Ray Kurzweil’s new book The Singularity is Nearer is now available for pre-order. The book will be released June 2024. Please visit the official book website to learn more + click-through for the book’s listing on fine book-sellers. book website :: visit Enjoy ..read more

Published on Edgeon January 2007. Reprinted with permission. Optimism exists on a continuum in between confidence and hope.Let me take these in order. I am confident that the acceleration and expanding purview of informationtechnology will solve within twenty years the problems that nowpreoccupy us. Consider energy. We are awash in energy (10,000 times more thanrequired to meet all our needs falls on Earth) but we are not verygood at capturing it. That will change with the full nanotechnology-basedassembly of macro objects at the nano scale, controlled by massivelyparallel information processe ..read more

the Kurzweil Library set :: stories on progress — contents — ~ story ~ about ~ brochure ~ featurette ~ webpages story | Plants could soon provide our electricity. In a small way they’re already doing that in research labs and greenhouses at project Plant-e. Plant-e is a university and commercially sponsored research group at Wageningen Univ. + Research in the Netherlands. The Plant Microbial Fuel Cell from Plant-e can generate electricity from the natural interaction between plant roots and soil bacteria. How it happens. It works by taking advantage of the up to 70 percent of organic materia ..read more

event | school: Yale Univ. motto: light + truth event: Yale Innovation Summit theme: Expanding impact. season: spring date: May 29 — May 30 year: 2024 where: New Haven, CT | US event website | visit presented by card :: Yale Univ. about | The Yale Innovation Summit highlights entrepreneurial Yale Univ. faculty +  students and the investable innovations coming out of Yale labs.  The summit offers networking, education, and inspiration to the entire entrepreneurial eco-system. keynotes faculty pitches company presentations panelists posters investment opportunities investment firms c ..read more

Originally published 1993 as an academic paper: Department of Mathematical Sciences, San Diego State University. The version that appears on Vernor Vinge’s website can be read here. Vernor Vinge is a retired San Diego State University math professor, computer scientist, and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, Rainbows End, Fast Times at Fairmont High, and The Cookie Monster, as well as for his 1993 essay “The Coming Technological Singularity,” in which he a ..read more

Originally published April 4, 2000 as an academic paper, Stanford University. Basic Questions Q. What is artificial intelligence? A. It is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. It is related to the similar task of using computers to understand human intelligence, but AI does not have to confine itself to methods that are biologically observable. Q. Yes, but what is intelligence? A. Intelligence is the computational part of the ability to achieve goals in the world. Varying kinds and degrees of intelligence occur in people, many an ..read more

the Kurzweil Library set :: stories on progress — contents — ~ story ~ graphics ~ report ~ about ~ reading story | New research from medical scientists at Johns Hopkins Univ. linked abnormally formed proteins in the human brain with the psychiatric illness called schizophrenia — in a significant number of patients. While they’re not yet sure what the connection is, the study reports that deformed proteins were found in the brains of many patients who were diagnosed with schizophrenia. This leads researchers to guess that deformed proteins had a role in the disease — either as a cause or an ef ..read more

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