Brains, Bots and Bodies

Michael Sean Wright of Nice Fish Films recorded a podcast with me today. Billed as “a discussion with really big thinkers”, we talked about The Singularity Summit and some of my favorite emerging technologies. You can hear the podcast below.

I’m sitting back stage today at The Singularity Summit, enjoying the presentations and doing my best to stay out of the way. My chief responsibility (self assigned) is to tweet and twine the event has it happens. I’ve not used these two tools in conjunction before, but I am finding that they have [...]

When I think about the future of the internet and “Web 3.0″, I generally don’t dwell on haptic displays or fully-immersive virtual worlds. Rather I think about the Do Button.  I’ve given a series of talks this year on emerging technologies that will change the world, and one of the main topics covered [...]

SciVestor sat down with Doug Lenat, AI pioneer, founder and CEO of Cycorp. He discusses how Cycorp might change the world in the next 10 years, why Moore’s Law is important, and why businesses should be interested in AI.  View the video here: http://scivestor.blip.tv/#926947

Today’s keynote at the Singularity Summit was Peter Norvig, Director of Research from Google. His talk was titled The History and Future of Technological Change, and he couched his presentation as an analysis of “how to evaluate technical change”.
This is the first time I have heard Norvig speak, and I found his talk to [...]

SciVee is a startup website that is focused on publishing scientist created videos that correlate to published research.
By giving scientists a Web 2.0 framework to demonstrate and discuss their research they can covey key concepts related in a new and powerful ways that the written research alone can not.
While embryonic, this site is of note [...]

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Scifoo: Google and large scientific datasets ? business|bytes|genes|molecules

“Every hour there was at least one session I wished I could have attended, but the one I will single out here is “Give us your Data! Google’s effort to archive and distribute the world’s scientific datasets” by Noel Gorelick (formerly of NASA and now at Google). For a conference on the future of biology, [...]

Hillis proposes a startup and a set of services that will give rise to software agents that automate many functions now performed manually in front of a Web browser…
Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching - New York Times

From Venturewire today: In one of the largest acquisitions ever of a private biotech company, GlaxoSmithKline said this morning it agreed to buy venture-backed Domantis for about $454 million in cash.
Europe’s biggest drug maker said Domantis will become part of GSK’s Biopharmaceuticals Centre of Excellence for Drug Discovery while continuing to operate from laboratories in [...]