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- Frode Hegland, CEO of The Hyperwords Company, joins our Information Sciences Board. Vint Cerf, "the father of the Internet", said "Innovative! Creative! Energetic! Self-starter! Never gives up! These are all descriptive of Frode Hegland. He shows all the characteristics of an entrepreneur with a bee in his bonnet and the determination to achieve his objectives. I have been impressed with his skills and have greatly enjoyed my interactions with him in connection with Hyperwords, the company he serves as CEO."
 
- Mike van Lent, Chief Scientist at Soar Technology, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
 
Soar Technology is a leading developer of advanced intelligent agent software and cognitive systems. SoarTech's state-of-the-art "intelligent agents" provide human-like reasoning in software to automate complex tasks, simplify human-system interaction, or simulate human-like behavior for military and civilian applications such as games, simulation, training, intelligence analysis, and robot command and control.
 
- Wesley M. Du Charme, who presented "The Ethics of Cryonics: Why the Future Probably Needs You" at the Terasem Movement 4th Colloquium on the Law of Futuristic Persons, joins our Ethics Board.
 
- Seth Baum, author of Reducing Catastrophic Risk Through Integrative Assessment, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
 
- Stuart Calimport, Science Department Head of the Methuselah Foundation Undergraduate Research Initiative, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
- Amos Winter, whose RoboClam may become the first "smart" anchor, joins our Engineering Board.
 
- Wei Lu joins our Nanotechnology Board. Wei is developing the crossbar array which can coerce atoms of almost any element, including silicon, into forming nanometer-scale structures.
 
- Neurosurgeon Tipu Aziz joins our Neuroscience Board. Tipu trains surgeons from the UK and abroad in functional and stereotactic surgery for movement disorders. He has established local movement disorder services, including surgery at Charing Cross Hospital, London; Karachi, Pakistan; Brisbane, Australia; Treviso, Italy; Iceland; and Singapore. He advises the U.K. Department of Health via the NSCAG forum on providing functional surgery at nationally approved centres.
 
- David Cardwell, who coedited Handbook of Superconducting Materials, joins our Engineering Board. David's research interests include high temperature superconductivity, processing of bulk superconductors, magnetic properties of bulk superconductors, and engineering applications of high temperature superconductors.
 
- Michele Giugliano, who has demonstrated that faulty brain wiring may be bypassed with carbon nanotubes, joins our Neuroscience Board.
 
- Georges Grinstein, inventor of a 3D Personal Life Mapper, joins our Information Sciences Board.
 
- Beatrice de Gelder, who demonstrated that a blind man can navigate obstacles using his unconscious mind, joins our Neuroscience Board.
 
- Chris Poulin, Managing Partner of Patterns and Predictions, a predictive analytics company, joins our Robotics/AI Board. Chris is co-inventor of the Centiment system, a full semantic analysis based asset trading system. He is coauthor of the Patterns and Predictions tool, a Bayesian classification and decision engine used in universities worldwide, and by clients such as the Toyota Motors Corporation.
 
UPCOMING EVENTS
Our Jürgen Schmidhuber will be the keynote speaker at the AGI-09 conference on Artificial General Intelligence which will be held March 6-9, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia.
 
Our Eric B. Baum, Mark H. Bickhard, Włodzisław "Wlodek" Duch, Itamar Elhanany, Ben Goertzel, J. Storrs "Josh" Hall, Marcus Hutter, Bruce Klein, Bert Kappen, Randal Koene, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, John Laird, Christian Lebiere, Moshe Looks, Stephen Reed, Marco Wiering, and Mary-Anne Williams are also participating.
 


The 1st IAA Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids will be held April 27-30, 2009 in Granada, Spain.
 
Our Colin McInnes, Gianmarco Radice, and Frans von der Dunk will be participating.
 
James Fiske who is developing a huge "launch ring" to fling satellites into orbit, has joined our Scientific Advisory Board.
 
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Do you have free or inexpensive space available for an entertaining Lifeboat Foundation volunteer? If so, send a message to volunteerwork@lifeboat.com with the subject "Lifeboat Foundation Space".
 
Read our blog entry How long did you want that space elevator cable?
 
Watch Nokia Morph Concept. Morph is a concept demonstrating some of the possibilities nanotechnologies might enable in future communication devices.
 
Morph can sense its environment, is energy harvesting, and self cleaning. Morph is a flexible two-piece device that can adapt its shape to different use modes. Nanotechnology enables us to have adaptive materials yet rigid forms on demand.
 
Our Scientific Advisory Board completes our BioShield program. The BioShield goals have been endorsed by U.S. Senator Bill Frist, Sun Cofounder Bill Joy, and Futurist-Inventor Ray Kurzweil!
 
Read the AsteroidShield program completed by our Scientific Advisory Board. Learn about the dangers caused by asteroids and proposed solutions to this problem.
 
Jaan Tallinn, cofounder of Skype, the only major IM client that both securely authenticates conversation participants, and encrypts the communication, donates over $10,000 to Lifeboat Foundation.
 
Watch Productive Nanosystems: From molecules to superproducts on our Videos page.
 
Our Scientific Advisory Board completes our NanoShield program which provides solutions to ecophages and nonreplicating nanoweapons.
 
Read our blog entry "Doomsday" vault design unveiled.
 
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