| 01/05/09 |
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."
|
| 01/05/09 |
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.
|
| 01/04/09 |
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.
|
| 01/04/09 |
Seth Baum, author of
Reducing Catastrophic Risk Through Integrative Assessment,
joins our Human Trajectories Board.
|
| 01/04/09 |
Stuart Calimport,
Science Department Head of the Methuselah Foundation Undergraduate
Research Initiative, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 01/03/09 |
Amos Winter, whose
RoboClam may become the first "smart" anchor,
joins our Engineering Board.
|
| 01/03/09 |
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.
|
| 01/03/09 |
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.
|
| 01/02/09 |
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.
|
| 01/02/09 |
Michele Giugliano,
who has demonstrated that
faulty brain wiring may be bypassed with carbon nanotubes,
joins our Neuroscience Board.
|
| 01/02/09 |
Georges Grinstein,
inventor of a
3D Personal Life Mapper,
joins our Information Sciences Board.
|
| 01/02/09 |
Beatrice de Gelder,
who demonstrated that a
blind man can navigate obstacles using his
unconscious mind,
joins our Neuroscience Board.
|
| 01/02/09 |
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.
|
| 01/01/09 |
Antonietta Gatti, coauthor of
Nanopathology: The Health Impact of Nanoparticles, joins our
Nanotechnology Board.
|
| 01/01/09 |
The
2008 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Stephen
Hawking. The award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or
public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and
encouraged measures to prevent them.
The 2008 award is in recognition of his continuous warnings that global
catastrophic risks will eventually come and therefore it is unsafe and
unwise for all of humanity to be on a single planet.
"It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the
survival of the species," Hawking has stated. "Life on Earth is at the
ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden
global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other
dangers we have not yet thought of."
|
| 12/29/08 |
Help
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka enter Zero G!
Wole has a compelling story. From his bio:
Wole has played an active role in Nigeria's political history. In
1967, during the Nigerian Civil War he was arrested by the Federal
Government and put in solitary confinement for his attempts at brokering
a peace between the warring parties. While in prison he wrote poetry
which was published in a collection titled "Poems from Prison". He was
released 22 months later after international attention was drawn to his
imprisonment. His experiences in prison are recounted in his book "The
Man Died: Prison Notes".
Learn more!
|
| 12/27/08 |
The Lifeboat Foundation is launching a monthly column
addressing the
ethical issues that scientists and
consumers of nanotechnology will face. It will be written by
our
Summer
Johnson, who is Executive Managing Editor of
The American Journal of
Bioethics and
Chief Operating Officer,
Bioethics Education Network.
Summer says "The literature in this area is not growing at nearly 1/10th
of the pace of the nanoscience literature itself and it is my belief
that ethicists, scientists, and lay people should be aware of these
issues (sooner rather than later)."
Nanotech-Now.com has agreed to
run
this column.
They will give us front and center placement once a
month for 24 hours then a rotation down the homepage as their other
columns load their articles. Google News indexes their columns every 15
minutes.
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| 12/26/08 |
Gaurav Khanna, who
built a
supercomputer from many Sony Playstation 3s, joins our
Supercomputing Board.
|
| 12/26/08 |
Steve Curran, who discovered that
hydrogen is missing from our early
universe,
joins our Cosmology Board.
|
| 12/25/08 |
Social Entrepreneur
Aaron Balogun joins our Business
Board. He is Account Manager at Capitol Advantage and Director of
Operations at Flanagan Consulting, LLC.
|
| 12/25/08 |
Thomas Wennekers joins our
Neuroscience Board.
Thomas currently works on large-scale models of the cortex aiming at the
self-organization of maps and higher level functional processes in the
layered mammalian cortex.
|
| 12/25/08 |
Petr Král,
who is working to use
tunnelling electrons to drive nanomotors,
joins our Nanotechnology Board.
|
| 12/24/08 |
Jim Kasting, coauthor of
The Earth System, joins our Sustainability Board.
The first book of its kind that addresses the issues of global change
from a perspective of Earth as a system, The Earth System offers
a
solid
emphasis on lessons from Earth history that may guide decision making in
the future.
|
| 12/24/08 |
Steve Mann,
inventor of
WearComp (wearable computer) and WearCam (eyetap camera and
reality mediator), joins our Transparency vs. Privacy
Board. Steve coined the term
sousveillance.
|
| 12/21/08 |
Asim Roy, whose
controversial paper on how the brain works and learns was just
published in
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:
Systems and
Humans, joins our Neuroscience Board and Robotics/AI
Board.
|
| 12/21/08 |
Manuel F. Casanova joins
our Neuroscience Board.
Manuel edited
Neocortical Modularity And The Cell Minicolumn and
Recent Developments in Autism Research,
and coedited
Asperger's Disorder.
|
| 12/20/08 |
György Buzsáki, author of
Rhythms of the Brain, joins our Neuroscience
Board.
|
| 12/20/08 |
Tony Williams,
President of ChemZoo, joins our Chemistry Board.
ChemZoo is the host of
ChemSpider. ChemSpider is an Open Access website
established with the intention of creating a structure centric community
for chemists. The website delivers access to over 18.5 million unique
chemical structures. It is visited by over 6,000 chemists per day and
with over 250,000 transactions performed per week, ChemSpider is fast
becoming a primary resource for chemists around the world. ChemSpider is
a valuable resource to assist chemists in sourcing chemicals from
vendors, accessing Open Access literature and accessing information
across over 150 data sources.
|
| 12/19/08 |
Aria Tzika,
who developed a hand-exercising robotic device that appears to help
stroke victims recover motor skills, even more than six months after a
stroke, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 12/19/08 |
Sini Merikallio,
Planetary Scientist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, joins our
Space Settlement Board.
|
| 12/18/08 |
Elke Weber joins our
Neuroscience Board.
