A-PRIZE
We have launched the A-PRIZE at http://lifeboat.com/ex/a-prize This
contest was developed by our Scientific Advisory Board member Alan H. Goldstein who coauthored the National Research Council's triennial
review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI).
This prize is awarded to the person or organization responsible for
creating an Animat/Artificial life form with an emphasis on the safety
of the researchers, public, and environment OR the person or
organization who shows that an Animat/Artificial life form has been
created. (The second case is to uncover unpublicized or unsafe
projects.)
The purpose of the A-PRIZE is to put development of artificial life
forms in the open where it should be. Today, many efforts at developing
artificial life are not well publicized. The A-PRIZE will serve as a
clearing house for information about the race to "Break the Carbon
Barrier". With mega-universities and companies racing to create
nonbiological life, now is the time for such a clearing house.
World News
33,000 British Airways passengers may have been exposed to polonium 210
due to an alleged KGB assassination in London. (Airplanes contaminated
by transportation of polonium 210 from Moscow to London.)
Polonium 210 is the deadliest poison known to man. This radioactive
element used as a trigger in nuclear weapons is so powerful that a
lethal dose can be passed on through the body in sweat or saliva.
Learn more at http://research.lifeboat.com/33000.htm
EM Competition
Daniel Armel and Hao Le have qualified as contestants for our EM Launch
Competition. We would like to expand this competition!
Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/ex/em
Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil has received the IEEE Professional Communication Societies
Goldsmith Award for 2006 for Distinguished Contributions to Engineering
Communication.
The award honors those "broadly involved in communication as related to
engineering and scientific endeavors" and was announced at the 2006 IEEE
International Professional Communication Conference in Saratoga Springs.
Banners
The NanoTechnology Group has put up a free banner ad for us at
http://www.thenanotechnologygroup.org/i...&Menu=28
Space Quotes to Ponder has put up a free banner ad for us at
http://www.spacequotes.com/
Reports
Our Scientific Advisory Board members have generated many interesting
reports recently. They include:
"Minding the Planet: The Meaning and Future of the Semantic Web" by Nova
Spivack at http://lifeboat.com/ex/minding.the.planet
"Risking Human Extinction" by John Leslie at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/risking.human.extinction
"The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth: Chapter Eight"
by William E. Burrows at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/using.space.to.p...ct.earth
