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Apr 23, 2019
The
AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) 2019 Annual
Convention & Exhibition (ACE) will be held in San Antonio, Texas on
May 19–22.
Our Bruce Cutright
will be speaking about
Energy and Minerals Drive Commercial Space Exploration on May 20th.
Learn more!
Apr 23, 2019
Our Janet Ivey is now President of Explore Mars, the world’s most influential nonprofit committed to advancing the cause of human exploration of Mars. Learn more!
Apr 19, 2019
Florence Nsiah joins our blog team with the post Undersea Robot To Rescue The Great Barrier Reef.
Apr 14, 2019
Read the free paper
Human Brain/Cloud Interface by our
Amara D. Angelica,
Frank J. Boehm,
Robert A. Freitas Jr.,
Steven A. Garan,
Tad Hogg,
Nuno R. B. Martins,
Yuriy Svidinenko, and
Melanie Swan.
This paper describes how neuralnanorobotics may enable a B/CI with
controlled connectivity between neural activity and external data storage
and processing, via the direct monitoring of the brain’s
~86 × 109 neurons and ~2 × 1014 synapses.
Apr 12, 2019
Our
Barbara Marx Hubbard, beloved author and visionary, has
passed away.
She worked to the end of her life to “Safeguard Humanity”.
Read a
quote from her!
Buckminster Fuller said,
“There is no doubt in my mind that Barbara Marx Hubbard — who helped
introduce the concept of futurism to society — is the best informed human
now alive regarding futurism and the foresights it has produced.”
Apr 11, 2019
The
International Society for the
Study of Information Summit (IS4SI 2019) will be held June 2–6 at
Berkeley, California.
Our
Paul Saffo will be speaking. Our Mark Burgin
will be running a miniconference on
Theoretical Information Studies (TIS) at this
event.
Our
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
will also be running a miniconference on
Morphological & Unconventional Computing at this event.
Our
Raffaela Giovagnoli will be running a miniconference on
Habits and Rituals at this event as well.
This summit will discuss the theoretical, practical, and ethical challenges
posed by the growth of information technology.
The theme of the 2019 Summit will focus on what AI is, isn’t,
could be, and shouldn’t be, as well as to consider how it is
related to mental processes produced by brains and to the different
concepts of information.
Apr 6, 2019
Read issue #200 of Lifeboat News!
