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 
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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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.
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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.
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GREAT NEWS! We have raised our grant limit from $10,000 to
$25,000. |
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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!
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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.
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Watch
Productive Nanosystems:
From
molecules to superproducts on
our Videos page.
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Watch demonstration of
the
Z450 Full Color 3D Printer on our Videos page.
(Real product that
makes three dimensional objects.)
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Listen to
I am the very model of a Singularitarian by
our Charlie Kam.
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Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable
Estonia and
Georgia.
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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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