Official Google News Source
Thanks to efforts by our Director of Research, Brian Wang, our blog has
been approved as an official Google News source and will show up in
Google News results within a few weeks.
You can learn about Brian at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.brian.l.wang
and you can see Google News at http://news.google.com/
Bigger Machine Activation
Thanks to many donors, our new primary machine has been activated and
lifeboat.com has been moved to it. We raised $3,520 which was $1,020
greater than our goal of $2,500! You can see the list of these donors
at https://lifeboat.com/ex/time.for.a.bigger.machine
Our new machine has 4 cores and 4 gigs of memory and can handle A LOT of
traffic. This ginormous hardware is critical for us since Google News
will be providing us with extra traffic in the near future. (Supporting
Google News on our old machine wasn't going to work...)
We would also like to thank Chris Haley for donating $2,200 towards our
bigger machine •AND• agreeing to become System Administrator for it as
well. Chris was in charge of our complex move between our old machine
and new machine and did an excellent job! You can learn about Chris at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.chris.k.haley
Finally, to give you an idea of the power of our new machine... Over the
past 7 days, we averaged higher traffic than KurzweilAI.net which is a
popular site. Yet the average workload on our machine was 0.00 compared
to the 4.00 workload the 4 cores on this machine COULD handle on a
sustained basis. (And we are still working on implementing additional
software changes to improve the capacity of this machine.)
Reports
Our Scientific Advisory Board members have generated many interesting
reports recently. They include:
"The Age of Virtuous Machines" by J. Storrs "Josh" Hall at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/the.age.of.virtu...machines
"10 Futuristic Materials" by Michael Anissimov at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/10.futuristic.materials
"Classifying Extinction Risks" by Michael Anissimov at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/classifying.exti...on.risks
Events
The Global Catastrophic Risks Conference will be held July 17 to July 20
at the University of Oxford. Our James Hughes, Anders Sandberg, Mike
Treder, and Eliezer Yudkowsky will be speaking. Learn more at
http://global-catastrophic-risks.com/ab...onf.html
Our Lawrence A. Baines, Raj Bawa, Craig Bettles, Peter C. Bishop, Dennis
M. Bushnell, Josh Calder, Arthur L. Caplan, Joe Coates, José Luis
Cordeiro, William J. Cosgrove, William Crossman, Irene J. Dabrowski,
Yasmin Dada-Jones, Evan M. H. Faber, Devin Fidler, Medard Gabel, Ashok
K. Gangadean, Jay Gary, Jerry Glenn, Ted Gordon, Terry Grim, Linda
Groff, William E. Halal, Don Heathfield, Jay Herson, Michael Jackson,
Carl Jensen III, Shun-jie Ji, Tom Lombardo, Gary Marx, Jim Mathews,
Kenneth L. Nichols, Amy Oberg, Jonathan Peck, John L. Petersen, Carrie
Rathsack, Scott Reif, Sheila R. Ronis, Karlin Sloan, Rick Smyre, Stephen
F. Steele, Mike Treder, Thomas F. Valone, Verne Wheelwright, James
Wright, Mariann Zanardo, and Michael Zey will be speaking at "WorldFuture
2008: Seeing the Future Through New Eyes" at the Hilton Washington,
Washington, D.C., from July 26 to July 28. Learn more at
http://www.wfs.org/2008schedule.htm
Interview
Listen to our Dennis M. Bushnell on a C-Realm Podcast at http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/474108
Link of the Month
The University of Delaware's Science, Ethics, and Public Policy (SEPP) program made us link of the month at http://sepp.dbi.udel.edu/
Growing Membership
The Terasem Movement donated $4,000 to the Lifeboat Foundation saying,
"We believe Lifeboat's work directly relates to Terasem's mission to
establish diversity, unity, and joyful immortality via geoethical
nanotechnology and personal cyberconsciousness."
Learn about the Terasem Movement at http://www.terasemcentral.org/
Our donor list is growing rapidly with Michael Haislip becoming our 12th
Lifeboat 500 member. You can learn about Michael at
http://www.michaelhaislip.com/ and about our Lifeboat 500 program at
https://lifeboat.com/ex/500 As our donor list grows, more and more, we
will be able to make programs a reality instead of just a report on
paper. (Let us know if there is any particular program/project that you
think we should fund.)
Here are some of the recent donations/pledges we have received since
the last newsletter:
Michael Haislip: $25,000,
Terasem Movement: $4,000,
Chris Haley: $2,285,
Donald Maclean: $1,000,
Brian Cartmell: $575,
Humberto Castaneda: $200,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $170,
Anonymous: $140,
Michael Anissimov: $85,
Eric Bauswell: $85,
William J. Cosgrove: $85,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Peter Murray: $75,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $50,
Jesse Merriman: $40,
C M Anderson: $25,
Vincent A. Cate: $25,
Adam Dobrin: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Robert Hunt Robinson: $25,
James William Taylor: $25,
Mark A. Walker: $25,
Alexander Braitberg: $10,
Stephen Fleming: $10,
Joshua Fox: $10,
Christopher Dilkus: $10,
Sylvia Engdahl: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Joseph P. Jackson III: $10,
Sheridan Layman: $10,
Marcel Lossi: $10,
Glenn A. Miller: $10,
Sarah Jane Pell: $10,
John N. Philipps (Jack): $10,
Kaj Sotala: $10,
and Thoughtware.TV: $5.
Our Join Us page at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us now allows you to
pay for your membership anywhere from monthly to every ten years.
