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Read issue #216 of Lifeboat News!
Paulus Kudyak joins our blog team with the post How we’ll become cyborgs and extend human potential.
Paul M. Vittay joins our blog team with the post Driving immunometabolism to control lung infection.
James Hampton joins our blog team with the post New ‘PEDOT’ Polymer May Allow Human Brain to Merge With AI, Cure and Detect Diseases, Scientists Say.
Mike Lustgarten joins our blog team with the post Low Total Cholesterol: Biological Youth Or Increased Mortality Risk?
Jamie McGuigan joins our blog team with the post One step closer to implanting electronics in the body.
Brett Hoffstadt, author of How to Be a Rocket Scientist, joins our Education Board.
Glenn A. Walsh joins our blog team with the post Female Astrophysicist Helped Build 1st Atomic Bomb.
Adam Sarwar, Founder of Crypto Space Cadet, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Read the 2020 edition of The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution.
Bob Sampson joins our blog team with the post Assembly of the World’s Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor Begins.
Myra Sehar joins our blog team with the post Chromosomes and DNA Packaging.
Justin Penrose joins our blog team with the post Why Silicon Valley Execs Are Investing Billions to Stay Young.
Malak Loeb joins our blog team with the post Space calendar 2020: Never miss another launch, meteor shower or celestial event again.
Sergio Tarrero joins our blog team with the post Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready.
Malak Loeb joins our Space Settlement Board. She is a Senior Legal Advisor specializing in International Business Law, International Space Law, and Space Policy.
Read Thriving in the Days of COVID-19.
Alexis Lewis, inventor of a Ring Habitat Station, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Paul D. Roberts, Partner at Be Courageous Innovation and Faculty of Exponential Innovation and Change at Singularity University, joins our Futurists Board.
Brent Nally, Cofounder of LEV Sciences, joins our Life Extension Board.
Josh Seeherman joins our blog team with the post Scientists propose plan to determine if Planet Nine is a primordial black hole.
Kevin LaGrandeur, Founding Board Member of the new journal AI and Ethics published by Springer, joins our Ethics Board.
Read our special report A Future of Fewer Words?: Five Trends Shaping the Future of Language by Lawrence Baines.
Read issue #215 of Lifeboat News!
Lewis S. Gruber, Cofounder of SIWA Therapeutics, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. This company pioneers breakthrough therapies that target senescent cells and cancerous cells to increase healthspan and lifespan.
Barry L. Bentley, coauthor of An Evolutionary Approach to Designing Autonomous Planetary Rovers, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Ke Cheng joins our Biotech/Medical Board. He directs the BioTherapeutics Lab at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine which focuses on stem cells, biomaterials, and nanomedicine for heart and lung regeneration. His lab also studies novel mechanisms of cell extravasation, termed angiopellosis.
Jeanne Loring joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Jeanne is Professor Emeritus at Scripps Research, Chief Science Officer of Aspen Neuroscience, Scientific Director of Summit for Stem Cell Foundation, Research Fellow of the San Diego Zoo, Adjunct Professor on Human Genetics at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, and Adjunct Professor at Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University.
Gemechu Taye joins our blog team with the post AI is Being Used to Discover New Antibiotics and Genes Linked to Disease.
Fakhr-e-Alam joins our Futurists Board. Fakhr is a Pakistani national award-winning film actor, TV host, VJ, and singer, popular for introducing the bhangra-rap fusion genre of music in Pakistan. In 2018, he became the first Pakistani to circumnavigate the globe solo.
Jamie Justice, coauthor of Development of Clinical Trials to Extend Healthy Lifespan, joins our Life Extension Board.
Jason R. Williams, Director of Interventional Oncology and Immunotherapy at the Williams Cancer Institute, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Brad Twynham, a member of the Faculty at the Singularity University, joins our Futurists Board.
Attend the webinar Managing Uncertainty: How to Use Futures & Foresight in a COVID-19 World on June 9th from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm EDT.
Tamir Chandra, coauthor of Notch Signaling Mediates Secondary Senescence, joins our Life Extension Board.
Denisa Rensen, Medical Director of the Stemaid Institute, joins our Life Extension Board.
Melissa Chen, Managing Director of the nonprofit organization Ideas Beyond Borders and the New York Editor of Spectator USA, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
The Philosophical and Political Implications of Covid19 and the Posthuman will be held Saturday, May 30th 12 pm–1:30 pm EST on Zoom. Our Francesca Ferrando and Stefan Lorenz Sorgner will be speaking/participating.
 
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YoungHoon Kim, President and Executive Director of the United Sigma Intelligence Association, joins our Futurists Board.
David A. Bray joins our Policy Board. He is the Inaugural Director of the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center and was recently Executive Director for the People-Centered Internet due to an invitation from the co-creator of TCP/IP, Vint Cerf.
Read our special report Breaking Out from Earth’s Shell by Sylvia Engdahl.
Read Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence.
Read issue #214 of Lifeboat News!
Read our special report On Tech Unemployment and the Labor vs Capital Balance of Power by Nikola Danaylov.
Read Cracking the Aging Code: The New Science of Growing Old — And What It Means for Staying Young.
Jeremy Mancuso joins our blog team with the post Our weird behavior during the pandemic is messing with AI models.
Steve Harris joins our blog team with the post Functional Role of Dietary Intervention to Improve the Outcome of COVID-19: A Hypothesis of Work.
Jill Tarter joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board. Jill is known for her work on the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI). She holds the Emeritus and Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute and is the former director of the Center for SETI Research and has been with SETI since 1984.
 
Jill’s astronomical work is illustrated in Carl Sagan’s novel Contact. In the film version of Contact, the protagonist Ellie Arroway is played by Jodie Foster. Jill conversed with the actress for months before and during filming, and Arroway was largely based on her work.
Alexandra Bause, Investment Director at Apollo Health Ventures, joins our Life Extension Board. Apollo Health Ventures is an early-stage investment fund focused on developing interventions that enhance human health and longevity.
Lon Anderson joins our blog team with the post US invests hundreds of millions to produce Covid-19 vaccines.
Read issue #213 of Lifeboat News!
Wenyu Zhou, coauthor of High-frequency actionable pathogenic exome variants in an average-risk cohort, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Ending Age-Related Diseases 2020 will be held August 20–21 in cyberspace. This conference brings together the greatest minds from all over the world to work on the solutions to aging.
 
Our Ryan Bethencourt, Judith Campisi, Keith Comito, Aubrey de Grey, Brian M. Delaney, Peter Fedichev, Steven A. Garan, Vadim Gladyshev, Vera Gorbunova, Andrei Gudkov, Steve Hill, Steve Horvath, Brian Kennedy, Michael Kope, Tim Maupin, Elena Milova, Joshua Mitteldorf, Alexey Moskalev, Matthew O’Connor, Robert Shmookler Reis, Paul A. Spiegel, Michael Rose, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking/participating.
 
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Steve Horvath, who coauthored Reversal of epigenetic aging and immunosenescent trends in humans, joins our Life Extension Board.
Our José Luis Cordeiro has authored the special report A New Renaissance. This report discusses how our current pandemic may lead to a new Renaissance just as The Black Death led to the original Renaissance.
Jayaprakash Damothran joins our blog team with the post South Korea controlled its coronavirus outbreak in just 20 days. Here are the highlights from its 90-page playbook for flattening the curve.
Adiv A. Johnson, coauthor of The role of DNA methylation in aging, rejuvenation, and age-related disease, joins our Life Extension Board.
Read issue #212 of Lifeboat News!
Theoretical physicist, author, and broadcaster, Jim Al-Khalili, joins our Physics Board.
 
Jim is Professor of Theoretical Physics, Public Engagement in Science, and a Distinguished Chair at University of Surrey, where he has also held a personal chair in physics since 2005 alongside a university chair in Public Engagement in Science. He is also presenter of the long-running weekly BBC Radio 4 programme, The Life Scientific.
One of our Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Board members has a solution to the shortage of face masks, and this solution is a design for others to copy and make themselves, for: (1) materials which work well at filtering 100 nm particles (the approximate size of COVID-19), and (2) sealing the mask against inward leakage. Many commonly used homemade materials do not filter viruses very well, so choosing good DIY homemade materials is important. However, if air bypasses a mask, then it needs to be sealed. Learn more!
Lorna Harries joins our Life Extension Board. She is Professor of Molecular Genetics at the College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter. Read Small molecule modulation of splicing factor expression is associated with rescue from cellular senescence.
Bill D’Zio joins our blog team with the post Final NASA Seats on Soyuz in 2020.
Alex M. Vikoulov, author of The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution, joins our Futurists Board.
Goffredo Giordano, Mentor at Singularity University, joins our Futurists Board.
Eddie Avil joins our Media & Arts Board. Eddie is the CEO of VR Storytellers, the Founder and Director at Immerge Knowledge Labs and Immersion Film Festival, and Founder of XROM Digital News Magazine and Change Transform India.
Award-winning Luís De Garrido joins our Sustainability Board. Luís teaches courses on the use of Advanced Creative Technologies for Sustainable, Self-Sufficient, and Zero Energy Architecture.
Christina Korp joins our Space Settlement Board.
 
Christina is known as the Astronaut Wrangler. She is the former manager of Buzz Aldrin, but behind the scenes she has also achieved her own “impossible” dreams. She now works with Apollo 16 Moon Walker Charlie Duke and shuttle astronauts Nicole Stott and Greg Johnson on a non-exclusive basis.
M. Wade Holler joins our Space Settlement Board. Wade is the Creative Director at Explore Mars, Technical Director of The Humans to Mars Summit Series, and Art Director of The Humans to Mars Report Series.
Dinorah Delfin, Editor-in-Chief of the Immortalists Magazine, joins our Life Extension Board.
George Sowers joins our Space Settlement Board. Read Testimony to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of US House of Representatives.
Guillermina Benavides Rincón joins our Futurists Board. She is Research Professor and Director of the Master in Strategic Foresight at the School of Government and Public Transformation of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Foresight Researcher Joseph Voros joins our Futurists Board. Read his A Primer on Futures Studies, Foresight, and the Use of Scenarios.
Undoing Aging 2020 has been moved to October 21-23 in Berlin, Germany. Our Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de Magalhães, Vera Gorbunova, and Michael Greve will be speaking/participating.
 
Undoing Aging 2020 is not only open to the scientific community, but also welcomes startups, investors, the general media, and all interested members of the broader rejuvenation movement. The conference will feature a student poster session showing the work of innovative undergraduate and graduate students in the field of damage repair. Learn more!
Support Clinical trials of Fisetin in a person with autoimmune thyroiditis.
 
These trials are trying to destroy senescent cells to help in the prevention and treatment of autoimmune diseases.
Teresa Lien joins our blog team with the post Update on COVID-19 outbreak with Professor Neil Ferguson.
TJ Yoo joins our blog team with the post Why There May Be A Virtual Reality Exodus.
Nicolas Chernavsky joins our blog team with the post Life Extension Humor.
Sign up for the free online conference Sustainability and the Future of Capitalism which will be held March 12th 4PM GMT+1 by our Gerd Leonhard.
Future Timeline joins our blog team with the post Amazon opens first large-scale, cashierless grocery store.
Read issue #211 of Lifeboat News!
The 4th Posthuman Global Symposium will be held at New York University, New York, USA from April 30–May 2.
 
This Symposium is dedicated to exploring the importance of posthuman agency in the interrelated significations of human and non-human realms. They intend to spark a deep and multilayered analysis of posthuman agency both as praxis and as a moral stance on the current global issues, as exemplified by its advocacy of environmentalism, cyborg rights, animal personhood, sustainable advanced technologies and ethical economies.
 
Our Francesca Ferrando is on the academic committee. Learn more!
Jaysen West joins our blog team with the post AI drug enters human clinical trials.
Florence Pauline Gardose Basubas joins our blog team with the post Tables, footrests, smart speakers: Self-driving cars could become the living rooms of the future.
Wei Cui joins our blog team with the post Russia’s AI Quest is State-Driven — Even More than China’s. Can It Work?
Neurozo Huang joins our blog team with the post Why human brain only needs a small amount of data (or is it?).
James Bickerton joins our blog team with the post Do robots have rights? Professor David J. Gunkel interview.
The research paper Human Brain/Cloud Interface has been published by our Amara D. Angelica, Frank J. Boehm, Krishnan Chakravarthy, Robert A. Freitas Jr., Steven A. Garan, Tad Hogg, Mikhail A. Lebedev, Nuno R. B. Martins, Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld, Yuriy Svidinenko, and Melanie Swan.
 
This paper describes how neuralnanorobotics may enable a B/CI with controlled connectivity between neural activity and external data storage and processing, via the direct monitoring of the brain’s ~86 × 109 neurons and ~2 × 1014 synapses.
 
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Yuri Deigin joins our blog team with the post Yuri Deigin on epigenetic rejuvenation, longevity research and transhumanists in politics.
Dean Eaketts joins our blog team with the post Human compost funerals ‘better for environment’.
Maico Rivero joins our blog team with the post Four things you might not know about dark matter.
Kelvin Dafiaghor joins our blog team with the post New study finds the egg may actually ‘choose’ the sperm.
Lola Heavey joins our blog team with the post We cannot predict with any precision where technology will lead us.
Read Hydrogen LiftShips: A tech manual of a future.
Learn about 2030 The Film by our Johnny Boston.
Mario Acosta joins our blog team with the post 10 Steps to Survive a Global Pandemic: Coronavirus.
Oguzhan Kosar joins our blog team with the post Asteroid Mining Could Become a Reality in the Next Coming Years.
Enjoy the free educational program Ice and Stone 2020.
 
This program covers the so-called “small bodies” of the solar system, which in general means asteroids and comets, although this also includes the small moons of the various planets as well as meteors, meteorites, and interplanetary dust.
Nare Khachatryan joins our blog team with the post A burst of gravitational waves hit our planet. Astronomers have no clue where it’s from.
Read Space Traffic Control by our Stuart Eves.
Prem Vijaywargi joins our blog team with the post A 62-year-old Chinese doctor in Wuhan ‘at the front line’ of the coronavirus outbreak has died after treating patients.
Read issue #210 of Lifeboat News!
William Coburn, CEO at Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussions (TAFFD’s), joins our Futurists Board.
Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld joins our Neuroscience Board. He is Senior Neurosurgeon in the Department of Neurosurgery at The Alfred and Professor of Surgery, Monash University.
 
Jeff’s research interests are on improving the outcome for patients with traumatic brain injury and restoring sight to blind individuals using bionic vision, a wireless electrode interface with the brain. His interests also includes brain machine interfaces, medical bionics, electrode design, neurotrauma, application of stem cell technologies to brain and spine, and military medicine applications.
Yael Benvenisti, CEO of Mediterranean Towers Ventures, joins our Life Extension Board. Read Meet the Israeli Venture Capitalist Who’s Not Afraid of Aging.
Stuart Maudsley joins our Neuroscience Board. His research focuses on the age-dependent changes in receptor pharmacology associated with neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and Frontotemporal dementia.
 
Stuart is Odysseus Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Antwerp (UA).
Maxim Kholin, Cofounder of Gero and Quantum Pharmaceuticals, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
William H. Edmondson joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board. William is currently working on Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) using data gathered at the Parkes radio telescope, supported by the Breakthrough Listen initiative.
Yuriy Oreshin, Managing Partner and Founder of Angelico Ventures, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Brian Kennedy, Director at the Centre for Healthy Aging at the National University Health System, joins our Life Extension Board. From 2010 to 2016, he was the President and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.
Alan Ladwig, Chief of To Orbit Productions, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Ben Zion, Transhumanist Party Presidential Candidate for the 2020 election, joins our Futurists Board.
We were doing some maintenance on our site and noticed that a Flash song had stopped working with most browsers because it was Flash. We had done a YouTube version before but found that we could now create a slightly higher resolution version which makes the text a bit easier to read. (This video has some small text.)
 
It would be helpful if people liked the new video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-XUoZVbVlI.
 
Also, if you haven't seen our best video, it is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWvmMfJugac.
Lifeboat Foundation has contributed 16,732,334 Cobblestones of computation (14.46 quintillion floating-point operations) to [email protected] since joining this effort on January 27, 2008.
 
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.
 
Learn more!
Nick Engerer joins our blog team with the post Avoiding ageing’s 4 deadly killers — Cardiovascular Disease (Part 1).
Lifeboat Foundation mourns the passing of Mike Resnick who fought to “Safeguard Humanity” until the end.
 
Mike was the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short fiction. He won 5 Hugos (from a record 37 nominations), a Nebula, and other major awards in the USA, France, Japan, Spain, Catalonia, Croatia, Poland, and China. He’s the author of 78 novels, 280 stories, and 3 screenplays, and the editor of 42 anthologies. His work has been translated into 27 languages. He was also editor of Galaxy’s Edge magazine until the end of his life.
Eithen Pasta joins our blog team with the post A US $30 million fund to promote bold ideas for aging populations: Dr Victor Dzau.
Kaiser Matin joins our blog team with the post The ‘Goldilocks’ principle for curing brain cancer.
Aaron Vesey joins our blog team with the post The Ecological Challenge of Artificial Superintelligence.
Paul Velho joins our blog team with the post What CRISPR-baby prison sentences mean for research.
Mike Diverde joins our blog team with the post Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience.
Read issue #209 of Lifeboat News!
The 2020 International Conference on Future Africa will be held April 21–23 at the University of Rwanda.
 
The theme of the conference is “Compliance to Global Sustainability” and will be offering sessions regarding Climate Change, Renewable Energies, Internet of Things, Futurism, Transhumanism, Neuroscience, Biotech, International Politics, Digital Leadership/Business, and much more.
 
Our Didier Coeurnelle, Alejandro De la Parra Solomon, Ósìnàkáchì Ákùmà Kálù, Anthony Kimery, Doris Ngozi Morah, Ira Pastor, and Ilia Stambler will be participating/speaking. The Lifeboat Foundation is one of the hosts of this event.
The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
 
The 2019 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Jill Tarter in recognition of her 40 years spent in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Jill’s goal is to learn if there are any alien intelligences outside of our “fragile island of life”.
 
There are real dangers that could stop civilizations from moving forward and the human race is not guaranteed to survive. As Jill says, “If technologies don’t last and persist, we will not succeed.”
 
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Brent Ellman joins our blog team with the post To Make Robots Perform Better, Make Them Constantly Fear Death.
Jason Stone joins our blog team with the post Scientists Are Contemplating a 1,000-Year Space Mission to Save Humanity.
Read issue #208 of Lifeboat News!
As our contribution to Twitter Philanthropy, Lifeboat Foundation is giving away $1,000 to one person who both retweets our tweet plus is following us. Deadline to retweet is Dec 31, 2019.
 
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If you wish to help out Lifeboat as a system administrator, please let us know. We are based on CentOS. Send an email to [email protected] with the subject "Lifeboat Foundation CentOS".
We are sad to report that our Vice President Chris Haley suddenly passed away. You can read about him at https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.chris.k.haley and read our many praises of him at https://lifeboat.com/news.cgi?177, https://lifeboat.com/news.cgi?146, https://lifeboat.com/news.cgi?140, and https://lifeboat.com/news.cgi?129.
 
Basically, Chris Haley is the key person behind getting our Bitcoin Endowment Fund off the ground plus he was our System Administrator plus he was always doing things to help move Lifeboat forward. Chris had a heart of gold! We will miss him.
The Envision conference will be held Nov 22–24 at Princeton University with the theme “The Future of Us”.
 
Our Aubrey de Grey, Daniel Elton, Francesca Ferrando, Liz Parrish, Anders Sandberg, and Susan Schneider will be speaking. Learn more!
Join the Twitter discussion at #TerasemFuturePersonsColloquium14 starting Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 10AM PDT / 1PM EDT / 6PM GMT. The theme will be “Legal status of persons reinstatiated onboard an L5 space settlement from mindfiles and mindclones”.
 
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Bart Womack, CEO of Eden Growth Systems, joins our Sustainability Board.
Haroon Oqab, Director of the Kepler Space Institute, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Barbara Belvisi, CEO of Interstellar Lab, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Daniel C. Elton, coauthor of Deep Learning for Molecular Design — a Review of the State of the Art, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Andrés Grases Briceño, Director of Global Outreach at BioViva Science USA, joins our Life Extension Board.
The M2 Success Summit will be held Nov 20 in Auckland, New Zealand.
 
Our Ira Munn will be speaking. Learn more!
Lifeboat Foundation mourns the passing of Carlo D. Montemagno who fought to “Safeguard Humanity” until the end.
 
Carlo was an American engineer and expert in nanotechnology and biomedical engineering, focusing on futuristic technologies to create interdisciplinary solutions for the grand challenges in health, energy, and the environment.
 
He was one of the pioneers of bionanotechnology and some of his fundamental contributions include the development of biomolecular motors for powering inorganic nanodevices while at Cornell and muscle-driven self-assembled nanodevices while at UCLA.
The Los Angeles Quantum Consciousness & Functional Wellness Conference will be held Nov 16–17 in Los Angeles, California.
 
Our Michael Borkin will be speaking. Learn more!
Buddy Baker joins our blog team with the post NASA’s Helical Engine Design that Uses Closed-Cycle Propellant; A Proposed Stardrive that May Enable Interstellar Travel.
Read issue #207 of Lifeboat News!
Cities in Space 2020 will be held February 28, 2020 in Austin, Texas.
 
Our Janet Ivey and Rick Tumlinson will be speaking. Our Holly Melear is organizing this conference. Learn more!
The Sigma Xi 2019 Annual Meeting & Student Research Conference will be held November 14–17 in Madison, Wisconsin.
 
Sigma Xi honors excellence in scientific investigation and encourages a sense of companionship and cooperation among researchers in all fields of science and engineering. Learn more!
The GSA 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting “Strength in Age: Harnessing the Power of Networks” will be held November 13–17 in Austin, Texas. This meeting is devoted to the advancement of gerontological research, learning, and practice.
 
Our Holly M. Brown-Borg and Matt Kaeberlein are on the program committee.
 
Register for the free public lecture Living in Dog Years: The Science of How Dogs Age & Implications for Humans.
 
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Space Settlement Summit 2019 will be held November 13–14 in Pasadena, California.
 
Our Dallas Bienhoff and Mark Hopkins will be speaking.
Read issue #206 of Lifeboat News!
Read Principles of Space Anthropology: Establishing a Science of Human Space Settlement by our Cameron Smith.
The Healthy Masters International Conference 2019 will be held November 30–December 1 at the Sheraton Porto in Portugal.
 
Our Bill Andrews, Nichola Conlon, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Greg Fahy, William Faloon, Steven A. Garan, Naveen Jain, David Kekich, Nuno Martins, Liz Parrish, and Paul A. Spiegel will be speaking.
 
Learn more!
Tanvir Ahmed joins our blog team with the post Mayo Clinic Showcases Anti-Aging Senolytics.
Holly Melear, CEO of STEAMSPACE Education Outreach, joins our Education Board.
Lucio Mauricio Henao Vélez, CEO of ProSeres, joins our Futurists Board.
Orn Adalsteinsson, President of the International Strategic Cancer Alliance (ISCA), joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Valerio Di Nicola, joins our Life Extension Board. He is Clinical Leader of the Day Surgery at Worthing Hospital and Consultant in General, Emergency, and Lower Gastrointestinal Surgery at Southlands Hospital, both of Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Victor V. Motti, Director of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), joins our Futurists Board.
Read Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind by our Susan Schneider.
Read issue #205 of Lifeboat News!
Lifeboat Foundation is sponsoring a breakfast on Saturday, October 5th, during RAAD Fest at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino (3000 Paradise Rd., Las Vegas, NV 89109), Conference Center Room 8, at 9:30am.
 