She is on the Editorial Boards of
American Journal of Psychology,
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and
Cognition,
Psychological Inquiry, and
Psychological Review.
|
| 12/18/08 |
Sandra Witelson joins our
Neuroscience Board. Sandra's study of Albert Einstein's brain made
headlines by revealing some remarkable features overlooked by other
neuroscientists: the parietal lobe, the region responsible for visual
thinking and spatial reasoning, was 15 percent larger than average, and
it was structured as one distinct compartment, instead of the usual two
compartments separated by the Sylvian fissure.
|
| 12/18/08 |
Karlene Roberts joins our Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board.
Karlene focuses on the design and management of organizations and
systems of
organizations in which errors can have catastrophic consequences. The
results of her research have been applied to U.S. Navy aircraft carrier
operations, the U.S. Coast Guard, The Society for Worldwide Interbank
Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), The Federal Aviation's Air Traffic
Control System, British Petroleum, NASA, and the medical
industry.
|
| 12/17/08 |
Read
issue #77 of Lifeboat News!
|
| 12/16/08 |
Read
Nanotubes Track Cellular Toxins:
Tiny sensors can monitor cancer-causing agents and chemotherapy drugs in
cells.
|
| 12/09/08 |
David J. Xanatos joins us and says
"Individual resources are limited; collective resources are not. This is
both the power and the threat of what our ever advancing future
possibilities bring nearer to us every day. Likewise, my individual
financial resources may not seem like much, but as more of us begin to
recognize the value of what's being done here, and cast our lot in with
this growing effort, we can multiply our individual intent beyond
imagination, and I hope others reading this can recognize this fact, and
join us. You will have the satisfaction of looking back and knowing you
helped humankind survive our quantum leap in evolution."
|
| 12/06/08 |
Frans von der Dunk,
Professor of Space Law at the University of
Nebraska, College of Law, joins our Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board.
He joins
Colin McInnes and
Gianmarco Radice in participating at
the
1st IAA Planetary Defense Conference:
Protecting Earth from Asteroids which will be held April 27-30, 2009
in Granada, Spain.
|
| 12/04/08 |
Read
UC Merced Virtual Archaeologist Saves Past for
Future.
|
| 12/01/08 |
Suresh
Ramasubramanian, Head of Antispam Operations at Outblaze Limited,
joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Suresh is also Coordinator at CAUCE Asia Pacific (APCAUCE) and Director
at Asia Pacific Internet Association (APIA).
|
| 11/30/08 |
Jonas Fransson,
whose
quantum cloaking makes molecules invisible,
joins our Physics Board.
|
| 11/30/08 |
Donald Wunsch joins our
Engineering Board.
He coauthored
Using Neural Networks to Estimate Wind Turbine Power
Generation and
Adaptive Neural Network Based Power System Stabilizer Design.
His research interests are adaptive critic designs, neural networks,
fuzzy systems, surety, nonlinear adaptive control, intelligent agents,
and applications.
|
| 11/30/08 |
Sean Hill, Blue Brain Project Manager
for Computational Neuroscience, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Sean has developed numerous large-scale models of neural systems and is
the designer/developer of the general-purpose neural simulator
Synthesis.
|
| 11/30/08 |
Sonia Arrison,
an author and policy analyst who has studied the impact of new
technologies
on society for the better part of a decade, joins our
Futurists Board.
A frequent media contributor and guest, her work has appeared in many
publications including CBS MarketWatch, CNN, Los Angeles Times, New York
Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.
|
| 11/28/08 |
George Perry,
Editor-in-Chief of
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, joins our Neuroscience Board.
George is distinguished as one of the top 20
Alzheimer's
disease researchers with over 600 publications, one of the top 100
most-cited scientists in
Neuroscience & Behavior, and one of the top
25 scientists in
Free Radical
research.
|
| 11/28/08 |
Eric Mazur, inventor of
black silicon, joins our Physics Board.
Thanks to an extremely rough surface, black silicon can absorb more
light and can also trap a wider range of frequencies, including
infra-red rays, that normally pass straight through standard silicon.
|
| 11/27/08 |
Nick Sagan, author of
Idlewild,
Edenborn, and
Everfree, and
coauthor of
You Call This the Future?: The Greatest Inventions Sci-Fi Imagined
and
Science Promised joins our Futurists Board.
Nick is the son of Carl Sagan and Linda Salzman.
At age six, his greeting,
"Hello from the children of planet
Earth" was recorded and placed aboard the NASA Voyager Interstellar
Record. Launched with a selection of terrestrial greetings, sights,
sounds, and music, the Voyager I and Voyager II spacecraft have since
left the solar system; they are now the most distant human-made objects
in the universe.
|
| 11/25/08 |
The
1st IAA Planetary Defense Conference:
Protecting Earth from Asteroids will be held April 27-30, 2009
in Granada, Spain.
|
| 11/23/08 |
Freek Wiedijk, who is developing
methods to
harness the power of computers to verify mathematical proofs,
joins our Information Sciences Board.
|
| 11/23/08 |
Luciano Floridi joins our Ethics
Board.
