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Singularity Summit 2008

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Vernor Vinge and Bob Pisani
Vernor Vinge introduces the concept of the Singularity and explains why he believes it will happen before 2030.
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Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson describes her involvement with 23andme and personal genomics and her upcoming astronaut training.
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James Miller
James Miller explores the interesting behavioral changes that will occur when more people believe in the Singularity.
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Eric Baum
Eric Baum explains what understanding is. He outlines how to build programs which understand domains.
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Dharmendra Modha
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
Ben Goertzel demonstrates his open source AI project, Opencog
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Marshall Brain
Marshall Brain speculates on how robots will change the economy and replace human workers.
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Cynthia Breazeal
Cynthia Breazeal describes her work in building robots with social abilities.
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Ray Kurzweil, Glen Zorpette and John Horgan
Ray Kurzweil and John Horgan debate whether a singularity is near or far.
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Pete Estep
Pete Estep discusses the Innerspace Foundations goals of improving humans and developing Brain Computer Interfaces (...)
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Neil Gershenfeld
Neil Gershenfeld discusses alternative computing models based on physics.
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Peter Diamandis
Peter Diamandis discusses the history of the Xprize foundation and describes the new Xprize challenges.
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Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil closes the Summit by showing the progress of technology and discussing the implications for the future.
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Nova Spivack
Nova Spivack explains collective intelligence and speculates about a coming global brain.
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Justin Rattner
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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Jonas Lamis
Scivestor Emerging Technologies Workshop Opening Presentation
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Jamais Cascio, Christine Peterson, Alexei Andreev, Chris Anazalone and Anthony Waitz
Scivestor Emerging Technologies Workshop Nanotechnology Panel
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Jonas Lamis, Dan Kara, Bruce Hall, Chetan Kapoor and Trevor Blackwell
Scivestor Emerging Technologies Workshop Robotics Panel
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Jamais Cascio
Scivestor Emerging Technologies Workshop Closing Presentation