Free food will include: Fresh strawberry yogurt & home-made granola, breakfast tacos with pico de gallo salsa, heart healthy muffins and fruit breads with apple butter, assorted cereals with berries and fruit, grilled garden vegetables and egg white frittata, and a big bowl of berries and fruit.
 
Drinks will include: Gourmet brewed coffee, herbal tea assortment, and fresh juices. Enjoy stimulating conversations with Lifeboat members!
 
RSVP by sending an email with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Breakfast” to [email protected]
The International Conference of Techno-Scientific Awareness will be held by TAFFDs on October 7–11 at the University of Rwanda.
 
Our Christopher K. Haley, Ósìnàkáchì Ákùmà Kálù, Doris Ngozi Morah, Ira Pastor, Ilia Stambler, and Zoltan Istvan will be speaking/participating.
 
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Our José Luis Cordeiro gives the President of Lifeboat Foundation an amazing wedding gift: the special report Big Chronology of Life on Earth.
Ósìnàkáchì Ákùmà Kálù, founder and chairman of TAFFDs.org, joins our Futurists Board.
Francesca Ferrando, author of Philosophical Posthumanism, joins our Futurists Board.
Ramon Gomes Durães de Olivera, Software Developer of Computational Intelligence at SingularityNET, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Fernando Garcilita Núñez, Vice President of PetroM Renewable, joins our Sustainability Board.
Arthur Franz joins our Robotics/AI Board. He is cofounder of the Odessa Competence Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning (OCCAM).
Benjamin Butler joins our Futurists Board. He is the Founder of Quantum Futures, sits on the Global Future Council on Computing at the World Economic Forum, and is a member of the faculty of Futur/io, the European Institute of Exponential Technologies & Desirable Futures.
Linas Vepstas joins our Robotics/AI Board. Linas is Research Engineer and Developer of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) at Hanson Robotics and OpenCog.
Trent McConaghy, Founder and CTO at Ocean Protocol and BigchainDB, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Nejc Žnidar, AI Researcher at SingularityNET, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Denis Odinokov, Director of Biomedical Projects at SingularityNET, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Hilen Amin, Vice President of AI Solutions at SingularityNET, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Steve Hruby, founder of KaiZen Progressive Health, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Pulin Agrawal, coauthor of Multi-layer Cortical Learning Algorithms, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Graham Leach joins our New Money Systems Board. Graham is Venture Consultant, Blockchain Applications Lab Leader, and Lecturer at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design.
Michael Duncan, coauthor of Toward AI-Guided Regenerative Medicine, joins our Robotics/AI board.
Roderick Reilly joins our blog team with the post Nanoparticles could grant humans permanent night vision.
Read issue #204 of Lifeboat News!
Omuterema Akhahenda joins our blog team with the post Artificial throat could someday help mute people “speak”.
New Worlds 2019 will be held November 15–16 in Austin, Texas.
 
This conference is committed to enabling human beings to live and thrive in space, to identifying and developing the technologies and approaches needed to harvest space resources and using those resources to build new industries, companies, and communities that will open the frontier, be it on the Moon, Mars, or the Free Space between worlds.
 
Our Jason Dunn, Gabriel Rothblatt, Rick Tumlinson, and Robert Zubrin will be speaking.
 
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The 70th International Astronautical Congress will be held October 21–25, 2019 in Washington, D.C.
 
Today the broader space community stands at a pivotal juncture in the course of future human space exploration. To succeed we must come together to create a unified vision that can be realized through the effective use of our collective assets and resources. It is in that spirit of collaboration that we would host the global space community in Washington, D.C., to envision what the next “giant leap” will be.
 
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Read the book Nano.
Read issue #203 of Lifeboat News!
The ASHI/BANFF Joint Scientific Meeting will be held September 23–27, 2019 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
 
This year’s Joint Meeting is intended to promote collaboration between experts in solid organ transplant pathology and histocompatibility/immunogenetic. The objective of this alliance is to advance diagnostic testing for solid organ transplant recipients with a particular emphasis on the immunology and pathology of antibody-mediated rejection. Learn more!
The 23rd World Futures Studies Federation Conference 2019 (WFSF) will be held September 10–13, 2019 in Mexico City, Mexico.
 
Our Rosa Alegria, Peter Bishop, Tom Lombardo, and Alethia Montero will be speaking/particpating.
 
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The O’Reilly AI Conference will be held in San Jose, California on September 9–12, 2019.
 
Our Mazin Gilbert and Anand Rao will be speaking. Learn more!
The Global Bioethics Initiative (GBI), in collaboration with the Department of Bioethics & Engagement, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), University of Oxford, invites students and professionals worldwide to attend the International Bioethics Summer School to be held at the Abloom Hotel. This program will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from August 5 to 9, 2019.
 
Our Ana Lita is Cofounder and Executive Director of the Global Bioethics Initiative.
 
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Vivek Jaiswal joins our blog team with the post A new set of images that fool AI could help make it more hacker-proof.
Read Apollo 11 50th Anniversary by our Martin Rees, author of On the Future: Prospects for Humanity.
 
Baron Martin Rees is Astronomer Royal and is a leading astrophysicist. He has conducted influential theoretical work on subjects as diverse as black hole formation and extragalactic radio sources, and provided key evidence to contradict the Steady State theory of the evolution of the Universe.
John Davies joins our blog team with the post The Scientist Who Believes We Can Reverse Aging.
Harri Valpola, CEO of the Curious AI Company, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Doris Ngozi Morah, Editor-in-Chief of the TAFFD’s Journal, joins our Social Factors Board.
Jordi Bieger, coauthor of Why Artificial Intelligence Needs a Task Theory — And What It Might Look Like, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Anton Kolonin, coauthor of A Reputation System for Artificial Societies, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Joe Betts-Lacroix, CTO of Vium, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Tam Hunt, author of Solar: Why Our Energy Future Is So Bright, joins our Sustainability Board.
Riccardo Patriarca joins our Complex Systems Board. He was recently listed in the Forbes 30 under 30 list.
Vladimir Airapetian, Senior Astrophysicist at Heliophysics Science Division (HSD) at American University in DC, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Melissa G. Arredondo, Applied Materials Research Scientist at United Precision Corp, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Read 3 Essays on Virtual Reality: Overlords, Civilization, and Escape by our Eliott Edge.
Sabine Hossenfelder, author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, joins our Physics Board.
Peter Cawdron joins our blog team with the post Is artificial consciousness the solution to AI?
Read issue #202 of Lifeboat News!
Joseph Barney joins our blog team with the post Boston Dynamics: New Robots Now Fight Back.
AGI 2019 will be held August 6–9 in Shenzhen, China. As the AI field becomes increasingly commercialized and well accepted, maintaining and emphasizing a coherent focus on the AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) goals at the heart of the field remains more critical than ever.
 
Our Joscha Bach, Antonio Chella, Suzanne Gildert, Ben Goertzel, Marcus Hutter, Matthew Iklé, Alexey Potapov, Rafal Rzepka, Bas Steunebrink, Julian Togelius, Pei Wang, and Byoung-Tak Zhang will be participating.
 
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Roger Dufur joins our blog team with the post A New Industrial Base Is Taking Shape. Call It the Military-AI Complex.
Lifeboat Foundation is supporting the production of the scifi short film When Fire Flies through Indiegogo at the Associate Producer level. This film is about a quiet, fugitive scientist who takes measures into his own hands to save the world from extinction. Lifeboat Foundation and its directors have granted $7,500 to this movie.
Richard Christophr Saragoza joins our blog team with the post The Quatron Transistor.
Fyodor Rouge joins our blog team with the post Bladeless Wind Generator Is The Future.
Read the free book Cybofree: Posthuman Bioethics for a Sustainable Humanity by our V.R. Manoj.
Paul M. A. Willis, author of Rocks & Fossils, joins our Geology/Geophysics Board.
Stefan Leijnen, Director at The Asimov Institute, joins our Futurists Board.
Swapnil Surdi joins our Space Settlement Board. Swapnil is an Engineer at the Liquid Propulsion Laboratory (LPL) at the University of Southern California.
Terrence W. Deacon, author of The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Giulio Di Gravio, Partner at aiComply, joins our Complex Systems Board.
Zhongjun Zhou, Editor-in-Chief of Translational Medicine of Aging, joins our Life Extension Board.
Krishnan V. Chakravarthy is coauthor of Nanotechnology as a Promising New Paradigm for Control of Pain. He joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Maria Olon Tsaroucha joins our Media & Arts Board. Maria is the creator of Perceptual acting and directing (PAD).
Mikhail A. Lebedev, coauthor of Brain–machine interfaces: past, present and future, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Veena Prahlad joins our Life Extension Board. Veena contributed a chapter to The Wiley Handbook on the Aging Mind and Brain.
Susana Gonzalo joins our Life Extension Board. Susana’s work and research interests are focused on how alterations of nuclear architecture, chromatin structure, and genome stability contribute to the processes of aging and cancer.
Kali Carrigan joins our Life Extension Board. Kali is a devoted public advocate for research on aging and longevity.
Gerd Leonhard, author of Technology vs. Humanity, joins our Futurists Board.
Michael Kope, CEO and Cofounder of SENS Research Foundation, joins our Life Extension Board.
Newton Lee, author of Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
RAADfest 2019 will be held October 3–6 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the largest event in the world where practical and cutting-edge methods to reverse aging are presented for all interest levels, from beginner to expert.
 
Our Bill Andrews, Nichola Conlon, José Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Brian Delaney, Greg Fahy, Bill Faloon, Rudi Hoffman, Ben Goertzel, Sandra Kaufmann, David Kekich, Ray Kurzweil, Liz Parrish, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.
 
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The 11th Beyond Humanism Conference will be held July 9–12 in Lille, France. Our Stefan Lorenz Sorgner is on the Organizing Committee.
 
This conference aims to intensify the debates between transhumanists and posthumanists on the impact of emerging technologies on our lifeworld. Learn more!
The 5th International Conference on Advances in Functional Materials (AFM 2019) will be held July 22–24 in Washington, D.C. Our Lijie Grace Zhang is Conference Co-Chair.
 
This conference is an ideal platform to understand the past, present, and future goals of functional materials research. Learn more!
The International Workshop on Satellite Constellations & Formation Flying will be held July 16–19 in Glasgow, Scotland.
 
Our Edmondo Minisci and Massimiliano Vasile will be speaking. Learn more!
RoboCup2019 will be held July 2–8 in Sydney, Australia.
 
The goal of RoboCup is that by the middle of the 21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win a soccer game, complying with the official rules of FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup.
Ending Age-Related Diseases 2019 will be held July 11–12 in New York City. This conference will focus on aging research and biotech investment.
 
Our María A. Blasco, Judith Campisi, Keith Comito, Aubrey de Grey, Greg Fahy, Peter Fedichev, Kristen Fortney, Vadim Gladyshev, Vera Gorbunova, Michael Greve, Morgan Levine, João Pedro de Magalhães, Paul A. Spiegel, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking.
 
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Read issue #201 of Lifeboat News!
Mark Sackler joins our blog team with the post Podcast Special Edition: X Prize Future of Longevity Impact Roadmap.
Aline Decadi, Dependability and Safety Engineer at the European Space Agency, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Sandra Kaufmann, author of The Kaufmann Protocol: Why We Age and How to Stop It, joins our Life Extension Board.
Eugene Levin, Founder of Electrodynamic Technologies, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Fran Sorin joins our Sustainability Board. Fran is passionate about exponential technologies and the enormous positive impact they can have on humankind. Through Peter Diamandis’ A360 group, Fran has developed her Massive Transformative Purpose: To ensure that all of humanity gain access to nutritious, real food for pennies a day.
Joe McKinney, CEO of Startup Societies Foundation, joins our Social Factors Board.
Nicholas Agar, author of How to be Human in the Digital Economy, joins our Futurists Board.
Nikolay Zak, who spoke at the 2019 Undoing Aging Conference, joins our Life Extension Board. Read Editorial: Did Jeanne Calment live to 122 years old, or did her daughter pull a fraud for the ages?
Chris Mattenberger, CTO at HydroStar, joins our Sustainability Board.
The AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) 2019 Annual Convention & Exhibition (ACE) will be held in San Antonio, Texas on May 19–22.
 
Our Bruce Cutright will be speaking about Energy and Minerals Drive Commercial Space Exploration on May 20th. Learn more!
Our Janet Ivey is now President of Explore Mars, the world’s most influential nonprofit committed to advancing the cause of human exploration of Mars. Learn more!
Florence Nsiah joins our blog team with the post Undersea Robot To Rescue The Great Barrier Reef.
Read the free paper Human Brain/Cloud Interface by our Amara D. Angelica, Frank J. Boehm, Robert A. Freitas Jr., Steven A. Garan, Tad Hogg, Nuno R. B. Martins, Yuriy Svidinenko, and Melanie Swan.
 
This paper describes how neuralnanorobotics may enable a B/CI with controlled connectivity between neural activity and external data storage and processing, via the direct monitoring of the brain’s ~86 × 109 neurons and ~2 × 1014 synapses.
Our Barbara Marx Hubbard, beloved author and visionary, has passed away. She worked to the end of her life to “Safeguard Humanity”. Read a quote from her!
 
Buckminster Fuller said, “There is no doubt in my mind that Barbara Marx Hubbard — who helped introduce the concept of futurism to society — is the best informed human now alive regarding futurism and the foresights it has produced.”
The International Society for the Study of Information Summit (IS4SI 2019) will be held June 2–6 at Berkeley, California.
 
Our Paul Saffo will be speaking. Our Mark Burgin will be running a miniconference on Theoretical Information Studies (TIS) at this event. Our Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic will also be running a miniconference on Morphological & Unconventional Computing at this event. Our Raffaela Giovagnoli will be running a miniconference on Habits and Rituals at this event as well.
 
This summit will discuss the theoretical, practical, and ethical challenges posed by the growth of information technology. The theme of the 2019 Summit will focus on what AI is, isn’t, could be, and shouldn’t be, as well as to consider how it is related to mental processes produced by brains and to the different concepts of information.
Read issue #200 of Lifeboat News!
Francisca Oboh-Ikuenobe joins our Geology/Geophysics Board.
 
Francisca is a geoscientist specializing in palynology and sedimentology, with the former including studies of pollen and other palynomorphs within sediments and sedimentary rocks as a proxy for biostratigraphic, palaeoecological, and palaeoclimatic reconstructions. She also integrates palynofacies with organic geochemistry.
Jim Sevey, Director of Scientific Field Development at Titan Spine, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Vittorio Calabrese, coauthor of Nitric oxide in the central nervous system: Neuroprotection versus neurotoxicity, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Anand Rao, Global Artificial Intelligence Lead at PwC, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Brian M. Delaney joins our Life Extension Board. Brian is the President of the Age Reversa Network, President of the Society for Age Reversal, and for more than 23 years, the President and the Founder of Calorie Restriction Society International.
Stala Kioupi, Medical Officer at the Cyprus Ministry of Health, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
J. A. Hitchcock, author of Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering Web Spammers, Stalkers, and Con Artists, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Wayne W. Alward, Jr., Founder of Alnilam Space, joins our Space Settlement Board.
EUROPT 2019 will be held June 28–29 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. This workshop is the annual event of the EUROPT continuous optimization working group of EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies).
 
Our Edmondo Minisci and Massimiliano Vasile will be speaking. Learn more!
ISDC 2019 – International Space Development Conference will be held June 6–9 in Arlington, Virginia.
 
This conference brings together leading managers, engineers, scientists, educators, and business people from the civilian, military, commercial, entrepreneurial, and grassroots advocacy space sectors to work toward a common goal of developing a space-faring civilization.
 
Our Martine Rothblatt and John Strickland Jr. will be speaking. Previous featured speakers included our Buzz Aldrin and Alan Stern. Learn more!
Nor-shipping 2019 will be held June 4–7 in Oslo, Norway.
 
Nor-Shipping is the platform for sustainable ocean development, helping leading maritime players plot profitable courses into the future. Nor-Shipping is committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and is an official partner for the Action Platform for Sustainable Ocean Business.
 
Our Silje Bareksten is Head of Sustainability and Technology at Nor-Shipping. Learn more!
The 25th International Conference on Noise and Fluctuations — ICNF 2019 will be held June 18–21 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
 
Since the development of the theory of Brownian motion, the science of fluctuation has been one of the most important parts of physics. The investigation of noise and fluctuation is indispensable for the understanding of the physical processes in various microscopic and macroscopic systems.
 
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The International Forum on Women’s Brain and Mental Health will be held June 8–9 in Zurich, Switzerland.
 
This event’s main goal is to bring together experts and representatives from a wide range of scientific disciplines and various fields of practice contributing to the study and improvement of mental and brain health. Our Nicoletta Iacobacci and Antonella Chadha Santuccione will be speaking. Learn more!
The International Society for the Study of Information Summit will be held June 2–6 at Berkeley, California.
 
Our Paul Saffo will be speaking. This summit will discuss the theoretical, practical, and ethical challenges posed by the growth of information technology. The theme of the 2019 Summit will focus on what AI is, isn’t, could be, and shouldn’t be, as well as to consider how it is related to mental processes produced by brains and to the different concepts of information. Learn more!
The 48th Age Conference will be held May 30–June 2 at San Francisco, California.
 
Our Judy Campisi, Pete Estep, Vera Gorbunova, Matt Kaeberlein, Morgan Levine, Yousin Suh, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking. Learn more!
Our former Vice President Jerry Searcy has been cryopreserved after suddenly dying in his sleep. We hope to see him again in the future!
Alan Light joins our blog team with the post The Moon Has ‘Moving Water’, but Don’t Break Out Your Swimsuit.
All Lifeboat members get 15% off ink & toner cartridges from Inkojet. Learn about more discounts! Contact us if you have any questions.
Read issue #199 of Lifeboat News!
The 10th IAASS International Space Safety Conference will be held in El Segundo, California on May 15–17.
 
Our Dallas Bienhoff, Michael Kezirian, Joseph Pelton, and Tommaso Sgobba will be speaking/participating. Learn more!
The XXIIth GMPCA conference will take place in Montreal, Canada from May 9th to 12th.
 
The GMPCA conference is an international conference dedicated to the archaeological sciences or archaeometry. Archaeometry is the study of archaeological materials and contexts using different methods from chemistry and physics — the use of hard sciences to understand past humanity. Learn more!
Global Earth Repair Conference will be held in Port Townsend, Washington, USA on May 3–5.
 
The Global Earth Repair Conference will bring people together to talk about earth repair (ecosystem restoration) at local, regional, state, national, and international levels. Learn more!
Daniel Schmachtenberger, Cofounder of the Neurohacker Collective, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Esther Baldwin joins our Robotics/AI Board. Esther is the Artificial Intelligence Strategist for Enterprise and Government at Intel Corporation.
Hieu T. Nguyen joins our Nanotechnology Board. Hieu invented a scanner capable of detecting defects in semiconductor materials tens of thousands of times faster than existing methods. His invention will help to produce more robust mobile phones, solar cells, sensors, and other optical devices as it can spot defects very early in the fabrication process.
Jan Gruber, coauthor of The mitochondrial free radical theory of ageing—where do we stand?, joins our Life Extension Board.
Jim Volp, Member of the Board of Directors of Space in Africa, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Michael Fenn, Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Harvard Innovation Labs, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Suzanne Holt Ballard, Scientific Director at Participatory Urban Living for Sustainable Environments (PULSE), joins our Sustainability Board.
Thi Hien Nguyen joins our Space Settlement Board. Hien is Executive Director at SpaceconneX.
Timothy F. Scott, who has developed a technique that is also capable of rendering a 3D object with just a single flash of light rather than layer by layer, joins our Engineering Board.
Alvaro Mata, Director of the Institute of Bioengineering, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Andrei Gudkov, Chief Scientific Officer of Cleveland Biolabs, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Read issue #198 of Lifeboat News!
CAPS 2019 will be held in Washington, D.C. on April 15–17. This conference is the 3rd International Conference on Complexity and Policy Studies.
 
This is a cross-disciplinary conference that brings together researchers, practitioners, and funders to explore the application of insights from the study of complex systems to public policy with a special emphasis on social good. Learn more!
The 1st Mediterranean Congress of Anti-aging Medicine will be held in Larnaca, Cyprus on April 13–14.
 
Our Marios Kyriazis is Conference Chair. Our José Cordeiro, João Pedro de Magalhães, Ilia Stambler, and Nektarios Tavernarakis will be speaking. Learn more!
The 3rd Annual Congress on Emerging Materials and Nanotechnology will be held in Barcelona, Spain on April 11–12. Our Jonathan Lyons will be giving a talk at this conference on current and future uses of nanotechnology. Learn more!
The Biofeedback Federation of Europe Annual Meeting will be held in Cardiff, Wales on April 8–13. This is the 20th annual meeting! Learn more.
The 4th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Theorem Proving AITP 2019 will be held April 7–12 in Obergurgl, Austria.
 
Our Ben Goertzel, Sean Holden, and Ramana Kumar will be speaking. Learn more!
The Global Congress & Expo on Advancements of Laser, Optics, and Photonics will be held March 25–27 in Valenica, Spain. Our Aurel Ymeti is on its Scientific Committee and is a Keynote Speaker for this conference. Learn more!
Imagine Convergence will be held at Orcas Island, Washington on March 21–24. This event is also available via livestream.
 
The shift of the ages is unfolding on planet Earth. Change is happening at such a rapid pace it’s hard to make sense of it all. Decisions made today are determining the very survival of future generations. The Imagine Convergence is gathering changemakers, intellectuals, innovators and cultural creatives to explore cross-disciplinary solutions to these global complexities. Learn more!
BICT 2019 — 11th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies will be held March 13–14 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. This conference provides a unique venue for researchers and practitioners in diverse disciplines to seek the understanding of key principles, processes, and mechanisms in biological systems and leverage those understandings in design, engineering, and technological applications.
 
Our Bud Mishra is the General Chair for this event. Learn more!
Hello Tomorrow Global Summit 2019 will be held March 14–15 in Paris, France. Expand your perception of tomorrow through a program packed with visionary keynotes and expert panels, and join the conversation with interactive sessions and immersive workshops to build your vision of the future with the deeptech community. Learn more!
Attend the discussion of the book Dead Precedents: How Hip-hop Defines the Future at SXSW in Austin, Texas on March 13. This book uses the concerns and conceits of cyberpunk literature to thoughtfully remap hip-hop’s spread from around the way to around the world. Learn more!
Thierry Marianne joins our blog team with the post Three instruments as concrete alternatives to social networks taking advantage of our privacy.
Heather Blevins joins our blog team with the post NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration is targeting June 12 as the launch date for Orion’s Ascent Abort-2 test, a critical milestone for human missions to the Moon!
Hardik A. Gohel joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board. Hardik runs the Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) project at the United States Department of Defense (DOD).
Marco Curreli, Executive Director and Founder of Omni Nano, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
N. Sadat Shami, Director of Talent Development, Engagement, and Social Analytics (TALES) at IBM, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Yahel Ben-David, Executive Director of De Novo Group, joins our Social Factors Board.
Thomas J. Frey, Executive Director and Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute, joins our Futurists Board.
Bong J. Walsh, Founder of Better Brains for Life, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Yuri Deigin, CEO of Youthereum Genetics, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Artemis Westenberg, President of Explore Mars, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Amavi Bada, Ambassador for Global Goodwill Ambassadors (GGA), joins our Sustainability Board.
Frank Underdown, CEO of the Keweenaw Nanoscience Center (KNC), joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Aloysius F. Hepp, winner of the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Andrés Ochoa Cruz, Founder of the SyntechBio Network, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Ours Ondine joins our blog team with the post Selfies to Self-Diagnosis: Algorithm ‘Amps Up’ Smartphones to Diagnose Disease.
Lifeboat Foundation is now a Partner of Arch Mission Foundation whose mission is to preserve and disseminate humanity’s most important information across time and space, for the benefit of future generations. Other partners include the Internet Archive, The Long Now Foundation, and Microsoft.
The Alliance for Space Development (ASD) is holding the annual March Storm Washington DC Blitz March 10–14, 2019. Sunday March 10 will be an all-day training event, followed by up to four days of Congressional visits. Blitzers are asked to commit to a minimum of 1 day of Congressional visits, but those days can be picked from among March 11—14.
 
