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December 2011

7th Annual colloquium on the law of futuristic persons

Dates: Dec 10, 2011
Location: Online in Second Life
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WHO: Lawyers, Cognitive Scientists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Neuroscientists, Civil Rights Activists, and Computer Scientists interested in the law of futuristic persons.

WHAT: The colloquium is an exchange of scholarly views regarding the legal status of people in and revived from cryonic biostasis.

“Cryonic biostasis” means the virtual halting of metabolic processes by being preserved at very low temperature upon determination of legal death, but… read more

Event Site: Terasem

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Singularity/Futures | Social/Ethical/Legal

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The 20th Annual Seattle Conference on Cutting Edge Issues in Technology and New Media Law

Dates: Dec 8 – 9, 2011
Location: Seattle, Washington

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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Seattle Technology Law Conference. This compelling faculty updates you on recent events and provides clear and incisive analysis of new developments in technology, IP, and digital media law.

You will hear about new FTC regulations for Internet-based technologies and services; impacts of Privacy by Design as a matter of practice; crowdsourcing; the right to be forgotten; key developments… read more

Event Site: Technology and New Media Law

Topics: Entertainment/New Media | Internet/Telecom | Social Networking/Web/Education | Social/Ethical/Legal

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SIM by Randal A. Koene at H+ Hong Kong

Dates: Dec 4, 2011
Location: Hong Kong, China

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Substrate-Independent Minds

Uploading to a substrate-independent mind (SIM) is a problem of data acquisition. As a practical project, that is what distinguishes SIM from life-extension ideas that involve interventions and therapeutic protocols aimed at keeping an old engine running, despite innumerable potential breakdowns, many of which are unknown.

The most conservative approach to SIM is whole brain emulation (WBE), a method that takes as prerequisites only the… read more

Event Site: Humanity+ Hong Kong

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Human Enhancement

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Humanity+ @ Hong Kong

Dates: Dec 3 – 4, 2011
Location: Hong Kong, China

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Humanity+ | The first Humanity+ conference held in Asia will take place in Hong Kong, on the 3rd-4th of December 2011 at the Chiang Chen Studio Theatre located on campus in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Tickets will be on sale soon through our online ticketing section or through Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Revolving around the theme “Living Forever”, the conference will explore recent scientific breakthroughs that seem to be… read more

Event Site: Humanity+ @ Hong Kong

Topics: AI/Robotics | Biomed/Longevity | Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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The World in 2012

Dates: Dec 1 – 3, 2011
Location: New York, New York

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The Economist | Every year for twenty-five years, The Economist has published The World in…, a collection of trends and predictions about the year ahead. Journalists from The Economist and leaders in business, government and a wide variety of fields — from Bill Gates to Angelina Jolie, from Nicolas Sarkozy to the Dalai Lama, from Michael Bloomberg to Eric Schmidt — step out on a limb and make bold predictions about their… read more

Event Site: The World in 2012

Topics: Singularity/Futures

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November 2011

Quantified Self Conference 2011 Europe

Dates: Nov 26 – 27, 2011
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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QS | Our first conference this past May in Mountain View was a success by however you’d like to measure it — people said it was transformative (“best conference ever!”), new collaborations were launched, it sold out and paid for itself, and we had a great time putting it on. So we’re doing it again, in Europe, to allow QS enthusiasts from different parts of the world to… read more

Event Site: Quantified Self

Topics: Entertainment/New Media | Internet/Telecom | Social Networking/Web/Education

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Society for Neuroscience — Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2011

Dates: Nov 14, 2011
Location: Washington DC

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Neuroscience 2011 is the premier venue for neuroscientists from around the world to debut cutting-edge research on the brain and nervous system.

