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Peter Cochrane's Blog: What is intelligence?
Comment This description of intelligence signifies quite a slowdown in the assumed rate of AI progress, and offsets the fears of the 'singularity community' somewhat. Dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi node. [08 Oct 2009]
Ray Kurzweil
AS Profile He's also a businessman, consultant, lecturer and most recently founder and chancellor of the Singularity University - a multidisciplinary institution for both budding entrepreneurs and CEOs. Ray Kurzweil is a futurist... [29 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can tech end bloody wars?
Comment Many futurists refer to this point at which the machines take over and we become subservient as 'the singularity'. Compiled on the M6 driving to Birmingham, edited later in my hotel, and dispatched to silicon.com from... [28 Aug 2009]
Singularity University: Where today's tech titans teach the next generation
News Vint Cerf, the 'father of the internet,' is one of the many thought leaders that students at Singularity University get a chance to learn from (photo credit: Singularity University) Sclarsic said the... [21 Aug 2009]
Kurzweil and friends launch Silicon Valley university
News The gatherings will be part of what is known as Singularity University, a brand-new academic institution co-founded by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, X Prize chairman and CEO Peter Diamandis, and former Yahoo! [03 Feb 2009]
Kurzweil: "Technology is a double-edged sword"
Comment In several of his published books - including The Age of Spiritual Machines and The Singularity is Near - he describes a vision of the future where machine and human intelligence are increasingly combined, augmenting... [19 Nov 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wave of innovation
Comment Many futurologists see the next stage as the singularity - the point at which the machines take over and sideline us. Written on a train from Bristol to London and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi service in... [18 Nov 2008]
Justin Rattner
AS Profile The Intel lifer recently used an Intel Developer Forum keynote to expound his belief in the singularity - a theory that the time when computer intelligence exceeds human intelligence is reachable within the next 40 years. [07 Oct 2008]
Microsoft's Midori not ready for tasting?
News Midori is related to Singularity, a research project that dates back to 2003 and looks at how to architect an operating system from the ground up, considering the past of computing and where things are headed in terms of... [06 Aug 2008]
Microsoft Windows set to retire?
News The system reportedly will run a virtualisation layer between hardware and the OS and is expected to be a commercial offshoot of the Singularity research project. Microsoft Windows' future appears to lie in the cloud,... [05 Aug 2008]
Microsoft shows "concept-car style" OS
News Microsoft used its annual TechFest gathering of research lab technicians in Redmond last week to launch a new prototype operating system, 'Singularity'. According to Microsoft, Singularity is not the... [11 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.11.05
Round-Up Singularity - as the project is called - has been built from the ground up with the kernel, device drivers and associated applications in managed code. While Singularity could lead to the construction of... [11 Nov 2005]
