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Lifeboat News #85

#85

Lifeboat News

This issue published on 08/01/09. Copyright 2009 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

Helldesign

We have been impressed with the work that Helldesign has been doing on KurzweilAI 2.0, and also its Singularity University version, and have decided to base a Lifeboat Foundation site upgrade around them. (Helldesign is doing the design work for KurzweilAI 2.0 while Lifeboat Foundation is doing the programming work.)
 
Helldesign also designed The Singularity University site, The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence site, The Singularity Summit site, and The Methuselah Foundation site.
 
The Life Extension Foundation has gotten us started with a $1K donation. If you wish to help out, go to http://lifeboat.com/ex/website.redesign

The Singularity Summit 2009 - Updated Lineup

Our Itamar Arel, Ed Boyden, Ben Goertzel, Aubrey de Grey, Stuart Hameroff, Marcus Hutter, Randal Koene, Ray Kurzweil, Gary Marcus, Anders Sandberg, Jürgen Schmidhuber, and Eliezer Yudkowsky will be speaking at The Singularity Summit 2009 which will be held in New York on October 3-4 in Kaufmann Hall at the historic 92nd St Y.
 
Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/upcoming

Interviews

Listen to our Philippe Van Nedervelde and Sonia Arrison on FastForward Radio at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fastforwar...-Futures

The Space Renaissance Initiative

The Space Renaissance Initiative is working to organize a worldwide Space Renaissance Forum, to be held in 2009, to help human civilization to go over the current critical point.
 
Learn more at http://www.spacerenaissance.org/sri-call-text.htm

Sarah Black

Sarah Black, Managing Editor & Biz Dev at Kurzweil Technologies, donates to the Lifeboat Foundation.
 
Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/ex/donor.date.list#sarah_black
 
Note that Ray Kurzweil is a large donor to the Lifeboat Foundation as shown at http://lifeboat.com/ex/donor.dollar.lis...kurzweil

Videos

Watch "High-speed robot hand demonstrates dexterity and skillful manipulation" at http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#high_spee...bot_hand

Blog

Stuart Hameroff joins our blog team with the post "A lifeboat for consciousness" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=587

Congratulations!

We congratulate our Cyrus Wadia for winning the MIT Technology Review 2009 TR35 Top Young Innovator Award for his work on low cost solar cells made from abundant, inexpensive materials.
 
Learn more at http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Pr...TRID=800

Rodney C. Hill

Rodney C. Hill joins us and says "As a graduate student at UC Berkeley, I taught a future studies course for two quarters in 1968-69 and have been involved in future studies ever since. In a state of accelerating change, we must look to the future to navigate the present."
 
Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/ex/donor.date.list#...y_c_hill

Books

Explore 372 books authored by our Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) members at http://lifeboat.com/wheel.cgi?show

Growing Membership

Recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
 
Life Extension Foundation: $1,000, Robert Citron: $300, Rodney C. Hill: $120, Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85, Michael Anissimov: $85, Eric Bauswell: $85, Michael Dickey: $85, Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85, Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85, Kenneth P. Weiss: $85, Sarah Black: $30, Frank C. Adamek: $25, C M Anderson: $25, Rick Hubbard: $25, Alan R. Light: $25, Matthew L. McGuirl: $25, Anonymous: $20, Ronald Amos: $10, Stephen Fleming: $10, Christopher Dilkus: $10, Thomas Dolphin: $10, Sylvia Engdahl: $10, George Garrett: $10, Joseph P. Jackson III: $10, Linus Petersson: $10, John N. Philipps (Jack): $10, and SAT Vocabulary Builder: $10.
 
Our Join Us page at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us now allows you to pay for your membership anywhere from monthly to every ten years.