Scott Aaronson is a PhD student in computer science at UC Berkeley, where he teaches a course entitled “Physics, Philosophy, Pizza.” His research focuses on quantum computing; his paper, “Quantum Lower Bound for the Collision Problem,” was recently honored with the C.V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award. Graduating from Cornell University at 18 made Aaronson acutely…
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 Nearand Fantastic Voyage, and is Academic Model/Curriculum Lead for Singularity University. Amara’s eclectic background includes positions as operations analyst and human factors engineer…
