Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin joins our Space Settlement Board.
On July 20, 1969, Buzz and Neil Armstrong made their historic Apollo 11
moonwalk, becoming the first two humans to set foot on another world. An
estimated 600 million people — at that time, the world’s largest
television audience in history — witnessed this unprecedented heroic
endeavor.
Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.buzz.aldrin
Pete Worden
Pete Worden, Chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, joins our
Policy Board.
The Breakthrough Prize is a set of international awards bestowed in
three categories by Breakthrough Prize Board in recognition of
scientific advance. The categories are Life Sciences, Fundamental
Physics, and Mathematics. Laureates receive $3 million each in prize
money.
The prizes were founded by Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Mark
Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Yuri Milner and Julia Milner, and Jack Ma
and Cathy Zhang. Committees of previous laureates choose the winners
from candidates nominated in a process that’s online and open to the
public.
Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.simon.peter...e.worden
Eurosymposium on Healthy Ageing
The Eurosymposium on Healthy Ageing will be held Sep 29–Oct 1 in
Brussels, Belgium.
Learn more at http://www.eha-heales.org
Anti Ageing Conference London
The BSAAM’s 13th Annual Anti Ageing Conference London 2016 will be held
October 13–15 in London. Our Aubrey de Grey, Brian Halvorsen, Kiran
Krishnan, Marios Kyriazis, Karl J. Neeser, Avijit Roy, Giovanni
Scapagnini, Maria Somers, Miguel Toribio-Mateas, and Jesús A. F.
Tresguerres will be participating.
Learn more at http://www.antiageingconference.com
European Mars Society Conference
The European Mars Society Conference (EMC16): From Simulation to Reality
will be held October 14–16 in Bergamo, Italy. This conference promotes
human exploration and colonization of Mars.
Learn more at http://www.marsplanet.org/speakers-and-program
Extreme Futures and Technology Forecasting Conference
Extreme Futures and Technology Forecasting Conference – Fall 2016 will
be held October 22 in San Francisco, California.
Learn more at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/extreme-fu...57481450
Fourth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
The Fourth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP
2016) will be held October 30–November 3, 2016 in Austin, Texas. This
conference discusses how human computation systems and machine learning
systems can work together.
Learn more at http://www.humancomputation.com/2016
Stardust Final Conference on Asteroids and Space Debris
The Stardust Final Conference on Asteroids and Space Debris will be held
October 31–November 4 at the ESTEC: European Space Research and
Technology Centre in the Netherlands.
Learn more at http://stardust2013.eu/Training/Confere...ult.aspx
New Worlds 2016 Conference
The New Worlds 2016 Conference will be held November 4–5 in Austin,
Texas. Our Pete Garretson, Jim Logan, Philip Metzger, Tiago Soromenho,
Rick Tumlinson, Pete Worden, Alvin Yew, and Robert Zubrin will be
participating. For two days this fall, world class scientists, experts,
and engineers will explain, discuss, and debate the challenges and
solutions facing those who will go out there.
Learn more at http://newworlds2016.space
Fifth Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization Conference
The Fifth Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization Conference 2016 will
be held November 10–12 in Orlando, Florida.
Learn more at http://susnano.org/SNO2016/conferenceOv...016.html
Hellenic Bioinformatics 09: HBio 2016
Hellenic Bioinformatics 09: HBio 2016 will be held November 19–21 at The
Centre for Research & Technology (CERTH) in Thessalonica, Greece.
Learn more at
https://hscbio.wordpress.com/conference...uncement
Ieee Symposium on Computational Intelligence
The 2016 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence will be held
December 6–9 in Athens, Greece. Our Giovanni Acampora, Andrew Adamatzky,
Itamar Arel, Wlodek Duch, Stan Franklin, Ben Goertzel, Ali Reza
Khanteymoori, Quan Liu, Nikhil R. Pal, Massimiliano Vasile, and Pei Wang
will be participating.
Learn more at http://ssci2016.cs.surrey.ac.uk
Singularity 1 on 1: Interview the Future
Learn about and support Singularity 1 on 1: Interview the Future at https://konoz.io/nikola.danaylov
Reports
Read the free report “A Radically Easier Path to Space Settlement” at http://space.alglobus.net/papers/Radica...sier.pdf
Blog
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“Breaking Taboo: Swedish Scientist Modifies DNA in Human Embryos
–’Ignores Ethical Boundaries of Science’” by Gerard Bain at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/breaki...-science
“Calgary researchers teleport light particle 6.2 kilometres, raising
hopes for ‘quantum internet’ by Aleksandar Vukovic at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/calgar...internet
“Can Technology Help Fine-Tune Your Happiness?” by Dan Faggella at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/can-te...appiness
“Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announces $3 billion investment to cure
disease” by Elmar Arunov at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/chan-z...-disease
“Decisions Are Emotional, Not Logical: The Neuroscience behind Decision
Making” by Shailesh Prasad at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/decisi...n-making
“Femtotechnology: A technology that is Beyond Nanotechnology” by Klaus
Baldauf at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/femtot...chnology
“Generation Cryo: Fighting Death in the Frozen Unknown” by Sean Brazell at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/genera...-unknown
“Get Ready For Freeways That Ban Human Drivers” by Dan Kummer at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/get-re...-drivers
“Google’s new chat app should be deleted and never used, says Edward
Snowden” by Aleksandar Vukovic at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/google...-snowden
“How Science Can Inform Good Leadership” by Odette Gregory at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/how-sc...ton-post
“IBM is one step closer to mimicking the human brain” by Alexandros El
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/ibm-is...an-brain
“Kardashev Scale: What It’ll Be Like When We Harness the Power of an
Entire Galaxy” by Andreas Matt at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/kardas...e-galaxy
“Microsoft wants to crack the cancer code using artificial intelligence”
by Albert Sanchez at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/micros...lligence
“Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton Could Help Paraplegic Children” by Karen
Hurst at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/mind-c...children
“New Zealand startup Thought-Wired allows people with severe
disabilities to communicate using their brain waves” by Karen Hurst at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/new-ze...in-waves
“Nvidia links up with Foxconn, Quanta on AI servers” by Roman Mednitzer
at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/nvidia...-servers
“Paralysed patient walks again thanks to virtual reality and
brain-computer interfaces” by Roman Mednitzer at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/paraly...terfaces
“Paralyzed man regains use of arms and hands after experimental stem
cell therapy at Keck Hospital of USC” by Carse Peel at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/paraly...l-of-usc
“Ray Kurzweil: We Can Control AI Before It Controls Us” by Elmar Arunov
at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/ray-ku...trols-us
“Room temperature magnetoelectric material created — Uses for next
generation computing” by Klaus Baldauf at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/room-t...omputing
“Scientist Claims to be On the Verge of Making An AI That ‘Feels’ True
Emotions” by Elmar Arunov at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/scient...emotions
“Scientists hail new era of ‘motherless babies’” by Shailesh Prasad at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/scient...s-babies
“Scientists just demonstrated internet speeds 1,000 times faster than
Google Fibre” by Dan Kummer at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/scient...le-fibre
“Someone is learning how to take down the Internet” by Sean Brazell at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/someon...internet
“UPS testing drones for use in its package delivery system” by Dan
Kummer at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/ups-te...y-system
“US Launches International Brain Initiative to Coordinate Brain Mapping
Efforts” by Karen Hurst at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/us-lau...-efforts
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