Luciano is one of the most influential thinkers in the fields of
philosophy of technology and ethics.
He is best known for his pioneering work on two new areas of
philosophical research, which he has contributed to establish: the
philosophy of information and
information ethics.
|
| 11/23/08 |
Philippe Brunet joins our
Physics Board.
His research focuses on instabilities in fluid-flows, free-surface flows
and wetting phenomena, transition towards chaos, granular media,
soft-condensed matter, control of instabilities, complex fluids and
suspensions flows, fuel cells, and transport in porous media.
|
| 11/23/08 |
Alastair Compston, who has developed a treatment which
has proven
effective against combating the debilitating
neurological disease multiple sclerosis (MS),
joins our Neuroscience Board.
|
| 11/22/08 |
Joseph N. Pelton joins our
Futurists Board. His forecasts were featured in
Top 10 Forecasts for 2009 and Beyond published by The
Futurist.
|
| 11/22/08 |
Jonathan R. Wolpaw, Chief,
Laboratory of Nervous System Disorders, Wadsworth Center, New York
State Department of Health and State University of New York, joins
our Neuroscience Board. His
Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technology was just featured on 60
Minutes.
|
| 11/22/08 |
Jonathon Porritt joins our Ethics Board and Sustainability Board.
He
is Programme Director
of Forum for
the Future and
Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission.
|
| 11/21/08 |
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.
|
| 11/21/08 |
Eduardo Reck Miranda,
whose
"cultured" robots make sweet music together,
joins our Media & Arts Board.
|
| 11/21/08 |
Jackie Ying,
Executive Director of Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and
Nanotechnology (IBN), joins our Nanotechnology Board.
|
| 11/20/08 |
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.
|
| 11/20/08 |
James Kent, author of
Overclocking the Human CPU: A primer for the future of human
intelligence,
joins our Futurists Board.
|
| 11/20/08 |
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.
|
| 11/18/08 |
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.
|
| 11/17/08 |
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.
|
| 11/16/08 |
Didier Casse,
who
developed a nano-optical lens
that focuses infrared light at telecommunication frequencies, joins our
Scientific Advisory Board.
|
| 11/16/08 |
Kristi Scott joins our Futurists
Board. She is a freelance writer and copyeditor for
H+
magazine.
|
| 11/15/08 |
Kerstin Dautenhahn joins
our Robotics/AI Board. She coedited
Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals:
Behavioral,
Social, and Communicative Dimensions.
|
| 11/15/08 |
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, coauthor of
Sharing Moral Responsibility with Robots: A Pragmatic
Approach,
joins our Ethics Board.
|
| 11/14/08 |
Watch
Powering the Planet - Space Based Solar Power.
|
| 11/14/08 |
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!"
|
| 11/12/08 |
Read
Global Catastrophic Risks Essays for
GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISKS: Building a Resilient Civilization.
November
14, 2008, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California.
|
| 11/08/08 |
Read issue #76 of Lifeboat
News!
|
| 11/03/08 |
Colin McInnes joins our Engineering Board.
He is author of
Solar Sailing: Technology, Dynamics, and Mission Applications
and
a leading figure in the field of solar sails.
|
| 11/02/08 |
Christopher Dewdney, author
of
Last Flesh: Life in the Transhuman Era, joins our Futurists
Board.
|
| 11/02/08 |
Mark S. George, who pioneered
the
non-invasive treatment transcranial magnetic
stimulation (TMS) for depression, joins our Neuroscience Board.
This treatment was recently approved by the FDA.
|
| 11/02/08 |
Tapan Parikh, winner
of MIT's
TR35 Humanitarian of the Year,
joins our Sustainability Board.
|
| 11/01/08 |
David Ewing Duncan joins
our Biotech/Medical Board.
He is Chief Correspondent of NPR Talk's
Biotech Nation, and author of
Masterminds: Genius, DNA, and the Quest to Rewrite
Life.
|
| 10/31/08 |
Dan Stoicescu, second person in the
world to buy the full sequence of his own genetic code,
donates
$10,000 to the Lifeboat Foundation.
|
| 10/31/08 |
Enjoy
Gentleman Takes a Chance by
Sarah Hoyt. This novel includes a nice cover blurb from
Jerry Pournelle.
|
| 10/30/08 |
Read
Complexity and Security (NATO Science for Peace and
Series).
|
| 10/29/08 |
Vincent Walsh, coauthor of
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Neurochronometrics of
Mind,
joins our Neuroscience Board.
|
| 10/28/08 |
John R. Elliott,
who has
developed a computer program
to understand alien languages,
joins our Human Trajectories Board.
|
| 10/27/08 |
Dan Stoicescu, second person in the
world to buy the full sequence of his own genetic code, joins our
Biotech/Medical Board.
Dan earned his Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry and
founded
Sindan, an oncology products company based in Romania that he
ran for 15 years.
|
| 10/26/08 |
The
Convergence08 Unconference on Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno (NBIC)
technologies and their interactions will be held November 15-16, 2008,
at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
Our
Gregory Benford,
Ben Goertzel,
Aubrey de Grey,
Terry Grossman,
Andrew Hessel, and
Peter Norvig will be speaking.
Lifeboat Foundation members can save
$50 on this event!
