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A End of Hall by Registration | B Classroom 2, Projector, WP | C Classroom 3, Projector, WB | D Hallway Circle | E Classroom 4 Projector, White Board | F Classroom 5 front | G Classroom 5 Back | H End of Hall by window | |
Session 1, Day 1, 1-2 PM | New Economy of Knowledge, Robert Grudin | Cleantech: Myths, Politics and Venture Capital, Rich Helfrich | Commercialization of a medical 'MECS' diagnostic device and how to migrate it to 'NECS', Dick Smith | Benetech: Nonprofit technology development for the disabled, human rights & environmental community, Ann Harrison | The need to re-engineer the human brain and how: an inquiry, Salim Ismail | Open source biotech & Open science, Joseph Jackson | Big Picture Life Extension, Will Wiser | Nanotech Literacy: Brainstorm the patterns everyone should know about nano, Miguel Aznar |
Session 2, Day 1, 2-3 PM | Life Extension: Personal Strategies, Chris Peterson | Ethics of Copyable People: Would you get in the transporter? Brad Templeton | Virtual Worlds & NanoSim Demo, Melanie Swan | Sustainable Energy Future, Robert Cormia | Diamond Mechanosynthesis, Rob Freitas & Ralph Merkle | Security, reliability and control of complex systems, Ravi Pandya | Prizes that Spur Innovation, Anil Rathi | |
Session 3, Day 1, 3-4 PM | Collective Choice: How Groups Make Decisions, Christopher Allen | Open Source Physical Security, Chris Peterson | Artificial Intuition, Monica Anderson | Sustainable Transhuman Lifestyles, Eric Boyd | Uploading: Really How to do It, Mark Voelker | Converging Technology: Identifying opportunities & some possibilities, Brian Wang | SENS:A View from the trenches & how can we go faster? Jeff Hall, Methuselah Foundation | Many core vs the 7+ dwarves: Computing with 1000+ processors, Howard Landman |
Session 4, Day 1, 4-5 PM | The "Future" of Collaboration, Eugene Eric Kim | Stem Cells & Aging: Building a Sustainable Human, David Larocca | Rational & Irrational Altruism: Cognitive biases in futurist activism, Eliezer Yudkowsky | Foresight.org Focus: Promote Benefits or Reduce Downsides? Chris Peterson | When will MNT happen? Steve Vetter | Identity: What is it? Why? Chip Morningstar | New Economics of Entertainment, Erland Wittkoetter | The Molecular Toolkit: Why it's cool, what we're building, will build; Gayle Pergamit |
Session 5, Day 2, 12-1 PM | Social issues involved in extreme longevity, Sonia Arrison | Elections & e-voting, Ka-Ping Yee | Recent Cryptography vs Quantum Computers: Making the Internet safe for terrorists, child pornographers, political dissidents, corporate whistleblowers…and everyone else, Howard Landman | Nanotech & Poverty (& Patents), Javob Heller | Emerging Technologies: Disruptive or Transformative? Phil Bowermaster | Molecular Modeling, Forrest Bennett | Extremely extreme future of architecture thru Nanotech, Fred Stitt | Foresight Investment Initiatives discussion, Pearl Chin |
Session 6, Day 2, 1-2 PM | Design as Truth or Lie, Robert Grudin | Productive Nanosystems Tech Roadmap: Next Steps, Pearl Chin | New polymers for nanostructural self-assembly, Steven Fowkes | Peer 2 Patent, Tom Plunkett | Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence: Designing 2030, Steve Omohundro | Molecular Otoolkit, Part 2! Gayle Pergamit | Longevity & Money, Will Wiser | Accelerate the "End of Advertising", Erland Wittkoetter |
Session 7, Day 2, 2-3 PM | Nanotech Literacy Part II: Brainstorm the Patterns Everyone Should Know about Nanotech, Miguel Aznar | Ubiquitous vs. Ambient Computing: History & Forward to Designed Animism, Rob Tow | Cryonics, Tanya Jones | AGI & Virtual Worlds, Ben Goertzel | Quantum Lithography vs Phase Shift Masking: Beating the Raleigh Limit, Howard Landman | Supplement Leads (maybe), Will Wiser | ||
Session 8, Day 2, 3-4 PM | The Future of Engineering Software, Joel Orr | Post-IT technoeconomic paradigm, including miniaturization, transportation, energy, etc. Universal System of Natural Units, Larens Imanyuel | Mind Uploading: Recent advances in High-throughput quantitative neuroscience which give insight into how uploading might be approached, Todd Huffman | Technological Armageddon, Michael Anissimov | The energetic basis of Alzheimer's Disease, Stven Fowkes | Moved to I | Can we ever get…Ubiquitious Massive Symmetric Bandwidth? Michael |