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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.
 
Read his Toward a Type 1 Civilization.
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.
Mark J. Clement, who has been involved with Phylogenetic Analysis (determining evolutionary histories through the examination of DNA) which requires extensive network and computational resources, joins our Information Sciences Board.
 
Mark is 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.
Nick Rhodes, author of Inflammatory Signals in the Development of Tissue-Engineered Soft Tissue, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Gil Alterovitz, who has created a computer program that translates protein and gene expression into music, joins our Biotech/Medical Board and Engineering Board. In his acoustic translation, harmony represents good health, and discord indicates disease, which enables his program to be used for diagnostic purposes.
Sarah Tabrizi, who discovered new targets for treating Huntington's disease, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Jeannie Novak, founder of Indiespace — one of the first companies to promote and distribute interactive entertainment online, where she consults with creative professionals in the music, film, and television industries to help them migrate to the game industry, joins our Media & Arts Board.
 
Jeannie was chosen as one of the 100 most influential people in high-technology by MicroTimes magazine — and she has been profiled by CNN, Billboard Magazine, Sundance Channel, Daily Variety, and the Los Angeles Times.
Eric Hunting joins our Space Settlement Board. He is principal author of the The Millennial Project 2.0 (TMP2) Wiki project — an evolving contemporary revision of the marine and space development program The Millennial Project originally devised by Marshall T. Savage.
Astrophysicist, author, and recording artist Fiorella Terenzi, described by Time Magazine as "a cross between Carl Sagan and Madonna", joins our Media & Arts Board and Space Settlement Board.
 
Fiorella has performed and recorded with artists from Herbie Hancock to Ornette Coleman and earned her doctorate in physics from the University of Milan.
Preorder Arthur C. Clarke's final novel The Last Theorem, coauthored with our Frederik Pohl.
 
Read the free special report Sir Arthur C. Clarke in 3001: Don't Panic! by our José Luis Cordeiro.
Ali Khademhosseini, who is developing self-assembling tissues, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Hailin Cong, who has developed a contact lens with a built-in pressure sensor that could help monitor conditions such as glaucoma, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Lev Sadovnik, who has built a microwave ray gun able to beam sounds directly into people's heads, joins our Engineering Board.
Patric Hagmann, who identified the brain "core" that could reveal secrets of thought, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Chezy Barenholz, whose cancer treatment DOXIL is marketed by Johnson & Johnson, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Chezy also recently developed nanoparticles that trigger the built-in cell-death signal as a solution to the growing drug resistance of cancer cells.
Emanuele Montomoli, who developed a bird flu vaccine made from monkey cells instead of chicken eggs, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Programmer and AI psychologist Justin Corwin joins our Robotics/AI Board.
David Cramb, who invented "molecular nanovalves", joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Watch Blue Beauty! (Improved from our old PowerPoint version.)
World renowned influenza virologist John Oxford joins our Biotech/Medical Board. John is especially proud of Retroscreen Virology, which he established in 1989 with the help of EU funding.
 