And remember that our
Global Catastrophic Risks: Building a Resilient Civilization
which is packed with good speakers will be
held the day before at the same location!
|
| 10/23/08 |
Deborah Anderson joins our
Biotech/Medical Board. Deborah
won the Ig Nobel
for proving that Coke really works as a contraceptive.
|
| 10/23/08 |
Sohee Park,
who discovered that
musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average
people, joins our Neuroscience Board.
|
| 10/22/08 |
Sebastien Guenneau, who has
developed invisiblity cloaks that
could hide vulnerable coastlines and offshore platforms from
destructive
tsunamis, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
|
| 10/22/08 |
Barker Bausell, author of
Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative
Medicine, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 10/21/08 |
Riyi Shi,
who has developed
nanoparticles that deliver treatment for brain and
spinal cord injuries, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 10/20/08 |
RU Sirius joins our Futurists Board.
RU is a US writer, editor, talk show host, musician, and cyberculture
icon,
best known as cofounder and original Editor-In-Chief of Mondo 2000
Magazine from 1989-1993. He is currently editor for the new
transhumanist magazine,
H+.
|
| 10/19/08 |
Gabriella De Lucia,
coauthor of
The Galaxy and its Stellar Halo: Insights on Their Formation from a
Hybrid Cosmological Approach, joins our Cosmology
Board.
|
| 10/19/08 |
Scott Bunce, who has
invented
a near-infrared lie detector, joins our Transparency vs. Privacy
Board.
|
| 10/18/08 |
Gary Small joins our
Neuroscience Board.
Gary invented the first brain scan that allows doctors to see the
physical evidence of brain aging and Alzheimer's disease in living
people. Among his numerous breakthrough research studies, he now leads a
team of neuroscientists who are demonstrating that exposure to computer
technology causes rapid and
profound changes in brain neural circuitry.
|
| 10/16/08 |
Liming Dai, who demonstrated that
diamond nanoparticles ranging in size from 2 to 10 nm are nontoxic,
joins our Nanotechnology Board.
|
| 10/16/08 |
Jeff Thorne, author of
Models and Their Evolution, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 10/15/08 |
Richard Dooling, author of
Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ, joins our
Robotics/AI Board.
|
| 10/13/08 |
Ali Dhinojwala, whose
nanotube adhesive sticks better than a gecko's foot, joins
our Scientific Advisory Board.
|
| 10/12/08 |
Our lineup has expanded for
Global Catastrophic Risks: Building a Resilient Civilization
which will be
held November
14, 2008 at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California.
Our David Brin,
Jamais Cascio,
Nick Cassimatis,
Bruce Damer,
Alan H. Goldstein,
J. Storrs "Josh" Hall,
Martin Hellman,
Tad Hogg,
Feng Hsu,
James J. Hughes,
Mike Treder, and
Eliezer Yudkowsky will be
participating. David Brin's upcoming novel "Existence" fictionalizes
many
of these threats.
Help us
support this event! (We wish to raise $1,490 more.)
|
| 10/11/08 |
Metin Sitti, who has developed a
robot that walks on water using the surface tension of water, joins
our Robotics/AI Board.
|
| 10/11/08 |
Pablo H.
Hennings-Yeomans, who has designed a new approach for handling
face
recognition of low-resolution video, joins our Transparency vs.
Privacy
Board.
|
| 10/11/08 |
Dongsheng Cai, who discovered
a
brain pathway responsible for obesity,
joins our
Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 10/11/08 |
Steve Potter, who is
developing a managed power grid
that involves
literally tapping brain cells grown on networks of
electrodes,
joins our Neuroscience Board and Robotics/AI Board.
|
| 10/10/08 |
Chang Liu, author of
Foundations of MEMS, joins our Engineering Board.
|
| 10/09/08 |
Dean Ho, who has developed a
nanodiamond drug device which could transform cancer treatment,
joins our Biotech/Medical Board and Nanotechnology Board.
|
| 10/09/08 |
Sandeep Shukla, who coedited
Nano, Quantum, and Molecular Computing: Implications to High Level
Design and Validation, joins our Engineering Board.
|
| 10/09/08 |
Roy Stedman,
Technology Strategist for Dell, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Roy has invented more than 25 US and international
patents.
|
| 10/06/08 |
Read issue #75 of Lifeboat
News!
|
| 10/04/08 |
Aydogan Ozcan,
whose
lensless imaging system counts cells in seconds, joins our
Engineering Board.
|
| 10/04/08 |
Licia Iacoviello,
who discovered that
half a bar of dark chocolate per
week reduces your
risk of heart
attack, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 10/04/08 |
Priya Natarajan,
who discovered there are
limits to how large a black hole can grow, joins our Cosmology
Board.
|
| 10/03/08 |
Global Catastrophic Risks: Building a Resilient Civilization will be
held November
14, 2008 at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California.
This seminar will precede the futurist mega-gathering Convergence 08,
November 15-16 at the same venue.
Our Jamais Cascio, James J. Hughes,
Mike Treder, and
Eliezer Yudkowsky will be
participating.