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Johannes Tammekänd joins our Robotics/AI Board. He is CEO of Sidekik, which creates an AI version of yourself that gives your personal data a voice and outsources your daily decision making.
Changhan David Lee joins our Biotech/Medical Board. David’s laboratory studies how cancers manipulate mitochondrial-encoded genes to overcome normal cell regulation and how these genes can be targeted for cancer therapy and diagnosis.
Volkmar Weissig, President of the World Mitochondria Society, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Read On the Future: Prospects for Humanity by our Martin Rees.
Dmitry V. Bulavin joins our Life Extension Board. Dmitry has established the role of p38MAPK in negative regulation of tumorigenesis and the key role of phosphatase Wip1 as a potent human oncogene. Read p38MAPK builds a hyaluronan cancer niche to drive lung tumorigenesis.
Paul Scott Anderson, author of Venus Beckons: Why NASA Should Return and How New Tech Will Help, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Read Assembling Life: How Can Life Begin on Earth and Other Habitable Planets? by our David W. Deamer.
Brittinay Lenhart joins our Space Settlement Board. She is Senior Project Manager for Mission Support and Test Services.
Quinn Sena joins our blog team with the post Can nanotechnology rewire an injured spinal cord?
Nichola Conlon, CEO of Nuchido, joins our Life Extension Board.
Brad Bulent Yasar, cofounder of the Blockchain Investors Consortium (BIC), joins our New Money Systems Board.
Read Exponential Ethics by our Nicoletta Iacobacci.
Read issue #197 of Lifeboat News!
The Space Exploration Education Conference 2019 will be held February 6–9 at Houston, Texas. Learn more!
IBM Think 2019 will be held February 12–15 in San Francisco, California. This is IBM’s flagship conference where over 30,000 C-level executives, IT managers, architects, and practitioners gather to make the world of business work smarter.
 
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The Southern Hemisphere Space Studies Program is being held January 14–February 15 at the Mawson Lakes Campus, University of South Australia Adelaide, Australia. Our Alan Hale is teaching for Small Bodies in the Solar System on January 31 and Stockport Observatory on February 9.
Our Kattesh V. Katti was awarded with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who.
Paul Battista joins our blog team with the post Can nanotechnology rewire an injured spinal cord?
David Houlding joins our blog team with the post Blockchain: 6 Key Ethical Considerations.
Adam Ford joins our blog team with the post The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine.
Caycee Dee Neely joins our blog team with the post NASA’s Technosignatures Report is Out. Every Way to Find Evidence of an Intelligent Civilization.
Morgan E. Levine, coauthor of An epigenetic biomarker of aging for lifespan and healthspan, joins our Life Extension Board.
Laura Forczyk, Executive Director of the Georgia Space Alliance, joins our Space Settlement Board.
James Hanusa, Cofounder of Digital Raign. joins our Media & Arts Board.
David Warmflash, who is authoring Moon: An Illustrated History: From Ancient Myths to the Colonies of Tomorrow, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Mark Koops, Regional Vice President at Oracle Communications Consulting, joins our Business Board.
David Mathison, CEO of the CDO Club, joins our Information Sciences Board.
David Houlding, Principal Healthcare Lead of the Microsoft Azure Industry Experiences Team, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
 
The 2018 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Jeff Bezos in recognition of his warnings about existential risks and his work on space exploration which will eventually improve the survival chances of humanity by having humanity being based in more than one location.
 
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James Christian Smith joins our blog team with the post Engineers create an inhalable form of messenger RNA.
Brian Koberlein, creator of One Universe at a Time, joins our Cosmology Board.
Mike Gleaves, CTO of Arralis, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Manuel Serrano joins our Life Extension Board. Manuel is Cellular Plasticity and Disease group leader at the ICREA Aging and Metabolism unit.
Soodeh Farokhi, CTO of C2RO Cloud Robotics, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Antonella Chadha Santuccione, CEO of the Women’s Brain Project, joins our Neuroscience Board.
William Grassie, founding executive director of the Metanexus Institute, joins our Philosophy Board.
Pete Bonasso joins our Robotics/AI Board. Read This HAL 9000-Inspired AI Simulation Kept Its Virtual Astronauts Alive.
Regina R. Monaco, Chief Scientific Officer at Brain Backups, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Nadja Bester, Marketing and Communications Specialist at Neco Finance, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Piero Messina, Senior Officer at European Space Agency HQ, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Mitochondria: From Basic Biology to Mechanisms of Disease Conference will be held February 27–March 2 in Nassau, Bahamas.
 
Our Matt Kaeberlein and Yousin Suh will be speaking. Learn more!
Our Richard Stallman will be speaking at New Delhi, India on January 5; Kozhikode, India on January 11–12; Thiruvananthapuram, India on January 15–16; Bengaluru, India on January 18; Toronto, Canada on February 7, and Bozeman, Montana on February 11. All these talks are gratis. Learn more!
Read issue #196 of Lifeboat News!
Samson Williams joins our blog team with the post Virtual Currencies Are As Old As Favors.
Ultima Thule – January 1, 2019 – We would like to congratulate our Alan Stern for his accomplishment of New Horizons traveling 4 billion miles from Earth in the farthest flyby ever. Alan is Principal Investigator of NASA’s New Horizons probe which rang in the new year by swinging by Ultima Thule — “beyond the known world” — an object in the Kuiper asteroid belt.
 
The spacecraft passed within 2,200 miles of the large asteroid at 12:33 a.m. EST Tuesday, not long after the ball dropped in New York Times Square. The close encounter marks the farthest spacecraft flyby in history.
 
“We set a record! Never before has a spacecraft explored something so far away,” Alan said. “I mean, think of it. We’re a billion miles further than Pluto, and now we’re going to keep going into the Kuiper Belt.”
 
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Samson Williams, CEO of Axes and Eggs, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Jim Caffey joins our Space Settlement Board. Jim currently serves NASA as an Ambassador to the Jet Propulsion Lab doing public outreach. He has worked on NASA-funded research and missions for more than 20 years in Astronomy and Space Science fields.
Abed Peerally, author of In Search of Consciousness and the Theory of Everything: Towards the Final Answers to the Mystery of Existence, joins our Cosmology Board.
Kimothy L. Smith, Founder of Biodefense News, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Sam Bocetta joins our blog team with the post The Rise of Hacking and Phishing in 2018 — Where Are We Headed?
Longevity Therapeutics 2019 is being held January 29–31 in San Francisco. This conference will focus on enhancing & accelerating aging research & the development of therapies targeting age-related diseases.
 
Our Judith Campisi, Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de Magalhães, Peter Fedichev, Kristen Fortney, Morgan E. Levine, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking. Learn more!
Our Richard Stallman will be speaking at Thiruvananthapuram, India on January 15 and 16; Bengaluru, India on January 18; and Toronto, Canada on February 7. All these talks are gratis. Learn more!
Space Mission Activation Process: Are you a maker, innovator, explorer? Do you want to be part of the new space program? Propose a space mission and join in creating an international movement.
Dr. Life, author of the New York Times bestseller The Life Plan, joins our Life Extension Board.
Amy Sterling Casil joins our Futurists Board. She is an award-winning science fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction writer and artist.
Anthony Kimery joins our Counterterrorism Board. Tony is Chief Investigator for the International Tribunal for Natural Justice Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Human Trafficking and Child Sex Abuse.
Alvaro Alonso Ruiz, Business Development Manager at Telespazio VEGA, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Kevin Grazier joins our Space Settlement Board. Kevin is a scientist in the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center whose role is to characterize meteoroid streams in order to assess the impact hazard to the International Space Station as well as other robotic and crewed missions.
Vincent Clot, Business and Open Innovation Director at Thales Alenia Space, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Morgan Wright joins our Transparency and Privacy Board. His landmark testimony before Congress on Healthcare.gov changed how the government collected personally identifiable information.
Miguel Aznar, Director of Education at the Foresight Institute, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Ethan Siegel, author of Treknology: The Science of Star Trek from Tricorders to Warp Drive, joins our Cosmology Board.
Jen Blank joins our Space Settlement Board. She is a member of the Mars Curiosity rover science team among her many roles.
Kelly Robson, author of A Human Stain, joins our Futurists Board. This story won the Nebula Award for Best Novelette.
Yalda Mousavinia, Cofounder of the Space Cooperative, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Hamid Anbari, CEO and Cofounder of IKAP Robotics, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Liss C. Werner joins our Complex Systems Board. Liss is director of www.tactile-architecture.com and Assistant Professor of Architecture and Cybernetics at Technical University Berlin, where she founded the CyPhyLab.
Richard Darienzo joins our blog team with the post MIT Interactive Robotics Laboratory.
Michael S. Swetnam, coauthor of Al-Qa’ida: Ten Years After 9/11 and Beyond, joins our Counterterrorism Board.
William Buppert, author of ZeroGov: Limited Government, Unicorns and Other Mythological Creatures, joins our Social Factors Board.
Lisa Fabiny, Vice President and Director of Operations at SENS Research Foundation, joins our Life Extension Board.
Rebecca D. Costa, author of The Watchman’s Rattle, joins our Policy Board.
David W. Hamon joins our Diplomacy Board. For almost two years, he was part of the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, where he aided in organizing support functions of 29 UN peacekeeping and political missions worldwide.
Cristina Ibarra joins our Ethics Board. Cristina is the Head of International Cooperation at the National Commission of Human Rights in Mexico and the Vice President and Executive Chairwoman at The World Academy of Medical Sciences and its Human Rights Studies Division in Netherlands.
Michael Toron joins our Counterterrorism Board. Among his many roles, Mike is Counterterrorism Advisor for the NYPD.
Future Cities & Societies: Governance, Law, Blockchain will be held December 13–14 in San Francisco, California.
 
Our Tom W. Bell and Zoltan Istvan will be speaking. Learn more!
Read issue #195 of Lifeboat News!
The Acquchat NYC Blockchain & Media Fireside Chat Livestream Broadcast will be held December 11 in New York City.
 
Our Tatiana Moroz will be speaking. Learn more!
LaBITconf Santiago De Chile 2018 will be held December 5–8 in Santiago, Chile. This is the most influential cybercurrency conference in Latin America.
 
Our Rodolfo Andragnes, Luke Dashjr, Juan Llanos, and Edan Yago will be speaking. Learn more!
Blockland Solutions Conference: Real-World Problem Solving will be held December 1–4 in Cleveland, Ohio.
 
This is one of the first blockchain education conferences to provide experiential learning through hands-on coding and real-world problem solving with a focus on solutions for business and government applications.
 
Our Mark Stephen Meadows and Tatiana Moroz will be speaking. Learn more!
The XIII International Congress in Medical Aesthetics, Nutrition and Anti-aging and 6th Symposium in Regenerative Medicine is being held November 29–December 1 in Cancun, Mexico. Note that the 6th Symposium in Regenerative Medicine will be held on December 1.
 
Our Joel I. Osorio is speaking. Learn more!
NeurIPS | 2018, the Thirty-Second Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, is being held December 2–8 in Montréal, Canada.
 
NeurIPS is a multi-track machine learning and computational neuroscience conference that includes invited talks, demonstrations, symposia and oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. Learn more!
The New Economy Online Conference will be held December 3–6 online. This free conference will give you 4 days of top content from some of the world’s best speakers on blockchain and cryptocurrency.
 
Our Bobby Lee will be speaking. Learn more!
The Future of AI and Trust Workshop will be held December 4th in Arlington, Virginia, USA. Eight free slots are available.
 
This workshop is being organized by our Masseh Tahiry. Learn more!
Read Technology and National Security: The United States at a Critical Crossroads.
The Bangkok Blockchain Conference will be held December 6th in Bangkok, Thailand.
 
Thailand has emerged as one of the most interesting development hubs for cryptocurrencies and blockchain in Southeast Asia in 2018. While the world has yet to decide the category for cryptocurrencies and digital assets, the Thai government has welcomed cryptocurrency projects and exchanges.
 
Our Jen Buakaew will be speaking. Learn more!
Intelligent Automation Week Austin 2018 will be held December 3–6 in Austin, Texas.
AI World 2018 will be held December 3–5 in Boston, Massachusetts.
 
AI World Conference and Expo is focused on the state of the practice of artificial intelligence in the enterprise. The 3-day conference and exposition is designed for business and technology executives who want to learn about innovative implementations of AI in the enterprise through case studies and peer networking.
 
Our Margrit Betke, James Kuffner, John Mattison, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking. Learn more!
SOURCE Austin will be held December 3–6 in Austin, Texas. SOURCE is one part CISO conference, one part Hacker conference, and one part Career and Personal Development event.
 
Our Richard Thieme will be speaking. Learn more!
Robotex International will be held November 30–December 2 in Tallinn, Estonia. This conference is a must-attend event for everyone who wants to stay up to date with the latest tech trends and meet world level executives and investors who are already transforming the future.
 
Our Henrique Jorge and Ayesha Khanna will be speaking. Learn more!
The Startup Grind Global Conference will be held February 12–13 in Silicon Valley, California.
 
This conference includes 6 stages of highly educational content provided by a roster of world-class speakers, thousands of entrepreneurs and innovators looking to build relationships, hours of impactful networking, and partner opportunities. Learn more!
The Sustainable Blue Economy Conference will be held November 26–28 in Nairobi, Kenya. Learn more!
The International Conference of Translational Medicine will be held January 11–13, 2019 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
 
The specific goals of this conference are to bring together a diverse group of scientists studying various molecular, cellular and genetic aspects of Translational medicine. This conference is intended to provide a format for the exchange of ideas and information, to discuss the latest research findings and technical advances, and to facilitate the intellectual unification of research on cancer therapy, stem cell therapy, and regenerative medicine and related disease states in diverse systems.
 
Our Joel I. Osorio will be speaking. Learn more!
NewSpace Europe will be held November 27–28 in Luxembourg City. This conference is the only annual space conference in Europe to focus solely on the NewSpace industry and the economic opportunity of space.
 
Our Alvaro Alonso Ruiz, Vincent Clot, Jim Keravala, Alison Lowndes, Piero Messina, Peter Platzer, and Pete Worden will be speaking. Learn more!
Spacecom 2018 will be held November 27–28 in Houston, Texas.
 
SpaceCom 2018 is the only civilian conference and exposition where NASA, aerospace, and industry come together to connect. It’s where professionals from the aerospace and commercial sectors convene for two days to gain insights during forward-looking conference sessions, see firsthand, cutting-edge technology in an interactive exhibit hall, and participate in NASA presentations and an Entrepreneur Summit that promises to transform markets. Learn more!
Our People-Centered Digital Future will be held December 10, 2018 in San Jose, California.
 
This event recognizes that by March 2019, 50% of the world will be connected to the Internet. This inflection point marks an important moment for examining the “unfinished work” of the Internet and discussing the community norms, human rights and social contracts required in this exponential digital era. The event also aligns with the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations. Our Eric Rasmussen will be speaking. Learn more!
The AAAI-19: Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held January 17–February 1, 2019 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
 
Our Peter Stone, Julian Togelius, Lyle Ungar, and Michael Witbrock will be speaking/participating. Learn more!
Connectivity is the Revolution!: 3rd Annual Thought Leadership Forum will be held December 4 in Washington, D.C.
 
This Geeks Without Frontiers’ Thought Leadership Forum will focus on technological innovations, delivering digital access to underserved communities, emerging global challenges, and financially sustainable broadband business plans. Learn more!
The Canadian FinTech & AI Awards 2018 will be held November 26 in Toronto, Canada.
 
The Canadian FinTech & AI Awards are Canada’s largest and most prestigious FinTech event with over 3,000 attendees from the banking, legal, finance, tech, startup and blockchain community. Learn more!
Graham Pawelec, editor of Basic Biology and Clinical Impact of Immunosenescence, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Mikhail S. Shchepinov joins our Life Extension Board. Misha is Cofounder at Retrotope. Retrotope is changing aging as we know it, so that people do not have to suffer the savages of many degenerative diseases. They are a pharmaceutical company startup that is leading the advance of a revolutionary new unified theory of cellular degeneration that can result in dramatically new approaches to therapy.
Julie K. Andersen joins our Life Extension Board. Her lab concentrates on understanding the underlying age-related processes that drive neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s.
Read issue #194 of Lifeboat News!
Undoing Aging 2019 will be held March 28-30 in Berlin, Germany. Our Judith Campisi, Aubrey de Grey, and Michael Greve will be speaking/participating.
 
Undoing Aging 2019 is not only open to the scientific community but also welcomes all interested members of the broader rejuvenation movement. The conference will feature a student poster session showing the work of innovative undergraduate and graduate students in the field of damage repair. Learn more!
Indrapramit Das, author of The Devourers, joins our Futurists Board. This book was the winner of the 2017 Lambda Literary Award.
Alexia Idoura, Senior Program Manager at Kudelski Security, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Paul Di Filippo, author of Cosmocopia, joins our Futurists Board. He has been a finalist for the Hugo Awards, Nebula Awards, BSFA (British Science Fiction Association Award), Philip K. Dick, Wired Magazine, and World Fantasy awards.
Tal M. Klein joins our Futurists Board. Tal is author of The Punch Escrow, which won the Inkshares Geek & Sundry Hard Sci-Fi contest and was optioned by Lionsgate prior to its release.
Stephen Gantz, President of Grainster, joins our Sustainability Board.
Amy Webb, founder of The Future Today Institute, joins our Futurists Board.
Alan Yong joins our New Money Systems Board. Alan is the Founder and CEO of DNotes, a blockchain-powered digital currency and peer-to-peer payment system.
Silje Bareksten, Future Council Member at the World Economic Forum, joins our Economics Board.
Rachel Payne joins our Social Factors Board. She is a serial tech entrepreneur, philanthropist, board director, technology executive, and social change visionary.
Rob Van Den Hoven Van Genderen, author of Privacy and Data Protection in the Age of Pervasive Technologies in AI and Robotics, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Nady Golestaneh joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Nady’s lab is investigating how aging mechanisms affect the cells and induce diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Using patient-specific induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, she is studying the cellular and molecular mechanisms that induce AMD and is developing ways to stop this disease from occurring.
Anne Skare Nielsen, Chief Futurist at Future Navigator, joins our Futurists Board.
Jordana Esther Muwanguzi, Bioinformatician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Aidan J.S. Menuge joins our Futurists Board. His Dido’s Lament won the short fiction contest for the XPRIZE Seat 14C Writing Competition, chosen from over 1,400 entries.
Victoria Generao joins our blog team with the post Microsoft’s Underwater Data Center Is Actually Working, Says CEO.
Read A Very Human Future: Enriching Humanity in a Digitized World. This book acknowledges the powerful technological shifts reshaping our world and addresses five key themes that are occupying the minds of individuals, politicians, business leaders, and civil society organizations across the globe.
Best-selling author C.J. Cherryh joins our Futurists Board. Read her Hugo Award-winning novels Downbelow Station and Cyteen.
Eneasz Brodski, author of Red Legacy, joins our Futurists Board.
Sylvain Neuvel, author of Sleeping Giants, joins our Futurists Board. This novel has been optioned by Sony Pictures for development into a film and was sold for translation into twenty languages.
Gwyneth Jones, author of Divine Endurance, in which she created the term gynoid, joins our Futurists Board.
David Walton, author of the award-winning novel Terminal Mind, joins our Futurists Board.
Doug Drexler joins our Futurists Board. He is a visual effects artist, designer, sculptor, illustrator, scenic artist, graphic designer, and a makeup artist who has collaborated with such talents as Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, James Caan, Meryl Streep, and Warren Beatty.
Peter Cawdron, author of Anomaly, joins our Futurists Board.
Franklin Horton, author of the bestselling series The Borrowed World, joins our Futurists Board.
Diane Francis, the first female to become editor of a national daily newspaper in Canada, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Al Chalabi, coauthor of Juvenescence: Investing in the Age of Longevity, joins our Life Extension Board.
New York Times #1 bestselling author Scott Sigler joins our Futurists Board. Read his EarthCore!
Dina Ellis Rochkind joins our New Money Systems Board. Dina has held senior positions on the Senate Banking Committee, House Financial Services Committee, and U.S. Treasury Department during two decades in federal public policy roles.
Isaac Arthur, creator and producer of Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur, joins our Futurists Board.
Matthew Mather, the best-selling author of CyberStorm, joins our Futurists Board.
Sotira Trifourki, CEO of Artemis Space Technologies, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Rio Mohan Dluzak, a member of the board of the Institute of Neuro Innovation, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Fern Evitt, Strategy Director at Smartmesh, joins our Futurists Board.
Read issue #193 of Lifeboat News!
Read The High Frontier: An Easier Way, now available in paperback form.
Vahe Poghosyan, coauthor of Epileptic MEG Spikes Detection Using Amplitude Thresholding and Dynamic Time Warping, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Xavier Rosseel joins our blog team with the post Molecular switches are not just ‘on’ or ‘off’.
Jennifer McCartney, author of the bestselling novel Afloat, joins our Futurists Board.
Cathy Miller joins our blog team with the post David Sinclair — Can NMN Reverse Aging?
Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions, joins our Futurists Board. This novel was made into a motion picture by Tim Burton.
Shilpi Gupta, Senior Product Manager at Amazon Robotics, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
John Barnes joins our Futurists Board. He authored The Return and Encounter with Tiber with our Buzz Aldrin.
Joseph Cohen, CEO and Chief Biohacker at SelfHacked, SelfDecode, and Lab Test Analyzer, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Lisa Wood, founder of Cognitive World, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Meir Moalem, CEO of Sky and Space Global, joins our Space Settlement Board. SAS is the first company to plan, build, and operate a telecommunication commercial network over nano-satellites.
Robert Silverberg joins our Futurists Board. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a Grand Master of SF. He has attended every Hugo Awards ceremony since the inaugural event in 1953.
Taylor Anderson, author of the Destroyermen book series, joins our Futurists Board.
Mike Ruban joins our blog team with the post DARPA Wants Brain Interfaces for Able-Bodied Warfighters.
TJ Wass joins our blog team with the post Labor Day 2040: What Happens When Robots Do All the Work?
Alex Vikoulov joins our blog team with the post It’s the year 2038—here’s how we’ll eat 20 years in the future.
Read The Affordable Immortal: Maybe You Can Beat Death and Taxes.
David J. Kelley joins our blog team with the post Feasibility Study and Practical Applications Using Independent Core Observer Model AGI Systems for Behavioral Modification in Recalcitrant Populations.
Chiara Chiesa joins our blog team with the post The world in the 2030s, 2040s and 2050s.
Read issue #192 of Lifeboat News!
Lilia Lens-Pechakova joins our blog team with the post Older adults who get physical can lower their heart disease risk.
Marcia Wiegand joins our blog team with the post Turbine creates energy from oncoming traffic.
Pat Maechler joins our blog team with the post Why Alien Life Would be our Doom — The Great Filter.
Bill Retherford joins our blog team with the post Mars 2020 Spacecraft ‘Coming Together’; Probe To Seek Signs Of Ancient Alien Life.
Alex Deadpool joins our blog team with the post Are We Alone?
David Weber, author of the Honor Harrington science fiction series, joins our Futurists Board.
Tobias S. Buckell, author of Halo: The Cole Protocol, joins our Futurists Board.
Sean McMullen, author of Souls in the Great Machine, joins our Futurists Board.
Gregory Carrico, author of Children of the Plague, joins our Futurists Board.
Martin Shoemaker, author of Racing to Mars, joins our Futurists Board.
Craig DeLancey, author of Passionate Engines: What Emotions Reveal about the Mind and Artificial Intelligence, joins our Philosophy Board.
Woodrow Barfield, author of Cyber-Humans: Our Future with Machines, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Rich Larson, author of The Violet Wars trilogy, joins our Futurists Board.
Michael Dodd joins our blog team with the post Aubrey De Grey Discusses Indefinite Longevity.
Stefan Sorgner, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Posthuman Studies, joins our Futurists Board.
Read The High Frontier: An Easier Way.
Renata Markova, Business Operation Manager at Topaz Investment Advisors, joins our Finance Board.
Amelia Kallman, publisher of the monthly independent innovation newsletter The Big Reveal, joins our Futurists Board.
Eleonora Cogo, winner of the Singularity University’s Italy Global Impact Challenge, joins our Sustainability Board.
Technical Process Promoter Daniel Levi Gomez joins our Futurists Board.
The National Upcycled Computing Collective takes donations of enterprise servers, storage devices, networking infrastructure, corporate workstations, electronic test and measurement equipment, and graphics cards and uses them for scientific processing such as with BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing). They take donations of dollars in addition to donations of equipment. You can also volunteer and make a difference in your local area.
Marco Monfils joins our blog team with the post AI beats doctors in diagnosis competition.
Michael Greve, Founder of the Forever Healthy Foundation, joins our Life Extension Board.
Alida Draudt, coauthor of What the Foresight: Your personal futures explored. Defy the expected and define the preferred, joins our Futurists Board.
Alexandre Maurer, Vice President and Spokesperson of the French Transhumanist Association, joins our Futurists Board.
Ramón Risco Delgado, Founder of SafePreservation, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Blackbox is a group of PhDs, executives, and technologists formerly from Google, Apple, Intel, and other companies building the future of work. The cornerstone of their model is the unification of labor and capital to build a better system of work for all. Read more about their approach at http://blackboxfoundation.org.
Blue Frontiers, the company building the world’s first sustainable floating islands in French Polynesia, in collaboration with the Startup Societies Foundation, is holding a competition to encourage the creation of Special Economic Zones in different parts of the world that are interested in economic growth.
 
