Faculty News - Singularity University

Advancing Humanity: Singularity University’s Ramez Naam

May. 13, 2019

The Co-Chair for Energy and Environment at Singularity University on how he envisions (and enables) the future.

Chicken robots, fitbits for horses, connected cows — here’s what’s going on in animal tech

Apr. 24, 2019

Hunt, a graduate of California’s Singularity University and now a lecturer there, wants to bring more measurability to farming, with cheaper sensors and computing equipment making it possible to track individual animal’s much more closely than before

Artificial Intelligence will change your life. The thing is, no one really knows how.

Apr. 24, 2019

It’s now time to introduce you to Ray Kurzweil, or as they call him in a documentary, “The Transcendent Man”. Scientist, inventor, writer, musician, entrepreneur, creator of the Singularity University, lately director of engineering at Google.

A Futurist’s Take on the ‘Exponential’ Energy Transition

Apr. 23, 2019

Ramez is chair of energy and environmental systems at Singularity University. He is a computer scientist who worked at Microsoft developing products like Outlook and Internet Explorer. And he’s also the author of the award-winning science fiction series, “Nexus.”

Lessons On Longevity- What The East Can Teach The West To Harness The ‘Longevity Dividend’

Apr. 18, 2019

One expert, Jose Cordeiro, Director of the Millennium Project and founding faculty member of Singularity University, affirms that the “longevity escape velocity” (the point at which life expectancy is being extended longer than the time that is passing) will be reached in 2030- meaning that by 2045 we will be immortal.

Beyond the echo chamber

Apr. 15, 2019

Dharmishta Rood from Singularity University, Silicon Valley, opened the first keynote by inviting delegates to discuss what ‘community’ means for legal tech with each other

Book Review: BOLD

Mar. 15, 2019

So about the authors : Peter Diamandis is the founder of companies : X Prize, Singularity University, and other Space Companies.

19 People to watch in 2019: Marius Ursache – From digital advertising to innovating

Mar. 13, 2019

He survived frog poison with the Matses tribe in the Amazon, got scarred by the Mursi tribe in Ethiopia, cooked tajine for fishermen in Taghazout, Morocco and, all of that, while being a speak and mentor frequently at MIT, Singularity University (a reality that he would compare to working at Hogwarts, the magic university in the Harry Potter universe), Ars Electronica, and other universities or startup programs around the world.

Innovation Agent Salim Ismail on Eskom’s Latest Fiasco

Mar. 1, 2019

Ahead of his keynote address at Africa Tech Week, happening 4-5 March 2019, Fast Company South Africa sat down with Salim Ismail, founding executive director and global ambassador for Singularity University, and asked his opinion on a pressing issue.

Can robots and humans co-exist peacefully?

Feb. 18, 2019

The most famous prophet of technological singularity in our times is scientist-writer Ray Kurzweil who, in 2008, founded the Singularity University in California to advance the study of technological singularity and at the same time explore how humans can keep up with machine intelligence through exponentially developing nanotechnology and biotechnology.