Lecture at the Fet11 Budapest

The European Future Technologies (FET) Conference and Exhibition aims to be the European forum for international, cross-disciplinary dialogue on visions and challenges for frontier research in the field of information technologies. Following the first FET in Prague, the second was held in Budapest from 4 to 6 May 2011. Virgil Widrich was invited by Dr. Robert Trappl (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna) to hold a talk at the conference on 5 May 5 on the topic, "Robots as Companions: What can we Learn from Servants and Companions in Literature, Theater, and Film?" Other speakers included Zsófia Ruttkay (University of Twente, Netherlands) and Markus Krajewski (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany).