Suspended Animation 2011
Suspended Animation 2011 will be held May 20-22 at the Hyatt Regency
Pier 66 Resort and Spa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Our Greg Fahy,
William Faloon, and Michael Korns will be speaking. This conference
covers the scientific foundations of cryonics, the latest advances in
cryopreservation research, and the scientific basis for thinking that
revival from cryopreservation is a realistic possibility.
Learn more at http://www.suspendedinc.com/conference2011
WorldFuture 2011: Moving from Vision to Action
WorldFuture 2011: Moving from Vision to Action will be held July 8-10,
2011 at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel in Vancouver, Canada. Our Lawrence Baines, Peter Bishop, Joseph F. Coates, José Luis Cordeiro,
Aubrey de Grey, Jay E. Gary, Jerome C. Glenn, Linda MacDonald Glenn,
Linda Groff, William E. Halal, Kenneth Harris, Rodney Hill, Barbara Marx
Hubbard, John Jackson, Ted M. Kahn, Bud Levin, Tom Lombardo, Ramez Naam,
Ruben Nelson, Leslie Schneider, Rick Smyre, and Dave Stein will be
speaking.
Learn more at http://www.wfs.org/content/worldfuture-2011
The Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
Our Itamar Arel, Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Eric Baum, James Bonaiuto,
Joanna Bryson, Antonio Chella, Haris Dindo, Marco Dorigo, Wlodzislaw
"Wlodek" Duch, Rod Furlan, Deon Garrett, Ben Goertzel, Faustino Gomez,
J. Storrs Hall, Demis Hassabis, Marcus Hutter, Matt Iklé, Bruce Klein,
Randal Koene, András Kornai, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, John E. Laird,
Christian Lebiere, Shane Legg, Moshe Looks, András Lörincz, Matt Luciw,
David Orban, Jan Poland, Stephen Reed, Sebastian Rudolph, Rafal Rzepka,
Alexei V. Samsonovich, Ricardo Sanz, Tom Schaul, Matthias Scheutz,
Jürgen Schmidhuber, Kristinn R. Thórisson, Lyle Ungar, Wendell Wallach,
Pei Wang, Marco Wiering, Mary-Anne Williams, and David Wolpert are
participating in The Fourth Conference on Artificial General
Intelligence which will be held August 3-6 in Mountain View, California, USA.
Learn more at http://agi-conf.org/2011/
Nanotechnology for Sustainability
Our Jeremy J. Ramsden is now offering the new Cranfield University (United Kingdom) research degree, MSc in Nanotechnology for Sustainability. Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/pdfs/MScNanoSust.pdf
Bombadil Publishing
Bombadil Publishing inspires dreams by publishing books by young people written for young people. Learn more about their available books at http://www.bombadilpublishing.se/books/...?lang=en
Electrical Heat Engine
Our Laszlo Kish is developing the first-ever purely electrical heat engine. Learn more at http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5942
Global Risks 2011
Read the free "Global Risks 2011, Sixth Edition", an initiative of the Risk Response Network, at http://riskreport.weforum.org/
Educational Videos
Our Existential Risks video now has improved audio and graphics. Check it out at http://lifeboat.com/ex/existential.risks
Interesting Videos
Watch "TEDx Brussels 2010 - David Orban - Every Thing" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTVMbVawA-8
Blog
Daniel W. Rasmus joins our blog team with his post "My Reaction to The
Observer's 20 predictions for the next 25 years" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/01/my-rea...25-years
Otto E. Rössler joins our blog team with his post "Summary of My
Scientific Results on the LHC-Induced Danger to the Planet" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/01/summar...e-planet
(Otto is inventor of the Rössler attractor which you can learn about at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6ssl...ttractor)
Zachary Urbina joins our blog team with the post "Stories We Tell" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/01/stories-we-tell
End of the Year Fundraiser
We made our 5 figure goal for our End of the Year Fundraiser! In
addition, Donald Maclean decided to match all donations made by the end
of the year, even though we did pass his matching goal.
Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/end.of.the.year.fundraiser
Fun Picture
Fun Picture of the Day: See the Guardian 2010 Award in Rusty's office at
http://lifeboat.com/images/guardian.awa...fice.png
Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/ex/guardian2010
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
Donald Maclean: $1,000,
Jeff Bone: $720.59,
Edwin B. Cooper: $150,
John Grencer: $120,
Parsel Bilir: $100,
Antoine van de Ven: $100,
Michael Anissimov: $85,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Sam Gutterman: $40,
Frank C. Adamek: $25,
Bennie M. Beaver: $25,
Michael Breazeale: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Ronald Amos: $10,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Christopher Dilkus: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
Stephen Fleming: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Charles Hawk: $10,
Jeffrey Dean Hochderffer: $10,
Miriam Leis: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Glenn A. Miller: $10,
John N. Philipps (Jack): $10,
Lee Irwin Pringle: $10,
Prometheus Data Services: $10,
Frank D. Smith: $10,
and Rhonda Stevenson: $10.
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.
