Amara D. Angelica is co-founder and Editor of KurzweilAI.net and its daily Accelerating Intelligence newsletter. She was editor and researcher for two of Ray Kurzweil’s books, The Singularity Is Near and Fantastic Voyage, and was the original Academic Model/Curriculum Lead for Singularity University.

Amara’s eclectic background includes positions as operations analyst and human factors engineer for Grumman Aerospace for electronic intelligence and electronic countermeasures systems, aerospace reliability engineer for General Dynamics, USAF electronics instructor, electronics field engineer at Philco Corp., senior systems analyst at Grumman Data Systems, science/technology writer/editor, video script writer for Reeves Communications, high-tech marcom consultant, and radio producer/engineer at WBAI-FM.

She is an inventor and patent writer, and was an IP manager in biomedical, biophysics, and nanoelectronics technologies for Technology Innovations Inc.

She is a member of the Space Development Steering Committee and is a consultant with the Association for Science and Technology of Chongqing University in China. She was formerly on the board of directors of the National Space Society,

Amara holds a BS in psychology/mathematics from the U. of Nebraska, and is an electronic musician, radio amateur operator (KF6TEJ), photographer, and videographer. She is currently learning Mandarin.

Links:

KurzweilAI

See essays by this author:

AI (the movie) and AI Panel Discussion at MIT

Bill Clinton Calls Many Political Leaders Out of Touch with the Acceleration of Technology at Fortune Summit

Biocyberethics: should we stop a company from unplugging an intelligent computer?

Communicating with the universe

Congressional hearing addresses public concerns about nanotech

Humans and Machines Converge at ACM1

I am the very model of a Singularitarian

Intuitive music

Movie reviews: A Beautiful Mind, Vanilla Sky, Waking Life

Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III

Surfing The Singularity: Damien Broderick

Techies vs. Neo-Luddites: Progress Action Coalition Formed

Texas thinks small, plans Nanotech Corridor

The coming superintelligence: who will be in control?

The Moon as backup drive for civilization

Top KurzweilAI.net News of 2001

Top KurzweilAI.net News of 2002

See blog posts by this author:

'Avatars' to replace some humans at NYC area airports

'Creative right brain' myth debunked

'Extensive if not complete' meltdown of three Fukushima reactors just 16 hours after the earthquake: coverup?

'Orca ears' inspire researchers to develop ultrasensitive undersea microphone

'Pig' movie: question reality

1987 time-capsule predictions for 2012

The Singularity by Miracles of Modern Science

A Darwinian explanation for the Fermi paradox [UPDATED 4/21/2011]

A limitless power source for the indefinite future

A miniature humanoid robot lives on your shoulder and wants to be your friend

A new blueprint for artificial general intelligence

A radical alternative to nuclear reactors

A robot that learns how to tidy up after you

A stylish new brain-sensing headband

A super-memory smart drug?

Accelerate with Acceler8or!

Ads for monkeys: sign of the end times?

Alcor update from Max More, new CEO

An autonomous flying car? Really?

Another faster-than-light neutrinos challenge

Are 'net neutrality' rules a fed takeover of the Internet or a sell-out?

Are you a Facebook addict?

Are you ready for a robot that learns on the Internet?

Are you ready for robots with sensitive skin?

Avatar meets rejuvenation biotech at stellar SENS event Friday night in L.A.

Battle of the 'Fantastic Voyage' researchers

Beyond texting: augmented-reality windshields --- what could go wrong?

Bigelow to lease space habitats to clients in seven nations

Bing likes Britannica, Bruno burns

Black boxes to be required in all new cars from 2015

book review | The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism

Bots gone wild

Breakthrough: proton-based chips that communicate directly with living things

By 2018, supercomputers could operate 100 times faster than the human brain

Bypass the Internet!

Can taking probiotics improve your mental health?

Can you trust your memory? Take these two simple tests.

Cellphones that can see through walls and detect cancer

CERN physicists trap antimatter for 1,000 seconds --- unlimited future energy?

Crowdfunded science projects

Crowdsourcing a TEDx talk: what are the three most important trends shaping humankind's future in the next 10 years?

Curiosity rover laser zaps Martian rock

Electronic hippocampal system turns long-term memory on and off, enhances cognition

EPA finds 'slightly higher' radiation levels in US [update 3/29]

Every breath you take, every move you make ...

Evi trumps Siri for general knowledge

Evidence of extraterrestrial life?

Extend your life span without dieting!

Eyez without a Facebook --- live video lifelogging!

