KurzweilAI.net,
July 29, 2003
Famed science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, futurist Ray Kurzweil, laser inventor Charles Townes and renowned physicist Freeman Dyson will be among the speakers and honorees at the Fourth Annual Telluride Tech Festival on Aug. 8-10 in Telluride, Colorado.
"The event is a celebration of the past, present and future of Technology and will focus on space exploration this year," said event producer Scott Brown. It will feature awards to and talks by Townes, Dyson, film producer Gale Anne Hurd (Terminator, Abyss, Hulk, Armegeddon) and author Manuel Castells, Annenberg Chair at University of Southern California and author, The Rise of the Network Society.
Clarke and Kurzweil will participate remotely via Teleporter 3D Telepresence Lectern. Clarke will discuss the future of space exploration and present a special video; Kurzweil will participate on a panel and will present the first Kurzweil Music Award of Technology to Tod Machover, composer and Professor of Music and Media at MIT Media Lab.
Also presenting will be K. Claffy, principal investigator for the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) and resident scientist at the University of California San Diego Supercomputing Center; SETI pioneer Jill Tarter (role model for the astronomer in the movie Contact); Bruce Murray, co-founder of the Planetary Society with Carl Sagan; and Lewis Branscomb, former Chief Scientist for IBM and former head of the National Science Board.
The Space Foundation, Space.com, Mars Society, National Space Association, X-Prize, Space Adventures, and Space Frontier Foundation will also be represented.
"The Tech Fest is based on the historical fact that in 1891, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse and Telluride's own L.L. Nunn built the world's first commercial grade AC power plant in Telluride," said Brown.
Limited-seating tickets for the event are $200.
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