Help us
support this event! (We have already raised $1,000 out of our goal
of
|
| 10/03/08 |
Marco Wiering, author of
Convergence and Divergence in Standard and Averaging Reinforcement
Learning and
Hierarchical Mixtures of Naive Bayesian Classifiers, joins
our Robotics/AI Board.
|
| 10/02/08 |
Kenneth Dawson, who has
formed a new international research alliance
to establish
protocols for reproducible toxicological testing of nanomaterials in
both cultured cells and animals, joins our Nanotechnology
Board.
|
| 10/01/08 |
Mary-Anne Williams joins our
Robotics/AI Board. She is
Director,
Innovation and Technology Research Laboratory, University of
Technology, Sydney.
|
| 10/01/08 |
Bert Kappen, author of
An Introduction to Stochastic Control Theory, Path Integrals, and
Reinforcement Learning, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
|
| 09/30/08 |
Kai-Uwe Kühnberger,
coauthor of
Learning Symbolic Inferences with Neural Networks, joins our
Robotics/AI Board.
|
| 09/29/08 |
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,
Randal Koene,
John Laird,
Christian Lebiere,
Moshe Looks, and
Stephen Reed are also
participating.
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| 09/29/08 |
There will be a
panel discussion of leading experts on the future of AI
and the
singularity at
the 20 year anniversary celebration of the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, which
will take place on October 24, 2008 in Palazzo dei Congressi
in the center of Lugano, Switzerland, during Ticino Informatica 2008.
Our
Marco Dorigo and
Jürgen Schmidhuber will be participating.
|
| 09/29/08 |
Chid S. Iyer, author of
Small Science, Big Risk: Lessons from the past for protecting
Nanotechnology and Partner of Sughrue, Mion, PLLC, joins our
Legal Board.
|
| 09/28/08 |
Matt Mahoney, author of
A Model for Recursively Self Improving Programs, joins our
Robotics/AI Board.
|
| 09/28/08 |
John Huchra, President of
the American Astronomical Society and codiscover of the
Great Attractor, a proposed massive concentration of galaxies lying
beyond the Hydra-Centaurus supercluster,
and codiscover of the 500 million light-years long
Great Wall, joins our Cosmology Board.
|
| 09/28/08 |
Trond Andresen, author of
Two Feasible Future Scenarios: A high-tech Utopia and a high-tech
Dystopia, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
|
| 09/27/08 |
Theoretical physicist-cosmologist
Laura Mersini-Houghton, author of
Birth of the Universe from the Multiverse, joins our
Cosmology Board. Laura is particularly interested in the possibility of
generating dark energy from transplanckian physics in string theory,
gravity and quantum field theory in curved space, and higher-dimension
braneworlds.
|
| 09/26/08 |
Alexander "Sasha"
Kashlinsky, who has discovered
"dark flow" which is
causing hundreds of clusters of galaxies to stream en masse towards
a region
at the edge of the visible universe, joins our Cosmology
Board. Sasha is
Senior Staff Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
|
| 09/22/08 |
Ishfaq Ahmad, who was elected a
Fellow of IEEE for
"contributions to scheduling techniques in parallel and distributed
computing systems", joins our Supercomputing Board. Ishfaq is on the
Editorial Board of
Cluster Computing.
|
| 09/19/08 |
Pankaj Sah,
Head of Synaptic Plasticity, Queensland Brain Institute, Australia,
joins our Neuroscience Board.
|
| 09/19/08 |
Ken Natesan,
Section Manager, Nuclear Engineering Division, Argonne National
Laboratory, joins our Engineering Board.
|
| 09/19/08 |
Alexandra Carmichael
joins our blog team with her
first post.
|
| 09/18/08 |
Chenglong Li, who is
developing a
synthetic
spice-based compound to fight cancer, joins our
Biotech/Medical
Board. Chenglong says "The spice extends life, the spice expands
consciousness, the spice is vital to space travel." (Well, maybe we
made that quote up.)
|
| 09/18/08 |
David Sebba,
who is
combining gold and DNA to develop a nano-sensor, joins our
Nanotechnology Board.
|
| 09/18/08 |
The
Convergence08 Unconference on Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno (NBIC)
technologies and their interactions will be held November 15-16, 2008,
at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
Our
Gregory Benford,
Ben Goertzel,
Aubrey de Grey,
Terry Grossman,
Andrew Hessel, and
Peter Norvig will be speaking.
|
| 09/17/08 |
Yaling Liu, whose
primary research interest is bio-nano interfacial phenomena,
which couple solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, and biophysics, joins our
Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 09/17/08 |
Our
Kattesh Katti has been
selected to be one of
"25 Most Influential in Molecular
Imaging" in the world.
|
| 09/16/08 |
Read
How can we reduce the risk of human extinction?
|
| 09/15/08 |
Zane Andrews,
who has
found a key to overeating as we age, joins our Biotech/Medical
Board.
|
| 09/15/08 |
Paul Nghiem joins our
Biotech/Medical Board. He is primarly focused on basic, clinical, and
translational
research aspects of Merkel cell carcinoma.
|
| 09/14/08 |
Allen Hutchison,
Engineering Manager at Google,
who
created
Google Translate for iPhone,
joins our Information Sciences Board.
|
| 09/14/08 |
Antonello Bonci,
Professor of Neurology, Howard J. Weinberger Chair in Addiction
Research, Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center and Department of
Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, joins our
Neuroscience Board.
|
| 09/14/08 |
Stefan Hau-Riege, who
developed the
brightest, sharpest, fastest x-ray holograms yet, joins our Physics
Board.
|
| 09/14/08 |
Kate Maciver, coauthor of
Phantom limb pain, cortical reorganization, and the therapeutic
effect
of mental imagery, joins our Biotech/Medical
Board.
|
| 09/13/08 |
Stuart S. Licht,
whose new fuel battery may allow
hybrids to ditch gasoline for good,
joins our Sustainability Board.
