[alife] Fwd: Promoting the 2009 Singularity Summit
Carlos Gershenson
cgg at unam.mx
Fri Jun 4 10:04:33 PDT 2010
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> Upgrade Your Brain
>
> What will happen when and if greater-than-human intelligence is
> created, either by enhancing the human brain or building an
> artificial intelligence? Already, technological advances pave the
> way for further technological advances at an ever-accelerating rate;
> if intelligence itself could be brought to engineer still greater
> intelligence in a strong positive feedback loop, the consequences
> (for better or for worse) would be unimaginable. Author and computer
> scientist Vernor Vinge called such an event a "Singularity,"
> alluding to a breakdown in our model of the future, much as how
> ordinary physical assumptions fail to hold at the center of a black
> hole.
>
> This August 14-15 at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, experts in
> fields including animal intelligence, artificial intelligence, brain-
> computer interfacing, tissue regeneration, computational
> neurobiology, augmented reality, and more, will share their latest
> research and explore its implications for the future of humanity in
> this era of explosive scientific and technological growth, at this
> preeminent conference on the topic, the Singularity Summit.
>
> A list of speakers includes:
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> * Ray Kurzweil, inventor and author of The Singularity is Near
> * James Randi, scientific skeptic, founder of the James Randi
> Educational Foundation
> * Dr. Irene Pepperberg, renowned animal cognition scientist
> * Dr. Allan Snyder, director of the Centre for the Mind at the
> University of Sydney
> * Dr. Joe Z. Tsien, neuroscientist who created mice with enhanced
> memory and spatial learning
> * Dr. Steve Mann, augmented reality pioneer, "the world's first
> cyborg"
> * Dr. Ellen Heber-Katz, who studies the genetics and molecular
> biology of healing
>
> Reserve your spot now at http://www.singularitysummit.com
>
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