Singularity Summit Day 2
Here’s day two: Singularity Summit 09 Day 2
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Live blogging the Singularity Summit 09
Sitting in the main theater at 92Y, everything is ready for the Singularity Summit to start in New York. Embedded here you will find my live notes from the event for Day 1, and I plan to do the same in a separate post for tomorrow, Day 2. (I am on wifi, and it is
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Stephen Wolfram to speak at Singularity Summit
Stephen Wolfram, author of the book A New Kind Of Science, creator of the Mathematica symbolic calculation software suit, and of the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine is a recent addition to the roster of speakers at the Singularity Summit in New York. In a recent webcast the audience in large numbers asked Stephen to comment
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Anders Sandberg, and the Ethics of Uploading
Whole Brain Emulation is going to create synthetic humans, if the functionalist point of view of neuroscience is right, by implementing their thought processes in forthcoming hardware, and software systems, which could arrive as early as the middle of this century. What are the rights of these uploads? How will their existence impact our
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Randal Koene on Whole Brain Emulation
Analyzing, and implementing specific brain functions, in order to complement, or substitute them when impaired has been possible for a long time. Hearing aids, or a simple pair of glasses are well accepted tools helping our senses, and our brain functions. There many leaps that researchers working in the field of neuroengineering want to be
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Watch the iPhone launch live from New York!
Thanks to the cool new Mogulus video platform, you can watch the live stream of the launch of the Apple iPhone in New York! Go to http://iphonelaunch.tv! What I wonder is what will happen to the embedded video once the launch is over… Live video doesn’t make too much sense when the event is gone.
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