The winner will be awarded with $100,000 USD plus the possibility to become a partner in building a seastead in their home country. Nine additional proposals will win an all-expenses paid trip to the fully-operational floating pavilion in the Netherlands, built by Blue21, the architects of Blue Frontiers Floating Island Project.
 
Learn more!
Alexandria Black joins our blog team with the post 2018 Drive to Stay Alive organized.
TransVision Madrid 2018 will be held October 19–21 in Madrid, Spain. Our Didier Coeurnelle, José Luis Cordeiro, Felipe Debasa, Rodolfo Goya, Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de Magalhães, Ben Goertzel, Charlie Kam, Jim Mellon, David Pearce, Anders Sandberg, Natasha Vita-More, and Ibon Zugasti will be speaking/participating.
 
This conference will cover concepts such as longevity extension, artificial intelligence, human enhancement, and other technologies and future trends. Learn more!
31st Clinical Neuroscience and Neurogenetics Conference: Mobilizing Neurons to Rehabilitate will be held August 13–14, 2018 in Dubai, UAE. Our Howard Federoff and George Perry will be speaking. We are partners of this conference. Learn more!
Henrique Jorge, CEO of ETER9, joins our Robotics/AI Board. ETER9 is a social network that relies on artificial intelligence to create a virtual self that will publish, comment, and interact with you intelligently.
Howard Federoff, coauthor of Plasma Phospholipids Identify Antecedent Memory Impairment in Older Adults, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Adam Daniel Buttons, Founder of Ultimate Human Potential, joins our Business Board.
Enter the Longevity Film Competition and join us in the crusade of eliminating age-related disease. You can not only potentially help save lots of lives, but you can win the first prize of $10,000! Second prize is a trip to meet our Dr. Aubrey de Grey.
 
 Learn more!
Maria Entraigues Abramson joins our blog team with the post Longevity Film Competition.
Ratnesh Dwivedi joins our blog team with the post Will US Make it to Mars as President Trump Signs New Directive for NASA and Mission Gets Ready.
Read issue #191 of Lifeboat News!
The Lifeboat Foundation has now partnered with the U.S. Blockchain Association. Through education, advocacy, installing cryptocurrency-enabled ATMs and point-of-sale terminals, as well as working closely with policymakers, regulatory agencies and the industry, the U.S. Blockchain Association hopes to take blockchain technology to the next level.
Bobby Brooke, CEO of Vitality Biopharma, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Steven A. Garan, Director of Bioinformatics at the Center for Research & Education on Aging (CREA), joins our Life Extension Board.
Vadim Gladyshev joins our Life Extension Board. He is trying to uncover the molecular basis for natural changes in longevity by identifying adaptations in long-lived mammals and examining longevity-associated processes across all mammals.
William Barry, Founding Director of NDNU’s STEAM VR/AR Immersive Learning Support Lab, joins our Education Board.
Ratnesh Dwivedi, author of US Intelligence and Cost of War, joins our Diplomacy Board.
Jean Weidmann, RAADcity Coordinator for RAADfest, joins our Life Extension Board.
Matt Chorey, Account Manager at Hilti North America, joins our Futurists Board.
Steven Umbrello, Managing Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, joins our Ethics Board.
John M. “Johnny” Adams, Executive Director of the Bourhenne Medical Research Foundation, joins our Life Extension Board.
Sarah Porter, CEO of InspiredMinds!, a global tech strategy group across 72 countries, joins our Business Board.
Ending Age-Related Diseases: Investment Prospects & Advances in Research will be held in New York City on July 12. Our Bobby Brooke, Keith Comito, Antonei Csoka, Aubrey de Grey, and Vadim Gladyshev will be speaking.
 
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IFA (International Foresight Academy) Futures Consultant Ulla Gordillo joins our Futurists Board.
Brian M. Wilcox, Program Manager at Microsoft, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Alexander Shynkarenko, Bioinformatician at the Chebotarev Institute of Gerontology, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
David Scott, Strategic Advisory Executive for The Centech Group, joins our Diplomacy Board.
Kaila Colbin, New Zealand Ambassador for Singularity University, joins our Futurists Board.
Sebastian Aguiar, coauthor of RNAi mechanisms in Huntington’s disease therapy: siRNA versus shRNA, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Morten Scheibye-Knudsen joins our Life Extension Board. He is focused on exploring the physiological consequences of DNA damage and what we can do to intervene in genotoxic insults.
Our Ille C. Gebeshuber was named Austrian of the Year (Research) and won the Look!Business Award (the largest business award for women in Austria).
Ankur Bargotra joins our blog team with the post What Is Cognitive Computing (How AI Will Think).
Juliian C’estMoi joins our blog team with the post Study proposes a new way to reverse the aging process.
Takayuki Sugano joins our blog team with the post MIT fed an AI data from Reddit, and now it thinks of nothing but murder.
Adriano Autino joins our blog team with the post Elon Musk responds to Boeing’s claim it will beat SpaceX to Mars: ‘Do it’.
René von Schomberg, who helped develop the current concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), joins our Ethics Board.
Dmitry Kaminskiy, Managing Partner at Deep Knowledge Ventures, joins our Business Board.
Adam Alonzi, Producer of Genius: The Series, joins our Media & Arts Board.
David Naor joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Read One drug could treat Alzheimer’s, MS, Crohn’s, and more.
Susan Oh, governing member of Blockchain For Impact at UN General Assembly, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Loïc Bardon, Cofounder of Paris Singularity, joins our Futurists Board.
Lorena Zapata, CEO of Infinity Media Marketing, joins our Media & Arts Board.
NASA-trained commercial astronaut Christopher Altman joins our Space Settlement Board.
Carol Rosin, Founder of Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space, joins our Ethics Board.
Sofiane Delloue, founder of New Life, joins our Business Board.
Tamsin Woolley-Barker, author of Teeming: How Superorganisms Work Together to Build Infinite Wealth on a Finite Planet, joins our Business Board.
Narenda Har joins our blog team with the post Pig brains kept alive without a body.
Read issue #190 of Lifeboat News!
Jonathan Nolan, co-creator of Westworld, says an interesting quote for our quotes page!
Sam Spencer, founder of Etiam Engineering, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Matt Kaeberlein, President of the American Aging Association, joins our Life Extension Board.
Michael Borkin, Cofounder of Sabre Sciences, joins our Life Extension Board.
Marco Ruggiero, coauthor of Your Third Brain: The Revolutionary New Discovery to Achieve Optimum Health, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
John Licato, coauthor of Real Robots that Pass Human Tests of Self-Consciousness, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Garrett Katz, author of A Cognitive Robotic Imitation Learning System Based On Cause-Effect Reasoning, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Byoung-Tak Zhang, coauthor of Dual-memory neural networks for modeling cognitive activities of humans via wearable sensors, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Brad Thompson, CEO at Wyvern Pharmaceuticals, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Bill Andrews, President & CEO at Sierra Sciences, joins our Life Extension Board.
AGI-18 will be held August 22–25 in Prague, Czech Republic. This conference gathers an international group of leading academic and industry researchers involved in scientific and engineering work aimed directly toward the goal of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
 
Our Joscha Bach, Antonio Chella, Haris Dindo, Stan Franklin, Ben Goertzel, Bill Hibbard, Marcus Hutter, Matthew Iklé, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Alexey Potapov, Rafal Rzepka, Ricardo Sanz, Leslie Smith, Bas Steunebrink, Claes Strannegård, Julian Togelius, Viktoras Veitas, Pei Wang, and Roman Yampolskiy will be speaking/participating.
 
Learn more!
RAADfest 2018 will be held September 20–23 in San Diego, California. This is the largest event in the world where practical and cutting-edge methods to reverse aging are presented for all interest levels, from beginner to expert.
 
Our José Cordeiro, Greg Fahy, Bill Faloon, Aubrey de Grey, Terry Grossman, David Kekich, Randal Koene, Ray Kurzweil, Jim Mellon, Liz Parrish, Neal Van De Ree, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.
 
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Chris Parbey Jnr joins our blog team with the post How ‘Valleytronics’ Could Help Keep Moore’s Law Alive.
Read issue #189 of Lifeboat News!
The SENS Foundation is having a Donor Appreciation Event on May 8th 4 pm to 7 pm at the San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center. This free event will include Aubrey, Mike, and the entire SENS Foundation team.
 
Share a pint and tasty appetizers, network with the community, and get the inside scoop on the latest advancements at SRF and in the rejuvenation biotechnology industry.
 
Learn more!
Want to listen to the latest updates from the Lifeboat Foundation on your Amazon Alexa-enabled device? Just add the “Lifeboat Foundation — Safeguarding Humanity” skill to your flash briefing through the Alexa app. You’ll get updates from both the Latest News and Blog sections of our website. Hear something interesting? Check the Alexa app for a card containing a link.
 
To enable our flash briefing skill,
 
Go to Settings > Flash Briefing.
 
Click Get more Flash Briefing content.
 
Search for “Lifeboat Foundation”, then click on the “Lifeboat Foundation — Safeguarding Humanity” skill. Click Enable Skill to add it to your flash briefing.
 
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The Lifeboat Foundation now has the Platinum Seal of Transparency from GuideStar, the world’s largest source of information on nonprofit organizations.
Narendra Malewar joins our blog team with the post Finding lost siblings of the Sun.
Read issue #188 of Lifeboat News!
Teachers in Space, Inc. (TIS), the leading provider of affordable flight experiment opportunities for classrooms, will use a grant from the Lifeboat Foundation to fly three new classroom experiments on the Perlan II stratospheric glider in May.
 
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Manuel Canovas Lechuga joins our blog team with the post Ageing-related receptors resolved.
Danko Nikolic joins our blog team with the post Robots Go Mental.
Mean Raven joins our blog team with the post New DIY 3D Bioprinter to Create Living Human Organs.
Marcos Than Esponda joins our blog team with the post I Want to Preserve My Brain So My Mind Can Be Uploaded to a Computer in the Future.
Sidney Clouston joins our blog team with the post Lockheed wins nearly $250 million NASA contract to build supersonic plane.
Alvaro Fernandez joins our blog team with the post Research trend: Combining brain stimulation with cognitive training to enhance attention and memory.
Read issue #187 of Lifeboat News!
Håkon Skaarud Karlsen joins our blog team with the post If you’re alive in 30 years, chances are good you may also be alive in 1000 years.
Bill Kemp joins our blog team with the post Scientists build army of metal-organic nanoflowers to treat cancer.
Michael Lance joins our blog team with the post Astronomers find the ‘impossible’: a galaxy without dark matter.
Alberto Lao joins our blog team with the post Tiangong-1: How to follow the space lab’s decaying orbit and reentry.
Steve Nichols joins our blog team with the post Artificial Brains Shed Light on the Workings of Our Own.
Jacob Anderson joins our blog team with the post Chemotherapy-free ‘cancer vaccine’ moves from mice to human trials at Stanford.
Peter Morgan joins our blog team with the post Longevity industry systematized for first time.
Life Coach and Spiritual Counselor Victoria Generao joins our Religion/Spirituality Board.
Tímea Polgár, Founder of Envision Biotechnology, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Mei Marker, Principal of AI & Data Sciences, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Marina Nadeeva, author of Blockchain Impact in Fine Art Market, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Sidney Clouston, CEO of Clouston Energy Research, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Pamela Schied, Principal of ForeSight Communications Group, joins our Futurists Board.
Chrissie Lightfoot, CEO of Robot Lawyer LISA, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Read issue #186 of Lifeboat News!
The Lifeboat Foundation mourns Stephen Hawking's death.
 
Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death. He has come to be thought of as the greatest mind in physics since Albert Einstein. With similar interests — discovering the deepest workings of the universe — he has been able to communicate arcane matters not just to other physicists but to the general public.
 
As the Lifeboat Foundation 2008 Guardian Award Winner, Stephen Hawking showed that by using critical-thinking skills, we can learn about global catastrophic risks and use this knowledge to save the human race from extinction. Read Hawking quotes!
Liselotte Lyngsø, Managing Partner of Future Navigator, joins our Futurists Board.
Dana Larocca, CEO of Mandala Biosciences, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Mahsa Kiani, Cofounder of MyData, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Ai Oikawa, Cofounder of Afingen, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Karen Marquez, President of Robbie AI, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Elsa Sotiriadis, Chief Futurist at RebelBio, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Katherine Fritsch, Director of Marketing at The Hive, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Nicholi Avery joins our blog team with the post Enzymes and Cognitive Decline.
Pamela Gupta, President of OutSecure, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Sara Jennings, Producer at NASA Frontier Development Lab, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Laura Montgomery, Proprietor of Ground Based Space Matters, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Rahul Rastogi, Senior Developer at Standard Chartered Bank, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Read Dance With The Desert, Emotional Exile: Journeys, Letters from the Dragon's Lair, and The Insider’s Guide to Autism and Aspergers.
Stephen Geary, CEO at Sothic Bioscience, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Khaki Rodway, Cofounder of NewSpace NYC, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Blockchain Consultant Joshua Massey joins our New Money Systems Board.
Trisha Navidzadeh, Principal of Space Marketing Group, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Andra Keay, Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
F. Marek Modzelewski, General Manager at Treeline Interactive, joins our Business Board.
Oliver Isaacs joins our New Money Systems Board. Oliver is Marketing Advisor for Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and ICOs.
Jenny (Morawska-Ahearn) Morawska, Director of Research Australia, joins our Business Board.
Stephanie Dainow, Client Success Manager at Singularity University, joins our Education Board.
New Venture Consultant Katherine B. Lewis joins our Business Board.
Ksenia Konchakovskaya, Founder of Planet Home, joins our Sustainability Board.
Priscila Chaves Martínez, Cofounder and Director of Innova10x, joins our Futurists Board.
Qingsong (Dora) Ke, Asia-Pacific Associate Director of IE Business School, joins our Business Board.
Laurel Kornfeld joins our Space Settlement Board. She is Staff Writer at SpaceFlight Insider and Correspondent at The Space Reporter.
Anitha Vadavatha, Founder of Misu Labs, joins our Futurists Board.
ICO Advisor Bonnie Normile joins our New Money Systems Board.
Edward Futurem joins our blog team with In startup, George Church bets cryptocurrency will boost DNA sequencing.
Magnus Frolov joins our blog team with Farms Of The Future Will Use No Soil And 95% Less Water.
About 12 years ago we created a general mailing list/forum on Yahoo for our board members to directly interact with each other, no matter which particular board they were on.
 
Unfortunately Yahoo is having significant technical problems these days so we have created a new mailing list/forum on Google at https://groups.google.com/group/lifeboat-advisory-boards
 
Click on https://groups.google.com/group/lifeboat-advisory-boards to participate in some engaging discussions!
Priszcilla Várnagy, CEO of Be-novative, joins our Education Board.
Raya Bidshahri, CEO of Awecademy, joins our Education Board.
Danielle Fong, Chief Scientist at LightSail Energy, joins our Sustainability Board.
MaRi Eagar, Chair of Digital Futures, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Sarah Konchitchki, Founder of Organic Concrete, joins our Sustainability Board.
Malcolm Ocean, Founder of Complice, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Kimberly Forsythe, Founder of AKuaponics3D and Namaste Coin, joins our New Money Systems and Sustainability Board.
Angie Carrillo Reluz, Founder and CEO at Nextbiotics, joins our Business Board.
Read State of the Future version 19.1.
Read issue #185 of Lifeboat News!
The 2017 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Joseph N. Pelton in recognition of his lifelong dedication to advance the science of space safety and cosmic hazards prevention for the greater good of humankind.
 
Learn more!
Dave Davies, Ambassador and Advisor at Iron & Earth, joins our Sustainability Board.
Melissa Mahler, General Counsel at The Mahler Group, joins our Futurists Board.
Anna Gutkina, author of Defusing the Cancer Bomb: How Cancer Saved My Life, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Johan Nygren joins our blog team with On the Origin of the Asteroid Belts and the Dwarf Planets: Towards a New Horizon in Astronomy.
Palak Madan, Research Analyst at Blackbox AI, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Margaretta Colangelo, President of U1 Technologies, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Katsiaryna Archangorodskaja joins our Futurists Board. Katerina is President of HawkMatrix and Executive Advisor at Apphera.
Kristen Fortney, CEO at BioAge Labs, joins our Life Extension Board.
Ira Munn joins our Sustainability Board. Ira is developing 3D-printed electric vehicle kits using recycled PET plastic,
Age and Longevity in the 21st Century: Science, Policy, and Ethics will be held in New York City April 13–15. Our Didier Coeurnelle, Aubrey de Grey, and Ana Lita will be speaking/participating.
 
The deadline for abstract submission and registration has been extended to March 1. Learn more!
Traci Parker joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Traci is Director, Clinical Performance Management at UnitedHealth Group/OptumHealth.
Linda S. Leaney, CFO at Globcoin, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Zach Aysan, author of Terrorists Could Use Teslas to Kill Us, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Anna Vital, Founder of Adioma, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Blockchain entrepreneur Sophia Ha Ho joins our New Money Systems Board.
Read issue #184 of Lifeboat News!
Jen Buakaew, CEO of the CloutNetwork, joins our New Money Systems Board.
The winner of our Dream Project contest is Teachers in Space, Inc. We will be funding classroom experiments that will fly aboard the Perlan II stratospheric glider which just set the world altitude record. The glider is currently in Minden, Nevada which happens to also be the location of our headquarters!
 
Learn more!
Lifeboat Foundation is pleased to release the 4th and newest edition of our book The Human Race to the Future. Learn more at Lifeboat News!
 
As a special promotion our book, packed with over 300 pages of information, will be priced through December at just $1.23 (1-2-3) for the e-book version. We also need more reviews on Amazon and can provide a paperback or e-book to review at no charge if you request one by emailing [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation free ebook” or subject “Lifeboat Foundation paperbook”.
Genevieve O’Hagan is our new Social Media Expert. Welcome aboard Genevieve!
Read Space Traffic Control.
The Lifeboat Foundation is looking to hire an HQ Supervisor. This individual will be trained by our president in Reno, Nevada USA and will be in charge of everything from financial paperwork to keeping our HQ (headquarters) clean. The two main qualities that are being looked for are: 1) follow through 2) and a strong interest in “Safeguarding Humanity”.
 
Learn more!
Get your $5,000 dream project funded by the Lifeboat Foundation. Deadline for submissions is the end of the year.
 
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Foresight’s Vision Weekend is coming up on December 2–3 in San Francisco. Get a 50% discount on your ticket using the code “Lifeboat”.
 
The Vision Weekend is a gathering dedicated to taking stock of the most compelling ideas of today, turn them into coherent visions for a better future, and get to work on them.
 
Learn more!
Carla Parsons joins our blog team with the post Modified protein promotes hair growth and fights ageing in mice.
Read Preparing for a World that Doesn’t Exist — Yet: Framing a Second Enlightenment to Create Communities of the Future.
Watch Why Existential Risks Matter & Decentralized Mitigation Strategies — Allison Duettmann @BIL 2017.
Lifeboat Foundation is now a Partner of the Conrad Challenge. The Conrad Challenge brings together a dynamic community of innovators and entrepreneurs driving a collaborative movement to develop extraordinary and viable solutions to benefit our world in one of five areas: Aerospace & Aviation, Cyber-Technology & Security, Energy & Environment, Health & Nutrition, and Smoke-Free World.
Read issue #183 of Lifeboat News!
Andrea Liu, COO at Genaro Network, joins our New Money Systems Board.
 
Genaro Network is the first Turing Complete Public Chain with Decentralized Storage Network, providing Blockchain developers a one-stop solution to deploy smart contracts and store data simultaneously.
Janet Ivey, President at Janet’s Planet, joins our Education Board. Janet is committed to enriching the lives of children through education and programming. She has received 12 Regional Emmys and 5 Gracie Allen awards for her work.
Nicoletta Iacobacci, Ethics HyperLeader at Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, joins our Ethics Board.
Ana Lita, Executive Director at Global Bioethics Initiative, joins our Ethics Board.
David Fogel, coauthor of How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics, joins our Complex Systems Board.
Risk Strategist Masseh Tahiry joins our Space Settlement Board.
Jessica Prendergast, with Future Impacts Consulting, joins our Futurists Board.
Bridgette Engeler, Principal at Incognito Sum, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Joe Brewer, Culture Designer in Residence at The Evolution Institute, joins our Sustainablity Board.
Pablo Kohan, CEO of 3Global Green, joins our Sustainablity Board.
Caterina Falleni, Interaction Designer at Samsung Research America and Cofounder of Design for X, joins our Futurists Board.
Archaeologist Julie Morin-Rivat joins our Futurists Board. Julie is also a science fiction writer under the name Roznarho.
Alethia Berenice Montero Baena, winner of the 2016 World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) President's Outstanding Young Woman Futurist Award, joins our Futurists Board.
Lissette Olivares, cofounder of Sin Kabeza Productions, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Nancy Conrad, Chairman of the Conrad Foundation, joins our Education Board. U.S. News & World Report named Nancy one of 100 Top Women Leaders in STEM and inducted her into the 100 Top Women Leaders in STEM Hall of Fame.
Lyn Ulbricht joins our Transparency and Privacy Board. Lyn is CEO of the Ross Ulbricht Defense Effort and is a well-known advocate for constitutional protections, individual freedom, and privacy.
Robin Smith, CEO of NextPhase Foundation, joins our Futurists Board.
Angie Bukley joins our Education Board. Angie is the Senior Strategist and Chief Systems Engineer in the Strategic Assessment & Studies Division, Civil Systems Group at The Aerospace Corporation.
The 34th Space Symposium will be held April 16–19 in Colorado Springs, Colorado USA. The Space Symposium is the premier global, commercial, civil, military, and emergent space conference. Our Dylan Taylor and Rick Tumlinson will be speaking.
 
