Lifeboat Foundation: Safeguarding Humanity

Nov 21 - Dan Hooper, author of Nature's Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force and Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy, joins our Cosmology Board and Particle Physics Board.

Nov 21 - Eduardo Reck Miranda, whose "cultured" robots make sweet music together, joins our Media & Arts Board.

Nov 21 - Jackie Ying, Executive Director of Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), joins our Nanotechnology Board.

Nov 20 - George M. Martin, whose basic research led to the discovery of the genetic defect causing the Werner syndrome and certain familial forms of Alzheimer's disease, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Nov 20 - James Kent, author of Overclocking the Human CPU: A primer for the future of human intelligence, joins our Futurists Board.

Nov 20 - Henry Markram, director of IBM's Blue Brain Project, joins our Neuroscience Board. The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to reverse engineer the human brain onto a massive supercomputer.

Nov 18 - John Furber, author of Preventing Large Meteorite Impacts: The Threat of Rogue Comets and Asteroids, joins our Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board which he also founded.

Nov 17 - Mark A. Smith, Executive Director of the American Aging Association, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Mark is recognized as one of the top cited researchers in the fields of Neuroscience & Behavior, Alzheimer Disease, and Free Radical Biology.

Nov 16 - Didier Casse, who developed a nano-optical lens that focuses infrared light at telecommunication frequencies, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.

Nov 16 - Kristi Scott joins our Futurists Board. She is a freelance writer and copyeditor for H+ magazine.

Nov 15 - Kerstin Dautenhahn joins our Robotics/AI Board. She coedited Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioral, Social, and Communicative Dimensions.

Nov 15 - Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, coauthor of Sharing Moral Responsibility with Robots: A Pragmatic Approach, joins our Ethics Board.

Nov 14 - Watch Powering the Planet - Space Based Solar Power.

Nov 14 - Robert T. Liimatainen dedicates his donation to "Alexis Armstrong and her comment on 9/12/08. But for your comment, I would not have donated. Hope to have the pleasure of a daughter like you one day. Hope the donation helps out!"

Nov 12 - Read Global Catastrophic Risks Essays for GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISKS: Building a Resilient Civilization. November 14, 2008, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California.

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