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LIFEBOAT NEWS 
May 14 -
Li-Hai Tan, who
showed that a person dyslexic in English
may not be dyslexic in Chinese
and vice versa,
joins our Neuroscience Board.
May 13 -
Artificial heart pioneer
Tofy Mussivand joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
May 13 -
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, author of
Some Pitfalls in the Philosophical Foundations of Nanoethics
and
The Mechanization of the Mind and editor of
Self-Deception and Paradoxes of Rationality,
joins our Ethics Board.
May 13 -
Sonia M. Suter, author of
The Allure and Peril of Genetic Exceptionalism: Do We Need Special
Genetics Legislation?, joins our Ethics Board.
May 12 -
Saskia Sassen, author of
A Sociology of Globalization and
Cities in a World Economy, joins our Human Trajectories
Board.
Saskia coined the term
global city.
May 12 -
Anind K. Dey,
coauthor of
Managing Personal Information Disclosure in Ubiquitous Computing
Environments,
Designer Support for Context Monitoring and Control, and
SiteView: Tangibly Programming Active Environments with Predictive
Visualization, joins our Information Sciences Board.
May 11 -
Scott Reif, the
author of
The Future of Advanced Transportation, joins our Futurists
Board.
May 11 -
World-renowned thinker, writer, and speaker on the future,
Joe Coates, joins our Futurists Board.
May 8 -
Fuyu Tamanoi, who has
developed
nanoimpellers which are the first demonstration of controlled and
on-demand
release of anticancer drugs using mechanized nanoparticles in living
cells, joins our Biotech/Medical Board and Nanotechnology
Board.
May 6 -
Graham K. Whitehead, author of
New Technology, New Society, joins our Futurists Board.
May 6 -
Read
issue #70 of Lifeboat News!
May 5 - Read
Brain-Computer Interfaces for Manipulating Dreams by our
Michael Anissimov.
May 5 -
Peter J.
Bentley, editor of
Evolutionary Design by Computers, joins our Robotics/AI
Board. Peter is also author of the popular science book
The Book of Numbers: The Secret of Numbers and
How They Changed the World.
May 4 -
Paul Richmond, author of
A GPU Framework for the Real-Time Simulation and Interaction of
Massive Agent Based Systems, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
May 4 -
Summer Johnson, author of
Ethics in Nanomedicine: a Needs-Assessment and Proposals
for the Future,
joins our Ethics Board.
May 4 -
Read
Science-Fiction Writers Help Government Prepare for Attacks of the
Future which describes efforts by our
Arlan Andrews,
Greg Bear, and
Jerry
Pournelle.
May 3 -
On May 31,
Daniel Dennett and
Ray Kurzweil will be speaking about
What it Means to be Human at Skirball Center, NYU which is
part of
the NY08 World Science Festival in New York City.
May 2 -
Watch
Brian Cox's TED talk
What Really Goes on at the Large Hadron
Collider.
May 1 -
Read
AI Meets the Metaverse: Teachable AI Agents Living in Virtual
Worlds by
Ben
Goertzel.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
On May 31, 2008,
Daniel Dennett and
Ray Kurzweil will be speaking about
What it Means to be Human at Skirball Center, NYU which is
part of
the NY08 World Science Festival in New York City.
Don't Panic! We have found
The Ultimate Answer to The Great Question of Life, the Universe, and
Everything. The answer is a
WorldFuture 2008 lineup with over 42 Lifeboat
Foundation Scientific Advisory Board members.
Lawrence A. Baines,
Raj Bawa,
Craig Bettles,
Peter C. Bishop,
Dennis M. Bushnell,
Josh Calder,
Arthur L.
Caplan,
Joe Coates,
José
Luis Cordeiro,
William J.
Cosgrove,
William
Crossman,
Irene
J. Dabrowski,
Yasmin Dada-Jones,
Devin Fidler,
Medard Gabel,
Ashok K.
Gangadean,
Jay Gary,
Jerry Glenn,
Ted
Gordon,
Terry Grim,
Linda Groff,
William E.
Halal,
Don
Heathfield,
Jay Herson,
Michael
Jackson,
Carl Jensen III,
Shun-jie Ji,
Tom
Lombardo,
Gary Marx,
Jim Mathews,
Kenneth L.
Nichols,
Amy Oberg,
Jonathan Peck,
John L.
Petersen,
Carrie Rathsack,
Scott Reif,
Sheila R. Ronis,
Karlin Sloan,
Rick Smyre,
Stephen F.
Steele,
Mike Treder,
Thomas F. Valone,
Verne Wheelwright,
James Wright,
Mariann
Zanardo,
and
Michael Zey
will be speaking at
WorldFuture 2008:
Seeing the Future Through New Eyes at the
Hilton Washington, Washington, D.C., from
July 26 to July 28, 2008.
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