WorldFuture 2010
WorldFuture 2010: Sustainable Futures, Strategies, and Technologies
will be held July 8-10, 2010 at The Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in
Boston, Massachusetts. Our Janna Quitney Anderson, Peter Bishop, Dennis
Bushnell, Joseph F. Coates, José Luis Cordeiro, William Cosgrove, Medard
Gabel, Jay Gary, Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, Linda Groff,
William Halal, Jay Herson, Rodney Hill, John Jackson, Michael Jackson,
Carl Jensen III, Ted Kahn, Ray Kurzweil, Bernard H. Levin, Thomas
Lombardo, Gary Marx, Hameed Nezhad, Pavel Novácek, Amy Oberg, Leslie
Schneider, Rick Smyre, Stephen F. Steele, Mohan Tikku, Patrick Tucker,
Wendell Wallach, and Verne Wheelwright will be speaking/participating.
Learn more at http://www.wfs.org/2010main.htm
Green Computing Conference
The paper submission deadline for The First International Green
Computing Conference has been extended to April 7, 2010.
The First International Green Computing Conference, Technically
Co-Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, addresses key issues and topics
related to energy efficiency in computing and promoting environmentally
friendly computer technologies and systems. The conference aims to
provide a forum to a wide audience for discussing, sharing, and
investigating the state-of-the-art for all aspects of green computing,
which include energy-efficient use of computers, design of algorithms
and systems for environmentally-friendly computer technologies, and wide
range of related topics.
Learn more at http://www.green-conf.org/
AGI-10
Our final AGI-10 lineup was Itamar Arel, Eric Baum, Nick Cassimatis,
Antonio Chella, Wlodek Duch, Ben Goertzel, J. Storrs "Josh" Hall, Marcus
Hutter, Matthew Iklé, Bert Kappen, Randal Koene, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger,
John Laird, Christian Lebiere, Shane Legg, Carlo Lepori, Moshe Looks,
András Lörincz, Hamid Reza Maei, David Orban, Cassio Pennachin, Jan
Poland, Stephen Reed, Sebastian Rudolph, Anders Sandberg, Tom Schaul,
Jürgen Schmidhuber, Kristinn Thórisson, Antoine van de Ven, Marco
Wiering, Mary-Anne Williams, David Wolpert, and Robert Wray.
Learn more about The Third Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
at http://agi-conf.org/2010/
Blog
Dylan Evans joins our blog team with the post "Risk intelligence" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=774
Ray Kurzweil joins our blog team with the post "Reflections on Avatar"
at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=752
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
Tyrone Steels II: $264,
Benjamin R. Hoffman: $255,
Ed Ziaebrahimi: $200,
Michael Anissimov: $85,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Abraham Ben-David: $29.97,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Frank C. Adamek: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Anonymous: $20,
Dreamcatcher Multimedia: $20,
Ronald Amos: $10,
Aaron Balogun: $10,
Christopher Dilkus: $10,
James Doerhing: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
Stephen Fleming: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Linus Petersson: $10,
John N. Philipps (Jack): $10,
Presentation Technology Reviews: $10,
Rhonda Stevenson: $10,
and Lexi and Bailey Armstrong: $1.
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.
