News by and about SU’s expert faculty
Mar. 15, 2019
So about the authors : Peter Diamandis is the founder of companies : X Prize, Singularity University, and other Space Companies.
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.
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.
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.
Feb. 13, 2019
Ramez Naam, who lectures on energy and environment at Silicon Valley’s Singularity University, outlined similar policy ideas to Majkut in a viral Twitter thread on Friday.
Feb. 12, 2019
A third speaker, Neil Jacobstein, chair of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Track at Singularity University and a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford University, talked about how data, combined with artificial intelligence techniques, is prepared to radically transform health care.
Feb. 9, 2019
[Translated] Ray Kurzweil is probably the most influential futurist in the world. But far beyond futuristic, Ray is an engineer at the prestigious MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), inventor, entrepreneur, musician, educator and writer. All his books on technology have been best sellers, among them The Singularity is close published in 2005 and How to create a mind in 2012. Now Ray is about to launch his new book, which will undoubtedly be another great international best-seller: The Singularity It is closer .
Jan. 10, 2019
Peter Diamandis is a thought leader who has started over 20 companies. One of those companies is a venture company that invests in exponential technologies. In this talk he discusses exponential technologies among other ideas.
Jan. 10, 2019
Brad Templeton, chair for computing at Singularity University, said, “While obviously there will be good and bad, the broad history of automation technologies is positive, even when it comes to jobs. There is more employment today than ever in history.”
Dec. 28, 2018
Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and Guest Lecturer at Singularity University
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