@ Caltech: December 4-5, 2010
http://humanityplus.org/conferences/program/
Our next conference, Humanity+ @ Caltech: Redefining Humanity in the Era of Radical Technological Change, is scheduled for December 4-5th at the Beckman Institute at Caltech Los Angeles, California. There will be discounts for students and Humanity+ members, so join Humanity+ today!
Humanity+ @ CalTech is hosted by the California Institute of Technology and ab|inventio, the invention factory behind QLess, Whozat, SocialDiligence and MyNew.TV. Sponsorship is also provided by TechZulu and Vokle.
Questions about the conference? Contact us at info@humanityplus.org.
The Humanity+ at Caltech program will be divided into four main themed sessions. These sessions are:
* Re-Imagining Humans: Mind, Media and Methods
* Radically Increasing the Human Healthspan
* Redefining Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence Enhancement and Substrate-Independent Minds
* Business and Economy in the Era of Radical Technomorphosis
A wide range of interesting, professional speakers, from both the for-profit and non-profit worlds, will address each of the four themes. A preliminary breakdown follows below; an exact schedule will be posted later on.
Session 1: Re-Imagining Humans: Mind, Media and Methods
Robert Tercek (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), TBD
Amy Li (Meidesign), “How Mobile Technology is Transforming the World”
Natasha Vita-More (University of Plymouth), “Reimagining human enhancement of non-bio body and mind as wearable media”
David Levy (Steambot Studio), ““Robotic/Fantasy Art, a look at its evolution and social/cultural influence”
Andrea Kuszewski (METODO), TBD
J-Walt (Spontaneous Fantasia), TBD
Session 2: Radically Increasing the Human Healthspan
Gregory Benford (Genescient Corp.), “Longevity for the Long Term”
Stephen Coles (Gerontology Research Group & UC Irvine), “Is There a Maximum Human Lifespan?”
Michael Rose (UC Irvine), “Building Methuselahs”
Parijata Mackey (Acron Cell LLC), TBD
Ben Goertzel (Novamente LLC), “The Holy Trinity of 21st Century Biomedicine: Genomics, AI and Experimental Evolution”
John Smart (Acceleration Studies Foundation), TBD
Session 3: Redefining Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence Enhancement and Substrate-Independent Minds
Ben Goertzel (Novamente LLC), “Building Better Minds: A Path to, and Architecture for, Beneficial Artificial General Intelligence”
David Hanson (Hanson Robotics), TBD
Paul Rosenbloom (University of Southern California), “From Cognitive Architectures to Virtual Humans”
Randal Koene (Halcyon Molecular), “Advancing Substrate-Independent Minds” (tentative)
Christof Koch (Caltech), “Advanced brain-machine interfaces - Experimental Data and Possibilities”
Suzanne Gildert (DWave Systems), “Pavlov’s AI: What do superintelligences REALLY want?”
Adrian Stoica (JPL Robotics), “Speculations on robots, cyborgs and telepresence”
Alex Peake (Primer Labs), TBD
Session 4: Business and Economy in the Era of Radical Technomorphosis
Max More (ManyWorlds, Inc.), “Experimentation and Debugging Decisions”
Ryan Bethencourt (PAREXEL), Director of Business Development at PAREXEL, “The Future of the Pharmaceutical Industry”
Patri Friedman (Seasteading Institute), “Lifehacking for Rationalists: Old Ideas + New Technology”
Tom Munnecke (Stanford Digital Visions), “Accelerating Resilience”
Michael Vassar (Singularity Institute), “Networks, Hierarchies and the Vingean Singularity”
Bryan Bishop (Humanity+), “Personal Manufacturing and the Gada Prize”
Alex Backer (ab|inventio), “The Growth, Memory and Democratization of Science”
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