End of the Year Fundraiser
Good news! Our Jeff Bone has increased his matching funds to $16,000
for our End of the Year Fundraiser.
There are only 22 days left on our End of the Year Fundraiser and people
will soon start going on vacation so we would like to build up our End
of the Year Fundraiser before the holidays are upon us.
Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/end.of.the.year.fundraiser
Our 2011 accomplishments include the support of conferences Suspended
Animation 2011, WorldFuture 2011: Moving from Vision to Action, The
Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, DARPA/NASA 100
Year Starship Study Public Symposium, and TEDxSiliconAlley.
We have also developed new educational videos, improved our active and
dynamic Facebook group and LinkedIn group, participated in the recent
DARPA/NASA Request for Information project and the DARPA/NASA Request
for Proposal project, created our most active blog ever, added to our
growing world news coverage, developed an ongoing grant initiative
program, created new reports, updated programs, and improved our web
design.
We have also grown our list of forums and have launched a wiki for our
InfoPreserver program. (The wiki is already up to 24 categories of
information uploaded by our members!) Our momentum is greater than ever.
Following are some conferences that our advisors are helping make
happen:
Emerging Signal Processing Applications
The first IEEE conference on Emerging Signal Processing Applications
which will be held Jan 12–14 at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.
This conference will highlight areas of 3D technology for gaming,
telepresence, gesture recognition for games and natural user interfaces,
digital photography, 4G wireless, robotics, multimedia tablets, SP in
automobiles: speech interfaces and cameras, voice search, SP with
multicore processors, and IPTV.
Learn more at http://www.ieee-espa.org/
FutureMed 2012
FutureMed 2012 will take place February 6–11, 2012. Faculty will include
our Ray Kurzweil and David Ewing Duncan.
This informative and interactive 5 day program will be held at
Singularity University’s campus at NASA–Ames Research Park and will
include lectures, discussions, workshops and site visits, led by notable
Singularity University faculty and experts in the fields of medicine,
biotechnology, and innovation.
Learn more at http://futuremed2020.com/
2012 National Academy of Inventors Conference
The 2012 National Academy of Inventors Conference will be held February
16–17, 2012 in Tampa, Florida.
The conference, open to all of academia and research labs, will bring
together the research community to deliberate on the translation of
science and technology within the academic community, and for the
benefit of society. It is intended to be a forum to encourage creative
thinking and the spirit of innovation, promote and enhance the
development and utilization of inventions, and provide advice and
guidance to new and existing inventors in their work.
David Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, will deliver
the keynote address and the USPTO will have a major presence at the
conference.
Learn more at http://www.nai.usf.edu/conference
Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference 2012
The Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference 2012 will be held
February 27–29 at The Crowne Plaza Hotel and Resort, Palo Alto,
California.
This conference will bring together researchers from government,
industry, and academia in the largest forum of its kind, providing key
networking opportunities for the entire community.
Learn more at http://nsrc.swri.org/
Fifth Conference on Future Energy
The Fifth Conference on Future Energy will be held February 29 – March
2, 2012 at the University of Maryland, College Park. This will be five
conferences under one roof: Space Propulsion, Future Energy,
Astrosociology, Gravity Waves and Space Science, and Technology Forums. Our Andrew Beckwith and Thomas Valone will be speaking.
Discussions will include peer-reviewed papers, published by Elsevier
Science Publishers through ScienceDirect known worldwide, on: human
missions to mars, new energy, propulsion, NASA advanced concepts,
bioelectromagnetics, life extension, gravitomagnetics, antigravity,
Podkletnov effect, space elevators, beamed power, nuclear propulsion,
toroidal coils, coler apparatus, low energy nuclear power, water
electrolyzers, maglevs, space habitats, and more.
Learn more at http://www.futurenergy.org
Kepler Space Institute Conference
The Kepler Space Institute Conference will be held at Hilton Head, South
Carolina on March 14–16, 2012.
The Kepler Space Institute (KSI) and Kepler Space University (KSU) are
Earth’s newest higher education and research entities focusing on both
Earth and Space Sciences. The Kepler team of experienced scientists,
engineers, professors, astronauts, managers, aerospace and defense
experts and researchers has enjoyed creating this new 21st Century
Combination of Institute and University that personalizes courses and
programs for scholar’s career needs.
Learn more at http://www.keplerspaceinstitute.info/
Technology Frontiers
Technology Frontiers will be held March 22–23, 2012 at Inmarsat
Conference Centre, London.
Technology Frontiers is not about what the future holds for technology
it is about how we can transform our business, social, and economic
fortunes. The most visionary companies of the last decade are the ones
that anticipated how technology would change society and impelled them
to do something completely different. Many of these technologies are
already here, what impacts will they have for your business?
Learn more at
http://www.economistconferences.co.uk/e...-content
Capital Science 2012
The Washington Academy of Sciences and its Affiliates will hold their
fifth biennial pan-Affiliate Conference, Capital Science 2012, on March
31 – April 1 in Arlington, Virginia, USA. With over 20 Affiliates
participating, the Conference will serve as an umbrella for scientific
presentations, seminars, tutorials, and talks.
Learn more at http://www.washacadsci.org/
2nd International Conference on Genetics of Aging and Longevity
The 2nd International Conference on Genetics of Aging and Longevity will
be held April 22–25, 2012 in Moscow, Russia.
