Due to warnings by Stephen Hawking and
others, the Doomsday Clock has been moved to five minutes before
midnight.
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LIFEBOAT NEWS 
Sep 8 -
Huanyang Chen, who
developed
a way to unmask an invisibility cloak so those inside it are able
to view their surroundings,
joins our Physics Board.
Sep 7 -
Maggie Turnbull, lead
scientist for NASA's New Worlds Observer, joins our Scientific Advisory
Board.
Sep 7 -
Kang Zhang,
who discovered the
first gene associated with dry macular degeneration, joins our
Biotech/Medical Board.
Sep 7 -
Neeraj Vij, who will be presenting
"Challenges of
Nano-Delivery in Airway Diseases — Bypassing the Mucus Barrier" at
NanoBiotech 2008, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Sep 7 -
Danny Belkin joins our
Folding@Home team, working to help scientists
understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases.
Sep 6 -
Greg Ward joins our Scientific
Advisory Board.
Working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Greg developed a
device for characterizing surface reflectance functions, called the
imaging goniophotometer, which is now being picked up and improved by
researchers at MIT.
Sep 4 -
Our Raj Bawa is conference chair for
NanoBiotech 2008:
a conference exploring the global opportunities
in nanobiotechnology and related science and engineering fields.
This conference will be held
September 15, 2008 at the
Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Sep 3 -
Danny Belkin
joins our blog team with his
first post.
Aug 30 -
Read
Loneliness
and learn why we should focus less on
self-interests/short-term
outcomes and focus more on social
interests/sustainability.
Aug 29 -
Listen to our
David Pearce on
The Future And You.
Aug 28 -
Devika Subramanian,
coauthor of the first paper defining the area of bounded optimality,
i.e.,
what it means for an agent to make the "best" use of scarce resources,
joins
our Information Sciences Board.
Aug 27 -
Deb Newberry, coauthor of
The Next Big Thing Is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change
the
Future of Your Business, joins our Nanotechnology
Board.
Aug 27 -
Aaron Wall,
who literally wrote the book on search engine optimization:
SEO Book, joins our
Futurists Board.
Aug 27 -
Derek Lomas, who is
designing a
$12 computer, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Aug 26 -
Jonathan Schooler, who is
researching whether we have free will,
joins our Neuroscience Board.
Aug 26 -
Entertainer, leader, musician, artist,
and thinker
Dr. Phineas Waldolf Steel joins our Media & Arts Board.
His interests span the production of propaganda, the construction of
chronically malfunctioning robots, puppet shows, and an ongoing attempt
to become World Emperor for the purpose of turning this planet into a
Utopian Playland.
Aug 26 -
Jody Westby,
CEO and Founder of
Global Cyber Risk, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode
Board.
She chairs the American Bar Association's Privacy & Computer Crime
Committee and represents the ABA on the National Conference of Lawyers
and Scientists.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Our Raj Bawa is conference chair
and our
Neeraj Vij is speaker
for
NanoBiotech 2008:
a conference exploring the global opportunities
in nanobiotechnology and related science and engineering fields.
This conference will be held
September 15, 2008 at the
Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Our
Andrew Braswell,
Teena James,
Andras Lacko,
Manu Sebastian Mannoor,
Deb Newberry,
Balaji "Baloo" Panchapakesan, and
Walt Trybula
will be
speaking at
NanoTX USA, an international conference and trade expo covering
nanotechnology which will be held Oct 2-3, 2008 in Austin,
Texas.
This event highlights advances in nanoscience and explains how
nanotechnology is being used today and how it will impact a broad range
of industries tomorrow: electronics, energy, aerospace, defense,
biomedicine, robotics, chemicals, and more.
Our
Mark J. Clement,
Sumeet Dua,
David A. McClellan, and
Devika Subramanian,
will be participating in the
Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium
(BIOT 2008) which will be held October 17-18, 2008 in Arlington, Texas.
This symposium brings together
scientists, engineers, and scholars from relevant fields with
practitioners from industry in order to help each group to understand
progress made in the area as a whole.
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Douglas H. Smith is
conceptualizing a cyborg.
"We're at a junction now of developing a new approach for a
brain-machine
interface," says senior author Douglas H. Smith, MD, Professor of
Neurosurgery and Director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair at
Penn. "The nervous system will certainly rebel if you place hard or
sharp electrodes into it to record signals. However, the nervous system
can be tricked to accept an interface letting it do what it likes
—
assimilating new nerve cells into its own network."
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