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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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IBM, Microsoft, and Sun employees — learn how you can get your
membership fees and donations to Lifeboat Foundation
matched by your employer! (This
includes retired IBM employees as well!)
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We have launched a
forum/mailing
list to discuss your ideas for our
programs and other suggestions for the Lifeboat Foundation. It is for
Advisory Board members and Executive Class and greater members.
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Bindeshwar Pathak,
the great humanist and social reformer of contemporary India, joins our
Sustainability Board. After Gandhi, Dr. Pathak is the man, more than
any other in India, who has championed sanitation and upliftment of the
untouchables as the mission of his life. For the last three decades he
has been working relentlessly to keep the ecosystem clean and bring the
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Read our blog entry
How long did you want that space elevator cable?
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Sarah Tabrizi, who discovered
new targets for treating Huntington's
disease, joins our Neuroscience Board.
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Sylvia Engdahl becomes our
MySpace webmaster. She has dramatically upgraded and improved our
site there. |
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Blaise Aguera y Arcas, the genius behind Microsoft's
Photosynth, a
monumental piece of software capable of assembling static photos into a
synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces, joins our
Scientific Advisory Board. |
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Do you have free or inexpensive space available for an entertaining
Lifeboat Foundation
volunteer? If so, send a message to
volunteerwork@lifeboat.com with
the
subject "Lifeboat Foundation Space".
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Read
Jurisprudence of Artilects: Blueprint for a Synthetic
Citizen by
Frank W. Sudia, JD.
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