Learn more!
Michael Greve joins our blog team with the post Dr. Eric Lagasse to speak at Undoing Aging 2018.
Dmitrii Chekh joins our blog team with the post Circadian Rhythm.
Dylan Taylor, the first private citizen to manufacture an item in space, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Jaz Athenia Chua joins our Futurists Board. Jaz is Head of Strategy and Operations, Marketing, APJ at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Arthur R. Woods joins our Media & Arts Board. He created the Cosmic Dancer project (1993) and Ars Ad Astra: The 1st Art Exhibition in Earth Orbit (1995) — both were realized on the Mir space station.
The 2018 Undoing Aging Conference will be held March 15–17 in Berlin. This conference is focused on the cellular and molecular repair of age-related damage as the basis of therapies to bring aging under full medical control. It is a joint effort of the SENS Research Foundation and the Forever Healthy Foundation.
 
Our Aubrey de Grey, Vera Gorbunova, and Jean Hébert will be speaking. Learn more!
Irene Schneider, CEO of ISE – Ihrenes Space Enterprises, joins our Space Settlement Board. With a superb team of experts, ISE is the first commercial scientific consulting firm to specialize in offering comprehensive space radiation protection, space radiation mission planning, and dosimetry projections for human commercial space missions.
Geci Karuri-Sebina, Director of the Southern African Node of the Millennium Project, joins our Futurists Board.
Jennifer Gidley joins our blog team with the post Contrasting Human Futures: Technotopian or Human-Centred?
The Lifeboat Foundation mourns the passing of American science fiction writer, essayist, and journalist Jerry Pournelle who worked to the end to “Safeguard Humanity”.
Read How Nasa’s Voyager spacecraft changed the face of UK science which features our Garry Hunt.
Anderson Tan joins our blog team with the post Intel Jumps Into Brain-Like Computing With New Self-Learning Chip.
Helena Knyazeva, coauthor of The Foundations of Synergetics, joins our Complex Systems Board.
Nadezhda Gaponenko, author of Russian Nanotechnology 2020, joins our Futurists Board.
Foresight expert Kelly Kornet joins our Finance Board.
Louise McCarthy, Director of Global Digital Transformation at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), joins our Finance Board.
2017 Foresight Vision Weekend will be held December 2–3 at the Gray Area & The Laundry, San Francisco. Topics covered include AI safety, blockchains, longevity, and x-risks.
 
Learn more!
Our Allison Duettmann is hosting a salon on Existential Hope on October 12 at The Embassy Network, San Francisco.
 
Learn more!
Florina Gobel, Community Manager at C-SATS, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Carla M. Parsons, Founder of Radical Science, joins our Education Board.
Ian Hale joins our blog team with the post New gene editor used to fix disease in embryos: study.
Read issue #182 of Lifeboat News!
Jennifer M. Gidley, author of Postformal Education: A Philosophy for Complex Futures, joins our Psychology Board as our Inaugural Psychology Advisory Board Member. She was also recently President (2009–2017) of the World Futures Studies Federation.
Josie Wales, author of You Can Now Literally Turn Your Spare Change Into a Bitcoin Investment, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Sky Marsen, author of Becoming More Than Human: Technology and the Post-Human Condition, joins our Futurists Board.
Dori Liszkai, Advisory Council Member – Blockchain at GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group), joins our New Money Systems Board.
Ashley Brooke Taylor, Cofounder at Future Culture, joins our New Money Systems Board. Future Culture is a nonprofit partnership honing a unique perspective on the integration of blockchain and community.
Rhonda Stevenson, President of Tau Zero Foundation, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Azam Shaghaghi, Strategy Analyst at BMO Financial Group, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Janet Faulkner, Program Manager at the University of Houston, joins our Futurists Board.
Marsia Bealby, Coeditor of Current Research in Egyptology 2012: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Symposium, joins our Futurists Board.
Pam Keefe, Co-Organizer of RAADfest Bangkok, joins our Life Extension Board.
Immaculate Dadiso Motsi-Omoijiade, author of Bitcoin Lending and the Multiplier Effect, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Patrick Tucker joins our blog team with the post Can the US Military Re-Invent the Microchip for the AI Era?
Watch NanoMind: AI-Powered Nano Design.
Watch Effective Altruism: How to Evaluate Hard-To-Measure Approaches.
Christiana Vasiadou, Compliance Officer and Head of Monitoring Unit at Depaho, joins our Finance Board.
Dana Klisanin, CEO of Evolutionary Guidance Media, joins our Futurists Board.
Anca Ioviță, author of The Aging Gap Between Species, joins our Life Extension Board.
Kristina Bliadze, Business Development Manager at CoinsBank, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Brady Chambers joins our blog team with the post Researchers Discover Key to Brain Aging.
Allison Duettmann, coauthor of Cyber, Nano, and AGI Risks: Decentralized Approaches to Reducing Risks, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Read the paperback version of The Telomerase Revolution: The Enzyme That Holds the Key to Human Aging and Will Lead to Longer, Healthier Lives which was authored by our Michael Fossel.
Mark Post, coauthor of Autonomous Micro-Rovers for Future Planetary Exploration and Terrestrial Sensing, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Amberley Levine joins our blog team with the post Elon Musk’s Neuralink Gets $27 Million to Merge Humans and Machines.
The Berkeley Stanford China Forum will be held Oct 7–8 and will be focused on tech innovation and entrepreneurship. Confirmed speakers include Michael Seibel (CEO of Y Combinator), Patrick Lee (Co-Founder of Rotten Tomatoes), and Xue Ding (Co-Founder and COO of Ofo).
 
Learn more!
Angel Investor Anderson Tan joins our Space Settlement Board.
Shuonan Chen, CEO of Shinect, joins our Business Board.
Finalists for the 100 Year Starship 2016–17 Canopus Award include our Buzz Aldrin, James Blodgett, and Allen Steele in multiple categories. Winners will be announced at the 100YSS Nexus in Los Angeles, September 14–17.
Paul Gonçalves joins our blog team with the post Changes in the Nucleolus are a Possible Aging Biomarker.
Watch Cryonics: Fantasy or a Bridge to the Future?
Read The Business of Anti-Aging Science.
Read issue #181 of Lifeboat News!
Tara Hambley, a member of the ProLon UK team, joins our Life Extension Board.
Dirk Lehmann joins our Space Settlement Board. He is Sales Manager Launchers Vega & New Markets at RUAG Space.
Michael Klentze joins our Life Extension Board. As a worldwide recognized researcher in the field of clinical use of polymorphisms, he lectures worldwide and gives seminars on preventive medicine, endocrinology, and metabolic disorders.
The BSAAM’s 14th Annual Anti Ageing Conference London 2017 will be held October 12–14 in London. Our Aubrey de Grey, Marios Kyriazis, Karl J. Neeser, Giovanni Scapagnini, Maria Somers, and Miguel Toribio-Mateas will be participating.
Anthony L. Haynor, author of Social Practice: Philosophy and Method (Kendall/Hunt, 2003), joins our Philosophy Board.
Martin Dinov, Cofounder of Hack the Senses, joins our Media & Arts Board.
 
Hack the Senses is a public engagement project supported by a Wellcome Trust People Award. They bring together thinkers and makers, researchers and hackers, artists and tinkerers to imagine and explore how technology can expand the scope of human sensory experiences. They prototype new sensory augmentation devices and invite everyone to ponder their meaning.
Scott Hatton, main organizer for the annual Reinventing Space conference on behalf of the British Interplanetary Society, joins our Space Settlement Board.
David S. Germroth, President of PACE Global Solutions, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Christopher Welch, Director Masters Programs at the International Space University, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Edmondo Minisci, Director of the Intelligent Computational Engineering Laboratory (ICE-Lab), joins our Complex Systems Board.
The 15th Reinventing Space Conference will be held October 24–26, 2017 at the Strathclyde University Technology & Innovation Centre in Glasgow, Scotland.
 
The focus of this conference will be on the novel applications that are becoming commercially viable as space technology improves. These include space tugs, space tourism, satellite refuelling, debris removal, debris exploitation, manufacturing in orbit, real-time video from space, and space mining.
 
Our Stuart Eves and Massimiliano Vasile will be speaking.
 
Learn more!
The 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2017) will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA from November 27 to December 1, 2017. This conference promotes all aspects of computational intelligence theory, algorithm design, applications, and related emerging techniques.
 
Learn more!
Read issue #180 of Lifeboat News!
Dany Kitishian, Executive Committee of the UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge, joins our Business Board.
Müslüm Yildiz joins our blog team with the post A Son Turned His Dying Father Into An Artificial Intelligence.
Learn about AgeMeter: Physiological Biomarkers to Determine Functional Age.
Mary Jain joins our blog team with the post Researchers shut down AI that invented its own language.
John Gallagher joins our blog team with the post US nuclear arsenal controlled by 1970s computers with 8in floppy disks.
Read issue #179 of Lifeboat News!
Andreas M. Hein joins our blog team with the post Our recent space art discovery: “Expanding to New Horizons” by Alexandra Hodgson.
The Lifeboat Foundation thanks Google and Microsoft for their combined donation of $500 in computing time.
 
The first thing we have done with this donation is generate the Zcash vanity address of t1LifeboatfkjDqAWdW4nCaSj2NaJSr1X3E.
 
Our Zcash holdings are already worth six figures and we expect to be able to fund a lot of important research once our endowment fund gets a bit larger.
The parents of Charlie Gard don't want their baby to die. They raised the funds to save him but the UK government won't allow the treatment.
 
Lifeboat Foundation always supports those who wish to try the latest medical treatments (or any other cutting-edge tech).
 
Learn what you can do to save Charlie Gard’s life!
The Association of Professional Futurists is having its North American Gathering in beautiful Seattle Washington, July 27–29. They will be discussing “The Future of Global Health”.
 
Learn more!
Hugo Award-winning Peter Watts joins our Futurists Board. Read his Blindsight!
Kimberly Wiefling, Founding Member of Silicon Valley Alliances (SVA), joins our Space Settlement Board.
Justina Robson, author of the Quantum Gravity series, joins our Futurists Board. Read her Transformers: The Covenant of Primus.
Nisi Shawl, author of Everfair, joins our Futurists Board.
Kathleen Ann Goonan joins our Futurists Board. Cyberpunk SF writer William Gibson described her debut novel Queen City Jazz as “An unforgettable vision of America transfigured by a new and utterly apocalyptic technology.”
Blake Crouch joins our Futurists Board. Blake’s international-bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy was adapted into a television series for FOX, executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, and was Summer 2015's #1 show.
Mike Resnick joins our Futurists Board. Mike is the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short fiction. He has won 5 Hugos (from a record 37 nominations), a Nebula, and other major awards in the USA, France, Japan, Spain, Catalonia, Croatia, and Poland.
Read issue #178 of Lifeboat News!
Jim Mellon, Co-Chairman and Founder of Mann Bioinvest, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Ken MacLeod, author of The Corporation Wars: Dissidence, joins our Futurists Board.
Astrid Bear joins our Futurists Board. Daughter of SF grand master Poul Anderson, Astrid Anderson Bear was raised in the science fiction realm. Along with being a master costumer and fiber artist, she has been heavily involved in the science fiction community, from serving on the board for the Clarion West writer's workshop, to serving on the advisory board for Seattle's Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame, to her involvement with the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA).
The Lifeboat Foundation is now accepting Ethereum. Send your Ethereum donations to 0xbadc0de027c5c1aa8917db7c93aec6c4281f6eca. Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality, which facilitates online contractual agreements.
Save 10% off the NewSpace 2017 conference with the discount code LIFEBOAT.
Dave Holt joins our blog team with the post Are We Building Artificial Brains And Uploading Minds To The Cloud Right Now?.
Adam Glickman, Cofounder of Beyond Light, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Yugal Agrawal joins our blog team with the post Simulations Show Superfluid Helium Behaves Like a Black Hole.
Read issue #177 of Lifeboat News!
Brian Hanley, author of Security in a Goldfish Bowl: the NSABBs Exacerbation of the Bioterrorism Threat, joins our Biotech/Medical Board and our Counterterrorism Board.
Ahmed A. Elborno joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Ahmed is director of Advanced Chicago Pain and Spine Physician Centers / Midwest Academy of Pain and Spine.
The Lifeboat Foundation is now accepting Zcash. Send your Zcash donations to t1Lifebt3wZP7xH8zEZaA75d7CBNKvNUQXF. Zcash can enable privacy preserving transaction data using zero-knowledge proofs.
Siva Somasundaram, coauthor of Mitochondrial damage: a possible mechanism of the “topical” phase of NSAID induced injury to the rat intestine, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Dante S. Lauretta, coeditor of Protoplanetary Dust: Astrophysical and Cosmochemical Perspectives, joins our Space Settlement Board.
 
Dante is Principal Investigator of OSIRIS-REx. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) is a NASA asteroid study and sample return mission. The launch occurred on September 8, 2016. Its mission is to study asteroid 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous asteroid, and return a sample to Earth in 2023 for detailed analysis. The material returned is expected to enable scientists to learn more about the formation and evolution of the Solar System, its initial stages of planet formation, and the source of organic compounds that led to the formation of life on Earth. If successful, OSIRIS-REx will be the first US spacecraft to return samples from an asteroid.
Dean Rickles, author of A Brief History of String Theory: From Dual Models to M-Theory, joins our Physics Board.
Read The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human. Weaving together vivid storytelling and groundbreaking science, The Body Builders explores the current revolution in human augmentation, which is helping us to triumph over the limitations and constraints we have long accepted as an inevitable part of being human.
Adam Piore joins our Futurists Board. Adam is author of The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human which is a narrative science book built around personal stories, about how advances in the field of bioengineering are unlocking untapped human resilience and potential.
Lifeboat Foundation mourns the passing of our Jacque Fresco, age 101, who worked to the end to “Safeguard Humanity”.
Elena Milova, Board Member of the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF), joins our Life Extension Board.
Thanks to advisory board member Steve Hill, our LifePreserver program has been considerably improved.
Read issue #176 of Lifeboat News!
Yurii Rashkovskii joins our blog team with the post $5,000 for your dream project.
Learn about the Lifespan Heroes campaign!
Read Identification of Potential Terrorists and Adversary Planning.
Thomas Herdin, coauthor of Culture and Technology: A Mutual-Shaping Approach, joins our Futurists Board.
Joseph Anoop George joins our blog team with the post Artificial intelligence enters the nutraceutical industry.
The 2017 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association will be held April 8 in Provo, Utah.
Read Microbes and Alzheimer’s Disease.
Read The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon!
Our Grantee TriboTEX raised over $140K on Kickstarter on preorder of anisotropic nanomaterial for self-forming coatings. Lifeboat Foundation provided funds and information support for the company.
 
Learn more!
Read issue #175 of Lifeboat News!
Alexander Rodionov joins our blog team with the post Eternal Youth Is the Next Big Bet for Singapore Venture Capitalist.
M. Mark Karindas, President of the World Academy of Medical Sciences, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Brett Gallie II joins our blog team with the post Bigelow Aerospace offers plan for an expandable space station orbiting the moon by 2020.
Germen Roding joins our blog team with the post Want more crop variety? Researchers propose using CRISPR to accelerate plant domestication.
Nancie Hunter joins our blog team with the post Growing tissue grafts on humanoid robots: A future strategy in regenerative medicine?
Vjekoslav Radišić joins our blog team with the post Apis Cor 3D Prints a Fully Livable House.
Jimmé Peters joins our blog team with the post Perspectives on AI by Calisa Cole.
Learn about Conversations with the Future: 21 Visions for the 21st Century.
Saúl Morales Rodriguéz joins our blog team with the post NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab created these super-strong grippers.
Read issue #174 of Lifeboat News!
Kevin Huang joins our blog team with the post Cancer cells hijack healthy cells to help them spread to other organs.
Marcin Miłkowski, author of Explaining the Computational Mind, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Joseph E. Brenner, author of Logic in Reality, joins our Philosophy Board.
Mark Burgin, author of Hypernumbers and Extrafunctions: Extending the Classical Calculus, joins our Information Sciences Board.
José María Díaz Nafría, author of What is Information? A multidimensional concern, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Hector Zenil, Editor of the Complex Systems journal, joins our Complex Systems Board.
Gerald Midgley, author of Systemic Intervention: Philosophy, Methodology, and Practice, joins our Philosophy Board.
Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas, coauthor of An active star topology for improving fault confinement in CAN networks, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Kazé A. Onguene, CEO of Braincities Lab, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Raffaela Giovagnoli, Co-Editor of Computing Nature: Turing Centenary Perspective, joins our Philosophy Board.
Jared Bielby, Editor-in-Chief of The Freelance Netizen™. joins our Philosophy Board.
Mark Carrigan, author of Social Media for Academics, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Jens Allwood, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Intercultural Communication, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Listen to Ocean Pasture Russ George Podcast #2: Solving Impossible Problems: Finding an artificial manure solution.
Win a $100,000 prize for developing a visionary strategy that addresses humanity’s most pressing problems. Learn more!
Learn about TriboTEX: More HP, Better MPG, and Less Wear in Car Engines. This is nanotech that has been funded by DoE, NASA, and NSF and is an important step to improve energy efficiency giving us a greener economy.
IS4SI 2017: Digitalisation for a Sustainable Society: Embodied, Embedded, Networked, Empowered through Information, Computation & Cognition! will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on June 12–16, 2017.
 
Our Piotr Boltuć, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Olle Häggström, and Jordi Vallverdú will be speaking.
Alireza Mokri joins our blog team with the post Ford just invested $1 billion in a secretive AI startup founded by former Google and Uber execs.
The Alliance for Space Development (ASD), the National Space Society (NSS), and the Space Frontier Foundation (SFF) are sponsoring the annual March Storm Washington DC Blitz March 12–16, 2017. Sunday March 12 will be an all-day training event, followed by up to four days of Congressional visits. Blitzers are asked to commit to a minimum of 2 days of Congressional visits, but those days can be picked from among March 13–16.
 
Learn more at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/march-storm-2017-tickets-31103425182.
Read How Small of a Free-Space Settlement Can People Be Happy Living In?
Jimmé Peters, Founder of 24/7 Consulting, joins our Business Board.
Read A New Map for Relationships: Creating True Love at Home and Peace on the Planet.
Read Preservation of Life on the Planet and Beyond, an interview of Eric Klien.
Bill Gates says, “It’s very hard to rate the probability of bioterrorism but the potential damage is very huge,” and has his quote added to our Quotes page.
Jeremy Wainscott, Director of Communications at the Alliance for Space Development, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Read issue #173 of Lifeboat News!
Rodolfo Goya, coauthor of Effects of Growth Hormone and Thyroxine on Thymulin Secretion in Aging Rats joins our Life Extension Board.
Read African Futures 2060 by our Yul Anderson.
The symposium Smart Sensor Systems for Self-Care is being held on Wednesday January 18 in London. Our Graham Holt and Jeremy Ramsden will be speaking.
Noel García Medel, Scientific Managing Director at Innovative Health Group, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Felipe R. Debasa Navalpotro, Secretary General at the Center for European Studies, joins our Futurists Board.
Read Preparing for a World that Doesn’t Exist — Yet: Framing a Second Enlightenment to Create Communities of the Future.
Elena Milova joins our blog team with the post Anti-aging therapies targeting senescent cells: Facts and fiction.
Recent studies strongly suggest that space tourism could be a killer app. Please help us understand the potential space tourism market by taking this short survey.
Lifeboat Foundation and LEAF (Life Extension Advocacy Foundation) join forces.
 
LEAF’s mission is to promote the advancement of biomedical technologies which will increase healthy human lifespan. By sponsoring and democratizing research efforts through crowdfunding and engaging the public in thoughtful dialog, they aim to accelerate the achievement of this important humanitarian goal for all mankind.
 
Learn more!
Read A History of Life-Extensionism in the Twentieth Century for free online!
The International Longevity & Cryopreservation Summit will be held May 27–28 in Madrid, Spain.
 
Our Didier Coeurnelle, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de Magalhães, Maria Entraigues-Abramson, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.
Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge, joins our Economics board. Partha was awarded a Doctorate (Honoris Causa) by Wageningen University, 2000; Catholic University of Louvain, 2007; Faculte Université Saint-Louis, 2009; University of Bologna, 2010; Tilburg University, 2012; and Harvard University, 2013.
William Sutherland, Miriam Rothschild Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Cambridge, joins our Sustainability board. Read his Ecological Census Techniques: A Handbook.
Mark Larkento joins our blog team with the post Evolution Chart Bacteria to humans in only 3.5 Billion years.
Derick Lee joins our blog team with the post 6 Nobel Laureates: Stop the Nuclear Insanity.
Nicola Bagalà joins our blog team with the post Why live longer when the future looks so grim?
There are 5 days left in our End of the Year Fundraiser. Get your donations doubled!
Read issue #172 of Lifeboat News!
The 2016 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Julian Assange in recognition of his quest to create an open world where the truth is told. He has worked to expose government lies, abuses, corruption, and surveillance. He is the second whistleblower to receive the Guardian Award which the Lifeboat Foundation has been awarding since 2002.
 
Why does Lifeboat Foundation think that government abuses and lies should be uncovered? Because powerful technologies that will soon be available could lead to a 1984-type society that would not only be unpleasant but could give the government the power to do terrible things that become existential threats. Secret surveillance can easily become excessive surveillance. Lies could cover up deadly weapons programs whether they are biotech, nanotech, or AI-based.
 
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Neal VanDeRee, Officiator at The Church of Perpetual Life, joins our Life Extension board.
Read Proof that Moore’s Law has been replaced by a Virtual Moore’s Law that is Accelerating and Bringing the Singularity With It.
RAADfest 2017, the largest ever gathering of radical life extension enthusiasts, will be held August 9–13, 2017 in San Diego, California.
 
Our José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Greg Fahy, William Faloon, Ben Goertzel, Terry Grossman, Zoltan Istvan, David Kekich, Liz Parrish, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.
John S. Lewis, Chief Scientist at Deep Space Industries, joins our Space Settlement board.
Adam Kennedy, Marketing Manager at Armor Down, joins our Futurists board.
Larry Klaes, author of Our Spaceflight Heritage: Project Orion, a nuclear bomb and rocket — all in one, joins our Space Settlement board.
Ivan Zone, CEO of Suchflex, joins our Information Sciences board.
Pierre Coupet, CEO of the Virtual Organization Management Institute, joins our Education board.
J. Bradley Hall, CEO of ICON Capital Reserve, joins our New Money Systems board.
Anthony D’Onofrio, Global Director of Community Engagement at Ethereum, joins our New Money Systems board.
Martin E. Rosenberg, Research Associate at the New Centre for Research and Practice, joins our Media & Arts board.
Daniel Lowy, Senior Scientist at FlexEl, joins our Chemistry board.
 
