Press
Companions in the press
- The Today Programme (BBC Radio 4) 6 June 2008
Robots designed to act as carers - Science 9 November 2007
Is There Progress on Talking Sensibly to Machines? - Cosmic Log 8 November 2007
Talk to the Robo-Bunny - The Material World (BBC Radio 4) 4 October 2007
Memories for Life (Yorick Wilks interview) - Seniornet (in Swedish)
http://www.seniornet.se/browse.jsp?id=01_02&cikkid=4160 - Evening News 24 May 2007
Man's best friend that drives you barking mad - The Parliament Magazine 26 March 2007
Companions (pdf, 72kb) - Yorkshire Post 6 March 2007
Inhuman recall - how machines will remember everything - Oxford Internet Institute 15 February 2007
Professor Yorick Wilks is appointed Senior Research Fellow of the OII (pdf, 112kb) - Times Online 13 December 2006
Electronic pets for the elderly 'will combat loneliness'
Listen
Memories for Life: Listen to Yorick Wilks discussing Memories for Life on The Material World (BBC Radio 4). In the near future we could be storing all our memories for ever: who will keep them, could they be kept private and how would it change our own concept of who we are?
Press contacts
To request interviews or comments, or just keep up with what we are doing, please contact Professor Yorick Wilks:
Email: yorick.wilks@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)114 222 1804
Updated: 01 November 2007 16:16 PM