Source: Singularity University Blog — Dec 1, 2009 | Singularity University staff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdzlkzTzYLk
Daniel Kraft discusses the future of medicine with Salim Ismail, Executive Director of Singularity University, after his lecture at the inaugural Executive Program.
Source: Singularity University Blog — Dec 1, 2009 | Singularity University staff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2KpYRCUjmQ
Nanotechnology pioneer Ralph Merkle discusses the future of the field with Salim Ismail, Executive Director of Singularity University. Filmed following Dr. Merkle’s talks at Singularity University’s inaugural Executive Program.
Source: Singularity University Blog — Nov 24, 2009 | Singularity University staff
by E. B. Boyd
In his various roles as a computer programmer, an emergency-medicine physician, and the director of Microsoft Medical Media Lab, Michael Gillam stays well ahead of the advances that are transforming health care. Yet even he can be caught unawares by the pace of technological change.
Gillam was reminded of this recently during a nine-day boot camp aimed at instructing professionals on
Source: Singularity University Blog — Nov 11, 2009 | Singularity University staff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niQ0kkgPxJk
Andrew Hessel, pioneer in synthetic biology, discusses the similarities between computing and biology during a talk at Singularity University.
Source: Singularity University Blog — Nov 11, 2009 | Singularity University staff
CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman spent a day with SU’s Executive Program. Full coverage of his experience is at http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10394876-52.html.
"MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–While I’m sure that many of the people in the room were familiar with prediction markets, I wonder how many of them had ever seen an active one up close and personal before.
"Providing that sense of deep immersion, of course, was exactly the
Source: Singularity University Blog — Nov 10, 2009 | Singularity University staff
Wired Senior Editor Ted Greenwald is embedded with Singularity University’s inaugural 10-day Executive Program. Follow his coverage of the entire program at http://www.wired.com/epicenter/singularity-university/. Ted is also Tweeting using #singularityu.
See Ted’s full post at http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/11/singularity-university-decharms/.
The greatest mysteries yield the biggest opportunities. And for Christopher deCharms, the human brain is the most mysterious thing of all.
A neuroscientist specializing in real-time
Source: Singularity University Blog — Nov 10, 2009 | Singularity University staff
Wired Senior Editor Ted Greenwald is embedded with Singularity University’s inaugural 10-day Executive Program. Follow his coverage of the entire program at http://www.wired.com/epicenter/singularity-university/. Ted is also Tweeting using #singularityu.
See Ted’s full post at http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/11/day-in-the-life/.
The Singularity University routine is nonstop. Breakfast at 7:30 am — good, wholesome food, regrettably low on sugary and fatty goodness — followed by a
Source: Singularity University Blog — Nov 9, 2009 | Singularity University staff
Wired Senior Editor Ted Greenwald is embedded with Singularity University’s inaugural 10-day Executive Program. Follow his coverage of the entire program at http://www.wired.com/epicenter/singularity-university/. Ted is also Tweeting using #singularityu.
See Ted’s full post at http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/11/singularity-university-merkle-on-hyperdrive/.
The first part of Ralph Merkle’s talk was a 40,000-foot flyover. The second part shifted into hyperdrive. Feels like a college term packed into 90 minutes or
Source: Singularity University Blog — Nov 9, 2009 | Singularity University staff
Wired Senior Editor Ted Greenwald is embedded with Singularity University’s inaugural 10-day Executive Program. Follow his coverage of the entire program at http://www.wired.com/epicenter/singularity-university/. Ted is also Tweeting using #singularityu.
See Ted’s full post at http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/11/singularity-university-rearranging-atoms-with-ralph-merkle/.
“If you rearrange the atoms in coal, you get diamond. If you rearrange the atoms in sand, you get silicon. How atoms are arranged is fundamental to
Source: Singularity University Blog — Nov 9, 2009 | Singularity University staff
Wired Senior Editor Ted Greenwald is embedded with Singularity University’s inaugural 10-day Executive Program. Follow his coverage of the entire program at http://www.wired.com/epicenter/singularity-university/. Ted is also Tweeting using #singularityu.
See Ted’s full post at http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/11/singularity-university-peter-diamandis-thinks-big/.
After dinner on day two of Singularity University, Peter Diamandis gives a fantastic presentation about the X-Prize and what it means. This is a guy
Source: Singularity University Blog — Nov 9, 2009 | Singularity University staff
Wired Senior Editor Ted Greenwald is embedded with Singularity University’s inaugural 10-day Executive Program. Follow his coverage of the entire program at http://www.wired.com/epicenter/singularity-university/. Ted is also Tweeting using #singularityu.
See Ted’s full post at http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/11/singularity-university-biotech-bioinformatics/.
Biotech is a hidebound industry. Elephantine budgets. Glacial development timelines. Stultifying regulatory oversight. Pitiful productivity. Andrew Hessell, once employed by a major biotech drug developer
Source: Singularity University Blog — Nov 9, 2009 | Singularity University staff
Wired Senior Editor Ted Greenwald is embedded with Singularity University’s inaugural 10-day Executive Program. Follow his coverage of the entire program at http://www.wired.com/epicenter/singularity-university/. Ted is also Tweeting using #singularityu.
See Ted’s full post at http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/11/singularity-university-day-one-infinite-in-all-directions/.
A security guard checks my driver’s license as I drive into the entrance to Moffet Field, a disused naval airbase that hosts the nascent Singularity University. Night
Source: Singularity University Blog — Nov 2, 2009 | Singularity University staff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCWGf3CxvRc
Larry Smarr discusses the state of the art in supercomputing, with a focus on how current computation compares to the human brain and when supercomputers will surpass human processing power. Current supercomputers are estimated to match the human visual cortex and will reach human brain’s computational ability within the next twenty years.