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- James P. Evans, Editor-in-Chief of Genetics in Medicine, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Read Biologist Teaches the Nation's Judges About Genetics.
 
- Sumeet Dua, coauthor of Classification of Heart Rate Data Using Artificial Neural Network and Fuzzy Equivalence Relation, joins our Information Sciences Board. Sumeet specializes in the design of algorithms for analysis of microarray gene expression and protein sequence/structure data to help fuel physiological information discovery.
 
- Shane Legg, author of Friendly AI is Bunk and coauthor of Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
 
- Tim Freeman, author of Using Compassion and Respect to Motivate an Artificial Intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
 
- Brian Wang upgrades our LifeShield Bunkers program.
 
- Teena James, coauthor of Active MOS Capacitive Sensor Array for Lab-On-a-Chip Applications, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
 
- Michael Shermer joins our Scientific Advisory Board. He is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the Executive Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, and Adjunct Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University.
 
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- Manu Sebastian Mannoor, coauthor of BioMEMS — Advancing the Frontiers of Medicine, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
 
- Peter Kalivas joins our Neuroscience Board. He is a member of the NARSAD Scientific Council and Professor and Chair of Neurosciences, The Neuroscience Institute, Medical University of South Carolina. NARSAD is the world's leading charity dedicated to mental health research.
 
- Andrew Braswell joins our Economics Board and Finance Board. He is Director of Research, iNano Capital Markets. He oversees all of the firm's published investment research, including pure-play coverage, theme-based reports, and its weekly iNano Focus.
 
- Thanks to input from Joscha Bach, Matt Bamberger, Daniel Berleant, and Joshua Fox, our AIShield Program has been improved.
 
- Balaji "Baloo" Panchapakesan, who developed a unique nanobomb that can literally blow up cancer tumors, joins our Biotech/Medical Board and Nanotechnology Board.
 
Baloo will also be speaking at NanoTX USA, an international conference and trade expo covering nanotechnology which will be held Oct 2-3, 2008 in Austin, Texas. This event highlights advances in nanoscience and explains how nanotechnology is being used today and how it will impact a broad range of industries tomorrow: electronics, energy, aerospace, defense, biomedicine, robotics, chemicals, and more.
 
- Alexandra Carmichael joins our Biotech/Medical Board. She is cofounder of CureTogether, an open source health research company that brings patients and researchers together to collaborate with each other on the path to finding cures for human diseases.
 
- Didier Sornette, who has discovered that we are in the peak of an oil bubble, joins our Complex Systems Board and Economics Board.
 
UPCOMING EVENTS
Our Andrew Braswell, Teena James, Manu Sebastian Mannoor, and Balaji "Baloo" Panchapakesan will be speaking at NanoTX USA, an international conference and trade expo covering nanotechnology which will be held Oct 2-3, 2008 in Austin, Texas.
 
This event highlights advances in nanoscience and explains how nanotechnology is being used today and how it will impact a broad range of industries tomorrow: electronics, energy, aerospace, defense, biomedicine, robotics, chemicals, and more.
 
Our Mark J. Clement and Sumeet Dua will be participating in the Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT 2008) which will be held October 17-18, 2008 in Arlington, Texas.
 
This symposium brings together scientists, engineers, and scholars from relevant fields with practitioners from industry in order to help each group to understand progress made in the area as a whole.
 
Thomas H. LaBean, who used DNA self-assembly to mass-produce patterned nanostructures, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
 
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We have College classroom tested coursework available which was developed by Gary Scott Danford, Ph.D., University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
 
IBM's Metaverse Evangelist Roo Reynolds joins our Futurists Board and Media & Arts Board.
 
Alexandra Carmichael joins our Biotech/Medical Board. She is cofounder of CureTogether, an open source health research company that brings patients and researchers together to collaborate with each other on the path to finding cures for human diseases.
 
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Our Scientific Advisory Board completes our BioShield program. The BioShield goals have been endorsed by U.S. Senator Bill Frist, Sun Cofounder Bill Joy, and Futurist-Inventor Ray Kurzweil!
 
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