Saturday, August 18, 2012

High Advance Technology

 

 

1. Futures Studies & Forecasting:

Singularity University is a profoundly and uniquely futures-oriented institution. Its very purpose is to identify and use exponentially-accelerating technologies to create better conditions for everyone on Earth; to heal and nurture the planet itself; and to guide humanity as it reaches beyond the limits of Earth and of humanity’s historical evolution on Earth. It is the mission of the Futures Studies and Forecasting Track to help see that this positive futures-orientation is foremost in everything we do by presenting, discussing, critiquing, and infusing the theories and methods of futures studies throughout the curriculum and in all SU activities. Ray Kurzweil, Paul Saffo, James Canton, and Jim Dator–futurists who have had years of practical, applied, as well as academic experience in futures studies–serve as co-chairs of this track.

TRACK CHAIRS & ADVISORY (Futures Studies & Forecasting)
  • Co-Chair: Ray Kurzweil, Founder, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
  • Co-Chair: James Canton, CEO and Chairman of the Institute for Global Futures
  • Co-Chair: Jim Dator, Prof & Dir of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies
  • Co-Chair: Paul Saffo, Visiting Scholar in the Stanford Media X research network
  • Advisor: Jerome Glenn, Director, The Millennium Project
  • Advisor: John Smart, Founder & President, Acceleration Studies Foundation
  • Advisor: Peter Bishop, Associate Professor, College of Technology, University of Houston
  • Advisor: Will Wright, Creator: SimCity, Spore; Founder, Maxis (Electronic Arts)

2. Policy, Law & Ethics:

This track will examine the role of government, law and ethics in dealing with the implications of the technologies covered in other tracks, including reinventing patent law, the patentability of concepts developed by AI, nanotechnology, and biotech/biomedical research; the future legal status of AIs, robots, cyborgs, and non-terrestrial resources and possible off-Earth civilizations; dealing with cybercrime and possible AI manipulation of financial markets; preventing risks from unfriendly AI, nanotech, and genetics; negative scenarios (surveillance, police states, etc.); the precautionary principle vs. the proactionary principle; policy and legal issues of environment crisis, and ethical issues around anticipated human manipulations, brain enhancements, AIs, self-replicating nanotech, brain uploads, cryogenics and re-animation. The track will also consider the promises in addition to the perils: what are the downside risks if we do not develop certain kinds of biotechnology, AI, or nanotech?

TRACK CHAIRS & ADVISORY (Policy, Law & Ethics)

3. Finance & Entrepreneurship

The exponential growth of technology, while most visible in the fields of computing and the sciences, has had an equally dramatic effect on every facet of the business world. From the long tail reverberations of virtual goods, through the outsourcing of every aspect of creation and production, to the explosive development of personal brands and the potentially culture-changing introduction of micro-finance, the approaching Singularity is revolutionizing our global economic system. 

This track will begin in the first trimester with a rapid trip through the dramatic changes in business already caused by accelerating technologies, include an introduction to business structures and principles, provide tools and insights for monetizing the new technologies, and culminate with cross-track workshops on both the Essence of Entrepreneurship and Presentation and Communications Skills. 

During the second trimesters, topics that will be covered in collaboration with other tracks include understanding the new workforce and personal branding, private financing of space travel, the economics of knowledge, green financing through carbon ‘cap & trade’, virtual market economics, microfinance and the concept of money as information. 

A field trip to the Google campus as well as special guest lectures and hands on case studies will help Fellows come to grips with the immediate, real-world effects of high velocity business in the age of the Singularity.

TRACK CHAIRS & ADVISORY (Finance & Entrepreneurship)

4. Networks & Computing Systems:

Calling on the rich resources of leading-edge companies and academics in Silicon Valley, this track covers the explosive growth of computer power and networks, focusing on three key revolutionary areas:

(1) Emerging and future computational and storage technologies, including 3D molecular computing, nanocomputing, DNA/RNA computing, plasmonics, spin storage, memristors, optical storage, photonics, quantum computing, pico- and femtotechnology, and autonomic computing, addressing important issues such as reversible computing, the limits of information representation, scalable computing systems, and future petascale and exascale supercomputers;

(2) Future user interfaces, such as augmented reality, virtual reality. virtual worlds, blended reality, virtual agents, bots, lifelogging, breakthroughs in computer graphics, holographic and 3D displays, teleimmersion, telepresence, haptic interfaces, personalized learning, and extracting knowledge from massive volumes of data via data analysis, data mining, and information visualization; and

(3) Intelligent networks, including nth-generation Internet, smart search engines, the semantic Web, smart grid, shared vs. dedicated Lightpath Internet, cyber-physical systems and sensor networks, security and privacy vs. transparency, mobile and location-based computing, cloud computing, Interplanetary Internet, ubiquitous wireless networks and ubiquitous computing, mesh networks, adaptive networks, embedded networks, and the global physics grid.

TRACK CHAIRS & ADVISORY (Networks & Computing Systems)
  • Co-Chair: Bob Metcalfe, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners
  • Co-Chair: Kevin Fall, Principal Engineer at Intel Research Berkeley
  • Advisor: Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Inc.
  • Advisor: Chris DiBona, Open Source Program Manager, Google Inc.
  • Advisor: Daniel Ford, Senior Mathematician, Google Inc.
  • Advisor: Larry Smarr, Dir, CA Institute for Telecommunications & Information Tech

5. Biotechnology & Bioinformatics:

This track covers the exponential growth in biotechnology and bioinformatics, focusing on four areas: 
(1) genome technologies (genomics and proteomics, ultra-rapid, low-cost gene sequencing, and statistical and computational extrapolations of large biological databases); 
(2) Personalized medicine (4P medicine: personalized, predictive, preventative, participatory; high-speed, full-genome, consumer-based sequencing; personal SNP analysis and ethics);

 (3) Intelligent design (ultra-rapid, low-cost DNA writing, selective gene manipulation/substitution, ethics of germline modification, RNA interference); and

 (4) Microfludics and single-molecule technologies.

TRACK CHAIRS & ADVISORY (Biotechnology & Bioinformatics)
  • Chair: Daniel Reda, Co-Founder, CureTogether
  • Advisor: Aubrey de Grey, Chairman & CSO, Methuselah Foundation
  • Advisor: David Haussler, Professor, Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
  • Advisor: Andrew Hessel, Founding Director, Pink Army Cooperative
  • Advisor: Stuart Kim, Professor, Developmental Biology, Stanford University

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