http://lifeboat.com/ Learn how Lifeboat Foundation is helping humanity survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, as we move towards a technological singularity. en-us 120 Copyright 2002-2007 Lifeboat Foundation Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:36:15 PDT lifeboatnews@lifeboat.com (Lifeboat News) webmaster@lifeboat.com (Lifeboat Webmaster) http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_11_08_Brain_pathway_responsible_for_obesity Dongsheng Cai, who discovered a brain pathway responsible for obesity, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:36:15 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_11_08_Brain_pathway_responsible_for_obesity http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_11_08_Steve_Potter Steve Potter, who is developing a managed power grid that involves literally tapping brain cells grown on networks of electrodes, joins our Neuroscience Board and Robotics/AI Board. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:49:46 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_11_08_Steve_Potter http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_10_08_Foundations_of_MEMS Chang Liu, author of "Foundations of MEMS", joins our Engineering Board. Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:30:27 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_10_08_Foundations_of_MEMS http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_09_08_Nanodiamond_drug_device Dean Ho, who has developed a nanodiamond drug device which could transform cancer treatment, joins our Biotech/Medical Board and Nanotechnology Board. Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:05:59 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_09_08_Nanodiamond_drug_device http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_09_08_Sandeep_Shukla Sandeep Shukla, who coedited "Nano, Quantum, and Molecular Computing: Implications to High Level Design and Validation", joins our Engineering Board. Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:48:48 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_09_08_Sandeep_Shukla http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_09_08_Roy_Stedman Roy Stedman, Technology Strategist for Dell, joins our Information Sciences Board. Roy has invented more than 25 US and international patents. Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:35:31 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_09_08_Roy_Stedman http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_06_08_Issue_75_of_Lifeboat_News Read issue #75 of Lifeboat News! Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:53:27 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_06_08_Issue_75_of_Lifeboat_News http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_04_08_Counting_Cells_in_Seconds Aydogan Ozcan, whose lensless imaging system counts cells in seconds, joins our Engineering Board. Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:38:34 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_04_08_Counting_Cells_in_Seconds http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_04_08_Licia_Iacoviello Licia Iacoviello, who discovered that half a bar of dark chocolate per week reduces your risk of heart attack, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:34:55 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_04_08_Licia_Iacoviello http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_04_08_Priya_Natarajan Priya Natarajan, who discovered there are limits to how large a black hole can grow, joins our Cosmology Board. Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:50:21 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_04_08_Priya_Natarajan http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_03_08_Global_Catastrophic_Risks Global Catastrophic Risks: Building a Resilient Civilization will be held November 14, 2008 at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California. This seminar will precede the futurist mega-gathering Convergence 08, November 15-16 at the same venue. Our Jamais Cascio, James J. Hughes, Mike Treder, and Eliezer Yudkowsky will be participating. Help us support this event! (We have already raised $1,000 out of our goal of Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:49:28 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_03_08_Global_Catastrophic_Risks http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_03_08_Marco_Wiering Marco Wiering, author of "Convergence and Divergence in Standard and Averaging Reinforcement Learning" and "Hierarchical Mixtures of Naive Bayesian Classifiers", joins our Robotics/AI Board. Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:47:39 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_03_08_Marco_Wiering http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_02_08_Toxicological_testing_of_nanomaterials Kenneth Dawson, who has formed a new international research alliance to establish protocols for reproducible toxicological testing of nanomaterials in both cultured cells and animals, joins our Nanotechnology Board. Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:05:59 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_02_08_Toxicological_testing_of_nanomaterials http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_01_08_Mary_Anne_Williams Mary-Anne Williams joins our Robotics/AI Board. She is Director, Innovation and Technology Research Laboratory, University of Technology, Sydney. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:50:16 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_01_08_Mary_Anne_Williams http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_01_08_Bert_Kappen Bert Kappen, author of "An Introduction to Stochastic Control Theory, Path Integrals, and Reinforcement Learning", joins our Robotics/AI Board. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:49:17 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_01_08_Bert_Kappen