|
| 09/13/08 |
Alexis Armstrong says
"If a ten-year-old can donate, then what is the excuse of you adults?"
|
| 09/13/08 |
Bill Clyne, Head of the Composites &
Coatings Group, Department of
Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, joins our
Engineering Board.
|
| 09/12/08 |
Pat Cadigan,
"The Queen of Cyberpunk",
joins our Futurists
Board.
|
| 09/10/08 |
Read issue #74 of Lifeboat
News!
|
| 09/10/08 |
Alexei Turchin
joins our blog team with his
first post.
|
| 09/09/08 |
Moon J. Kim, Director of the
University of
Texas at Dallas' (UTD's) new Nano-Characterization Facility, and
Supervisor of UTD's Nano & Beyond Research Laboratory, joins our
Engineering Board.
|
| 09/09/08 |
David Orrell, author of
The Other Side of the Coin: The Emerging Vision of Economics and Our
Place in The World, joins our Economics Board.
|
| 09/08/08 |
Dave Reisner,
editor of
Bionanotechnology: Global Prospects, joins our Scientific
Advisory Board.
|
| 09/08/08 |
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.
|
| 09/07/08 |
Maggie Turnbull, lead
scientist for NASA's New Worlds Observer, joins our Scientific Advisory
Board.
|
| 09/07/08 |
Kang Zhang,
who discovered the
first gene associated with dry macular degeneration, joins our
Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 09/07/08 |
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.
|
| 09/07/08 |
Danny Belkin joins our
Folding@Home team, working to help scientists
understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases.
|
| 09/06/08 |
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.
|
| 09/04/08 |
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.
|
| 09/03/08 |
Danny Belkin
joins our blog team with his
first post.
|
| 08/30/08 |
Read
Loneliness
and learn why we should focus less on
self-interests/short-term
outcomes and focus more on social
interests/sustainability.
|
| 08/29/08 |
Listen to our
David Pearce on
The Future And You.
|
| 08/28/08 |
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.
|
| 08/27/08 |
Deb Newberry, coauthor of
The Next Big Thing Is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change
the
Future of Your Business, joins our Nanotechnology
Board.
|
| 08/27/08 |
Aaron Wall,
who literally wrote the book on search engine optimization:
SEO Book, joins our
Futurists Board.
|
| 08/27/08 |
Derek Lomas, who is
designing a
$12 computer, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
|
| 08/26/08 |
Jonathan Schooler, who is
researching whether we have free will,
joins our Neuroscience Board.
|
| 08/26/08 |
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.
|
| 08/26/08 |
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.
|
| 08/24/08 |
Allister Furey, who is developing
biologically inspired
approaches to the
control of tethered airfoils (kites) for production of
renewable energy from the wind, joins our Sustainability
Board.
|
| 08/24/08 |
Jim Flynn joins our Neuroscience
Board. The
Flynn Effect is named after him and is the rise of average
Intelligence Quotient (IQ) test
scores over the generations, an effect seen in most parts of the world,
although at greatly varying rates. Jim did much
to document it and promote awareness of its implications. This increase
has been continuous and roughly linear from the earliest days of testing
to the present.
|
| 08/24/08 |
Qiming Zhang,
who is
developing a
compressor-free refrigerator, joins our Engineering
Board.
|
| 08/24/08 |
Paul Fitzgerald, coauthor of
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Treatment of
Depression, joins our Neuroscience Board.
|
| 08/24/08 |
Randall Murch,
who created the FBI's WMD forensic investigative program and the FBI's
Hazardous Materials Response Unit, joins our Counterterrorism
Board.
|
| 08/23/08 |
Wesley L. Harris,
Charles Stark Draper Professor and Head of the Department of Aeronautics
and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
joins our Space Settlement Board.
|
| 08/23/08 |
Daniel Polani,
Associate Editor of
Advances in Complex Systems, joins our Complex Systems Board.
|
| 08/23/08 |
Sami Ayyorgun who is
creating the
networks of the future extending our senses into the physical
world,
joins our Information Sciences Board.
|
| 08/23/08 |
David A. McClellan, author
of
The Codon-Degeneracy Model of Molecular Evolution, joins our
Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 08/23/08 |
Andras Lacko, who will be
presenting "Novel Biocompatible Nanoparticles for Targeted Cancer
Therapy" at
NanoTX USA, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 08/23/08 |
Artist and animator
Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
joins our Media & Arts Board. Gina established
Nanotechnology Industries in 1998. Nanotechnology Industries
distributes information and
provides
resources about nanotechnology
and related emerging technologies that will transform our world in
positive ways.
Gina has completed a 3-minute long
animation
that nicely illustrates the workings of
Rob Freitas' proposed
programmable dermal display
(essentially, a video-touchscreen
nano-tattoo that reports real-time medical information to the user, as
reported back by numerous nanorobots stationed in various locations
inside the body).
|
| 08/23/08 |
Walt Trybula,
Director of the Nanomaterials Application Center at
Texas State University, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
|
| 08/22/08 |
Xiang Zhang, who is
developing an
invisibility cloak, joins our Engineering Board.
