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- 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.
 
- Eduardo Reck Miranda, whose "cultured" robots make sweet music together, joins our Media & Arts Board.
 
- Jackie Ying, Executive Director of Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), joins our Nanotechnology Board.
 
- 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.
 
- James Kent, author of Overclocking the Human CPU: A primer for the future of human intelligence, joins our Futurists Board.
 
- 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.
 
- 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.
 
- 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.
 
- Didier Casse, who developed a nano-optical lens that focuses infrared light at telecommunication frequencies, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
 
- Kristi Scott joins our Futurists Board. She is a freelance writer and copyeditor for H+ magazine.
 
- Kerstin Dautenhahn joins our Robotics/AI Board. She coedited Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioral, Social, and Communicative Dimensions.
 
- Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, coauthor of Sharing Moral Responsibility with Robots: A Pragmatic Approach, joins our Ethics Board.
 
- Watch Powering the Planet - Space Based Solar Power.
 
- 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!"
 
- Read Global Catastrophic Risks Essays for GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISKS: Building a Resilient Civilization. November 14, 2008, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California.
 
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.
 
Aurel Ymeti, who has developed a sensor for a handheld device that detects various viruses and measures their concentration within minutes, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
 
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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.
 
GREAT NEWS! We have raised our grant limit from $10,000 to $25,000.
 
Read Sir Arthur C. Clarke in 3001: Don't Panic! which contains the Arthur C. Clarke interview by our José Luis Cordeiro.
 
Arthur C. Clarke's final novel, The Last Theorem, coauthored with our Frederik Pohl, was just released!
 
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.
 
Watch Productive Nanosystems: From molecules to superproducts on our Videos page.
 
Watch demonstration of the Z450 Full Color 3D Printer on our Videos page. (Real product that makes three dimensional objects.)
 
Listen to I am the very model of a Singularitarian by our Charlie Kam.
 
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Help us design Ark I — our fallback position in case programs such as our BioShield and NanoShield fail.
 
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