Ramez Naam
Ramez Naam is a computer scientist who was involved in the
development of widely-used software products such as Microsoft Internet
Explorer and Microsoft Outlook.
He is also author of
Nexus.
He was the CEO of Apex
Nanotechnologies, a company involved in developing nanotechnology
research software before returning to Microsoft. He currently holds a
seat on the advisory board of the Institute for Accelerating Change, is
a member of the World Future Society, a Senior Associate of the
Foresight Institute, and is a fellow of the Institute for Ethics and
Emerging Technologies.
Ramez is the author of
More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of
Biological Enhancement, which offers a tour of new technologies
and
makes a case for embracing human enhancement, showing readers how new
technologies are powerful new tools in humanity’s quest to improve
ourselves, our offspring and our world.
His patents include
System and method for ranking search results based on tracked user
preferences,
System and method for generating attribute-based selectable search
extension,
Prioritizing search results by client search satisfaction,
Inline search results from user-created search verticals,
Machine directed improvement of ranking algorithms,
Generating a subindex with relevant attributes to improve querying,
and
Smart links.
Ramez is also the
recipient of the 2005 HG Wells Award for Contributions to
Transhumanism, awarded by the World Transhumanist
Association.
Read
An interview with Ramez Naam about his book More Than Human:
Embracing
the Promise of Biological Enhancement.
Visit Ramez’s
Facebook page and his
LinkedIn page.
Watch
Nathan Buggia and Ramez Naam with Bing and
More than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological
Enhancement.