Retroscreen Virology has grown into Europe's leading contract virology research company. It is the only company in the UK able to conduct human influenza challenge studies in a specialized quarantine unit with A/Panama/2007/99 and A/New Caledonia/20/99 viruses and has characterized influenza A (H1N1 and H3N2) and B viruses.
Security expert Harvey Newstrom joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Romi Nijhawan, who discovered that the brain anticpates the future to "see" the present, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Timothy Hubbard, who authored What is Mental Representation? And how does it Relate to Consciousness?, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Artificial-life scientist Dave Deamer, who coauthored Origins of Life: The Central Concepts, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Cameron Wright, whose real-time machine vision system is based on the vision system of a housefly, joins our Engineering Board.
Tod Lauer, whose Dark Energy Space Telescope (Destiny) will be a space-based dark energy observatory, joins our Cosmology Board. Asteroid (3135) Lauer was named after him and he is the winner of the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement.
Charles Miller, CEO of Constellation Services International (CSI), joins our Space Settlement Board.
Jamie Barger, Head, Project Management, Lifegen Technologies, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Jamie coauthored The retardation of aging by caloric restriction: its significance in the transgenic era with Roy Walford.
Roel Vertegaal, who developed technology that allows advertisers to count the number of people who look at their billboards and screens, joins our Transparency vs. Privacy Board.
José Robles, who was lead author on a research paper that evaluated 11 properties that could plausibly be connected with life and showed that our sun is not particularly special, joins our Cosmology Board.
Paul Thompson, coeditor of What Can Nanotechnology Learn From Biotechnology?: Social and Ethical Lessons for Nanoscience from the Debate over Agrifood Biotechnology and GMOs, joins our Ethics Board.
Read Should we be phoning E.T.?
Read The Doomsday Device is Ignored.
Ali Nouri and Toby Ord have joined our Global Catastrophic Risks Conference lineup.
Ali Nouri joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Ali works on the UN Secretary-General's biotechnology and human security initiative, which is intended to promote biotechnology in developing countries, while minimizing the risks.
Toby Ord joins our Ethics Board. Toby coauthored The Reversal Test: Eliminating Status Quo Bias in Applied Ethics with Nick Bostrom and is a member of the Future of Humanity Institute staff.
Yi-Fen Lee, who discovered that Vitamin D protects cells from stress that can lead to cancer, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Rafaela Hillerbrand joins our Complex Systems Board and Ethics Board. She is a member of the Future of Humanity Institute staff and earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Erlangen-Nünberg and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the University of Müster and the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur.
 
Rafaela will also be one of our speakers at the Global Catastrophic Risks Conference which will be held July 17 to July 20 at the University of Oxford.
Pekka Janhunen, who developed a huge electronic sail for spacecraft that may dramatically reduce journey times across our solar system, joins our Engineering Board.
Mirko Kovač, who developed a robot that weighs a minuscule 7 grams, and can jump 1.4 meters, or more than 27 times its body size — ten times farther for its size and weight than any existing jumping robot — joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Read the updated version of SHOUTING AT THE COSMOS...Or How SETI has Taken a Worrisome Turn Into Dangerous Territory by David Brin.
Jonathan Harris joins our Media & Arts Board. Combining elements of computer science, anthropology, visual art, and storytelling, Jonathan designs systems to explore and explain the human world. Watch his TED talk!
William B. Grant who showed that insufficient vitamin D3 is linked to cancer risk, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
William is Founding Director, Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center, an entity devoted to research, education, and advocacy relating to the prevention of chronic disease through changes in diet and lifestyle.
Sergio M.L. Tarrero joins our Folding@Home team, working to help scientists understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases.
Read Tower of Babel, other big thoughts at humanities fest.
Milan M. Ćirković, who coauthored Galactic Gradients, Postbiological Evolution, and the Apparent Failure of SETI with Robert J. Bradbury, joins our Cosmology Board.
 
Milan will also be one of our speakers at the Global Catastrophic Risks Conference which will be held July 17 to July 20 at the University of Oxford.
Nick Gogerty, creator of the blog Designing Better Futures, joins our Futurists Board.
Andrew Pask, who was able to activate genes from the extinct Tansmanian tiger in a mouse, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Our blog posts are now showing up in Google News!
Abraham Zangen, who has developed a gentler way to jump-start the brain, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Yuri Ivanov, whose "Big brother" buildings offer less invasive security, joins our Transparency vs. Privacy Board.
Ming Hsu, whose brain scan research showed that our "hearts rule our minds", joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Kevin Hogan, author of The Secret Language of Business: How to Read Anyone in 3 Seconds or Less, joins our Business Board.
Albert "Skip" Rizzo, who is using VR technology to treat soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Read issue #72 of Lifeboat News!
Stuart Eves, who is working with NASA to forecast earthquakes using satellites, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Terry Wallace, Principal Associate Director for Science, Technology, and Engineering, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
The Global Catastrophic Risks Conference will be held July 17 to July 20 at the University of Oxford. Our James Hughes, Anders Sandberg, Mike Treder, and Eliezer Yudkowsky will be speaking.
Garrett Kenyon, who is mimicking human sight brain mechanisms on a petaflop supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Pawel Gburzynski, who launched EcoNet — a functional wireless sensor network for environmental monitoring, joins our Sustainability Board.
Doron Lancet joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Doron pioneered genome research in Israel, is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics, and is the head of Israel's National Laboratory for Genome Infrastructure.
Bamshad Mobasher, coauthor of Defending Recommender Systems: Detection of Profile Injection Attacks, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Walter Bender joins our Education Board. Walter is the founder of Sugar Labs, a nonprofit foundation that serves as a support base for the community of educators and software developers who are extending the Sugar user interface.
 