Daniel has published over 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 2 science books on nano-electrochemistry, and 10 chapters in edited electrochemistry textbooks. In addition, he coauthored 7 awarded patents.
Sam Cherubin joins our Business board. Sam is member of a 30 person team for the SE2 Department of Labor (DOL) Conflict of Interest Project.
Jack Peterson, coauthor of A Maximum Entropy Framework for Nonexponential Distributions, joins our Physics board.
Rich Glover, President of ACME Advanced Materials, joins our Engineering board.
Christopher Franko, Blockchain Expert at Borderless Technology, joins our New Money Systems board.
Joshua Yang, who recently created nanodevices that emulate human biological synapses, joins our Robotics/AI board.
Michael Kezirian joins our Space Settlement Board.
 
For the Shuttle Program, Michael was the lead analyst for the Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel (COPV) risk assessment team. The statistical reliability model for the stochastic process of composite stress rupture was the cornerstone of the flight rationale for this newly-identified failure mode. At one point, the COPVs were carried as a “Top 10” program risk.
Lifeboat Foundation mourns the passing of Klaus Schulten who worked to “Safeguard Humanity” to the end of his life.
 
Klaus was a leader in the field of biophysics, conducting seminal work in the area of dynamic computer simulations, illuminating biological processes and structures in ways that weren’t possible before.
Read Dante’s Infinite Monkeys: Technology Meets the 7 Deadly Sins.
Read issue #171 of Lifeboat News!
Feedspot has awarded our blog as a top 50 chemistry website!
Anarchapulco: [email protected] ThE $tate, ฿rave the Future will be held in Acapulco, Mexico from February 25 to 28. Save 10% with the code "tatiana".
 
This is the world’s first & largest anarcho-capitalist conference. Our Mark Edge, Trace Mayer, Stephanie Murphy, and Jeffrey Tucker will be speaking.
Regenera Global will be holding Regenerative Medicine 2.0 on February 9–11 in Cartagena, Colombia.
Read The Tragedy of the Uncommons: On the Politics of Apocalypse. (Free!)
Read The 8 Laws of Change: How to Be an Agent of Personal and Social Transformation.
Jerry Searcy, who has been with Alcor since 1978, joins our Life Extension Board.
Read Flashes from the Future. (Free!)
The Lifeboat Foundation is supporting the Cyborg Dad who is being discriminated against for being a cyborg.
Read issue #170 of Lifeboat News!
Fast Future Publishing is asking future thinkers from around the world to submit proposals to share their thoughts on scenarios of how the future might play out over the next 50 years. The aim is to publish 50 perspectives on the next 50 years from 50 different future thinkers from around the world. The submission deadline is October 24.
 
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Fabrizio Maria Maggi, coauthor of Monitoring business constraints with linear temporal logic: An approach based on colored automata, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Nubis Bruno, Chief Product Officer at Bitex.la, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Xi Zhao-Wilson, cofounder of BioMarker Pharmaceuticals, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
LaBITconf Buenos Aires 2016 will be held November 4–5 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Our Anthony Di Iorio, Juan Llanos, Trace Mayer, and Tatiana Moroz will be speaking.
 
Understand the technology that changes digital trust! Over 40 top-notch speakers will help you to understand how Bitcoin and Blockchain technology are disrupting every industry, and how to seize its opportunities. This is one of the premiere Bitcoin and Blockchain events in the world in beautiful Buenos Aires!
Global Innovator Conference 2016 will be held November 3–5 in Beijing, China, organized by APEC Business Council and partnered by Humanity+. For limited discount tickets please email [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation GIC”.
 
As the top event and social platform for global innovators, GIC 2016 invites well-known speakers and the most creative innovation companies to join the frontier cross-industry theme activities, and to demo dazzling technology, interactive art, and super IP, etc. GIC 2016 provides innovators with not only an international diversified experience space but also an interactive communication center.
Shane Hinshaw joins our blog team with the post The science world is freaking out over this 25-year-old’s answer to antibiotic resistance.
The Blockchain: Money Conference will be held November 6–7 in London. The conference will be covering a wide array of topics, such as The Blockchain, Bitcoin, investing, regulation, startups, the Internet of Things, growth hacking, and more!
Read issue #169 of Lifeboat News!
James S. Logan, Cofounder of the Space Enterprise Institute, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Tiago Soromenho, Director of Human Experience and Technology at New Worlds Institute, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Buzz Aldrin joins our Space Settlement Board.
 
On July 20, 1969, Buzz and Neil Armstrong made their historic Apollo 11 moonwalk, becoming the first two humans to set foot on another world. An estimated 600 million people — at that time, the world's largest television audience in history — witnessed this unprecedented heroic endeavor.
Vera Gorbunova joins our Life Extension Board. Vera is on the Editorial Boards of Pathobiology of Aging and Age-related Diseases (PBA), Aging Cell, and Aging.
Nikhil R. Pal, co-editor of Advanced Techniques in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Quan Liu, coauthor of Probabilistic Reasoning via Deep Learning: Neural Association Models, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Ali Reza Khanteymoori, coauthor of Structure Learning in Bayesian Networks Using Asexual Reproduction Optimization, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Giovanni Acampora, coauthor of Using FML and fuzzy technology in adaptive ambient intelligence environments, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Learn about and support Singularity 1 on 1: Interview the Future.
The Eurosymposium on Healthy Ageing will be held Sep 29–Oct 1 in Brussels, Belgium.
The 2016 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Human-like Intelligence will be held December 6–9 in Athens, Greece. Our Itamar Arel, Wlodek Duch, Stan Franklin, Ben Goertzel, and Pei Wang will be participating.
Pete Worden, Chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, joins our Policy Board.
 
The Breakthrough Prize is a set of international awards bestowed in three categories by Breakthrough Prize Board in recognition of scientific advance. The categories are Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, and Mathematics. Laureates receive $3 million each in prize money.
 
The prizes were founded by Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Yuri Milner and Julia Milner, and Jack Ma and Cathy Zhang. Committees of previous laureates choose the winners from candidates nominated in a process that’s online and open to the public.
Hellenic Bioinformatics 09: HBio 2016 will be held November 19–21 at The Centre for Research & Technology (CERTH) in Thessalonica, Greece.
The Fifth Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization Conference 2016 will be held November 10–12 in Orlando, Florida.
Alvin Yew, Program Manager at NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), joins our Space Settlement Board.
The New Worlds 2016 Conference will be held November 4–5 in Austin, Texas. Our Pete Garretson, Philip Metzger, and Robert Zubrin will be participating. For two days this fall, world class scientists, experts, and engineers will explain, discuss, and debate the challenges and solutions facing those who will go out there.
The Stardust Final Conference on Asteroids and Space Debris will be held October 31 – November 4 at the ESTEC: European Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands.
The Fourth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2016) will be held October 30 – November 3, 2016 in Austin, Texas. This conference discusses how human computation systems and machine learning systems can work together.
Extreme Futures and Technology Forecasting Conference — Fall 2016 will be held October 22 in San Francisco, California.
The European Mars Society Conference (EMC16): From Simulation to Reality will be held October 14–16 in Bergamo, Italy. This conference promotes human exploration and colonization of Mars.
Leading anti-aging research scientist Karl J. Neeser joins our Life Extension Board.
Brian Halvorsen, founder of the Prestwood Dental Health Centre, joins our Life Extension Board.
Miguel Toribio-Mateas, Chairman of the British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (BANT), joins our Life Extension Board.
Jesús A. F. Tresguerres, coauthor of Molecular mechanisms involved in the hormonal prevention of aging in the rat, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Giovanni Scapagnini, coauthor of Free Radicals and Brain Aging, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Microbiologist Kiran Krishnan joins our Life Extension Board. Watch Kiran Krishnan Primal90 Interview.
Maria Somers, Director of the London Anti Ageing Conference, joins our Life Extension Board.
Read the free report A Radically Easier Path to Space Settlement.
Read issue #168 of Lifeboat News!
The BSAAM’s 13th Annual Anti Ageing Conference London 2016 will be held October 13–15 in London. Our Aubrey de Grey, Marios Kyriazis, and Avijit Roy will be participating.
The Future of Humanity Conference will be held September 24, 2016 in New York, NY.
 
This one-day event explores what the future means from a human perspective — not just what technologies will take us there — but deeper philosophical questions: How we will define sentience? How people will choose to live and govern themselves? How we will communicate? What is the art and ethics that humans will bring with them into this new era?
The Eurosymposium on Healthy Ageing will be held Sep 29–Oct 1 in Brussels, Belgium.
The Mobile Payments Latin America Summit will be held Sep 20–21 in Miami, Florida USA. You can save $250 with the discount code Lifeboat250. The Lifeboat Foundation is a Media Partner of this event.
Ljubljana Forum: Green Cities & Smart Infrastructure will be held October 6–7 in Slovenia. Ljubljana Forum is an annual gathering that combines knowledge and experience of city governance and defines key areas, visions, and strategies of the future development of cities.
ENDOTREND, a sustainable festival of music + art + education + film, will be held October 1 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
The LatAm Startups Conference 2016 will be held October 12–14 in Mexico City, Mexico. The event aims to end the brain drain to Silicon Valley and help Latin American high-tech startups scale.
 
You can get a discount by emailing [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation LatAm”.
The Capital Markets Blockchain Conference will be held September 9 in London. This conference is focused on bringing together financial institutions and investment and trading experts with those at the cutting edge of #Fintech development in the cryptocurrency world.
The Heroic Future: A live documentary series about reimagining the world of tomorrow, in order to rebuild the world today will be held September 20–22 in the Bay Area, California.
8 Laws of Change: How to be an agent of personal and social transformation will be held September 28–October 2 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
The GlideWing online workshop: Opening to the Infinite will be held September 3–25.
Devcon2 will be held September 19–21 in Shanghai, China. This conference discusses Ethereum R&D; and topics relevant to the Ethereum development community.
The Immersive Technology Summit will be held October 11 in Bellevue, Washington, USA. This summit discusses virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technologies.
Mars City PowerLab Workshop 2016 will be held September 15–28 and will be hosted by the University of Southern California.
Bitcoin Wednesday 39 will be held September 7 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Free tickets are available!
The *free* 2016 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Symposium will be held August 23–25 at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, North Carolina. Our David Brin is on the NIAC External Council.
Elmar Arunov joins our blog team with the post How Today’s Jungle of Artificial Intelligence Will Spawn Sentience.
Blair Erickson joins our blog team with the post How to Build Your Own Starter House in Just 5 Steps — for $25,000.
Watch the free live streams of RB2016 on August 16–17. This SENS Research Foundation event focuses on rejuvenation biotechnology.
Enjoy The Future and All That Jazz performance on Thursday, August 18th at 8 pm at the Vortex Jazz Club in London.
AI for Scientific Progress: Bringing Digital Control to Physical Matter will be held September 30–October 2 in Palo Alto, California.
Learn about the Human Underwater Society!
Watch “Machines That Think: The good, bad and scary of Artificial Intelligence” by James Canton at TEDxMarin on September 17th in California.
Read Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends that Will Transform Your World.
Attend the free cocktail reception and industry discussion Dissecting The DAO: Lessons Learned and Future Promise on August 16, 2016 in New York, NY. DAO is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization.
Carse Peel joins our blog team with the post The Chimera Quandary: Is It Ethical To Create Hybrid Embryos?
The O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference will be held September 26–27 in New York City, NY. Save 20% with discount code UGLETM.
 
Discover the real-world opportunities of applied artificial intelligence. AI is (finally) driving an explosion in intelligent software — bots, agents, voice, and IoT interfaces. Learn how to implement AI in real-world projects today and explore what the future holds for intelligence engineering.
Enjoy The Future and All That Jazz performance on Wednesday August 17th at Jazz Cafe London.
Our Greg Bear has received the 27th Annual Galaxy Award from publisher SFWorld in China, as China’s favorite foreign SF author!
Support OncoSENS Control ALT Delete Cancer. This program implements high-throughput screening of a library of diverse drugs to find treatments for ‘ALT’ cancers, those which rely on Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres.
Read a free preview of The Light. This book discusses Alzheimer’s patients memory improving with photobiomodulation in a double blind, placebo controlled study, presented at a major Alzheimer's Conference.
Scott Nelson, Chief Technology Officer at NXT Level You, joins our Futurists Board.
Preston Martin, Director at International Coalition for Human Action, joins our Futurists Board.
Valerija Udalova (Pride), General Director of KrioRus, joins our Life Extension Board. KrioRus is the first and only cryonics company in Eurasia that has its own storage facility.
Read issue #167 of Lifeboat News!
Gareth John, author of Whole Brain Emulation as a Building Block for AGI — Promises and Pitfalls?, joins our Futurists Board.
Maya Zuckerman, Founder of TransmediaSF, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Landon Bennett, Membership Coordinator at AGI Society, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Joel I. Osorio, CEO at RegenerAge, joins our Life Extension Board.
Elizabeth Kennick, President of Teachers in Space, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Edwina Rogers, who is Partner at Johnson, Rogers & Clifton, joins our Legal Board. Edwina has worked for two Presidents and four Senators.
Read the paper Orbital Space Settlement Radiation Shielding.
Steve Hill, Project Coordinator at the Major Mouse Testing Program, joins our Life Extension Board.
Florence H-Jennings, Chief Scientist at Detalytics, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Wei Sun, Founder of [email protected], joins our Futurists Board.
Dietmar Bruckner, coeditor of Simulating the Mind, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Heather Roff, author of Global Justice, Kant and the Responsibility to Protect, joins our Policy Board.
Fuxin Li, coauthor of Efficient Learning of Continuous-Time Hidden Markov Models for Disease Progression, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Ramana Kumar, author of Self-compilation and Self-verification, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Stefano Ermon, coauthor of Sparse Gaussian Processes for Bayesian Optimization, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Tom Everitt, coauthor of Death and Suicide in Universal Artificial Intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Read issue #166 of Lifeboat News!
Alexandra Whittington joins our blog team with the post How legit is your luxury item?
Science Advisor Robert R. Rhodes joins our Futurists Board.
Douglas Lain, publisher of Zero Books, joins our Futurists Board.
Lifetime Cryonics Institute member Nicholas R. Van Der Meulen joins our Life Extension Board.
Tony Sakich, Director of Marketing at Augur, joins our New Money Systems Board.
David Hanson joins our Robotics/AI Board. David leads Hanson Robotics with the support of a world-class team of roboticists, AI experts, scientists, technologists, hardware/software engineers, and cognitive specialists.
Vito Margiotta, CEO at Snapp, joins our Futurists Board.
The Ninth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence will be held in New York on July 16–19. Our Joscha Bach, Eric Baum, Antonio Chella, Haris Dindo, Stan Franklin, Ben Goertzel, Bill Hibbard, Marcus Hutter, Matthew Iklé, Ed Keller, Randal Koene, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Christian Lebiere, Moshe Looks, Gary Marcus, Florin Popescu, Alexey Potapov, Sebastian Rudolph, Rafal Rzepka, Ricardo Sanz, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Leslie Smith, Bas Steunebrink, Claes Strannegård, Julian Togelius, Pei Wang, and Roman Yampolskiy will be participating/speaking.
 
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Leon Neihouse, author of Power without Borders, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Jeremiah Bilas, founder of Beijing Technium 帝都科魂 joins our Futurists Board.
Roberto Díaz, coauthor of How to avoid capital controls using bitcoin, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Steven Jorgenson, Partner at Space Finance Group, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Ivor Diosi, owner of Æterna, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Michael Chalmer Dunn joins our Space Settlement Board. Michael is focused on companies interested in participating in multi-company coordinated efforts involving future manned Mars and other like missions.
Learn about how you can support the D.N.A. - Gene Therapies Congress.
Read The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything.
Eric Baum joins our blog team with the post TruthSift: A Platform for Collective Rationality.
Bruno Henrique de Souza joins our blog team with the post Military Spider Man-like technology.
Read issue #165 of Lifeboat News!
The Lifeboat Foundation is now supporting the Major Mouse Testing Program (MMTP)!
Read Preparing for a World that Doesn’t Exist — Yet: Framing a Second Enlightenment to Create Communities of the Future.
Participate in a space settlement survey!
Magaly Santiago joins our blog team with the post Exploding Cancer Cells.
Read issue #164 of Lifeboat News!
We have an updated Lifeboat Foundation Introduction Video!
Our own science fiction anthology Visions of the Future is eligible as a write-in in the BEST ANTHOLOGY category for the Locus Awards.
 
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Tatiana Moroz joins our blog team with the post Bitcoin 101: What is it and why is everyone talking about it?
Participate in the real-time Delphi survey If Humans Were Free — 2050 — The Self-Actualizing Economy at http://millennium-project.org/millennium/WorkAI-Scenario3_RTD-Invitation.pdf
Read issue #163 of Lifeboat News!
Richard Kastelein, Publisher and Founder at the Blockchain News, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Ümit Alkuş, author of Transformations of Entangled Mixed States of Two Qubits, joins our Physics Board.
Robert Suarez, Managing Director of Innovation and Design for Singularity University Labs, joins our Futurists Board.
Vera Mulyani, CEO of Mars City Design, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Adam Hayes, author of The Pros & Cons of a Trade Deficit, joins our Finance Board.
Allen Scott, Editor at Bitcoin.com, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Caleb Chen, Chief Marketing Officer at Bitcoinist, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Demian Zivkovic, President of the Institute of Exponential Sciences, joins our Futurists Board.
Paul A. Spiegel, General Counsel at Ligandal, joins our Legal Board.
Bill Genovese, Principal / Chief Technology Architect at WGroup and Executive Board & CTO at Saving Promise, joins our Futurists Board.
Steven Curley joins our blog team with the post The Importance of Hope.
Ira S. Pastor joins our blog team with the post Death Reversal — The Reanima Project — Research Whose Time Has Come.
Read issue #162 of Lifeboat News!
Richelle Ross joins our blog team with the post The Coming Era of Virtual Reality.
Adam Poulton, President of the Bitcoin Association of Australia, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Alejandro De la Parra Solomon joins our Life Extension Board. He is is CEO and Founder of Mass Media Dynamics, Digital Strategist at Major Mouse Testing Program, and Digital Strategist at the International Longevity Alliance,
Participate in Future Work/Technology 2050 Scenario 2 Political Turmoil — Future Despair.
Watch Setting sail to a new Earth.
Matt Johnstone joins our blog team with the post Unity Biotechnology Launches with a Focus on Preventing and Reversing Diseases of Aging.
Archie Japaridze, Mentorship and Community Manager, SU Labs, Singularity University, joins our Futurists Board.
Amitai Etzioni, author of From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations, joins our Policy Board. Amitai was named as being among the top 100 American intellectuals as measured by academic citations.
Rise of the AI 2016 – The Singularity might be closer than you think will be held February 25, 2016 in Berlin, Germany.
 
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Boaz P. Heller Avrahami, Ambassador to Switzerland for Singularity University, joins our Futurists Board.
Read issue #161 of Lifeboat News!
Genevieve O’Hagan joins our blog team with the post Teslasuit lets virtual reality reach out and touch you.
Stephanus Roux, Director of XRS Consulting Engineers, joins our Engineering Board.
Èrico Lopez, AI Researcher at Robots Without Borders, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Karen Hurst joins our blog team with the post Why We Need A Legal Definition Of Artificial Intelligence.
Jaym Gates, Media Coordinator at UPLIFT Aeronautics, joins our Futurists Board.
 
Jaym coedited War Stories: New Military Science Fiction, Rigor Amortis, Broken Time Blues: Fantastic Tales in the Roaring '20s, and Crossed Genres.
Lior Victor Haddad, Senior Red-Teamer at Cisco Systems, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Tatiana Moroz, Founder at Crypto Media Hub, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Jason Cassidy, Chief Communications Officer at Emercoin, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Karen Hurst, CTO & Chief Strategy Officer of NextGen Technologies & Services, joins our Futurists Board.
John Hanacek, author of Beyond Network Feudalism, joins our Futurists Board.
Shannon Bohle, President of Archivopedia, joins our Futurists Board.
Luigi Warren, CEO of Stemiotics, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
The mission at Stemiotics is to perfect a scalable, streamlined, low-cost production pipeline for human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) using clinically relevant, footprint-free, feeder-free, xeno-free, small molecule-free reprogramming technology.
Roman Mednitzer joins our blog team with the post Atlas, an Implantable Shock Absorber for Your Knee.
Edward Weniger, CEO at TeamLogic IT Omaha, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Robert Moore, Production & Post Production Engineer at Encompass Digital Media, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Reynaldo Anderson, who coedited Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness, joins our Futurists Board.
Marcus Kaiser, coauthor of Organization, Development, and Function of Complex Brain Networks, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Jed Diamond, founder of MenAlive, joins our Futurists Board.
Calum Chace, author of Pandora's Brain, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Read issue #160 of Lifeboat News!
The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
 
The 2015 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Bill Gates in recognition of his fight against infectious diseases, his warnings about artificial intelligence, and his funding of improvements in education since a smarter civilization is one that is more likely to survive and flourish. Learn more!
Madhu Thangavelu, coauthor of The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Colonization, joins our Space Settlement Board.
AeroTEC’s Christopher T. Stevens joins our Engineering Board.
DC Spensley, who was Art Director at h+ Magazine, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Chris Kitze, CEO of Safe Cash Payment Technologies, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Vincent Rump, Client Services Director at NOISE Amsterdam, joins our Business Board.
Inventor, investor, and philanthropist Michael W. Ferro, Jr joins our Business Board.
Jason R. Stockton, coauthor of Performance of Metal-Coated Mirrors with Different Protective Dielectric Layers, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Michael Lissack, coauthor of Coherence in the Midst of Complexity: Advances in Social Complexity Theory, joins our Complex Systems Board.
John Hewitt joins our Futurists Board. John is a veteran contributor to ExtremeTech, an engineer, and a neuroscientist.
Sanjay Rathee, Founder of the Space Development Network, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Tell Mueller-Pettenpohl, Data Scientist at Wattcost, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Lennart Van Haaften, who coauthored The Evolution of Ultracompact X-ray Binaries, joins our Cosmology Board.
Read The Telomerase Revolution: The Enzyme That Holds the Key to Human Aging…and Will Soon Lead to Longer, Healthier Lives.
Read issue #159 of Lifeboat News!
The Lifeboat Foundation has launched 3 books! They are: The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen — and What to Do, Third Edition, available in paperback and Kindle; Visions of the Future, available in paperback and Kindle; and Prospects for Human Survival, available in paperback and Kindle. Read the press release!
Matthew White joins our blog team with the post The tardigrade genome has been sequenced, and it has the most foreign DNA of any animal.
Brent L. Reitze joins our Information Sciences Board. Brent is an Information Technology Systems Engineer and Singularitarian with an ongoing focus on technological advances, particularly man-machine interfaces.
Katie (Miss Metaverse) Aquino joins our Futurists Board. Katie has collaborated on series for SPIKE, MTV, TruTV, Lifetime, Discovery, Nat Geo, and several others.
Daniel J. Lewis, coauthor of Managing Vagueness with Fuzzy in Hierarchical Big Data, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Gareth Nelson, Cofounder of Aspies for Freedom, joins our Complex Systems Board.
Read No UI Is The New UI.
The 15th SVCWireless Annual Conference will be held November 21st in Silicon Valley, California. This event connects Silicon Valley and China.
 
