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  Rod Furlan 7:52 pm on June 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  Singularity University 

  

  This is going to be a very special summer

  I am one of the 40 candidates admitted to the inaugural class of the Singularity University at the NASA Ames Research Center starting today.

  The Singularity University (SU) is a joint effort of NASA, Google, and some of the foremost authorities in science and technology. Its objective is to expose a group of promising graduate students and professionals to a broad range of cutting-edge research that is likely to lead to disruptive technological innovation in the near future.

  Or according to their own words:

  Singularity University aims to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges.

  I will be meeting a lot of interesting people, student and faculty alike. It will be a life changing experience and hopefully world changing too.

   

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  Rod Furlan 3:06 pm on June 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  Designing the Human Mind 

  “Is it possible to create a complete model of the human brain? Henry Markram is well on his way, but explains that it’s going to take a computer 20,000 times more powerful than any that exists today with a memory capacity 500 times the size of the Internet.”