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CNN: Device opens the world for
blind
The Kurzweil-National
Federation of the Blind Reader is featured on CNN's VIDEO
page. More info: KNFBReader.com.
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Rebooting Your Doctor
It's time for
silicon to do for medicine what it's done for so many other
fields, says Andy Kessler in his new book, The End of...
(July 12, 2006) [Read more]
Sharply tuned nanostrings work at room
temperature
Using a fast, low-cost fabrication
technique that allows inexpensive testing of a wide variety of
materials, Cornell... (July 14, 2006) [Read more]
Stuck Pig
Gryonic suspension may be
just a few years away from clinical trials on humans, based on
successful suspended animation with... (July 2006) [Read more]
Gadgets get the feel of the tactile
world
Gadgets that stimulate our sense of touch,
known as haptic devices, will soon add a new dimension to
communications,... (July 14, 2006) [Read more]
Geoethical Nanotechnology workshop to explore
uploading, mind-machine interfaces
The Terasem
Movement announced today that its Second Geoethical
Nanotechnology workshop will be held July 20, 2006 in
Lincoln,... (July 14, 2006) [Read more]
Researchers Build Sharpest Tip
Robert
Wolkow, a physics professor at the University of Alberta, has
made the sharpest tip ever known: a one atom-thick... (July
11, 2006) [Read more]
Marvin Minsky on Common Sense and Computers That
Emote
"What surprises me is how few people have
been working on higher-level theories of how thinking works.
That's been a big... (July 13, 2006) [Read more]
Artificial Intelligence
Eugene
Charniak, professor of Computer Science at Brown University
and James H. Moor, professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth...
(July 12, 2006) [Read more]
This Is a Computer on Your
Brain
Researchers at Columbia University are
combining the processing power of the human brain with
computer vision to develop a... (July 12, 2006) [Read more]
Roboprof
Microsoft has announced that
it will give $1 million to a team of researchers from Bryn
Mawr College and the Georgia Institute... (July 12,
2006) [Read more]
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World
Future 2006: Creating Global Strategies for Humanity's
Future
Sponsored by World Future Society
July
28th, 2006 -- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
TransVision
2006: Emerging Technologies of Human
Enhancement
August 17th, 2006 -- Helinski,
Finland
Nanotechnology
and Smart Textiles for Industry and
Fashion"
Sponsored by Institute of
Nanotechnology
October 11th, 2006 -- London,
UK
2006
MIT Research and Development Conference
Sponsored
by MIT Industrial Liason Program
October 25th, 2006 --
Cambridge, MA
Cleveland
Clinic Medical Innovation Summit
Sponsored by The
Cleveland Clinic
November 6th, 2006 -- Cleveland,
OH
World
Science Forum: The New Universe for
Business
Sponsored by Scientific
American
November 8th, 2006 -- New York,
NY
Supercomputing
2006
Sponsored by IEEE
November 11th, 2006 --
Tampa, FL
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Response
to 'The Singularity Is Always Near'
By Ray Kurzweil
In "The Singularity Is
Always Near," an essay in The Technium, an online "book in
progress," author Kevin Kelly critiques arguments on
exponential growth made in Ray Kurzweil's book, The
Singularity I... (May 4th 2006)
Singularities
and Nightmares
By David Brin
Options for a coming
singularity include self-destruction of civilization, a
positive singularity, a negative singularity (machines take
over), and retreat into tradition. Our urgent goal: find (and
a... (March 28th 2006)
The
Physical Constants as Biosignature
By James N. Gardner
Two recent discoveries
have imparted a renewed sense of urgency to investigations of
the anthropic qualities of our cosmos: the value of dark
energy density is exceedingly small but not quite zero; an...
(February 28th 2006)
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articles]
 
Biowar
for Dummies
By Paul Boutin
How hard is it to build
your own weapon of mass destruction? We take a crash course in
supervirus engineering to find out.... (July 11th
2006)
Interview:
How much do we need to know?
By Bill Joy
To limit access to risky
information and technologies by bioterrorists, we should price
catastrophe into the cost of doing business, rather than
regulate things, says Bill Joy. Things judged to be dan...
(July 10th 2006)
Molecular
Manufacturing and the Developing World
By Don Maclurcan
What is the purpose of
molecular manufacturing, who will create and own it, and what
are the risks and impacts on the world? A social scientist
believes these questions could best be addressed in an i...
(May 29th 2006)
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articles]
 
From
ENIAC to Everyone
By Alexander Randall 5th
J. Presper Eckert
reveals the inside story of the invention of ENIAC, the first
practical, all-electronic computer, and debunks some myths in
this forgotten interview. "It is shocking to have your lif...
(February 23rd 2006)
Online
Chat with Ray Kurzweil and European Schoolnet
By
Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil introduced
300 secondary-school students across Europe to robotics and AI
in an interactive Internet chat set up by Xplora, the European
gateway to science education.... (November 9th
2005)
Some
Challenges And Grand Challenges For Computational
Intelligence
By Edward Feigenbaum
The Turing Test is a
very ambitious Grand Challenge. The "Feigenbaum Test" is more
manageable: focus on natural science, engineering, or medicine
with conversation in the jargonized and stylized langu...
(July 15th 2003)
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articles]
 