Prior to that, Walter was president for software and content of the One Laptop per Child association, where he developed and deployed technologies that are revolutionizing how the world's children engage in learning.
The University of Delaware's Science, Ethics, and Public Policy (SEPP) program makes us link of the month.
Jonathan Stamler, inventor of over 50 patents and discoverer of a major "missed" biochemical pathway that is important in virtually all cells, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Gary Marcus, author of the 2008 New York Times Editor's Choice Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Watch Kenji Williams present BELLA GAIA - A poetic vision of Earth from Space at the National Mall, DC from July 3 to July 6.
Read The Age of Virtuous Machines by J. Storrs "Josh" Hall.
Read 10 Futuristic Materials by Michael Anissimov.
Read Classifying Extinction Risks by Michael Anissimov.
Thanks to efforts by our Director of Research, Brian Wang, our blog has been approved as an official Google News source and will show up in Google News results within a few weeks.
Read The Fight to End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding.
Listen to our Dennis M. Bushnell on a C-Realm Podcast.
The Terasem Movement donates $4,000 to the Lifeboat Foundation saying, "We believe Lifeboat's work directly relates to Terasem's mission to establish diversity, unity, and joyful immortality via geoethical nanotechnology and personal cyberconsciousness."
 
And Michael Haislip joins our LF 500 which is a $25,000 commitment.
Alistair Tweed, Director of Aging Management and Methuselah Foundation Outreach Coordinator - UK, joins our Futurists Board.
Learn about Understanding Aging: Biomedical and Bioengineering Approaches which will be held June 28-29 at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. Our Jan Vijg will be speaking.
Learn about Aging: the Disease, the Cure, the Implications (Aging 2008) which will be held June 27th at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. Our Aubrey de Grey and Gregory Stock will be speaking.
Maria Entraigues joins our Media & Arts Board. Maria's written songs and performed as a soloist singer for several feature films including Rush Hour 2 (with Jackie Chan), After the Sunset (with Pierce Brosnan), The Magnificent Ambersons (with Madeleine Stowe), Picking up the Pieces (with Woody Allen), Diamond Hunters (with Alyssa Milano), and A Walk in the Clouds (with Keanu Reeves).
University of Cambridge neuroscientist Molly Crockett joins our Neuroscience Board. Read the Science article Deal or No Deal? which discusses her research into serotonin's (5-HT) effects on social decision-making.
Joe Lonsdale joins our Finance Board. Joe is a Principal at Clarium Capital Management, a $5 billion AUM global macro hedge fund based in SF and NYC, where he manages research and trading teams.
Mark O'Green, distinguished game designer, author, and a member of SIGMA, a group of science fiction writers who consult with the government on how to defend against possible attacks in our future, joins our Futurists Board.
Yugang Sun, Argonne National Laboratory, Center for Nanoscale Materials, joins our Nanotechnology Board. Yugang used palladium nanoparticle electrodeposition on nanotubes to develop new flexible hydrogen sensors to help enable a hydrogen-based economy.
Alan Gevins, who has spent the past 40 years developing better ways to analyze the electrical signals emanating from our brains, joins our Neuroscience Board. Alan is the first author of more than 125 scientific publications and of 17 US patents.
Jacob Haqq-Misra, who authored the Pale Blue Dot III Essay Winner The Power of Our Myth, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Pranav Mistry, author of Ghost in the Machine — Making Creative Machines, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Thanks to our many bigger machine donors and the hard work of our new system administrator Chris Haley, our new ginormous machine is up and running. If you notice any problems with our website, please write to webmaster@lifeboat.com with the subject "Lifeboat Foundation Website Errors".
 