Event Site: SFN

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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tech+ forum 2011

Dates: Nov 9 – 10, 2011
Location: Seoul, Korea

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tech+ forum | The tech+ forum was created to bring together recognized international and domestic innovation and inspiration leaders in the fields of technology, economy, culture and humanity. The name tech+ literally stands for these four contrasting but closely correlated fields.

tech+ is not just an event, but rather an intricate, strategic initiative of knowledge sharing and solution finding which will ultimately result in actions that… read more

Event Site: tech+ forum

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Electronics | Entertainment/New Media | Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Social Networking/Web/Education

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S.NET 2011

Dates: Nov 7 – 10, 2011
Location: Tempe , Arizona

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S.NET | The S.Net Conference will be held at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel in Tempe, Arizona on November 7-10, 2011. The conference, co-hosted by the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University (CNS-ASU) and the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara (CNS-UCSB), will offer a poster session and plenary sessions featuring:

Nicholas Pidgeon, Professor of Environmental Psychology at… read more

Event Site: S.NET 2011

Topics: Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Nanotech/Materials Science | Social/Ethical/Legal

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BICA 2011

Dates: Nov 4 – 6, 2011
Location: Arlington, Virginia

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BICA Society | The challenge of creating a real-life computational equivalent of the human mind calls for our joint efforts to better understand at a computational level how natural intelligent systems develop their cognitive and learning functions. In recent years, BICA conference grew up from a AAAI Fall symposium to a mid-size international conference  that focuses on the emergent hot topics in computer, brain and cognitive sciences unified by… read more

Event Site: BICA 2011

Topics: AI/Robotics | Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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The Future of the Future

Dates: Nov 3, 2011
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

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“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”  — Paul Valery, French poet

The Future of the Future is an examination of the various future vision as portrayed by futurists, academics and scenario thinkers.

Many futurists who try to earn a living telling stories about the future quickly learn that a happy end sells much better than a tale of… read more

Event Site: The future of the Future

Topics: Singularity/Futures | Social/Ethical/Legal

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Robo Business Leadership Summit

Dates: Nov 2 – 3, 2011
Location: Boston, Massassachusetts

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The RoboBusiness Leadership Summit (RBLS) is the premier business development event for global robotics industry.

The event’s program is designed to provide invaluable information to all levels of the robotics industry supply chain, including:

  • Robotics OEMs
  • Robot ingredient/enabling technology companies
  • Other OEMs that incorporate robotics technologies in their equipment
  • Robotics systems integrators and solutions engineers
  • Robotics end-users
  • Financial companies and institutions

… read more

Event Site: ROBO Business

Topics: AI/Robotics

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October 2011

Moogfest 2011

Dates: Oct 28 – 30, 2011
Location: Asheville, North Carolina

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Moogfest is the annual event that honors the remarkable vision of Robert Moog and his amazing musical inventions that changed the course of music. Moogfest is a 3-day, multi-venue event held in Asheville, NC — the place Bob Moog called home for the last 30 years of his life. The 2011 festival will be held the weekend of October 28 – 30. Moogfest will host artists and audiences from… read more

Event Site: Moogfest 2011

Topics: Electronics | Entertainment/New Media

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ENCKE virtual university collaboration

Dates: Oct 27 – 28, 2011
Location: USQ Island, Second Life

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The ENCKE virtual university collaboration will be a mixture of conference, workshop and collaboration in a virtual world, to discuss, design, build, operate and evaluate various virtual teaching and learning spaces for the university environment of the 21st century.

The event will begin with an intensive two-day virtual meeting that will consist of a series of plenary talks, small group discussions and report back sessions, workshops, tutorials, demonstrations… read more

Event Site: ENCKE Virtual University Collaboration

Topics: VR/Augmented Reality/Computer Graphics

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App Conference and Hackathon

Dates: Oct 26 – 27, 2011
Location: Santa Clara, California

App Conference and Hackathon

App Conference and Hackathon | The App Conference and Hackathon, taking place October 26-27, 2011 in Santa Clara, CA., addresses key components of app development, marketing and revenue on mobile devices and tablets. With an emphasis on cross platform development and revenue strategies, the show provides key insight for both developers and business professionals.

Attendees will hear from more than 80 expert speakers in 6… read more

Event Site: App Conference and Hackathon

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Electronics | Entertainment/New Media | Internet/Telecom

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