with an interdisciplinary approach aimed at finding out statistics and rules to construct a computational model of natural language. Luc Steels,…

Nada Ikken is addressing the urgent issue of civilians becoming trapped during earthquakes by proposing a quantum optimization approach to enhance search and rescue efforts. The project aims to leverage quantum computing to improve efficiency and address complex challenges in various aspects of daily life, including logistics and data analysis,…

How Technology and Innovation Will Invent a New Future of Old Age Since 1900, the industrialised world has gained nearly 30 extra years of longevity. Ageing has become a disruptive force in many countries and economies, not only because there are more walkers and wheelchairs than baby buggies in some…

Agriculture accounts for roughly 10 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. The d4agrotech research and innovation initiative launched by the province of Lower Austria and the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology aims to make food production more climate-friendly and efficient through digitalisation. In this Falling Walls Round Table, experts…

Blanca Costa Ávila addresses the problem of respiratory distress due to fibrosis and stenosis of the airways produced by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She suggests that implanting a bronchial splint solves airway stenosis and improves pulmonary ventilation.

The nominating institution HIPPO Foundation on the project: The HIPPO foundation builds artificial intelligence data sets representing the world’s population for each disease, and provides these datasets on their new open knowledge license. The HIPPO Foundation believes medical knowledge should be available to all, and that medical AI should become…

Dr. Sabrina Badir from ETH Zurich was the jury’s choice and winner of the Falling Walls Lab 2015 with the development of a reliable and easy-to-use device that allows the risk of premature birth to be recognized in time so that appropriate treatments can be started promptly.

Luma Makari, co-founder of Elgorithm, explains why mental health is important for a healthy lifestyle and how Elgorithm is trying to find solutions to integrate mental health into our education system. Elgorithm is a Beirut-based non-profit organization providing schools across Lebanon & the MENA region with access to digital mental…

How Microbiome Research Redefines Our Idea of Being Human For the better part of the 20th century, we could be rather sure that being human meant that our bodies are made up of our own human cells, controlled by our own DNA, while our autonomous brains give rise to emotions and…

Natasha Theriault is developing a bacteriophage-based vaccine platform which can be rapidly adapted against newly-emerging pathogens and safely distributed in locations regardless of cold-supply chain infrastructure.