Once fully activated, our machine's average load was only 0.0. (That's the lowest possible load.) And since then we have implemented the powerful module mod_perl to increase our peak capacity by a factor of 25. (We are operating in mod_perl's registry mode so both Perl is preloaded and our website engine is precompiled for virtually all pages.)
 
And if you happen to be a SELinux expert, please let us know!
Geoff Brown, CEO and cofounder of Machine-to-Machine Intelligence (m2mi) Corporation, joins our Scientific Advisory Board. Geoff's company is working with NASA to develop "nano" satellites.
Edward M. Hallowell, author of Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood, joins our Education Board.
Jean-Claude Bradley joins our Chemistry Board. Jean-Claude leads the UsefulChem project, an initiative to make the scientific process as transparent as possible by publishing all research work in real time to a collection of public blogs, wikis, and other web pages.
 
Jean-Claude is also Associate Professor of Chemistry and E-Learning Coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University and has invented patents in the areas of synthetic and mechanistic chemistry, gene therapy, nanotechnology, and scientific knowledge management.
Leon Watts, Research Ethics Officer for the Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, UK, joins our Ethics Board.
Mollie Katzen joins our Media & Arts Board. A 2007 inductee into the prestigious James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame, and largely credited with moving healthful vegetarian food from the "fringe" to the center of the American dinner plate, Mollie has been named by Health Magazine as one of "The Five Women Who Changed the Way We Eat".
 
Since 2003, Mollie has been a consultant to Harvard University Dining Services, and co-creator of their new Food Literacy Project. She is also a culinary advisor to the University of California at Berkeley, a nationally syndicated columnist through the Chicago Tribune, and a contributing editor for SHAPE Magazine.
Jason Bobe, Director of Community for the Personal Genome Project which is based out of George Church's lab at Harvard Medical School, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Forrest Liau, President of RallyPoint, which is developing a computerized combat glove that lets soldiers operate wearable computers while still holding their weapons, joins our Engineering Board.
George John, who has developed a low-cost, "green" way to make antimicrobial paints and has invented nanomaterials made from apricots and cashew nuts that could replace petrochemicals, joins our Chemistry Board.
Read Max More in Second Life on "Unsolved Problems in Transhumanism".
SUCCESS! We were able to quickly raise $3,400 for our Bigger Machine Fund — far exceeding our goal of $2,500. Additional funds raised will be used to pay for additional months, for improved network/software/hardware security, and for a backup plan. Long-term, we plan on hosting our site with more than one provider for the ultimate in backup plans. The more you donate, the more infrastructure we will implement.
Thomas Powers, who authored Real Wrongs in Virtual Communities and Environmental Holism and Nanotechnology, joins our Ethics Board.
Ulrich Jentschura, who coauthored Quantum Dot Potentials: Symanzik Scaling, Resurgent Expansions and Quantum Dynamics, joins our Particle Physics Board.
Evan M. H. Faber joins our Futurists Board. Evan cofounded Banaa: the Sudan Educational Empowerment Network, a scholarship and mentorship organization that equips students who have been directly affected by conflict with technical tools for peacemaking and grassroots development.
 
