Beskrivning
A Salon Lecture on Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood screen siren & inventor of Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum Technology. With scenes from the 21x Award-Winning, Internationally-Acclaimed play "HEDY! The Life & Inventions of Hedy Lamarr" with Fulbright Specialist Heather Massie. Explores the life, inventions and person of Hedy Lamarr, Viennese-born Hollywood film star of the 1930s-50s. Known as ‘The Most Beautiful Woman in the World’, she also invented technology during WWII to make torpedoes more accurate. Her invention is used today in cell phones, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and myriad other wireless systems.
With Q&A.
With the support of the U.S. Embassy in Sweden.
Medverkande
Heather Massie, Writer/performer
Ämnen
Samtid och samhälle
Teknik och framtid
Tema: Det okända
Nyckelord
Föreläsning
Platser
Göteborgs universitet, Humanisten
Renströmsgatan 6, 412 55 Göteborg