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May 2011

NISA’s 20th Anniversary Conference

Dates: May 27 – 28, 2011
Location: The Hague, Netherlands

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NISA | In 2011 the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) is planning to organize another of its international tri-annual two-day conferences. The theme of the conference will be the future of intelligence and counter-intelligence. The conference will be held in The Hague on 27 and 28 May 2011, marking the 20th anniversary of NISA.

At this two-day conference present and future developments in the field of… read more

Event Site: NISA

Topics: Singularity/Futures | Social/Ethical/Legal | Survival/Defense

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17th International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology

Dates: May 26 – 29, 2011
Location: Denton, TX

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The University of North Texas will host the 17th international biennial conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. SPT is the leading international organization devoted to the philosophical examination of technology. The 2011 conference theme is Technology and Security. The conference will feature contributions that examine the role of technology in fostering and sustaining security, as well as creating or exacerbating insecurities. The theme of security suggests a… read more

Event Site: SPT 2011 website

Topics: Singularity/Futures | Social/Ethical/Legal | Survival/Defense

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4th European Joint Conference for Nanomedicine

Dates: May 23 – 25, 2011
Location: Basel, Switzerland

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AlphaGalileo | The major European event in the path-breaking field of Nanomedicine is the 4th European Conference for Clinical Nanomedicine taking place from May 23 to May 25, 2011 in Basel, Switzerland. The conference focuses on the clinical application of novel developments in nanosciences and is organised by the CLINAM Foundation, in collaboration with the ETP Nanomedicine. It also includes industrial topics, opinions and recommendations from regulatory… read more

Event Site: 4th European Joint Conference for Nanomedicine

Topics: Biotech | Nanotech/Materials Science | Social/Ethical/Legal

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Suspended Animation Conference 2011

Dates: May 20 – 22, 2011
Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

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Suspended Animation |  Suspended Animation’s 2011 conference has been designed to meet your needs. It will provide you with a comprehensive picture of the world of cryonics.  It will reveal the scientific foundations of cryonics, the latest advances in cryopreservation research, and the scientific basis for thinking that revival from cryopreservation is a realistic possibility.  It will give your desire for survival a jolt of reality that will make you realize that,… read more

Event Site: Suspended Animation

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Biotech

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The Vicarious Brain

Dates: May 20, 2011
Location: Pasadena, California

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CalTech | Part of Understanding Virtue — New Directions Bridging Neuroscience and Philosophy, this evening is a discussion and reflection on the interrelationships between neuroscience, virtue, and transcendence.

This conference is funded by a grant, The Rationality of Ultimate Value: Emotion, Awareness, and Causality in Virtue Ethics and Decision Neuroscience, from the Science and Transcendence Advanced Research Series (STARS) of the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences.

Event Site: The Vicarious Brain

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Social/Ethical/Legal

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The Future of the Singularity

Dates: May 19, 2011
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Club of Amsterdam | According to the Singularity Institute, (technological) singularity is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence. So simple the definition may look like, it signals the end of 5 million years of human evolution with the emergence of super intelligence as a result of exponential technological development. Although different technologies are also suggested, artificial intelligence and brain interfaces are thought to be the likely ones… read more

Event Site: Club Of Amsterdam

Topics: Singularity/Futures

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The Unbound Book: A Conference on Reading and Publishing in the Digital Age

Dates: May 19 – 21, 2011
Location: Amsterdam & Den Haag

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The Unbound Book | The conventional notion of the book, based on centuries of print, has grown outdated. The book is coming unbound, freed from the bindings of the printed volume and from the limitations of conventional text. How will today’s multimedia content and online modes of authorship offer entirely new vistas of book-like functions? How should we preserve vital features of conventional print? How will the… read more

Event Site: The Unbound Book

Topics: Entertainment/New Media

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FLAIRS-24

Dates: May 18 – 20, 2011
Location: Palm Beach, FL

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The 24th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-24) will be held May 18-20, 2011 at The Colony in Palm Beach, Florida, USA. FLAIRS-24 continues a tradition of presenting and discussing artificial intelligence research in a convivial atmosphere within a beautiful setting. Events will include invited speakers, special tracks, discussion panels, and presentations of papers and posters. FLAIRS encourages student authors to submit papers. In addition to… read more