Evan will also be a speaker at WorldFuture 2008: Seeing the Future Through New Eyes.
Richard "rms" M. Stallman joins our Ethics Board and Transparency vs. Privacy Board. RMS is a software developer and software freedom activist. In 1983 he announced the project to develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has been the project's leader ever since. With that announcement RMS also launched the Free Software Movement. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.
Chris Mason joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Chris is an international expert on the translational and commercial aspects of regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, and stem cell technologies.
Ehud Gazit, author of Plenty of Room for Biology at the Bottom: An Introduction to Bionanotechnology, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Michael Archer, who has named and studied more than 120 new species, genera, families, and orders of both living and extinct mammals discovered as a consequence of his research, joins our Sustainability Board.
Peter Garretson, Chief of Future Science and Technology Exploration for the U.S. Air Force, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Chris Haley agrees to become System Administrator for our new machine. He also donates $1,500 bringing our Bigger Machine Fund to $1,925. Only $575 to go!
Keith Henson, cofounder of the L5 Society, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Best selling author Robert Greene, who authored The 48 Laws of Power, joins our Ethics Board.
Nancy Ratey, author of The Disorganized Mind: Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks, and Talents, joins our Education Board.
Read issue #71 of Lifeboat News!
James Blodgett will be distributing Lifeboat Foundation brochures at his poster presentation at the Second World Congress on Risk in Guadalajara, Mexico June 8-11 and his talk at the American Mensa Annual Gathering in Denver, Colorado, July 2-6.
Liane Young, coauthor of A Dissociation Between Moral Judgments and Justifications, joins our Neuroscience Board.
It's time for the Lifeboat Foundation to get a bigger machine! Jaan Tallinn, cofounder of Skype, the only major IM client that both securely authenticates conversation, participants, and encrypts the communication, jump-starts our quest for a bigger machine.
 
Why do we need a bigger machine? Because our traffic is now higher than the Foresight Nanotech Institute, The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the National Space Society, the Mprize, the World Transhumanist Association, and many other organizations.
Read Nanorobots to Improve Health Care and Nanorobot Hardware Architecture for Medical Defense.
Thanks to input from Daniel Berleant, our AIShield program has been significantly upgraded.
Michael Cassutt, who has has been writing and producing award-winning television since 1985, joins our Futurists Board. Michael worked on The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, the acclaimed Max Headroom series, Stargate SG-1, and Farscape among his many works. Read his Deke!: From Mercury to the Shuttle which he coauthored with the famous Donald "Deke" Slayton.
Jean-Luc Cambier, who is leading a research group on advanced propulsion concepts at the Air Force Research Laboratory, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Our donor list format has been improved. You can now see who donated in 2004, view a list of our Executive Class members, learn about our $10,000-$100,000 donors, or look up donors whose last name begins with a "W".
Blackjack! Thanks to George Garrett, we now have 21 Economy Class members.
Learn about the 2008 Space Elevator Conference which will be held in Redmond, Washington at the Microsoft Conference Center on July 18-20, 2008. This conference is sponsored by Microsoft and will feature topical discussions in all of the Four Pillars of Space Elevator Development: Science/Technical, Political/Social, Legal, and Economic.
G. Frank Lawlis joins our Scientific Advisory Board. As the chief content adviser for The Dr. Phil Show and the bestselling author of The ADD Answer: How to Help Your Child Now and The IQ Answer: Maximizing Your Child's Potential, he has aided thousands of parents and their children. He was Dr. Phil's professor while he was earning his PhD, and Dr. Phil is proud to call Frank his mentor.
Christopher R. Wren, who developed a system using motion sensors that enables buildings to have a god's eye view of all activity within a building, joins our Transparency vs. Privacy Board.
William A. P. Smith, with the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition group at the University of York, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Martin E. Hellman, coinventor of public key cryptography, and Founder of Defusing the Nuclear Threat, joins our Policy Board.
Robert C. McCarthy, who reconstructed vocal tracts that simulate the sound of the Neanderthal voice from over 30,000 years ago, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Joe Herbert, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Best-selling author Douglas "Hoss" Preston joins our Futurists Board. His novel Blasphemy is described as:
 
Physicist Gregory North Hazelius sold the concept of creating a ginormous forty billion dollar "superconducting supercollider particle accelerator" based on finding a new source of energy. He knows not to tell anyone about his personal secret agenda behind why he pushed the Isabella project as it is called; he plans to duplicate the Big Bang of creation in order to speak to God.
 
The Navajo Indian Reservation in the southwest is chosen as the locale for Isabella. Work begins inside the five-hundred-square-mile Red Mesa tableland. However, the project falls behind schedule disturbing DC politicos who bet on its quick success.
 