Why
We Can Be Confident of Turing Test Capability Within a Quarter
Century
By Ray Kurzweil
The advent of strong AI
(exceeding human intelligence) is the most important
transformation this century will see, and it will happen
within 25 years, says Ray Kurzweil, who will present this
paper at... (July 13th 2006)
In
Memoriam: Push Singh (1972-2006)
By James Hendler
Push Singh was a young
MIT post doc making important contributions to AI with his
Open Mind Common Sense project, a Web-based approach to
acquire common sense knowledge from the general public. He
was... (July 6th 2006)
Moot
Court Hearing On The Petition Of A Conscious
Computer
By Martine Rothblatt
A Moot Court Hearing
on the Petition of a "conscious computer" to be treated as a
legal person was held at the 1st Colloquium on the Law of
Transhuman Persons in Florida. ... (June 1st
2006)
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Conscious? articles]
 
Strategic
Sustainable Brain
By Natasha Vita-More
The human brain faces
a challenging future. To cope with accelerating nanotech- and
biotech-based developments in an increasingly complex world,
compete with emerging superintelligence, and maintain i...
(March 31st 2006)
Nanoethics
and Human Enhancement
By Patrick Lin and Fritz Allhoff
Radical nanotech-based
human enhancements such as bionic implants and "respirocyte"
artificial red blood cells will become technologically viable
in the near future, raising profound ethical issues an...
(March 31st 2006)
Reprogramming
your Biochemistry for Immortality
By Ray Kurzweil
Scientists are now talking
about people staying young and not aging. Ray Kurzweil is
taking it a step further: "In addition to radical life
extension, we’ll also have radical life expansion. The nano...
(March 8th 2006)
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articles]
 
How
to Build a Virtual Human
By Peter Plantec
Virtual Humans is the
first book with instructions on designing a "V-human," or
synthetic person. Using the programs on the included CD, you
can create animated computer characters who can speak, dial...
(October 20th 2003)
Remarks
about Tod Machover In Presenting the 2003 Ray Kurzweil Award
of Technology in Music
By Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil presented the
2003 Ray Kurzweil Award of Technology in Music to Tod Machover
at the Fourth Annual Telluride Tech Festival (August 8-10,
2003). The award was in recognition of Machover's p...
(August 11th 2003)
Glitches
Reloaded
By Peter B. Lloyd
In Matrix Reloaded, how
can Neo fly and use telekinesis if the Matrix is supposed to a
physics simulation? Peter Lloyd decodes this and other
technical enigmas--reverse-engineering the design of the M...
(June 2nd 2003)
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articles]
 
What
the Future Will Bring
By Ray Kurzweil
"Follow your passion," Ray
Kurzweil advised graduates in a commencement address on May 21
at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, one of the nation's
earliest technological universities. "Creating knowled...
(June 15th 2005)
Lunch
with Mikhail Gorbachev
By Ray Kurzweil
With only 53,000
engineering graduates a year compared to Russia's 200,000, the
U.S. needs to "communicate the importance of science in
today’s world," Mikhail Gorbachev told Ray Kurzweil in a
luncheo... (April 19th 2005)
Two
Stars For Peace
By KurzweilAI.net
World
order is essential to reducing the time to the Singularity,
says author Martine Rothblatt, citing Ray Kurzweil's
observation that increased order (and lowered chaos) reduces
the interval between... (January 25th 2005)
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articles]
 
Response
to 'The Singularity Is Always Near'
By Ray Kurzweil
In "The Singularity Is
Always Near," an essay in The Technium, an online "book in
progress," author Kevin Kelly critiques arguments on
exponential growth made in Ray Kurzweil's book, The
Singularity I... (May 4th 2006)
Wolfram
and Kurzweil Roundtable Discussion
By Ray Kurzweil and Stephen Wolfram
"The most dramatic
possibility is the universe started from a simple initial
condition that had some simple geometrical symmetry. It might
be the case that if we turn our telescope off to the west,
an... (February 24th 2006)
Ray
Kurzweil Responds to Richard Eckersley
By Ray Kurzweil
"Eckersley bases his
romanticized idea of ancient life on communication and the
relationships fostered by communication. But much of modern
technology is directed at just this basic human need."...
(February 3rd 2006)
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articles]
 
I,
Nanobot
By Alan H Goldstein
The coming elimination
of the barrier between living and nonliving materials will
lead to "animats" (living materials) -- nanobiotechnology
devices that can survive and function inside human beings,
d... (July 7th 2006)
Corporate
Cornucopia
By Michael Vassar
Molecular nanotech is
the largest commercial opportunity of all time. But it may
also create severe roadblocks and risks, including terrorism,
unstable arms races, competitive pricing, restrictive pat...
(May 24th 2006)
Molecular
Manufacturing and the Need for Crime Science
By
Deborah Osborne
Molecular manufacturing
increases the potential for high-tech crimes; it can also be
used to prevent them, says a crime analyst and book author....
(May 24th 2006)
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articles]
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