Media
RSS feed iTunes PodcastSingularity Summit 2008
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- Vernor Vinge introduces the concept of the Singularity and explains why he believes it will happen before 2030.
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- Esther Dyson describes her involvement with 23andme and personal genomics and her upcoming astronaut training.
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- James Miller explores the interesting behavioral changes that will occur when more people believe in the Singularity.
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- Eric Baum explains what understanding is. He outlines how to build programs which understand domains.
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- Dharmendra Modha describes IBM's research in Whole Brain Emulation and their plans to simulate the brain by 2018.
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- Ben Goertzel demonstrates his open source AI project, Opencog
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- Marshall Brain speculates on how robots will change the economy and replace human workers.
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- Cynthia Breazeal describes her work in building robots with social abilities.
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- Ray Kurzweil and John Horgan debate whether a singularity is near or far.
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- Pete Estep discusses the Innerspace Foundations goals of improving humans and developing Brain Computer Interfaces (...)
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- Neil Gershenfeld discusses alternative computing models based on physics.
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- Peter Diamandis discusses the history of the Xprize foundation and describes the new Xprize challenges.
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- Ray Kurzweil closes the Summit by showing the progress of technology and discussing the implications for the future.
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- Nova Spivack explains collective intelligence and speculates about a coming global brain.
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- Justin Rattner demonstrates the advances Intel has made and shows how Moore's law will continue to hold in the future.
The Scivestor Emerging Technologies Workshop
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- Scivestor Emerging Technologies Workshop Opening Presentation
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- Scivestor Emerging Technologies Workshop Nanotechnology Panel
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- Scivestor Emerging Technologies Workshop Robotics Panel
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- Scivestor Emerging Technologies Workshop Closing Presentation