The Singularity Summit (SS09)
Saturday, October 3-4, 9am-7pm
92nd Street Y Kaufmann Hall, New York, NY
The Singularity Summit Program
- 9:00 am
- Welcome
- 9:05 am
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- Anders Sandberg
- 9:35 am
- Randal Koene, Itamar Arel, Ben Goertzel
- 10:50 am
- Stuart Hameroff
- 11:10 am
- Michael Nielsen
- 12:00 pm
- Ned Seeman
- 12:35 pm
- Lunch
- 1:45 pm
- Jurgen Schmidhuber
- 2:30 pm
- Gary Drescher
- 3:05 pm
- David Chalmers
- 3:50 pm
- Coffee Break
- 4:10 pm
- To be announced
- 4:35 pm
- William Dickens
- 5:20 am
- To be announced
- 6:00 pm
- Ray Kurzweil
- 6:55 pm
- Closing
- 7:00 pm
- Summit Ends
- 7:00 am
- Doors open
- 8:00 am
- Bela Nagy
- 8:20 am
- Gary Marcus
- 8:50 am
- Gary Wolf, Michael Nielsen, Robin Hanson
- 10:40 am
- Philip Tetlock
- 11:30 am
- Lunch
- 1:30 pm
- Brad Templeton
- 2:00 pm
- Anders Sandberg
- 2:30 pm
- Coffee Break
- 3:00 pm
- Peter Thiel
- 3:20 pm
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
- 3:50 pm
- Aubrey de Grey, Gregory Benford
- 5:00 pm
- Summit Ends
The Singularity Summit Speakers
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- Eric Baum
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Founder, Baum Research
What Is Thought?, Eric's Site
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- Marshall Brain
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Founder, How Stuff Works
Robotic Nation
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- Cynthia Breazeal
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Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
Leonardo, Kismet, Cynthia's Site
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- Peter Diamandis
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Founder, Chair and CEO, X PRIZE Foundation
Peter's Blog
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- Esther Dyson
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Entrepreneur, Investor, Philanthropist
EDventure Holdings, Esther's Blog
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- Pete Estep
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Co-Founder, Chair and CSO, Innerspace Foundation
Pete's Wikipedia Bio
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- Neil Gershenfeld
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Director, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms
Neil's Site, Fab, Two Paths to the Singularity
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- Ben Goertzel
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Director of Research, Singularity Institute
Open Cognition Project (OpenCog)
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- John Horgan
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Director, Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of Technology
John's Site
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- Ray Kurzweil
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Founder and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies
The Singularity Is Near, Ray's Site
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- James Miller
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Associate Professor of Economics, Smith College
The Singular Sensation, James' Blog
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- Dharmendra Modha
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Manager, Cognitive Computing, IBM Almaden Research Center
Dharmendra's Site
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- Bob Pisani
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Reporter, CNBC
Bob's Site
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- Justin Rattner
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VP and CTO, Intel
Justin's Wikipedia Bio
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- Nova Spivack
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Founder and CEO, Radar Networks
Nova's Blog
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- Vernor Vinge
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Science Fiction Author
Vernor's Wikipedia Bio
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- Glen Zorpette
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Executive Editor, IEEE Spectrum
Waiting for the Rapture