Event Site: FLAIRS-24 website

Topics: AI/Robotics | Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Computers/Infotech/UI

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International Space Development Conference 2011

Dates: May 18 – 22, 2011
Location: Huntsville, Alabama

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ISDC | The International Space Development Conference (ISDC) covers several broad areas of study related to building a spacefaring civilization, including transportation to and through space, technology needed to live and work in space, and Earth-based activities to advocate for or educate others about space development. The overall theme for ISDC 2011 is “From the Ground Up,” emphasizing the tools, resources, and social activities that must be accomplished… read more

Event Site: ISDC 2011

Topics: Social/Ethical/Legal | Space

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MIT Sloan CIO Symposium

Dates: May 18, 2011
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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MIT Sloan CIO Symposium | As CIO and as a senior business executive, you embrace a technology vision to enable improved global business performance for your company. With pressure to do more with fewer resources mounting every year, your success increasingly requires tapping into innovative technologies and new ideas to get the job done. What sparks these ideas? How do you keep up with leading innovations? Find… read more

Event Site: MIT Sloan CIO Symposium

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Internet/Telecom | Social/Ethical/Legal

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Front End of Innovation

Dates: May 16 – 18, 2011
Location: Boston, Massachuetts

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FEI 2011| There’s a reason FEI is the recognized and trusted brand for advancing innovation worldwide… Each year FEI celebrates the power of collective intelligence — creating an environment that empowers innovators to connect meaningfully through purposeful conversations based on content. Where 2010 was about experiences and collaboration, 2011 is focused on the outcomes derived from the experiences: using the experiences as way to get to the underlying value… read more

Event Site: FEI 2011

Topics: Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Social Networking/Web

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JITP 2011: The Future of Computational Social Science

Dates: May 16 – 17, 2011
Location: Seattle , Washington

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UMASS Amherst | In addition to a keynote by Jaime Teevan of Microsoft Research, two featured panels, free tutorials, and a variety of posters, this conference will focus discussions around extended presentations on:

  • “Researching Real-world Web Use with Roxy, A Research Proxy”
  • “Tradeoffs in Accuracy and Efficiency in Supervised Learning Methods”
  • “An Automated Snowball Census of the Political Web”
  • “Facilitating Encounters with Political

… read more

Event Site: JITP

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Internet/Telecom | Social Networking/Web

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Microsoft Tech·Ed

Dates: May 16 – 19, 2011
Location: Atlanta, Georgia

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Tech·Ed is a Microsoft-sponsored technology and development conference. Topics of the 2010 conference included application integration and interoperability; application server & infrastructure; architecture; business intelligence; cloud computing and online services; database platforms; developer tools, languages & frameworks; development practices; dynamics; IT strategy; management; Office and SharePoint; security, identity and access; unified communications; virtualization; web platforms; Windows clients; Windows Mobile and Embedded; Windows Phone; and Windows Server. The 2011 conference is developing… read more

Event Site: Tech·Ed North America

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Internet/Telecom

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Humanity+ @ Parsons NYC

Dates: May 14 – 15, 2011
Location: New York, New York

Humanity Plus at Parson NYC

Humanity+ | On May 14-15 2011, Humanity+ International is partnering with Parsons The New School for Design in New York City to produce Transhumanism Meets Design, a conference exploring emerging technology, transdisciplinary design, culture and media theory, and biotech.

The conference brings together futurists, cyberneticists, life extensionists, singularity advocates, A[G]I and robotics experts, human enhancement specialists, inventors, ethicists, philosophers, and theorists to meet with the creativity and rigorous scholarship of design… read more

Event Site: Humanity+ @ Parsons NYC

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Biotech | Entertainment/New Media | Human Enhancement | Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Singularity/Futures | Social/Ethical/Legal

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MobiTechFest Americas East 2011

Dates: May 12, 2011
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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MobiTechFest | Join us at MobiTechFest East to meet promising innovators and leading investors from the mobile and wireless ecosystem at our annual venture conference. If you are an entrepreneur seeking capital, this is your best opportunity to meet and pitch to the most active mobile focused angels and VCs in under one roof in one-day. Don’t miss out on this.

This exclusive conference will also provide the opportunity to:… read more

Event Site: MobiTechFest East

Topics: Electronics | Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Internet/Telecom

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