I gave a short presentation to the UK Transhumanists on Saturday about something I termed Massively Multiplayer Online Research Project Science (MMORPS). The briefing was to give a summary of Michael Nielsen’s talk on Open Source Scientific Collaboration given at the Singularity Summit. Several of us spoke at this meeting, the aim to give a [...]
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More UKTA presentation fun!
Posted in outreach, shameless self-promotion, transhumanism on October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I got interviewed for Pop Sci mag at Singularity Summit…
Posted in conferences, outreach, shameless self-promotion, transhumanism on October 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
…and here is the link:
Singularity Summit 2009: The Faces of Singularity – Pop Sci article October 2009
I am number 6 of 7 in the line-up of photos. It’s an absolutely terrible photo, but I wasn’t feeling 100% that day, and I got the camera shoved *right* in my face!
I don’t know if it’s actually [...]
Singularity Summit 2009 day 2 – some thoughts
Posted in conferences, learnin' stuff, transhumanism on October 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Many people have blogged about the SS2009 talks much better than I could, so instead I’ll talk about the atmosphere I experienced over the last two days here in New York.
Everyone seemed to be very excited about being here. I’ve never felt such a buzz before from attending a conference. In addition, everyone seemed interested [...]
Singularity Summit 2009 Day 1
Posted in BCI, conferences, learnin' stuff, transhumanism on October 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I started today with a stroll through Central Park and a coffee on Madison Avenue. Things just got better from there on really…
The Singularity Summit 2009 opened in the small but perfectly formed Kaufman Concert Hall, 92nd Street, New York, NY. I say it was small because fitting 800+ Singularitarians in there was a bit [...]
UK Transhumanists patiently listen to me ramble about QC for 2 hours!
Posted in BCI, outreach, psychological ponderings, quantum computing, quantum spookiness, shameless self-promotion, transhumanism on September 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Anyone want to watch me embarrass myself royally as I try to explain quantum computing and AI at the UK Transhumanist meeting? Thought so! This is the first of about 10 of these videos, they should all be linked from this one via YouTube.
Warning: The talk is over 100 minutes long and contains intense scenes [...]
Presentation on Quantum Computing to UKTA
Posted in BCI, psychological ponderings, quantum computing, quantum spookiness, shameless self-promotion, transhumanism on September 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m giving a talk in London on the 12th September to the UKTA (UK Transhumanist Association) for a regular event known as UKH+. There will be discussion sessions before and after the talk in a lovely nearby pub (The Marlborough Arms).
The talk will be about quantum computing: What quantum computers can do, and more importantly [...]
Coffeebreak Links 200809
Posted in conferences, learnin' stuff, links, transhumanism on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Everything’s been so busy this past week, I’ve got a whole load of links and they’re all completely disorganised, but here are a few just so I a get them off the backlog pile:
A really interesting company I learnt about recently:
Evolved Machines
Upcoming Events
World Future Society conference 8-10 July 2010, Massachusetts
World Future 2010
SENS4 Conference in Cambridge, [...]
Singularity University 2009
Posted in conferences, learnin' stuff, transhumanism on August 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been spending the last few days hanging around at Singularity University hosted at NASA Ames in Mountain View, CA (SIlicon Valley).
What an experience. The people here are great, real leaders and entrepreneurs. It’s been inspiring to talk to everyone. The format of the course is several weeks of lectures and presentations by distinguished speakers, [...]
Virtual Scientific Collaboration
Posted in links, transhumanism, web on August 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
(Via PhysOrg) This is totally cool. We should set one of these up for QIP/QC Scientists around the world:
Virtual Worlds May Be the Future Setting of Scientific Collaboration
Image © MICA
Could be quite cool if combined with something like Google Wave so you could have avatars inside a virtual meeting room as a front-end for the [...]
Singularity Summit 2009
Posted in conferences, links, transhumanism on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll be attending the Singularity Summit this year.
Anyone who is interested in attending should register here:
The list of speakers looks something like this:
Randal Koene, Itamar Arel, Ben Goertzel, Stuart Hameroff, Ned Seeman, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Gary Drescher, David Chalmers, Ed Boyden, Marcus Hutter, William Dickens, Béla Nagy, Gary Marcus, Gary Wolf, Michael Nielsen, Robin Hanson, [...]
