The videos for Singularity Summit 2009 are now available at Vimeo.

The Singularity Summit and Magnify.net have launched the Singularity Summit media page, which includes a collection of videos from the Singularity Institute, videos we find interesting from the web, aggregated tweets, pictures and more. The page will be in full effect during the summit, allowing users to upload videos and photos, watch video from the event and see a live twitter stream. Be sure to upload your videos, photos and tweets with the tag SS09.

The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence is co-sponsoring a program on ending aging with gerontology researcher Aubrey de Grey and the New York Academy of Sciences, on the evening of Tuesday, September 22nd in New York City.

The End of Aging: An Evening with Aubrey de Grey
September 22, 2009 | 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
At the New York Academy of Sciences

Could it be possible for humans to live hundreds of years in the very near future? Is aging a curable disease? Iconoclast Aubrey de Grey predicts it’s only a matter of decades before regenerative medicine extends human life expectancy indefinitely. This event is one of five events in the 2009 Provocative Thinkers Series presented by Science & the City, a program of the New York Academy of Sciences. Co-sponsored by the Singularity Institute.

http://www.nyas.org/endofaging

If you plan to attend the Summit, you can connect with other attendees at our Facebook event.

Conference organizers have extended the early registration deadline for the Singularity Summit from August 10th to August 20th. Register in the next 12 days for a ticket fee of $399 instead of $498. You can lower your registration costs further by mentioning the event in your blog or Twitter ($25 off), putting up a banner ad on your blog for the event ($50 off), or referring people (20% off per non-student referral).  The early registration discount is automatic.  For the referral discount, you must contact us for a coupon, and for the Twitter and blog discounts, you can let us know and get reimbursed by Paypal after registration.

Students receive a 20% discount.  There is also a forum to connect for ride and room sharing.  All discounts are stackable.  To obtain the student discount, all you need to do is click the student check-box and send us a copy of your student ID.

The Summit will feature 27 excellent speakers, including Ray Kurzweil, David Chalmers, Peter Thiel, Aubrey de Grey, and AI specialists like Ben Goertzel, Marcus Hutter, and Juergen Schmidhuber.  David Chalmers will be there talking about uploading, a rare occurrence.  Many speaker abstracts can be accessed by clicking the links to the  individual speakers on the program page.

See you in New York!