http://lifeboat.com/ Learn how Lifeboat Foundation is helping humanity survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, as we move towards a technological singularity. en-us 120 Copyright 2002-2007 Lifeboat Foundation Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:22:37 PDT lifeboatnews@lifeboat.com (Lifeboat News) webmaster@lifeboat.com (Lifeboat Webmaster) http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_07_08_James_P_Evans James P. Evans, Editor-in-Chief of "Genetics in Medicine", joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Read "Biologist Teaches the Nation's Judges About Genetics". Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:22:37 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_07_08_James_P_Evans http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_06_08_Sumeet_Dua 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. Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:55:25 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_06_08_Sumeet_Dua http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_06_08_Shane_Legg Shane Legg, author of "Friendly AI is Bunk" and coauthor of "Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence", joins our Robotics/AI Board. Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:32:11 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_06_08_Shane_Legg http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_06_08_Tim_Freeman Tim Freeman, author of "Using Compassion and Respect to Motivate an Artificial Intelligence", joins our Robotics/AI Board. Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:33:22 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_06_08_Tim_Freeman http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_05_08_Improved_LifeShield_Bunkers_program Brian Wang upgrades our LifeShield Bunkers program. Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:57:00 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_05_08_Improved_LifeShield_Bunkers_program http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_04_08_Teena_James Teena James, coauthor of "Active MOS Capacitive Sensor Array for Lab-On-a-Chip Applications", joins our Nanotechnology Board. Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:40:25 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_04_08_Teena_James http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_04_08_Michael_Shermer 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". Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:33:02 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_04_08_Michael_Shermer http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_04_08_Manu_Sebastian_Mannoor Manu Sebastian Mannoor, coauthor of "BioMEMS -- Advancing the Frontiers of Medicine", joins our Nanotechnology Board. Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:06:17 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_04_08_Manu_Sebastian_Mannoor http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_03_08_Peter_Kalivas 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. Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:43:27 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_03_08_Peter_Kalivas http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_01_08_Andrew_Braswell 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". Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:26:11 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_01_08_Andrew_Braswell http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#07_30_08_AIShield_Program_Upgrade Thanks to input from Joscha Bach, Matt Bamberger, Daniel Berleant, and Joshua Fox, our AIShield Program has been improved. Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:50:19 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#07_30_08_AIShield_Program_Upgrade http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#07_30_08_Balaji_Baloo_Panchapakesan 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. Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:13:38 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#07_30_08_Balaji_Baloo_Panchapakesan http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#07_29_08_CureTogether 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. Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:45:13 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#07_29_08_CureTogether http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#07_29_08_We_are_in_the_Peak_of_an_Oil_Bubble Didier Sornette, who has discovered that we are in the peak of an oil bubble, joins our Complex Systems Board and Economics Board. Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:25:06 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#07_29_08_We_are_in_the_Peak_of_an_Oil_Bubble http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#07_28_08_Mark_J_Clement 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. Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:29:10 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#07_28_08_Mark_J_Clement