Our Andrzej Bartke, Vadmim Fraifeld, Maria Konovalenko, Michael Rose,
Jan Vijg, and Alex Zhavoronkov are participating.
Learn more at http://aging-genes2012.ru/en/
2012 International High-Power Laser Ablation Conference
The 2012 International High-Power Laser Ablation (HPLA) Conference will
be held April 30 – May 3 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. The Symposium
Chair is our Dr. Claude R. Phipps.
This conference addresses all aspects of the interaction of lasers with
condensed matter, from fundamental theory and simulations to material
processing. Groundbreaking physics is discussed for its own sake, but
the conference also devotes some sessions, as appropriate, to recent
advances in laser physics which are of use in applications. In the past,
these have ranged from femtosecond material processing to space
propulsion.
Learn more at http://www.usasymposium.com/hpla/
Jerusalem International Conference on Integrative Medicine
The Jerusalem International Conference on Integrative Medicine will be
held in Jerusalem on May 13–15, 2012. This conference brings together
physicians and therapists from all over the world for a scientific
meeting and dialog on the methods, techniques, and progress of
integrative medicine.
Learn more at http://www.mediconvention.com/
2012 Design Science: Global Solutions Lab
The 2012 Design Science: Global Solutions Lab will be held June 17–25,
2012 at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA, and United Nations, NY.
Participants come from around the world, are briefed by UN experts,
develop a series of solutions and strategies for solving critical
problems facing the world, present their work at the UN to a panel of
UN, corporate and foundation leaders and then have their work published
as a book that is distributed around the world. This year the focus is
on meeting the basic human needs of those living in urban environments
through green technology.
Learn more at http://www.designsciencelab.com/
Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems
The Thirteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation
of Living Systems (ALIFE 13) will be held July 19–22, 2012 at Michigan
State University in East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
Keynote speakers are:
- Steven Benner, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Synthetic Biology
- Oron Catts, University of Western Australia, Biotechnology & Art
- Benjamin Kerr, University of Washington, Experimental Evolution
- Radhika Nagpal, Harvard University, Self-Organizing Systems
- Jack Szostak, 2009 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Evolution in Action
Learn more at http://alife13.org/
Innovations in Biomedical Material 2012
Innovations in Biomedical Material 2012 will be held September 10–13,
2012 at the Hilton North Raleigh–Midtown, North Carolina, USA. Abstracts
are due by March 7, 2012.
Innovations in Biomedical Materials 2012 brings together the materials
research, manufacturing, and medical communities to explore
technological advancements, facilitate product innovations, and identify
potential new applications. This conference will specifically look at
technological advancements, discuss product innovations, and identify
potential applications.
Learn more at
http://ceramics.org/meetings/innovation...als-2012
2012 Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems
The 2012 Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems will be held
September 19–25, 2012 at Kypriotis Hotels and Conference Center, Kos
island, Greece.
Symposium topics include: modeling complex systems, complex and adaptive
dynamical systems, evolution of complexity, self-organized systems,
complexity measurement, complexity and information theory, (random)
boolean networks, cellular automata, controlling complexity, chaotic
dynamical systems, determinism behind thermodynamics and
anti-thermodynamics, synchronization and information in dynamical
networks, chaos control, quantum dynamics, quantum chaos, complex
dynamics in biological systems, molecular dynamics simulations, complex
adaptive human systems, natural selection and Darwinian dynamics, and
cybernetics.
Learn more at https://sites.google.com/site/complexsystems2012/
BICA 2012 Conference
The BICA (Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures) 2012 Conference
will be held October 31 – November 2, 2012 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. General Chair is our Antonio Chella.
The challenge of creating a real-life computational equivalent of the
human mind requires that we better understand at a computational level
how natural intelligent systems develop their cognitive and learning
functions. In recent years, biologically inspired cognitive
architectures have emerged as a powerful new approach toward gaining
this kind of understanding (here “biologically inspired” is understood
broadly as “brain-mind inspired”).
Learn more at http://bicasociety.org/meetings/2012/
News
A group of scientists is pushing to publish research about how they
created a man-made flu virus that could potentially wipe out
civilization.
Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/11/wiping...lization
Quotes
Our quotes page now has a quote from Amazon's Jeff Bezos at http://lifeboat.com/ex/quotes#bezos
Blog
Some interesting blog posts include:
“Brief Critique: The New God Argument” by James Felton Keith at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/12/brief-...argument
“Sic transit hominum, or the transcent of man (part 3: a million years)”
by Jared Daniel at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/12/sic-tr...on-years
“Space Travel Talking Points” by Gary Michael Church at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/12/space-...g-points
Our Facebook group now has over 1,000 members. Join our discussions at https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeboatfoundation
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
Jeff Bone: $6,000,
Benjamin R. Hoffman: $1,000,
Donald Maclean: $200,
Zubin Wadia: $100,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Brandon E. Larson: $50,
Walter C. Putnam: $50,
Joel D. Isaacson: $36,
Jonathan Wright: $30,
Michael Breazeale: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Anonymous: $10,
Ronald Amos: $10,
James Bracken: $10,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Charles Hawk: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Glenn A. Miller: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
Phil Nadeau: $10,
Frank D. Smith: $10,
and Benjamin T. Solomon: $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.