Fed-funded research: magic mushrooms create 'openness'

Film Preview | Source Code movie combines mind-uploading, parallel universes, time travel, simulated reality

First attack on a cyborg

Former president of India wants to beam energy from space

From DIY to DIWO: biohackers, synthetic biologists, and FBI to dialogue at Open Science Summit

Future music invades the Grammys

Getting 'hallucinating' robots to arrange your room for you

Giant mutant rats invade Google servers, take over Internet, replace 'tweets' with 'squeaks'

Google is destroying your memory

Google's self-driving car gathers nearly 1 GB/sec

Grow a new eye

Has Facebook made you psychotic?

Has NASA discovered extraterrestrial life?

Has your future been adjusted?

How bio-inspired deep learning keeps winning competitions

How computers are helping solve information overload by learning to 'understand' text

How fleas jump (not an Onion story)

How to access TV news on any topic for the last three years

How to control music and video on the Web with a wave of your hand

How to create a startup country

How to jam annoying talkers

How to learn things automatically

How to Live Forever*

How to make movies of what the brain sees

How to measure emotions

How to preserve competing memories by zapping your brain

How to read a mouse's mind

How to remote-control a robot on another planet

How to remotely hack into Wi-Fi networks and cell-phone calls

How to see quantum images and survive (I hope)

How to stimulate your brain by shining light through your ears

How to synthesize a new kind of yeast cell -- or person

How Watson works: a conversation with Eric Brown, IBM Research Manager

How your memories can be twisted under social pressure

I've seen the future of electronics and it's ... vacuum tubes!

IBM scientists create most comprehensive map of the brain's network

Infinite storage in the cloud: NOT RECOMMEDED

Is Sponge Bob destroying kids' minds --- or accelerating their intelligence?

Is there a Japanese plan to evacuate 40 million people?

Japan radiation levels reach new highs

Julia Map generates fractals with just a browser

Let's tell everyone how to make a virus that could kill millions!

Mask-bot: A talking video humanoid robot

Meet Stompy: the giant, rideable walking robot

Microsoft offers a glimpse into the future of productivity

Nanoclusters that diffuse laser beams or create 3D telepresence

NASA Ames' Worden reveals DARPA-funded 'Hundred Year Starship' program

Navigating the seas of Titan in a boat

New brain-computer interface mobilizes patients, opens up new mind-control scenarios

New hope for repairing diseased or damaged brains

New supercomputer on a chip 'sees' well enough to drive a car someday

Nuclear radiation paranoid's handy reference [UPDATED 3/22]

Passing of the typewriter

Research breakthrough allows paraplegic man to stand on his own

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Robotic space-colony construction, cubesats for Mars, transhumanists on space, and more....

Robots invent spoken language, join Facebook

Sex and the Red Queen hypothesis

Singularitarians and musicians stage Madrid gathering

Social networks, surveillance, and terrorism

Stalking the wild microbiome

Stealth mold genes take over human genome, jump to databases and chips!

Stoner alert: McDonald's gets you legally high

Swarms of tiny intelligent drones with cameras --- what could go wrong?

Teaching a robot to anticipate human actions

teleXLR8 returns, featuring quantum physicist Gildert on 'Hack the Multiverse!'

The future of autonomous cars ... and planes

The Internet, peer-reviewed

The Moon as backup drive for civilization

The new iPad: awesome

The physics of Jackson Pollock

The rise of the machines: and now the really bad news

The search for ET continues --- in West Virginia

This is your brain on magic mushrooms

Tinkerers

Tiny bugs are controlling your mind!

Toward a Science of Consciousness: Brain, Mind, Reality

Txting makes u stupid

UPDATE | Kurzweil to 'grind into smithereens' Colbert's understanding of world tonight, says Comedy Central

UPDATE | The buzzer factor: did Watson have an unfair advantage?

USC engineers build synthetic synapse with carbon nanotubes

V2V: Department of Transportation's new communication system helps cars avoid crashes by talking to each other

Video conferencing with cardboard cutouts and random images on the walls

Visionary transhumanism and radical design to merge in New York City

Warning: the writer of this post may be nuts!

Welcome to 2035...the Age of Surprise

Welcome to your future android clone

What just happened? Why some of us seem totally spaced out

When the Singularity happens, it will be 'very obvious': Vernor Vinge vs. the Singulars

Who is John Galt?

Why China makes our electronic products (it's not just cheaper labor)

Why the sponge's protosynapses never evolved into the real thing

Will a Dutch discovery lead to understanding dark matter and a real quantum computer? UPDATE APR 17

Will the Kinect 2 read your lips? Open the pod bay door, HAL

Your future smartphone and tablet will have 48 cores: Intel