Triple Digits
Glenn Reynolds became our 100th donor with a $100 donation. Our donor list is now in the triple digits! Glenn is Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee and is best known for his blog Instapundit, one of the most widely read American political blogs. See the full donor list at http://lifeboat.com/ex/donor.date.list
NanoShield
Help us begin the early steps in constructing a NanoShield.
Help fund diamond mechanosynthesis research at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/grant5
Note that the long-term goal of the Lifeboat Foundation is to complete
scientific research projects. We aim to be much more than a simple
think tank.
Another Nobel Laureate
Nobel Laureate Eric S. Maskin joined our Scientific Advisory Board. We congratulate him on his 2007 Nobel win! Read his bio at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.eric.s.maskin
Guardian 2007 Award
James Martin has been named 2007 Guardian Award winner. The Lifeboat
Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a respected
scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with
dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
This year's award is in recognition of the achievements of James
Martin's Future of Humanity Institute in studying global catastrophic
risks and impacts of future technologies.
Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/ex/guardian2007
More Languages
Thanks to Harri Wolf, we now have a German version of our about page. Thanks to Jack Halpern and Sergio M.L. Tarrero, we now have a Spanish
version of our about page.
Thanks to Jack Halpern we now have a Chinese, French, Hebrew, Korean,
and a Romanian version of our about page. Jack has raised our total to
10 languages!
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Siai)
Ben Goertzel, who is SIAI Director of Research, CEO of Novamente, a
software company aimed at creating applications in the area of natural
language question-answering, and chair of the Artificial General
Intelligence Research Institute, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Susan Fonseca-Klein who is President of Fonseca LLC, Chief
Administration Officer for The Singularity Institute for Artificial
Intelligence, cofounder of the Immortality Institute, and who was a
participant in the Moot Court Hearing On The Petition Of A Conscious
Computer, joins our Legal Board.
Pejman Makhfi, Director of Venture Development at the Singularity
Institute and Managing Director of Venture Choice, a private angel
group, joins our Finance Board.
Colby Thomson, Associate Director of Strategy at the Singularity
Institute, joins our Finance Board. He is also CEO of Allied Strategy
and Tri-Chair of the 2015 Vision Group: University R&D Corridor.
Many other SIAI folks including the amazing Eliezer Yudkowsky are on our
SAB as well.
To celebrate so many SIAI folks joining our SAB recently, we have now
improved the name of our UFAI-Shield to AIShield as we prepare to put
more effort into this program.
Distraught Participants Riot at the Foresight Unconference
Read "Distraught Participants Riot at the Foresight Unconference" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=104
Upcoming Events
Ben Goertzel will be speaking at The First Conference on Artificial
General Intelligence at the FedEx Institute of Technology, University of
Memphis in cooperation with AAAI, March 1-3, 2008.
Learn more at http://www.agi-08.org/
Lifeshield Bunkers
We have now launched the LifeShield Bunkers program whose goal is the
creation of fallback positions on Earth in case programs such as our
BioShield and NanoShield fail globally or locally.
Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/ex/life.shield.bunkers
Growing Membership
Eric Bauswell joins our important LF 500 team!
David Brin provides support for our U.S. Naval Operations Strategic
Studies Group (SSG) meeting which is fully funded by our members. Anthony Waller, director of the upcoming movie "The Singularity is
Near", also supports this project with a donation.
Here are some of the recent donations/pledges we have received since
the last newsletter:
Eric Bauswell: $25,550,
Jim Rutt: $500,
Michael Silverton: $500,
David W. Wall: $450,
Jaan Tallinn: $300,
Anonymous: $190,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $170,
Joseph P. Jackson III: $110,
Jeffrey Herrlich: $100,
Glenn Reynolds: $100,
Michael Anissimov: $85,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85,
Thoughtware.TV: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
MFD Industries: $75,
C M Anderson: $50,
John A. Barnden: $50,
Rob Enderle: $50,
Michael Fleischmann: $50,
Linda Glenn: $50,
Behrokh Khoshnevis (Berok): $50,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $50,
Anthony Waller: $50,
Chuck Weir: $50,
Kenneth Reising: $35,
Kemal Akman: $30,
Zeresenay Alemseged (Zeray): $25,
Arlan Andrews: $25,
David Brin: $25,
Matt Browne: $25,
Vincent A. Cate: $25,
Adam Dobrin: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Jeff Krukin: $25,
Nickolaus E. Leggett: $25,
Bud Mishra: $25,
Stephan A. Schwartz: $25,
Mark A. Walker: $25,
James William Taylor: $25,
Stephen Fleming: $20,
Joshua Fox: $10,
Sylvia Engdahl: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Glenn A. Miller: $10,
Adrian-Bodgan Morut (Adi): $10,
John N. Philipps (Jack): $10,
Douglas Rushkoff: $10,
Pennye Shaw: $10,
Kaj Sotala: $10,
Michael Vassar: $10,
and Donna Beck: $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.