Watch Xiang on CNN!
|
| 08/22/08 |
Jason Vaughn Clark,
who created a
monolithic comb drive nanomachine, joins our Engineering
Board and Nanotechnology Board. This nanoscale motorized positioning
device can be used in biological and engineering fields.
|
| 08/21/08 |
Roderick Jones
joins our blog team with his
first post.
|
| 08/19/08 |
Chris Haley is our new Vice President! We thank
Jerry Searcy for 6
years of hard work as our old Vice President.
|
| 08/18/08 |
Daniel Dewitt Brown, author of
Building a Better Human,
joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 08/17/08 |
Read
23 Things Science Can Tell Us about Life, the Universe, and
Everything by
Daniel D. Brown.
|
| 08/14/08 |
Read
It Takes a Giant Cosmos to Create Life and Mind
by
James Gardner.
|
| 08/13/08 |
Listen to our Ben Goertzel on
The Future And You.
|
| 08/13/08 |
Watch
Large Hadron Rap: Rappin' about CERN's Large Hadron Collider!
|
| 08/13/08 |
Read
The (Needed) New Economics of Abundance by
Steve Burgess.
|
| 08/12/08 |
Professor of law and policy analyst
Tom W. Bell joins our Legal Board.
Tom authored
Private Prediction Markets and the Law and
Free Speech, Strict Scrutiny, and Self-Help: How Technology Upgrades
Constitutional Jurisprudence.
|
| 08/11/08 |
Nick Hay, author of
The Stamp Collecting Device, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
This paper explains the notion of the inhuman yet super-intelligent
machine which
can destroy humanity as an "accidental" byproduct of its apparently
innocuous goals.
|
| 08/09/08 |
Read issue #73 of Lifeboat News!
|
| 08/09/08 |
Greg Sterling joins our Futurists Board. He is the founding
principal of Sterling Market
Intelligence, a consulting and research firm focused on the Internet's
influence on offline consumer purchase behavior. He also is a Senior
Analyst for Local Mobile Search, an advisory service from Opus Research
tracking the evolution of the mobile Internet.
|
| 08/08/08 |
Read
Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge
with contributions by our
Amara D. Angelica,
Catherine Asaro,
Gregory Benford,
Anne Corwin,
and
Wil McCarthy.
|
| 08/07/08 |
James P. Evans,
Editor-in-Chief of
Genetics in Medicine, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Read
Biologist Teaches the Nation's Judges About Genetics.
|
| 08/06/08 |
Sumeet Dua, coauthor of
Classification of Heart Rate Data Using Artificial Neural Network and
Fuzzy Equivalence Relation, joins our Information Sciences
Board. Sumeet specializes in the design of algorithms for analysis of
microarray gene expression and protein sequence/structure data to
help fuel
physiological information discovery.
|
| 08/06/08 |
Shane Legg, author of
Friendly AI is Bunk and coauthor of
Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence,
joins our Robotics/AI Board.
|
| 08/06/08 |
Tim Freeman, author of
Using Compassion and Respect to Motivate an Artificial
Intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
|
| 08/05/08 |
Brian Wang upgrades our
LifeShield Bunkers program.
|
| 08/04/08 |
Teena James, coauthor of
Active MOS Capacitive Sensor Array for Lab-On-a-Chip
Applications, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
|
| 08/04/08 |
Michael Shermer joins our Scientific Advisory Board. He is the
Founding Publisher of
Skeptic
magazine, the Executive Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly
columnist for
Scientific American, the host of the
Skeptics
Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, and Adjunct
Professor
of Economics at Claremont Graduate University.
Read his
Toward a Type 1 Civilization.
|
| 08/04/08 |
Manu Sebastian Mannoor,
coauthor of
BioMEMS Advancing the Frontiers of Medicine, joins our
Nanotechnology Board.
|
| 08/03/08 |
Peter Kalivas joins our
Neuroscience Board. He is a member of the NARSAD Scientific Council and
Professor and Chair of Neurosciences, The Neuroscience Institute,
Medical University of South Carolina.
NARSAD is the world's
leading charity dedicated to mental health research.
|
| 08/01/08 |
Andrew Braswell joins our
Economics Board and Finance Board. He is
Director of Research,
iNano Capital Markets. He oversees all of
the firm's published investment research, including pure-play coverage,
theme-based reports, and its weekly iNano Focus.
|
| 07/30/08 |
Thanks to input from
Joscha Bach,
Matt Bamberger,
Daniel Berleant, and
Joshua Fox, our
AIShield Program has been improved.
|
| 07/30/08 |
Balaji "Baloo" Panchapakesan, who developed a
unique nanobomb that can literally blow up cancer tumors, joins our
Biotech/Medical Board and Nanotechnology Board.
Baloo will also 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.
|
| 07/29/08 |
Alexandra Carmichael joins
our Biotech/Medical Board. She is
cofounder of
CureTogether, an open source health research company that
brings patients and researchers together to collaborate with each other
on the path to finding cures for human diseases.
|
| 07/29/08 |
Didier Sornette, who has
discovered that
we are in the peak of an oil bubble, joins our Complex
Systems
Board and Economics Board.
|
| 07/28/08 |
Mark J. Clement, who has
been involved with Phylogenetic Analysis (determining evolutionary
histories through the
examination of DNA) which requires extensive network and computational
resources, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Mark is 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.
|
| 07/27/08 |
Nick Rhodes, author of
Inflammatory Signals in the Development of Tissue-Engineered Soft
Tissue, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 07/27/08 |
Gil Alterovitz, who has created a
computer program that translates protein and gene expression into music,
joins our Biotech/Medical Board and Engineering Board. In his acoustic
translation,
harmony represents
good health, and discord indicates disease, which enables his
program to
be used for diagnostic purposes.
