The Singularity Summit Program
Day 1
| 7:00 AM | Registration and Catered Breakfast |
| 8:00 AM | Nathan Labenz: Welcome |
| 8:30 AM | Ray Kurzweil: “From Eliza to Watson to Passing the Turing Test” |
| 9:30 AM | Stephen Badylak: “Regenerative Medicine: Possibilities and Potential” |
| 10:00 AM | Sonia Arrison: “100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith” |
| 10:30 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 AM | Peter Thiel: “Back to the Future” |
| 11:30 AM | James McLurkin: “The Future of Robotics is Swarms: Why a Thousand Robots are Better Than One” |
| 12:00 PM | Michael Shermer: “Social Singularity: Transitioning from Civilization 1.0 to 2.0” |
| 12:45 PM | Catered Lunch by Chef Kwame Onwuachi |
| 2:15 PM | Jason Silva: “'The Undivided Mind' — Science and Imagination” |
| 2:45 PM | Stephen Wolfram: “Computation and the Future of Mankind” |
| 3:30 PM | Dmitry Itskov: “Project 'Immortality 2045' -- Russian Experience" |
| 4:00 PM | Christof Koch: “The Neurobiology and Mathematics of Consciousness” |
| 5:00 PM | Coffee Break |
| 5:45 PM | Eliezer Yudkowsky: “Open Problems in Friendly Artificial Intelligence” |
| 6:15 PM | Max Tegmark: “The Future of Life: a Cosmic Perspective” |
| 7:00 PM | Closing |
Day 2
| 7:00 AM | Catered Breakfast |
| 8:00 AM | Alexander Wissner-Gross: “Planetary-Scale Intelligence” |
| 8:30 AM | Sharon Bertsch McGrayne: “A History of Bayes' Theorem” |
| 9:00 AM | David Brin: “So you want to make gods. Now why would that bother anybody?” |
| 9:30 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:00 AM | Tyler Cowen: “The Great Stagnation” |
| 10:45 AM | Tyler Cowen & Michael Vassar Debate The Great Stagnation |
| 11:15 AM | John Mauldin: “The Endgame Meets The Millennium Wave — Why the Economic Crisis will be History as We Create the Future” |
| 11:45 AM | Riley Crane: “Rethinking Communication” |
| 12:30 PM | Catered Lunch by Chef Kwame Onwuachi |
| 2:00 PM | Dileep George and Scott Brown: “From Planes to Brains: Building AI the Wright Way” |
| 2:30 PM | Jaan Tallinn: “Balancing the Trichotomy: Individual vs. Society vs. Universe” |
| 3:00 PM | David Ferrucci: “Watson AI Perceptions” |
| 3:30 PM | Dan Cerutti: “Commercializing Watson” |
| 4:00 PM | Ken Jennings: “The Human Brain in Jeopardy: Computers That 'Think'” |
| 5:00 PM | Closing |
Summit Speakers:
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- Dr. Ray Kurzweil
- Founder and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies
Author, The Singularity is Near
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- Nathan Labenz
- Singularity Summit MC
Co-Founder, Stik.com
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- Prof. James McLurkin
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Rice University
Research Interest: Distributed Robotics
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- Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
- Author of The Theory That Would Not Die
Formerly prize-winning journalist, now author
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- Prof. Tyler Cowen
- GMU Economist, Author of The Great Stagnation
Blogger at Marginal Revolution
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- Professor Max Tegmark
- Professor of Physics, MIT
Scientific Director, Foundational Questions Institute
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- John Mauldin
- Financial Expert, NYT Bestselling Author
Co-Author, Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything
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- Stephen Badylak
- Deputy Director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (MIRM)
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- Michael Vassar
- President, Singularity Institute
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- Alexander Wissner-Gross
- Research Affiliate, MIT Media Lab
Research Interests: Smart Matter, Pervasive Computing
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- Dileep George
- Co-Founder, Vicarious
Visiting Fellow, UC Berkeley
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- David Brin
- Futurist, Award-Winning Author
Brin's website
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- David Ferrucci
- Lead Creator, IBM's Watson
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- Ken Jennings
- Jeopardy Champion, 74 consecutive victories
Author of Brainiac
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- Stephen Wolfram
- Creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha
Author of A New Kind of Science
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- Dr. Christof Koch
- Chief Scientific Officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science
Author of The Quest for Consciousness: a Neurobiological Approach
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- Dan Cerutti
- General Manager of IBM Watson Commercialization
IBM Watson Homepage
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- Peter Thiel
- Tech Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist
Clarium Capital, Founder's Fund, Thiel Foundation
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- Sonia Arrison
- Futurist and Policy Analyst
Author, 100 Plus
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- Jaan Tallinn
- Co-Founder of Skype
Ambient Sound Investments
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- Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Research Fellow, Singularity Institute
Founder, Less Wrong
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- Michael Shermer
- Publisher of Skeptic> magazine, Scentific American columnist
Author, The Believing Brain
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- Jason Silva
- Television Personality, Filmmaker, Visionary
Director, The Immortalists
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- D. Scott Brown
- Co-Founder, Vicarious
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- Riley Crane
- Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Media Lab
Human Dynamics Group
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- Dmitry Itskov
- President, New Media Stars
Founder, Russia 2045