Get free tickets from [email protected] by emailing with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation tickets”.
David Simpson, author of the best-selling science fiction Post-Human series, joins our Futurists Board.
Julius Garcia joins our blog team with the post How robotics will affect the availability of employment and social benefits.
Josef Koch joins our blog team with the post ‘Zeno effect’ — atoms won’t move while you watch.
Read The Prospect of Immortality — Fifty Years Later.
Read issue #158 of Lifeboat News!
Montie Adkins joins our blog team with the post The creature with the key to immortality?
Andreas Matt joins our blog team with the post Computer that could outlive the universe a step closer.
Read issue #157 of Lifeboat News!
Robert James Powles joins our blog team with the post Hacking The Nervous System: Are Electroceuticals The Future?
Colin Gallagher joins our blog team with the post A Greater Giving Potential: Introducing Micro-Donations in Bytecoin.
The Sea, Earth, and Space Summit (SESS) will be held October 30–November 1, 2015 in Houston, Texas.
The Transformative Technology Conference will be held October 2–3, 2015 at Sofia University, Palo Alto, California. Save $150 by entering the discount code lifeboatfoundation when registering. We are a partner of this important event.
Learn about Defense Against Litigation Mill O+Z.
The Transformative Technology Conference will be held October 2–3, 2015 at Sofia University, Palo Alto, California. Enter the discount code TT to save money when registering.
From Runnymede to Philadelphia to Cyberspace: The Enduring Legacy of Magna Carta will be held September 17, 2015 at Brooklyn Law School. RSVP now!
 
This event will feature an afternoon session to explore development of a digital Magna Carta for cyberspace. During the following two days (September 18th–19th) in conjunction with Brooklyn Law and Cardozo Law School, Consensus Systems invites legal experts, technologists, and thought leaders to implement the charter using smart contracts and decentralized applications on Ethereum’s blockchain.
Aleksandar Vukovic joins our blog team with the post A Dying Young Woman’s Hope in Cryonics and a Future.
Valentina Lencautan joins our blog team with the post The 5 common traits of negligibly senescent species.
Jay-R Gatdula joins our blog team with the post Digital Currencies: A Reckoning of Aggressive Economic Advancement.
Michael Paton joins our blog team with the post Blockchain & Artificial Intelligence.
Enroll in the free online Princeton University course Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies.
MindEx 2015, an open omics and neuroscience conference devoted to understanding the human mind, will be held September 12, 2015 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Registration is now free!
Richard Stallman will be speaking at SeaGL (Seattle GNU/Linux Conference) on October 24th at 2:30 pm.
DUXU16 (Design of User eXperience and Usability 2016) will be held July 17–22, 2016 in Toronto, Canada. Our Peter B. Lloyd will be chairing the HCI & Science Fiction session which will also encompass blue-sky research that is so far from realization that the science fiction modality of exploring hypothetical scenarios is appropriate.
Jonah Lissner joins our blog team with the post The theory of parallel universes is not just maths — it is science that can be tested.
MindEx 2015, an open omics and neuroscience conference devoted to understanding the human mind, will be held September 12, 2015 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Get 60% off with the promo code [email protected]
The 11th International High Power Laser Ablation & Directed Energy Symposium will be held April 4–7, 2016 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
DMEXCO Digiconomy (Digital Marketing Exposition and Conference for the Digital Economy) will be held September 16–17, 2015 in Cologne, Germany.
International Longevity Day will be on October 1st.
Podcar City 9 — Silicon Transportation will be held November 4–6, 2015 in Silicon Valley, California.
The Future of Politics conference will be held October 18, 2015 in Oakland, California.
UAS TAAC 2015 (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) will be held December 7–10, 2015 in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico.
Bitcoin Wednesday 27 will be held September 2, 2015 in The Netherlands.
New Worlds 2015 will be held October 16–17, 2015 in Austin, Texas.
The 35th Annual International Space Development Conference will be held May 18–22, 2016 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Cryonics Institute and the Immortalist Society will be held September 12th, 2015 in Michigan.
Early Boykins III joins our blog team with the post Electrical circuit made of gel can repair itself.
The Internet Governance Forum 2015 will be held November 10–13, 2015 in João Pessoa, Brazil.
The Alcor 2015 Conference will be held October 9–11, 2015 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Learn about new medication protocols to improve biological viability prior to cryopreservation.
ASCE Earth and Space 2016 will be held April 11–15, 2016 in Orlando, Florida.
The 74th World Science Fiction Convention will be held August 17–21, 2016 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Blockchain Week will be held October 5th to 8th, 2015 in Barcelona, Spain.
WEFTEC (Water Environment Federation) 2015 will be held September 26–30, 2015 in Chicago.
The AGE 45th Annual Meeting, Targeting Aging: The Ultimate Preventative Medicine will be held June 3–6, 2016 in Seattle, Washington.
The 13th Annual Conference of SBMT on Brain, Spinal Cord Mapping and Image Guided Therapy will be held April 8th to April 10th, 2016 in Miami, Florida.
Consensus 2015 will be held September 10th in New York City. This is CoinDesk’s inaugural summit on digital currencies and blockchain tech.
Tech Summit | SF will be held November 2–3, 2015 in Sausalito, California.
GCAI (Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence) 2015 will be held October 16–19, 2015 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
The 11th Annual AMI Monetary Reform Conference will be held September 10–13, 2015 in Chicago.
BICA (Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures) 2015 will be held in Lyon, France on Nov 6–8.
reinvent.money will be held September 26 at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Anticipating 2040: Roadmap to sustainable abundance will be held October 3 at Birkbeck College in London.
Starship Congress 2015: Interstellar Hackathon will be held at Drexel University, Philadelphia from September 4th to 5th, 2015.
Michael Phillips joins our blog team with the post Exotic Pentaquark Particle Discovery & CERN’s Massive Data Center.
Laura Samsò joins our blog team with the post FDA approved the first 3D-printed prescription drug.
Thomas Munyon joins our blog team with the post Graphene Just The Tip Of The 2D Materials Iceberg For Clean Technology.
Nancy Manley joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Nancy is internationally recognized as an expert on the development, function, and aging of the thymus and parathyroid organs.
David Orrell joins our blog team with the post Bitcoin needs a quantum theory of money.
Caroline Nguyen, Founder at MomWorkforce, joins our Business Board.
Stephen Gaskell, coauthor of Strata, joins our Futurists Board.
James F. Peters, author of Return to Flight: Inside NASA’s Space Shuttle Missions in the Wake of the Columbia Disaster, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Mahendra Rao, editor of Neural Development and Stem Cells, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Ivan Wall, Senior Lecturer in Biochemical Engineering at University College London, joins our Life Extension Board.
Justin Cooper-White, Group Leader at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Read Return to Flight: Inside NASA’s Space Shuttle Missions in the Wake of the Columbia Disaster.
Read issue #156 of Lifeboat News!
The Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference 2015 (RB2015) will be held August 19–21 2015 at the Hyatt Regency, San Francisco Airport. This conference will feature the latest research on diseases such as Alzheimer’s, cancer, cardiovascular disease and will also discuss regulatory, financial, and economic issues.
 
Our Maria Entraigues Abramson, Judith Campisi, Anne Corwin, Aubrey de Grey, Leonid Gavrilov, Jeffrey Karp, Chris Mason, Stephen Minger, Kevin Perrott, Maximus Peto, Evan Snyder, David Spiegel, Alexandra Stolzing, Rudolph Tanzi, and Jan Vijg will be speaking/participating.
 
Learn more!
Read Codebreaking our future: Deciphering the Future’s Hidden Order.
Read Radical Life Extension: Psychological, Metaphysical, and Political Implications.
Read Technolife 2035: How Will Technology Change Our Future?
Alexandros El joins our blog team with the post Getting to the bottom of aging.
Maria Santos joins our blog team with the post Why Generation Z will definitely embrace Bitcoin.
Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof, CEO at Bitnation, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Jason Reagan, who writes for DroneLife.com, joins our Futurists Board.
Phillipe Bojorquez, Software QA Engineer at Samsung Electronics America, joins our Futurists Board.
Read Beyond the Subjectivity Trap.
Chilean politician and economist Sergio Bitar joins our Policy Board.
Read Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems: Integrating Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems into Non-Segregated Airspace.
Phillipe Bojorquez joins our blog team with the post Monkey ‘brain net’ raises prospect of human brain-to-brain connection.
Steve Hill joins our blog team with the post How to Reverse Aging with Dr. Michael Fossel, M.D. PhD. [Health Longevity Series].
Rosa Alegria, Co-Chair of the Brazilian Node at The Millennium Project, joins our Futurists Board.
Teresa Mishler, Program Director at Lifespan Seminar, joins our Futurists Board.
Jeff Helzer joins our Space Settlement Board. Jeff has been an engineer at Goodrich Aerostructures, Spirit AeroSystems, Hawker Beechcraft Corporation, and Cessna Aircraft.
Kevin Carson, author of The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto, joins our Futurists Board.
Digital media specialist Eliott Edge joins our Media & Arts Board.
Stephen Cave, author of Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization, joins our Life Extension Board.
Louis H. Kauffman joins our Information Sciences Board. Louis is known for the introduction and development of the bracket polynomial and the Kauffman polynomial.
Glenn Bolger, author of the blog Blockchain Stuff, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Alisha Bhagat, Sustainability Advisor at Forum for the Future, joins our Sustainability Board.
Simon Waslander joins our blog team with the post After 10 breakthroughs and $3B in research, IBM announces tiny 7-nanometer chips.
Aubrey Yee joins our Futurists Board. Watch Concepts For Better Future Decisions with John Sweeney and Aubrey Yee.
Matthew Manos, author of How to Give Half of Your Work Away for Free, joins our Futurists Board.
Laura Samsó, author of Thinking Small but Powerful: Distributed Satellite Systems, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Learn about Trigger Warning - A Platform for Dissident Thought.
Shailesh Prasad joins our blog team with the post The Hyperloop is much closer than people realize.
Jeremy Pesner, author of The Swartz Legacy: The Input of Technologists in a Technical World, joins our Futurists Board.
Eric Schurr, Chief Strategy Officer at TMG Financial Services, joins our Finance Board.
Christopher Cordey, CEO at Futuratinow, joins our Futurists Board.
Justin Kugler, Business Development Manager at the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), joins our Space Settlement Board.
David Houle, author of Is Privacy Dead?: The Future of Privacy in the Digital Age and coauthor of Brand Shift: The Future of Brands and Marketing, joins our Transparency and Privacy Board.
Mariana Todorova, Member of Parliament at the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria, joins our Futurists Board.
Read Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach.
Mike Dover, coauthor of Wikibrands: Reinventing Your Company in a Customer-Driven Marketplace, joins our Business Board.
Roey Tzezana, Research Fellow for Science, Technology, and Security at Tel Aviv University, joins our Futurists Board.
Simone Di Zio, Co-chair Italian Node of The Millennium Project, joins our Futurists Board.
Michael Glock, President at Bloom Factor, joins our Business Board.
Sam Miller, Director of the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Notre Dames Mendoza College of Business, joins our Business Board.
Read issue #155 of Lifeboat News!
At WorldFuture 2015, we will be holding an informal dinner on Saturday, July 25 at 6pm at the Hilton Union Square Hotel in San Francisco, California, USA.
 
RSVP by sending an email with the subject "Lifeboat Foundation Dinner" to [email protected]. The Lifeboat Foundation will have the following people speaking at WorldFuture 2015 which will be held July 24–July 26 in San Francisco: Guy J. Ale, Janna Anderson, Nicklas Bergman, Peter Bishop, Brenda Cooper, José Cordeiro, William Crossman, Elizabeth Florescu, Cindy Frewen, Joyce Gioia, Jerome C. Glenn, Ted Gordon, Linda Groff, Trevor Haldenby, Glen Hiemstra, Rodney Hill, Andrew Hines, Zhouying Jin, Jim Kadtke, Ted Kahn, James Lee, Tom Lombardo, Kate McCallum, Ramez Naam, Joe Pelton, Paul Saffo, John Schmidt, Gray Scott, Yair Sharan, Rick Smyre, Jason Swanson, John Watts, Michael Zey, and Ibon Zugasti.
Albert Sanchez joins our blog team with the post UK woman can ride bike for first time with “world’s most lifelike bionic hand”.
Matthew Holt joins our blog team with the post Scientists Just Invented the Neural Lace.
Sean Brazell joins our blog team with the post South Korean Team Kaist wins DARPA Robotics Challenge.
Scott Davis joins our blog team with the post Cheetah robot lands the running jump.
Bryan Gatton joins our blog team with the post Genetically Modifying Mosquitoes to Eliminate Disease.
Dan Kummer joins our blog team with the post Soon, Your Sex Doll Will Have An Intelligent Conversation With You.
Mark W. Bennett, Chief Operating Officer at BluStor PMC, joins our Business Board.
Plamen L. Simeonov, coeditor of Integral Biomathics: Tracing the Road to Reality, joins our Complex Systems Board.
USA Today Bestselling author Michael Bunker joins our Futurists Board.
Brett Schnepf, Executive Director at El Primero Heritage Foundation, joins our Futurists Board.
Rus Newton, cofounder of Global Advisors, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Collin McGarry, Front-End Web Developer at Mobiquity, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Harold Reitsema joins our Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board. Harold is Mission Director for the B612 Foundation’s Sentinel program which will find Near Earth Asteroids and identify potential Earth impact threats.
Jay-R Gatdula, Business Development Manager at Coin News Asia, joins our New Money Systems Board.
The Lifeboat Foundation mourns the passing of our Eshel Ben-Jacob who worked to “Safeguard Humanity” until the end of his life.
 
Eshel was a theoretical and experimental physicist at Tel Aviv University, holder of the Maguy-Glass Chair in Physics of Complex Systems, and Fellow of the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) at Rice University.
Susan Holden Martin, Steering Committee Member; Former Executive Director at The Mars Society, joins our Space Settlement Board. Listen to In The Utah Desert, Planning For A Trip To Mars.
Sound designer, DJ, music producer, and writer Emeraldia Ayakashi joins our Media & Arts Board.
Peter Morgan, who contributed a chapter to the book Anticipating 2025, joins our Futurists Board.
Read 3D Printer in Every School: Education reform merged with healthcare.
Watch Thermal SSP Concept.
Watch Galaxy and Star Formation.
Read issue #154 of Lifeboat News!
Read Space Settlement Population Rotation Tolerance and Orbital Space Settlement Radiation Shielding.
Lily Graca joins our blog team with the post Bionic Eyes Give Second Sight to the Blind.
Read Lone Wolf Terrorism Prospects and Potential Strategies to Address the Threat.
Phil Raymond joins our blog team with the post Could Bitcoin be Dethroned by an Altcoin?
Klaus Baldauf joins our blog team with the post Pioneering Space.
Maria Konovalenko joins our blog team with the post Four Stages of Curing Aging.
Jeremy Lichtman joins our blog team with the post New Wind Turbine Generates Electricity Without Rotating Blades.
Zoltan Istvan joins our blog team with the post Can Transhumanism Overcome a Widespread Deathist Culture?
Ramez Naam joins our blog team with the post Edge of Dark Review.
Watch Fighting For the Final Frontier? Conflict in Space During the Late 21st Century.
Read Orbital Space Settlement Radiation Shielding. The major result of this paper is that settlements in low (~500 km) Earth equatorial orbits may not require any radiation shielding at all based on a careful analysis of requirements and extensive simulation of radiation effects.
Read Front and Center: Singer, Composer, Pilot, Global Outreach Coordinator at SENS Research Foundation, Maria Entraigues-Abramson.
Watch AI-kindergarten: Building biological-like artificial intelligence.
The Longevity Cookbook Indiegogo Launch Party will be on May 14th in San Francisco, California. This event will involve more people in longevity research and help us to build a strong and powerful community.
 
This event is working to develop both a practical guide to longevity and a story about the science underlying nutrition and lifestyle recommendations. The guide will include descriptions of the experiments that need to be carried out today to extend our lives right now.
 
RSVP today!
The Millennium Project is conducting a Real-Time Delphi Survey and would like your input.
 
They want you to share your judgments about how future technology over the next 35 years (artificial narrow intelligence, artificial general intelligence, Internet of Things, robotics, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, 3D/4D printing, self-driving vehicles, drones, mobile/cloud, augmented reality/holography, etc.) could affect the future of work, and what should be done to create positive conditions.
 
Learn more!
Read issue #153 of Lifeboat News!
The Lifeboat Foundation mourns the passing of our Kenneth W. Harris who worked to “Safeguard Humanity” until the end of his life. Ken also served the World Future Society and its National Capital chapter for many years. He was also a field editor on transportation for TechCast Global and a member of the Association for Professional Futurists.
Dan Schmitt, Founder of Open Source Capitalism, joins our Business Board.
We have made progress on our Interactive Friendly AI project and have a prototype available at https://lifeboat.com/ai.
 
The most interesting part of this project is that our AI can use multiple engines that are hosted at lifeboat.com and elsewhere. If you have an engine that you wish to include in this project, let us know.
 
Even if you are not a programmer you can provide flowcharts detailing questions and answers you think our AI should know. Email [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation AI” if you wish to help in any way including providing feedback.
Our Nick Gogerty will be giving a keynote on evolution, economics, and risk at Singularity University on April 24th. Learn more!
Read issue #152 of Lifeboat News!
Mark Nall joins our blog team with the post The Robotic Double-Edged Sword.
Geoff Marcy joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board. Geoff discovered 70 of the first 100 extrasolar planets known.
George Dyson, author of Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, joins our new Historians Board.
International bestselling author Jeremy Robinson joins our Futurists Board. He has authored more than fifty novels and novellas including XOM-B, Island 731, SecondWorld, and the Jack Sigler thriller series.
Johan Scholtz, Business Development Consultant at ZAQ, joins our Business Board.
Africa2Moon Mission Ambassador Olufisayo Jejelowo joins our Space Settlement Board.
Paul Grzegorzek, author of Flare, joins our Futurists Board.
International Finserv Executive Claudio Migliore joins our New Money Systems Board.
Mary Rickert, author of The Memory Garden, joins our Futurists Board.
Jacqueline Druga, author of Contagious, joins our Futurists Board.
Bas Steunebrink, coauthor of Bounded Seed-AGI, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Anyone who posts to our blog gets a chance to win a signed copy of Edge of Dark.
 
What if a society banished its worst nightmare to the far edge of the solar system, destined to sip only dregs of light and struggle for the barest living. And yet, that life thrived? It grew and learned and became far more than you ever expected, and it wanted to return to the sun. What if it didn’t share your moral compass in any way?
 
The deadline for the contest is April 30. If you need access to our blog, send an email with the subject of “Lifeboat Foundation blog” to [email protected].
Read issue #151 of Lifeboat News!
The Lifeboat Foundation and ten other organizations, including the National Space Society and the Space Frontier Foundation, have launched a new strategic alliance for space development and commerce named the Alliance for Space Development (ASD).
 
Perhaps the most ambitious part of the ASD agenda is a proposed “Cheap Access to Space Act” that would offer $3.5 billion in government prizes for the development of reusable launch vehicles. Those prizes include, in a draft version of the bill provided by ASD, $1 billion to the first fully reusable vehicle that can place at least one metric ton into orbit and fly again a week later.
 
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The Lifeboat Foundation and ten other organizations including the National Space Society and the Space Frontier Foundation are joining together to create a new strategic alliance for space development and commerce. We will be unveiling the details on this new alliance, as well as the details on our joint national legislative campaign to advance space policy in 2015.
 
Please join us at the 2325 Rayburn House Office Building, Independence Avenue SW and South Capitol Street SE, Washington D.C. 20003, USA on Feb. 25th at 10 am for the press conference announcing the formation of this exciting new partnership.
 
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Zigmond Leszczynski, Deputy Executive Director at the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority (VCSFA), joins our Space Settlement Board.
Mustafa Suleyman, Head of Applied AI at Google DeepMind, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Bill Bigge, Director of Creative Robotics, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Ayse P. Saygin, coauthor of Turing Test: 50 Years Later, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Marc Gewertz, Chief Enterprise Engineer at EiMC, joins our Business Board.
Viktoras Veitas, coauthor of Foundations for a Mathematical Model of the Global Brain: Architecture, Components, and Specifications, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Frits Vaandrager, coauthor of Learning Nondeterministic Register Automata Using Mappers, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Michael Witbrock, Vice President of Research at Cycorp, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Patrick Ehlen, author of Apocalypse or Golden Age: What machine intelligence will do to us, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Guruduth Banavar joins our Robotics/AI Board. Guru currently leads a worldwide team at IBM Research, responsible for creating the next generation of cognitive systems in the Watson family.
Ian D. Pearson joins our blog team with the post Benign AI.
Micah Mangione, author of A Quick Review of Experimental Support for the Two Central Theories of Aging, joins our Life Extension Board.
Danne Stayskal joins our Robotics/AI Board. She is Lead Data Scientist, Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Evident.
Shantanu Sharma, Lead Scientist at GE’s Corporate Research headquarters, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Shantanu authored Computational Modeling and Automation Techniques to Study Biomolecular Dynamics.
Dan Roth, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Alex Wissner-Gross, author of Physically Programmable Surfaces, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Adrian Weller, with the Machine Learning group at Cambridge University, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
David Solomonoff, President of the Internet Society of New York (ISOC-NY), joins our Futurists Board.
Read issue #150 of Lifeboat News!
Our Itamar Arel, Joscha Bach, Eric Baum, Antonio Chella, Stan Franklin, Deon Garrett, Ben Goertzel, Marcus Hutter, Matthew Iklé, Randal Koene, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Moshe Looks, Alexey Potapov, Rafal Rzepka, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Claes Strannegård, Kristinn Thórisson, Julian Togelius, Pei Wang, David Weinbaum (Weaver), and Roman Yampolskiy are participating in The Eighth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-15) which will be held July 22–25, 2015 at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany.
 
This conference gathers an international group of leading academic and industry researchers involved in scientific and engineering work aimed directly toward the goal of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Ville Salmensuu, Physician at Attendo Finland, joins our Life Extension Board.
Seth Cochran joins our blog team with the post Doomsday Clock Now Three Minutes to Midnight.
Paul Saffo joins our Futurists Board. Paul is a forecaster with over two decades experience exploring the dynamics of large-scale, long-term change. He teaches forecasting at Stanford University and chairs the Future Studies and Forecasting track at Singularity University.
Joseph Lee, CEO at Btc.sx, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Jonah Lissner, author of Determining Energy Value in Nanometric Biophysical Systems, joins our Complex Systems Board.
Alec Korba, Partner Development at VoltDB, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Digital Marketer Clayton Johnson joins our Business Board.
Joshua Dalzelle, author of the bestselling Omega Force series, joins our Futurists Board.
Sara King, author of The Legend of Zero: Forging Zero, joins our Futurists Board.
We are launching a blog contest! Anyone who posts to our blog gets a chance to win a signed copy of The Utopia Experiment which tells the true story of a real-life attempt to simulate life after the collapse of global civilization.
 
The deadline for the contest is February 28. If you need access to our blog, send an email with the subject of “Lifeboat Foundation blog” to [email protected].
Read the report Planetary Defense: Operations & Execution.
Ben H. Winters, author of the Last Policeman trilogy, joins our Futurists Board.
Nicholas Sansbury Smith, author of the best-selling Orbs novels, joins our Futurists Board.
Kevin George, author of the Comet Clement series, joins our Futurists Board.
W.J. Lundy, creator of the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot series, joins our Futurists Board.
Jasper T. Scott, author of the best-selling Dark Space series, joins our Futurists Board.
Jan Herbert, coauthor of Ocean, joins our Sustainability Board.
Brian Herbert, author of Dreamer of Dune, joins our Sustainability Board.
Paul Draker, author of New Year Island and Pyramid Lake, joins our Futurists Board.
Steven J. Dick, author of The Biological Universe: The Twentieth Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate and the Limits of Science, joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board.
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Wired, Douglas E. Richards, joins our Futurists Board.
Read issue #149 of Lifeboat News!
Susan Schneider, editor of Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence, joins our Philosophy Board. Susan is the Sarah Connor of philosophy as she ponders the role of science fiction and thought experiments to help understand uploading, time travel, superintelligence, the Singularity, a new approach to the computational theory of mind, consciousness, and physicalism.
Nigel Cameron, President of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (C-PET), joins our Futurists Board.
A.G. Riddle joins our Futurists Board. His debut novel The Atlantis Gene is the first book in a trilogy (The Origin Mystery) that has sold a million copies in the US, is being translated into 18 languages, and is in development to be a major motion picture.
Hugh Howey, best known for the science fiction series Wool, joins our Futurists Board.
The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
 
The 2014 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Elon Musk in recognition of his warnings about artificial intelligence, his promotion of space exploration including the creation of self-sustaining space colonies, and his efforts to improve our environment with electric cars and to expand solar energy generation.
 