|
| 07/26/08 |
Sarah Tabrizi, who discovered
new targets for treating Huntington's
disease, joins our Neuroscience Board.
|
| 07/26/08 |
Jeannie Novak,
founder of
Indiespace one of the first companies to promote and
distribute interactive entertainment online, where she consults with
creative professionals in the music, film, and television industries to
help them migrate to the game industry, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Jeannie was chosen as one of the 100 most influential people in
high-technology by MicroTimes magazine and she has been profiled
by
CNN, Billboard Magazine, Sundance Channel, Daily Variety, and the Los
Angeles Times.
|
| 07/26/08 |
Eric Hunting joins our Space
Settlement Board. He is
principal author of
the
The Millennial Project 2.0
(TMP2)
Wiki project an evolving contemporary revision of the marine
and
space development program
The Millennial Project originally devised by
Marshall T. Savage.
|
| 07/26/08 |
Astrophysicist, author, and recording artist
Fiorella Terenzi,
described by Time Magazine as "a cross between Carl Sagan and Madonna",
joins our Media & Arts Board and Space Settlement Board.
Fiorella has performed and recorded with artists from Herbie Hancock to
Ornette Coleman and earned her doctorate in physics from the University
of Milan.
|
| 07/25/08 |
Preorder Arthur C. Clarke's final novel
The Last Theorem, coauthored with our
Frederik Pohl.
Read the free special report
Sir Arthur C. Clarke in 3001: Don't Panic! by our
José Luis
Cordeiro.
|
| 07/24/08 |
Ali Khademhosseini,
who is
developing self-assembling tissues,
joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 07/24/08 |
Hailin Cong, who has developed a
contact lens with a built-in pressure sensor that could help monitor
conditions such as glaucoma,
joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 07/23/08 |
Lev Sadovnik, who has
built a microwave ray gun able to beam sounds directly into people's
heads,
joins our Engineering Board.
|
| 07/23/08 |
Patric Hagmann, who
identified the brain "core" that could reveal secrets of thought,
joins our Neuroscience Board.
|
| 07/22/08 |
Chezy Barenholz, whose cancer treatment
DOXIL is marketed by Johnson & Johnson,
joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Chezy also recently developed
nanoparticles that trigger the built-in cell-death
signal as a solution to the growing drug resistance of
cancer cells.
|
| 07/22/08 |
Emanuele Montomoli,
who developed a
bird flu vaccine made from monkey cells instead of chicken eggs,
joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 07/21/08 |
Programmer and AI psychologist
Justin Corwin
joins our Robotics/AI Board.
|
| 07/21/08 |
David Cramb, who invented
"molecular
nanovalves",
joins our Nanotechnology Board.
|
| 07/20/08 |
Watch Blue Beauty!
(Improved from our old
PowerPoint version.)
|
| 07/20/08 |
World renowned influenza virologist
John Oxford joins our
Biotech/Medical Board.
John is especially proud of
Retroscreen Virology, which he established
in 1989 with the help of EU funding.
Retroscreen Virology
has grown into
Europe's leading contract virology research company.
It is the only company in the UK able to conduct human influenza
challenge studies in a specialized quarantine unit with A/Panama/2007/99
and A/New Caledonia/20/99 viruses and has characterized influenza A
(H1N1 and H3N2) and B viruses.
|
| 07/20/08 |
Security expert
Harvey Newstrom joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
|
| 07/19/08 |
Romi Nijhawan, who
discovered that
the brain anticpates the future to "see" the present,
joins our Neuroscience Board.
|
| 07/19/08 |
Timothy Hubbard, who authored
What is Mental Representation? And how does it Relate to
Consciousness?, joins our Neuroscience Board.
|
| 07/18/08 |
Artificial-life scientist
Dave Deamer,
who coauthored
Origins of Life: The Central Concepts, joins our
Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 07/18/08 |
Cameron Wright, whose
real-time machine vision system is based on the vision system of a
housefly, joins our Engineering Board.
|
| 07/17/08 |
Tod Lauer, whose Dark
Energy Space Telescope (Destiny) will be a space-based dark energy
observatory, joins our Cosmology Board.
Asteroid (3135) Lauer was named after him and he is the winner of
the NASA
Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement.
|
| 07/17/08 |
Charles Miller, CEO of
Constellation Services International (CSI), joins our Space
Settlement
Board.
|
| 07/16/08 |
Jamie Barger,
Head, Project Management,
Lifegen Technologies, joins our
Biotech/Medical Board. Jamie coauthored
The retardation of aging by caloric restriction: its significance in
the
transgenic era with Roy Walford.
|
| 07/16/08 |
Roel Vertegaal, who
developed technology that allows advertisers to
count the number of
people who look at their billboards and screens,
joins our Transparency vs. Privacy Board.
|
| 07/15/08 |
José Robles, who was lead
author on a
research paper that evaluated 11 properties that could
plausibly be connected with life and
showed that our sun is not
particularly
special, joins our Cosmology Board.
|
| 07/15/08 |
Paul Thompson, coeditor of
What Can Nanotechnology Learn From Biotechnology?: Social and Ethical
Lessons for Nanoscience from the Debate over Agrifood Biotechnology and
GMOs, joins our Ethics Board.
|
| 07/14/08 |
Read
Should we be phoning E.T.?
|
| 07/14/08 |
Read
The Doomsday Device is Ignored.
|
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