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Cesar Harada (28) is an French-Japanese inventor and entrepreneur.
Cesar invented a ground-breaking sailing technology, a boat that changes shape, “Protei”. Originally developed to clean up the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Protei is an Open Hardware project now developed by an international community of scientists, engineers and designers for many other applications such as nuclear radiation sensing off Japan, plastic sensing in the Pacific garbage patch, red tide studies in Mexico and much more.
Cesar is also the general coordinator of the future International Ocean Station. Former Project leader at MIT, Cesar teaches Masters in Design & Environment at Goldsmiths University in London. Cesar graduated in 2009 from the Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Arts in London, his collaborative project Open_Sailing received the Ars Electronica Golden Nica award for the [NEXT IDEA].

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Shockingly gifted HIFANA

Spending too much time in the lab - - - ends up in Youtube sessions hehehe!
Switch to 480 : the sound quality is soooo much better ! Or click below for the mp3 version - saturday night vibe, yes sir!

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Ant computer

Schematics for making a cybernetic computer with ants. By Cesar Harada for Ollie Palmer. Wellcome trust, London, UK.
Roughly the idea is to have a large bed made with many small magnets, controlled by an LED Matrix controller, via USB -> Arduino -> proce55ing. The bed is covered with a sheet of Teflon. On the bed metallic powder can be reconfigured and become a magnetic display, a little bit like the ferrofluid experiments of Sachiko Kodama. 
The metallic powder would be coated with ant pheromones ("pick me up" / "leave me here").
2 gates (one in, one out) would be a ant (bit) counter (webcam video processing).
Another webcam would be used for general visual control, and feedback.
The pattern the computer would draw as initial position of the metallic powder would be progressively reconfigured by the ants activities, bringing back the content of the "bed" into the "store room". The pattern on the bed would correspond to the program in the computer : a self modifying software and hardware, as one thing. 
The computer could get complex if we would assign ants a color or an RFID tag, of if we had a less binary information to carry ("pick me up" / "leave me here", "pick me up for a while", "exchange me", ask someone to help pick me up" etc).

Such computer would be interesting to evaluate the capacity of learning of ants and of the machine.
We could also use ants methods of optimization for some of our human activities (find people under collapse buildings after avalanches, earthquakes...) or computer routines (web crawling), or new types or architecture generation...

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