Events Search Tips

Our search algorithms work like Google, with a few exceptions.

Basic Search
To see a list of relevant events, type the words you're looking for and click on the Search button. For multiple words, the search algorithm automatically combines "AND" and "OR" searching to ensure that the greatest number of relevant matches are included in search results. Events that match all search words ("AND" search) appear at the top of the list. Events that match one or more search words ("OR" search) are displayed below them. Using "AND" or "OR" between words has no effect.

For example, to search for all event listings that mention "robotics" and/or "nanotechnology":

Phrase Searches
To search for an exact phrase (or any character string), place quote marks around it. For example, to search for "nanoscale architecture":

Stemming
You can enter word stems (beginning characters in a word) to broaden your search. For example, searching for "robot" will return all news items with the words "robot," "robots," "robotic," "robotics," etc. Searching for "com gr" will return all news items containing "computing" or "growth" as well as "computer" or "graphics," etc.

Capitalization
Searches are not case-sensitive. All letters will be understood as lower case.

Browsing by category
You can also browse for all event listings matching any one of eleven categories:

• Artificial Intelligence (includes robotics, neuroscience, augmentation, consciousness, pattern recognition)
• Biotechnology (includes cloning, medicine, immortality)
• Computing
• Dangerous Futures
• Future (general forecasts)
• Gaming
• Nanotechnology (includes MEMS)
• Singularity (emergence of superintelligence)
• Society (includes education, government, ethics)
• Telecommunications (includes networking, Internet)
• Virtual realities (includes VR, animation, simulation)

For example:

Browsing the event schedule
You can browse the event listing with a short description (the default view), or you can choose to browse the event schedule, which will show you a compact listing of event titles, dates, and cities. On any event listings page, you can click on the event title to see all the details of the event.