Presidential science adviser Dr. Stanton Lockwood sends former CIA operative Wyman Ford to investigate why the delay and is there any way to propel the project back on schedule. At the same time, others strongly oppose Isabella fearing the wrath of God.
Pete Mandik, author of The Neurophilosophy of Subjectivity, An Epistemological Theory of Consciousness?, and Varieties of Representation in Evolved and Embodied Neural Networks, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Samuel H. Barondes joins our Neuroscience Board. He is the author of Molecules and Mental Illness, Mood Genes: Hunting for Origins of Mania and Depression, and Better Than Prozac: Creating the Next Generation of Psychiatric Drugs.
Robert B. Cialdini joins our Scientific Advisory Board. In the field of influence and persuasion, Bob is the most cited social psychologist in the world today. He authored Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.
Peter H. Kahn, Jr., author of The Human Relationship with Nature: Development and Culture and Nature and Moral Development, joins our Sustainability Board.
Li-Hai Tan, who showed that a person dyslexic in English may not be dyslexic in Chinese and vice versa, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Artificial heart pioneer Tofy Mussivand joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
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.
Sonia M. Suter, author of The Allure and Peril of Genetic Exceptionalism: Do We Need Special Genetics Legislation?, joins our Ethics Board.
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.
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.
Scott Reif, the author of The Future of Advanced Transportation, joins our Futurists Board.
World-renowned thinker, writer, and speaker on the future, Joe Coates, joins our Futurists Board.
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.
Graham K. Whitehead, author of New Technology, New Society, joins our Futurists Board.
Read issue #70 of Lifeboat News!
Read Brain-Computer Interfaces for Manipulating Dreams by our Michael Anissimov.
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.
Paul Richmond, author of A GPU Framework for the Real-Time Simulation and Interaction of Massive Agent Based Systems, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Summer Johnson, author of Ethics in Nanomedicine: a Needs-Assessment and Proposals for the Future, joins our Ethics Board.
Read Science-Fiction Writers Help Government Prepare for Attacks of the Future which describes efforts by our Arlan Andrews, Greg Bear, and Jerry Pournelle.
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.
Watch Brian Cox's TED talk What Really Goes on at the Large Hadron Collider.
Read AI Meets the Metaverse: Teachable AI Agents Living in Virtual Worlds by Ben Goertzel.
T. Randall Lee, who coauthored Rise of the Nanomachine: The Evolution of a Revolution in Medicine, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Brian H. Wilcox, Principle Investigator, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, joins our Robotics/AI Board. He currently heads the ATHLETE project. This ginormous robotic vehicle called ATHLETE (All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer) measures about 7.5 meters wide, with legs more than 6 meters long. It could act essentially like a turtle, carrying the astronauts' living quarters around on its back. Watch a prototype in action!
C.S. "Buzz" Holling joins our Sustainability Board. Buzz is one of the conceptual founders of ecological economics. Ecological economics is a transdisciplinary field of academic research that addresses the dynamic and spatial interdependence between human economies and natural ecosystems. Its main focus is the "scale" conundrum: how to operate an economy within the ecological constraints of the biosphere. Ecological economics brings together and connects different disciplines, within the natural and social sciences but especially between these broad areas.
 
Buzz also founded the Resilience Alliance, is founding Editor-in-Chief of Ecology and Society, and coedited Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems.
Paul Schaudies, GenArraytion's President and Chief Executive Officer, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
GenArraytion identifies informative biomarkers within the genomes of organisms of interest and screens thousands of them simultaneously to develop high fidelity signatures that provide a functionally complete characterization. These competencies are being used to produce rapid turn-around, accurate, reliable diagnostics for pathogen identification, and antibiotic susceptibility characterization. Microorganism-specific signatures provide high confidence pathogen identification and determination of virulence mechanisms and antibiotic susceptibility in a single test.
Robert C. Bourge joins our Biotech/Medical Board. He is Professor of Medicine, Radiology, and Surgery, M. G. Waters Chair of Cardiovascular Disease, Director, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Co-Director, The Heart and Vascular Research Center, The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation.
Beverly A. Rzigalinski, who discovered that certain nanomaterials triple and even quadruple the life of brain cells, joins our Biotech/Medical Board and Nanotechnology Board.
Challa Kumar, President and CEO of Magnano Technologies, joins our Nanotechnology Board. Magnano Technologies is an emerging nanotechnology company specializing in the development of nanomaterials and nanotechnologies for life sciences. The company has expertise in wet-chemical synthesis of a variety of nanomaterials and their biofunctionalization for a number of applications in life sciences. In addition to technology development, the company is also focusing on information management and consultancy services related to nanotechnologies for the life sciences.
 
