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 2002-2010 Lifeboat Foundation Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:39:29 PST lifeboatnews@lifeboat.com (Lifeboat News) webmaster@lifeboat.com (Lifeboat Webmaster) http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#03_06_10_Ray_Kurzweil_joins_blog_team Ray Kurzweil joins our blog team with the post "Reflections on Avatar". Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:39:29 PST http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#03_06_10_Ray_Kurzweil_joins_blog_team http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#03_04_10_Hidden_Markov_Models_and_Dynamic_Time_Warping Tim Oates, coauthor of Clustering Time Series with Hidden Markov Models and Dynamic Time Warping", joins our Robotics/AI Board. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:52:08 PST http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#03_04_10_Hidden_Markov_Models_and_Dynamic_Time_Warping http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#03_03_10_War_in_Human_Civilization Azar Gat, joins our Human Trajectories Board. He is author of "War in Human Civilization", "Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is Still Imperiled", and "A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War". Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:47:28 PST http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#03_03_10_War_in_Human_Civilization http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#03_03_10_Beagle_2_project Colin Pillinger joins our Space Settlement Board. He was leader of the Beagle 2 project, which aimed to land a spacecraft dedicated to exobiology, geochemistry, and atmospheric science on Mars to seek evidence for past and present life as part of ESA's Mars Express Mission. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:55:31 PST http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#03_03_10_Beagle_2_project http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#03_02_10_Improved_AGI_10_lineup Our AGI-10 lineup has been further improved to include: Itamar Arel, Eric Baum, Nick Cassimatis, Antonio Chella, Wlodzislaw "Wlodek" Duch, Ben Goertzel, J. Storrs "Josh" Hall, Marcus Hutter, Matthew Ikle, Bert Kappen, Randal Koene, Kai-Uwe Kuhnberger, John Laird, Christian Lebiere, Shane Legg, Carlo Lepori, Moshe Looks, Andras Lorincz, Hamid Reza Maei, David Orban, Cassio Pennachin, Jan Poland, Stephen Reed, Sebastian Rudolph, Anders Sandberg, Tom Schaul, Jurgen Schmidhuber, Kristinn Thorisson, Antoine van de Ven, Marco Wiering, Mary-Anne Williams, David Wolpert, and Robert Wray. The Third Conference on Artificial General Intelligence will be held at Lugano, Switzerland on March 5-8 (Fri-Mon) 2010. AGI 2010 will be held "In Memoriam Ray Solomonoff." Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:50:56 PST http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#03_02_10_Improved_AGI_10_lineup http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#03_02_10_Jan_Poland Jan Poland joins our Robotics/AI Board. His research interests include: theory of machine learning, Bayes, MDL, prediction with expert advice, active learning, function minimization, reinforcement learning, algorithmic information theory, and decision theory. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:28:35 PST http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#03_02_10_Jan_Poland http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#03_01_10_Reinforcement_learning_algorithms Hamid Reza Maei, who is building reinforcement learning algorithms for large-scale problems, joins our Robotics/AI Board. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:34:28 PST http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#03_01_10_Reinforcement_learning_algorithms http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#03_01_10_Artificial_Artery Alexander Seifalian, who is using nanotechnology to create an artificial artery, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:06 PST http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#03_01_10_Artificial_Artery http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#02_28_10_AGI_Entropy_Principle Antoine van de Ven, coauthor of "A Minimum Relative Entropy Principle for AGI", joins our Robotics/AI Board. Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:48:16 PST http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#02_28_10_AGI_Entropy_Principle http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#02_28_10_Soar_Technology Robert Wray joins our Robotics/AI Board. Bob is Senior Scientist, Soar Technology. At Soar Technology, he leads or has led R&D projects for the Air Force and Navy research offices, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. His research encompasses many areas of artificial intelligence, including agent-based systems and agent architectures, machine learning, cognitive science, knowledge representation, and ontology. Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:13:55 PST http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#02_28_10_Soar_Technology http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#02_27_10_Simple_solutions_for_planet_Earth Patrick Takahashi joins our Methods for Discovery and Solution Finding Board. He is Director Emeritus with the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute of the University of Hawaii and the recent author of "Simple Solutions for Planet Earth" and "Simple Solutions for Humanity". Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:50:08 PST http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#02_27_10_Simple_solutions_for_planet_Earth http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#02_27_10_Machine_consciousness Antonio Chella, Editor-in-Chief of the "International Journal of Machine Consciousness", joins our Robotics/AI Board. Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:27:23 PST http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#02_27_10_Machine_consciousness http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#02_27_10_Artificial_curiosity Tom Schaul, who is working on artificial curiosity with Jurgen Schmidhuber, joins our Robotics/AI Board. Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:13:52 PST http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#02_27_10_Artificial_curiosity http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#02_26_10_AGI_10_lineup Our AGI-10 lineup has been improved to include: Itamar Arel, Eric Baum, Nick Cassimatis, Wlodzislaw "Wlodek" Duch, Ben Goertzel, J. Storrs "Josh" Hall, Marcus Hutter, Matthew Ikle, Bert Kappen, Randal Koene, Kai-Uwe Kuhnberger, John Laird, Christian Lebiere, Shane Legg, Carlo Lepori, Moshe Looks, Andras Lorincz, David Orban, Cassio Pennachin, Stephen Reed, Sebastian Rudolph, Anders Sandberg, Jurgen Schmidhuber, Kristinn Thorisson, Marco Wiering, Mary-Anne Williams, and David Wolpert. The Third Conference on Artificial General Intelligence will be held at Lugano, Switzerland on March 5-8 (Fri-Mon) 2010. AGI 2010 will be held "In Memoriam Ray Solomonoff." Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:15:53 PST http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#02_26_10_AGI_10_lineup http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#02_25_10_Kristinn_Thorisson Kristinn Thorisson joins our Robotics/AI Board. He is Founding Director of IIIM, the second A.I. research lab in Iceland, and Founding Co-Director of CADIA, the first A.I. lab in Iceland. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:32:00 PST http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#02_25_10_Kristinn_Thorisson