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Lifeboat News #90

#90

Lifeboat News

This issue published on 01/01/10. Copyright 2010 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

Embarrassment of Riches

Scientific Advisory Board members Aaron Balogun, Jeffrey Collins, William Cosgrove, Dylan Evans, Woody Evans, Julian Franco, George Perry, and David Reisner have all decided to become LinkedIn managers for our LinkedIn group. We have reached the LinkedIn limit of 10 managers thanks to the support of our many Scientific Advisory Board members. We thank them for this "embarrassment of riches"!
 
Our LinkedIn Group is at http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/35656/2B322944A8E3

Ray Solomonoff Tribute

Our Ray Solomonoff died after a brief illness. Ray kept publishing and engaging with the AI community right up until his death. It seems very likely that, if and when strong AI is created, the designer will owe a great debt to Ray's work. Let's honor his memory by becoming more familiar with his achievements and making sure that his ideas stay alive.
 
Learn more about Ray at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.ray.j.solomonoff

AGI-10

Our Itamar Arel, Eric Baum, Wlodek Duch, Ben Goertzel, J. Storrs "Josh" Hall, Marcus Hutter, Bert Kappen, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Christian Lebiere, Shane Legg, Carlo Lepori, Moshe Looks, András Lörincz, David Orban, Stephen Reed, Sebastian Rudolph, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Marco Wiering, Mary-Anne Williams, and David Wolpert will be participating in The Third Conference on Artificial General Intelligence at Lugano, Switzerland on March 5-8 (Fri-Mon) 2010.
 
AGI 2010 will be held "In Memoriam Ray Solomonoff."
 
Learn more at http://agi-conf.org/2010/

Growing Membership

Benjamin R. Hoffman and Leslie A. Yakubowski have joined as LF 500 members, bringing us up to 200 donors.
 
Frank C. Adamek and Alan R. Light have joined as Executive Class members.
 
Paul M. Battista, Thomas Dolphin, Dr. Tom Driscoll, Rodney C. Hill, Aaron Mayzes, Linus Petersson, and Rhonda Stevenson also have joined as Economy Class members.
 
Recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
 
Benjamin R. Hoffman: $25,000, Leslie A. Yakubowski: $25,000, Life Extension Foundation: $1,000, William J. Cosgrove: $200, Michael Anissimov: $85, Michael Dickey: $85, Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85, Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85, Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85, Kenneth P. Weiss: $85, Matthew L. McGuirl: $50, David Orban: $50, Frank C. Adamek: $25, Rick Hubbard: $25, Alan R. Light: $25, Anonymous: $20, Ronald Amos: $10, Christopher Dilkus: $10, Thomas Dolphin: $10, Stephen Fleming: $10, George Garrett: $10, Joseph P. Jackson III: $10, Aaron Mayzes: $10, Linus Petersson: $10, John N. Philipps (Jack): $10, Rhonda Stevenson: $10, Lexiology Dictionary: $5, Math Content: $5, Algebra HomeWork: $2, and Math Help Online: $2.
 
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.