Challa also authored a ten volume nanotechnology set including Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnosis, Biofunctionalization of Nanomaterials, and Nanomaterials: Toxicity, Health and Environmental Issues.
 
And to top it off, he is also working on a method to create ethanol without the use of corn and therefore this method would not impact food prices.
Susan Blackmore, who presented Memes in the Cosmos at TED 2008, joins our Neuroscience Board. Sue also authored Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human and The Meme Machine.
Gary Marx, president of the Center for Public Outreach (CPO) and author of Future-focused Leadership: Preparing Schools, Students, And Communities for Tomorrow's Realities, joins our Futurists Board.
Kenneth L. Nichols, coauthor of Organization Theory: A Public and Nonprofit Perspective, joins our Futurists Board.
Listen to our David Brin on The Future And You.
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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 42 Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board members.
 
Our newest member is Carl Jensen III, who founded the Futures Working Group. The Futures Working Group (FWG) is a collaboration between the FBI and the Society of Police Futurists International (PFI). Their purpose is to develop and encourage others to develop forecasts and strategies to ethically maximize the effectiveness of local, state, federal, and international law enforcement bodies as they strive to maintain peace and security in the 21st century.
 
Carl spent 22 years in the FBI, 5 years in the Navy including serving on the nuclear fleet ballistic missile submarine USS George Washington Carver, and is currently Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, The University of Mississippi, with adjunct status at the RAND Corporation.
G. Ali Mansoori, author of Principles Of Nanotechnology: Molecular-Based Study Of Condensed Matter In Small Systems, joins our Nanotechnology Board. Ali is developing nanotechnology solutions for Alzheimer's disease.
Win Wenger, founder of Project Renaissance, joins our Methods for Discovery and Solution Finding Board which he founded. Project Renaissance is dedicated to increasing individuals' potential and accelerating the dawning of a new Renaissance.
Robin Baumgarten joins our Robotics/AI Board. Robin is the author of the blog AI Panic, where he researches and unveils the perils, imminence, and probabilities of a hostile takeover of the world through artificial intelligence.
Igor Jurisica, who is leading the first Canadian team to use the World Community Grid to accelerate the war on cancer, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. The World Community Grid is a global network of hundreds of thousands of people who volunteer their idle computer time to tackle some of the world's most complex problems. Our FightAIDS@Home team also uses this resource.
Thomas F. Valone, President of the Integrity Research Institute and Editor of the Future Energy newsletter, joins our Futurists Board. He is the 41st member of our WorldFuture 2008 lineup.
Read issue #69 of Lifeboat News!
Sheila R. Ronis, author of Timelines into the Future: Strategic Visioning Methods for Government, Industry and Other Organizations, joins our Futurists Board. Sheila is also Director of the MBA/MSSL Programs at Walsh College and is President of The University Group, a management consulting firm and think tank specializing in strategic management, visioning, national security, and public policy. Read Congress Hires A Scientist To Find Out What's Really Happening To The Defense Industrial Base.
 
Thanks to Sheila, our "WorldFuture 2008: Seeing the Future Through New Eyes" lineup has reached 40 speakers, including Lawrence A. Baines, Raj Bawa, Craig Bettles, Peter C. Bishop, Dennis M. Bushnell, Josh Calder, Arthur L. Caplan, 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, Shun-jie Ji, Tom Lombardo, Jim Mathews, Amy Oberg, Jonathan Peck, John L. Petersen, Carrie Rathsack, Sheila R. Ronis, Karlin Sloan, Rick Smyre, Stephen F. Steele, Mike Treder, Verne Wheelwright, James Wright, Mariann Zanardo, and Michael Zey.
Learn about an underwater record attempt to raise awareness of Ocean conservation.
John Ringo joins our Futurists Board. John is a New York Times bestselling author of science fiction and thriller novels with over one million novels in print. He authored Ghost and Against the Tide, and coauthored Von Neumann's War.
William J. Cosgrove, William Crossman, Irene J. Dabrowski, Devin Fidler, Medard Gabel, Terry Grim, Linda Groff, Don Heathfield, and Stephen F. Steele join our "WorldFuture 2008: Seeing the Future Through New Eyes" lineup, bringing us up to 39 speakers.
Terry Grim, a futurist/strategist with Social Technologies, joins our Futurists Board.
Devin Fidler, author of Paradigm Shift Emerging in Economics, joins our Economics Board.
Scott Shippee joins our Rosetta@Home team.
 
Donate the unused CPU cycles on your computer(s) to help scientists determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running the Rosetta program on your computer while you don't need it you will help speed up and extend research in ways scientists couldn't possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer's.
Listen to Greg Bear on The Future and You.
BELLA GAIA — An Experience by Kenji Williams will be presented at NASA Ames, SF Bay Area on April 12th from 2pm to 2 am.
 
Inspired by astronauts who spoke of the life changing experience of viewing the Earth from Space, creative director and music producer Kenji Williams delivers a live audio visual performance that evolves our perspective of and connection to our home planet. Utilizing stunning HD projections of orbiting visualizations of Earth from Space accompanied by a live performance of Williams's trademark violin-electronica music, experience the beauty and miracle of planet earth like never before in this audio visual space show.
CeCOS II (Counter eCrime Operations Summit II) will be held in Tokyo, Japan from May 26 to May 27, 2008.
Irene J. Dabrowski, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, St. John's University, joins our Futurists Board. Irene is author of Liberating the "Deviant" Feminist Image Through Education.
William J. Cosgrove, President of Ecoconsult and coauthor of World Water Vision: Making Water Everybody's Business, joins our Sustainability Board.
Stephen F. Steele, who coauthored Applied Sociology: Terms, Topics, Tools, and Tasks and Solution-Centered Sociology: Addressing Problems through Applied Sociology, joins our Futurists Board. Steve is Professor of Sociology and Futures Studies, Institute for the Future, Anne Arundel Community College.
Medard Gabel, author of Energy, Earth, and Everyone: A Global Energy Strategy for Spaceship Earth, joins our Sustainability Board. Medard worked with Buckminster Fuller for 12 years where he learned the power and utility of whole systems thinking, global perspectives, and a good sense of humor.
Don Heathfield, CEO of Future Map, joins our Futurists Board.
Linda Groff, author of Future Evolution of Humanity, joins our Futurists Board. She is also Professor, Political Science & Future Studies, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA and Co-Director of Global Options.
William Crossman joins our Futurists Board. The New York Daily News cited him as one of six key visionaries for the 21st Century, along with physicist Stephen Hawking, astronaut Jim Lovell, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, scientist Ray Kurzweil, and bioethicist Art Caplan.
Arthur L. Caplan, Ashok K. Gangadean, Jay Gary, Ted Gordon, William E. Halal, Tom Lombardo, Jim Mathews, Rick Smyre, James Wright, and Michael Zey, join our "WorldFuture 2008: Seeing the Future Through New Eyes" lineup, bringing us up to 30 speakers.
Jay Gary, director of the School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship at Regent University, joins our Futurists Board.
Arthur L. Caplan joins our Ethics Board. Art is the author or editor of twenty-five books and over 500 papers in refereed journals of medicine, science, philosophy, bioethics, and health policy. In addition to his Ph.D., he holds seven honorary degrees from colleges and medical schools. His most recent book is Smart Mice Not So Smart People: An Interesting and Amusing Guide to Bioethics.
Michael Zey, author of Ageless Nation: The Quest for Superlongevity and Physical Perfection and The Future Factor: The Five Forces Transforming Our Lives and Shaping Human Destiny, joins our Futurists Board.
Ted Gordon, Director of the American Council for the United Nations University, joins