Learn more!
Read A Taxonomy and Metaphysics of Mind-Uploading.
Read Artificial Intelligence Isn’t a Threat — Yet.
Learn about My Terrace Farmer: Solar Greenhouse for Busy People.
Read Hyperworlds, Underworlds.
Read Proof that The End of Moore’s Law is Not The End of The Singularity.
Read issue #148 of Lifeboat News!
Sebastian Hagen joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Anthony Judge, author of Resource Insights from Plus or Minus 12 People on a Liferaft, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Robin Smith, Head of Privacy at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, joins our Futurists Board.
XPRIZE Vanguard Desiree Duffy joins our Futurists Board.
Nicklas Bergman joins our Futurists Board. As part of an emerging research project at Lund University in Sweden, Nicklas is focusing on humankind’s relationship to technology and technological development, and more specifically on the business implications of multi-disciplinary and transformative emerging technologies in the coming 5 to 50 years.
Brady McKenna, Consultant/Researcher at Tecmap Consulting, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Clinton “Cosmo” Mielke, coauthor of Botnets, and the CyberCriminal Underground, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Diana Chernoff-Pate joins our Futurists Board.
Pauline Truong, CEO of Ascendo International Group, joins our Business Board.
Tim Swast, author of An Introduction to Markov Chains, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Sang Yup Lee, Editor-in-Chief of Biotechnology Journal, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Ronald L. Mallett, author of Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality, joins our Physics Board.
Martin Ford, author of The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future, joins our Futurists Board.
Chris Benjamin, author of Capitalization for Startups, joins our Finance Board.
Tudor Boloni, CEO at Medical Biostasis, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Andrew Monda, Owner of Vertigo, joins our Business Board.
Ting Kelly, Lead Designer and Cofounder at Doorstep Studios, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Rob Chamberlain joins our blog team with the post Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, and Blockchain Technology — Brief Q&A;.
Read issue #147 of Lifeboat News!
The Lifeboat Foundation mourns the passing of our Joseph F. Coates who worked to “Safeguard Humanity” until the end of his life.
 
Joe’s memorial service will be held at the Mount Airy Mansion in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, on Saturday, November 8th. The memorial will begin promptly at 2 pm; you are invited to arrive shortly after 1 pm. After the memorial, everyone will enjoy drinks, snacks, and conversation until 5 pm. There will also be an opportunity to speak “as the spirit moves you”. If you would like to attend and/or speak at the memorial, send an email to [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Joseph F. Coates”. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that friends consider a donation to Joe’s favorite charity, Covenant House New York.
Douglas Miller, on the Advisory Council at Entrepreneurship at Cornell, joins our Business Board.
Glynn Burke, Owner of Rescue Assist, joins our Business Board.
Rōnin Coder Henrik Jonsson joins our Information Sciences Board.
Gordon Irlam, Founder of the GRI Charitable Foundation, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Gary Basin, author of Organizations as Organisms: Multi-Human Collectives, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
William Hertling, author of A.I. Apocalypse, joins our Futurists Board.
Joseph Rampolla joins our blog team with the post Stopping the Spread of Ebola through Augmented Reality.
Read the free book The Bitcoin Revolution.
Nikki Olson joins our blog team with the post 2014 Longevity and Genetics Conference — Keynote Aubrey de Grey.
Learn about Singularity: A Brave New Musical.
Learn about The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution, Third Edition.
Our Vasant Honavar, W. Bradley Knox, Sven Koenig, Benjamin Kuipers, Sriraam Natarajan, Peter Stone, and Matthew E. Taylor are participating in the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15) which will be held January 25–29, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency in Austin, Texas, USA. The purpose of this conference is to promote research in artificial intelligence (AI) and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in affiliated disciplines.
W. Bradley Knox joins our Robotics/AI Board. Brad is coauthor of Design Principles for Creating Human-Shapable Agents.
Benjamin Kuipers joins our Robotics/AI Board. Ben is author of Qualitative Reasoning: Modeling and Simulation with Incomplete Knowledge.
Sven Koenig joins our Robotics/AI Board. Sven is coauthor of Incremental Heuristic Search in AI.
Sriraam Natarajan joins our Robotics/AI Board. Sriraam is coauthor of Dynamic Preferences in Multi-Criteria Reinforcement Learning.
Matthew Taylor joins our Robotics/AI Board. Matt is coauthor of Transfer Learning via Inter-Task Mappings for Temporal Difference Learning.
Akash Rajpal, Founder at Ekohealth, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
James Dunn joins our blog team with the post Method of Sustainable Fuel-less Terra-forming of Venus & Mars.
Brian D. Wassom, Partner at Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP, joins our Legal Board.
Ed Hudgins, editor of Space: The Free Market Frontier, joins our Space Settlement Board.
The 2014 Fight Aging! fundraiser starts now. We'll match your research donations with $2 for every $1 given. Learn more!
The Lifeboat Foundation GETAS threat level has been raised from Guarded to Elevated due to “Largest Ebola outbreak in history has spread to USA.”
 
Learn more about GETAS!
Johnny Boston joins our blog team with the post Dr. Ken Hayworth: What is the Future of your Mind?
Frans van Wamel joins our blog team with the post Australian digital radar innovation attracts global attention.
We now accept monero donations at monero address 42BToafqtFZDrGPVzWrTCoG2fd2joMvK4BGV3tiQFnE1HhyQ
5Ug1QzRNLL5xFHyNHc6rLZbZ8GpqV1V41FzNsaxtPbg2LJd.
Guardian Award winner Lord Martin Rees, author of Our Final Hour: A Scientist’s Warning, joins our Cosmology Board.
 
His other awards include the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Balzan International Prize, the Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (AAS/AIP), the Bower Award for Science of the Franklin Institute, the Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation, the Einstein Award of the World Cultural Council, the Crafoord Prize (Royal Swedish Academy), the Templeton Prize, and the Isaac Newton Medal.
 
Martin holds the honorary title of Astronomer Royal and has received honorary degrees from a number of universities including Sussex, Uppsala, Toronto, Durham, Oxford, London, Yale, Greenwich, Melbourne, and Sydney.
Nikki Olson joins our Ethics Board. Nikki produced the following educational videos for the Lifeboat Foundation: Existential Risks, Mixed and Virtual Reality, and The AI Physician. The Existential Risks video is currently our trailer video for our YouTube channel.
Read Physics from the Edge: A New Cosmological Model for Inertia.
Read A History of Life-Extensionism in the Twentieth Century.
Read issue #146 of Lifeboat News!
Len Rosen, owner of 21st Century Tech Blog, joins our Futurists Board.
Paul Peters, author of Towards the Service Oriented Enterprise, joins our Business Board.
Keith Comito, President of the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation, joins our Life Extension Board.
Frans van Wamel, Founder of Tobrea 3 Sigma Systems Engineering, joins our Engineering Board.
Paul Nakata, Technical Account Manager at GitHub, joins our Futurists Board.
Richard Morris joins our Neuroscience Board. Richard invented and developed the water maze as a method to study spatial learning, discovered the role of NMDA receptors in learning, and co-developed the synaptic tagging theory of the persistence of memory.
Laina Greene, Executive Director at IBS Tower, joins our Business Board.
Jose Paolo Huelgas, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Specialist at Bitwage, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Ageesen Sri, Executive Officer at SecuraCoin, joins our Finance Board.
Andrew Martin, Information Technology Specialist at Bitcoin Center NYC, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Chris Rufo, CEO at e-BIT, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Safwan Zaheer, Director of Mobile and Digital Payments / Commerce Strategy at Barclays, joins our Business Board.
Alex Eaton, Owner of San Antonio Bitcoins, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Nick Cordingly joins our blog team with the post Justice Beyond Privacy.
Lani Cataldi, cofounder of the Gemini Theater Company, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Glenn Alpert, Cofounder of Gordon & Alpert Strategic Research Partners, joins our Futurists Board.
Brunella Battista, Producer at dB digital TV, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Hannu Rajaniemi, author of The Quantum Thief, joins our Futurists Board.
Nicole Sallak Anderson, author of eHuman Dawn, joins our Futurists Board.
Coin Academy launches online classes for budding bitcoiners. Learn more!
Read issue #145 of Lifeboat News!
Karlyn Hixson joins our blog team with the post Virtually Human, by Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D.
Fred Stitt, author of the Ecological Design Handbook, joins our Sustainability Board.
Our Zoltan Istvan, Scott Jackisch, Pavel Luksha, Gary Marcus, Hank Pellissier, Anna Petrova, and Peter Voss will be speaking at the Artificial Intelligence & The Singularity conference which will be held September 20th in Piedmont, California.
Our Preston Estep III and Alexander Hoekstra won third prize with the essay The Leverage and Centrality of Mind in the 2014 How Should Humanity Steer the Future FQXi Essay Contest.
Mallory McLaren, Chief Liaison at the American Longevity Alliance, joins our Life Extension Board.
Jared Tate, President at DigiPay, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Reuben Coppa, Director at Disrupt, joins our Business Board.
Andres Alterini, Cofounder of Smowtion, joins our Business Board.
Michael Curry, Cofounder at Vault of Satoshi, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Diana Ngo joins our New Money Systems Board. Diana is a journalist for CoinTelegraph and CryptoCoinsNews.
Nicole Fellouris, CEO of the Elite Development Group, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Lisa Cheng, CEO at the Vanbex Group, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Sarah Martin, author of Banking with Bitcoin, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Aaron Ray, CEO at Custom Collider, joins our Media & Arts Board. Aaron has managed, partnered, or promoted an impressive roster of award-winning clients including Linkin Park, Big Boi, Enrique Iglesias, Kelly Rowland, Forest Whitaker, Paul Walker, Jeremy Piven, Slash, Ice Cube, Eddie Izzard, Martin Lawrence, and Blue Man Group.
Read The Nature of Value: How to Invest in the Adaptive Economy by our Nick Gogerty.
Read Virtually Human: The Promise — and the Peril — of Digital Immortality by our Martine Rothblatt with a forward by our Ray Kurzweil.
Tom Hashemi, author of Is Bitcoin the financial savior of a free press?, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Our James Giordano has been appointed to the Neuroethics, Legal, and Social Issues Advisory Panel of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). His new book, Neurotechnology in National Security and Defense: Practical Considerations, Neuroethical Concerns, published by CRC Press, will be released in September.
Jens Wiechers, Media Outreach at the SENS Research Foundation, joins our Life Extension Board.
Marco Santini joins our Futurists Board. He is author of The Alpha Centauri Project and Evolution: The Future.
Ariel Horwitz, Founder of AlefBit, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Ryan Gallagher, Owner at The Bitcoin Journal, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Our YouTube page now has cryptocurrency videos!
Paul Epping, Healthcare Business Strategist at Philips, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Alexandra Saba, coauthor of 2 Billion Under 20, joins our Ethics Board.
Lou CasaBianca, Executive Director at the Academy of Metaverse Arts & Sciences, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Abe Cozzi, Owner of Advanced Benefits Consulting, joins our Business Board.
Veronika Lipinska, coauthor of The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism, joins our Futurists Board.
Read issue #144 of Lifeboat News!
Our Vitalik Buterin, Neil Fincham, Charlie Lee, Hass McCook, and Stephen L. Reed will be speaking at Hashers United which will be held October 10–11, 2014 at the Tuscany Hotel and Casino located in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Justina Cruickshank, Project Manager for Hashers United, joins our Business Board.
Lilia Lens-Pechakova, author of On Complex Interactions and Computational Models, Longevity and Hypertension, joins our Life Extension Board.
Cory Critser, COO at Conduit Connections, joins our Futurists Board.
Scott Everhart, author of Is Eliminating All Human Emotional Suffering Possible?, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Frankie May joins our blog team with the post Debate featuring Anders Sandberg on the future of human cloning.
Siddharth Kalla, Chief Technology Officer at Acupay System, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Josh Blatchford, Founder of Bitnewt, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Brett Seyler, Founder of Kerosene Games, joins our Business Board.
Marco Pineda, author of The Bitcoin Book, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Andreas Anastasiades, Founder at BitNPlay, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Eli Talmor, CEO at SentryCom, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Nanok Bie, CMO at KnCMiner, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Juan Galt, author of Will Operation Choke Point Bring About the Fourth Bitcoin Bull?, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Devon Read, CEO of Blocktech, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Read The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies.
David Smith, author of Could Bitcoin Disrupt More Than Finance?, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Greg Jarrett, CEO at Bitcoin Superfund, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Tery Spataro, author of The Other Side of the Box, joins our Futurists Board.
Louis A. Del Monte, author of The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Will Artificial Intelligence Serve Us or Replace Us?, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Ethan Wilding, Resident Philosopher at Bitcoin Decentral, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Kevin Humphrey, CEO at ParadoxBTC, joins our New Money Systems Board.
David Sutter, Executive Director at The Bitcoin Society, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Manie Eagar, CEO at Idaeon, joins our Futurists Board.
Richard Kohl, founding member of PikaPay, joins our New Money Systems Board. PikaPay is a mobile wallet that lets you send bitcoins to anyone on Twitter.
Francisco Ortiz, CEO and Founder at BtcSuisse Sàrl, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Adam Weigold, CEO at BitSavr, joins our New Money Systems Board. BitSavr is a new startup developing novel cryptocurrency technologies for next-generation bitcoin banking applications.
Frank Schuil, CEO at Safello, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Colin Lewis, owner of RobotEnomics, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Matthew Kenahan, CEO at The Bitcoin Society, joins our New Money Systems Board.
David Gunkel, author of The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Yul Anderson, Director of the 11th Judicial Circuit Court, joins our Futurists Board.
Read The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism.
Read issue #143 of Lifeboat News!
Clément Vidal joins our blog team with the post New book: The Beginning and the End by Clément Vidal.
Patrice Levin Kell, who was President of the Cryonics Society of Canada, joins our Life Extension Board.
Mike Sinn, Architect at Crowdsourcing Utopia, joins our Futurists Board.
Ian Scarffe, Cofounder at BitSavr, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Jacob Hansen, Cofounder at CrowdCurity, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board. CrowdCurity is a marketplace for web security. They crowdsource security testers and connect them with businesses.
Jason Rosenstein, CEO at Coinographer, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Victoria Bright, Subject Matter Expert at Expert in Finance, joins our Finance Board. She teaches the course Bitcoin Visually at Udemy.
Kris Kitchen, Founder of Vizion, joins our Futurists Board.
Jason Rumney, Director at Intelletec, joins our Business Board.
Hermann Djoumessi, TV Director at BFM TV, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Mitchell Callahan, Founder of Mojito Sites, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Derek Minter, Founder at Honeybadgr, joins our New Money Systems Board.
The NASA Asteroid Grand Challenge Anniversary Event Seminar will be held June 19–20. Learn more about this free virtual workshop!
Christopher Hopkins, author of If This Then That (IFTTT) for Lawyers, joins our Legal Board.
Joe Ventura, CEO of AlphaPoint, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Gillian Adendorff, Principal Architect at Adendorff Architects & Interiors, joins our Futurists Board.
Patrick Cines, President of the Penn State University Bitcoin Club and Director of Mid-Atlantic Relations at College Cryptocurrency Network (CCN), joins our New Money Systems Board.
Alex Puig, CEO of the Digital Currency Summit, joins our New Money Systems board.
Stephen Govoni, CEO at CoinShovel, joins our New Money Systems board.
Edwin Westlake, Owner of Westev, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Josh Agho, CEO at Prepaid Bitcoin™, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Aaron Vallance, President of BitSpot, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Alon Asefovitz, International Department Manager at Cedar Financial, joins our Economics Board.
Hass McCook, author of The Relative Sustainability of the Bitcoin Network, joins our New Money Systems Board.
David Shin, Founding Member of the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong (BAHK), joins our New Money Systems Board.
David M. Long, Principal at Northern California Fraud Prevention Solutions (NCFPS), joins our Legal Board.
José Luis Cordeiro joins our blog team with the post 15 Global Challenges… and 15 Global Opportunities.
Neil Littman, Business Development Officer at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
David Schaffer, Cofounder of 4D Molecular Therapeutics, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Learn about the ON: Bitcoin Investing Event, New York City on June 25th.
Einar M. Sigurdsson, editor of Amyloid Proteins (Methods in Molecular Biology), joins our Neuroscience Board.
Our María Blasco, Judith Campisi, Jeffrey Karp, Stephen Minger, and Evan Snyder will be speaking at the Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference 2014 on August 21–23, 2014 at the Santa Clara Hyatt Regency Hotel, California, USA. Get 25% off with the discount code LIFEBOAT25.
D. Alex Chuang joins our Futurists Board. Alex is Resource Strategist at IBM and Senior Futurist at CTISS of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) / WFS China Node.
Yoni Binstock, Development Associate at Change.org, joins our Futurists Board.
Chris Hables Gray, author of Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age, joins our Futurists Board.
Adam Dobrin, Director at Ministry of Forbidden Knowledge, joins our Futurists Board.
Claude Émond, inventor of the methodology Changeboxing, joins our Business Board.
Chris Kaufman, Cofounder and Chief Creative Officer at UpTo, joins our Business Board.
Quentin Vanhaelen, who coauthored Forward and Reverse Genetics through Derivation of Haploid Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells, joins our Life Extension Board.
Lucky Landrigan, coauthor of Synthesis of Tailored Eggshell Cobalt Catalysts for Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis Using Wet Chemistry Techniques, joins our Engineering Board.
Maciamo Hay joins our blog team with the post Is it possible to build an artificial superintelligence without fully replicating the human brain?
Cryptocurrency miner and trader Michael Free joins our New Money Systems Board.
Will Pangman, Co-Vice Chairman of the Education Committee at Bitcoin Foundation, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Private Luxury Consultant Nelson Rocha Jr. joins our New Money Systems Board.
Jessica Besseling, Senior Director of Business Development at GoCoin, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Bill Quick, author of Lightning Fall, joins our Futurists Board.
Karl Doerrer, who will be speaking at Global Existential Risks & Radical Futures, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Anatoly Karlin, author of Augmented Reality Warfare, joins our Futurists Board.
Joshua Butler, creator of the game PostHuman Awakening, joins our Futurists Board.
Erik Wilgenhof Plante, Chief Compliance Officer at itBit, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Josh Bubis, Non-Profit Administrator at the Institute for International Education, joins our Education Board.
Justin Caravaggio, coauthor of Insulin-degrading enzyme deficiency in bone marrow cells increases atherosclerosis in LDL receptor-deficient mice, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Jouko Salonen joins our New Money Systems Board. Jouko is founder of a startup focusing on next generation trust structures that can be used in trading or in payment systems.
Matt Copper, Group Managing Director at Bitfish Mining Pool Trust (BMPT), joins our New Money Systems Board.
Jason Batt joins our blog team with the post 100 Year Starship Call for Papers // 2014 Public Symposium.
Damon Bree, Student Advisor at Courses Direct™, joins our Education Board.
Fred Mazo, Cofounder of Mundobitcoin, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Christopher Frey, author of Inventing Future, joins our Futurists Board.
Michael Hayter joins our New Money Systems Board. Michael was ranked 1 of 3,358 in monthly returns on the Wall Street Survivor® simulated trading environment.
Ronald Rebideau, Director of Technology at Amernet, joins our Business Board.
Vipul (VK) Kumar, Chief Technology Officer at Wiztango, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Tomer Kantor, Webcast Director at Dreamtek, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Dean Masley, Media & Marketing Consultant at Masley Enterprises, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Steven J. Rose, who has discovered a method to turn light into matter, joins our Physics Board.
We now accept anoncoin donations at anoncoin address ALifebo7LC7wKNYmpwRHRrH96sD3nBUf6y.
Maciamo Hay, CEO of Eupedia.com, joins our Futurists Board.
Our Michael Anissimov, Seth Baum, David Brin, Pavel Luksha, Bryce A. Lynch, Hank Pellissier, Anna Petrova, and Alexei Turchin will be speaking at Global Existential Risks & Radical Futures on June 14 in Piedmont, California.
We now accept darkcoin donations at darkcoin address XoLife1pDXBWXWk36vFsQXef7XzXKAqNhy.
Colin Gallagher, Member of the Education Committee at Bitcoin Foundation, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Yurii Rashkovskii, Creator of Gitchain, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Read The Asteroid Threat: Defending Our Planet From Deadly Near-Earth Objects.
Clay Rawlings, coauthor of Pardon the Disruption: The Future You Never Saw Coming, joins our Futurists Board.
Read issue #142 of Lifeboat News!
The Lifeboat Foundation has launched our YouTube channel!
 
We are initially launching it with Asteroids, Biotech/Medical, Cybercrime/Malcode, Cryptocurrency, Drones, Educational, Existential Risks, Futurism, Life Extension, Nanotechnology, Neuroscience, Nuclear, Particle Accelerator, Particle Physics, Robotics/AI, Space Settlement, Sustainability, and Transparency and Privacy videos.
An interesting activity that is relevant to Lifeboat concerns has been provided for us by the Foundational Questions Institute, styled FQXi. They recently ran an essay contest on the topic, “How should humanity steer the future?”. This contest was announced to Lifeboat members. Fifteen of the 155 posted essays are written by Lifeboat members, and some are written by top scientists. The contest is closed to submissions, but we can still participate.
 
Members of the public are invited to read and rate essays on the FQXi website. Public ratings will not decide the winners, but they may guide official judges. Essay quality varies, and the best might make a real contribution, so FQXi could use help in finding which are best. Their diversity is also interesting, and might show us paths we could take, and perhaps paths to avoid.
 
Lifeboat members who submitted essays include James Blodgett, Frank Boehm, Angelika Domschke, James Dunn, Preston Estep, Bob Freeman, Giorgio Gaviraghi, Jacob Haqq-Misra, Orenda Urbano Hernández, Alexander Hoekstra, Ted Howard, Valkyrie Ice, Randal A. Koene, Alexander MacRae, Federico Pistono, Walter Putnam, and Tihamer Toth-Fejel.
 
The essays are posted at http://fqxi.org/community/forum/category/31422
 
Vote today!
Jeffrey Pope, Program Manager at Cisco Systems, joins our Futurists Board.
Jere Brinkley, Owner of Attrick Aviation, joins our Futurists Board.
Samuel Cassatt, CTO at Atmospheir, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Vijai Anma, CEO at Patient Army, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Sabine Balve, President of the World Leaders Forum Dubai, joins our Futurists Board.
William Sosinsky, Director of Energime University, joins our Sustainability Board.
Andrés Gómez Emilsson, President of the Stanford Transhumanist Association, joins our Futurists Board.
Liz Parrish, Director of Outreach at the Complex Biological Systems Alliance (CBSA), joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Russ George, founder of Planktos, joins our Sustainability Board. Ocean pastures, the plankton blooms, are his ecosystem of choice. Bringing them back to health is what he does. Read The Pacific’s Salmon Are Back — Thank Human Ingenuity.
Travis Patron, Founder of Diginomics, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Farzad Hashemi, Board Member & Protocol Architect at BitAngels, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Tom Wilcoxen, Technical Architect at StoneRiver, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Michael Splane, Business Development – Strategic Projects at ClaimVantage, joins our Business Board.
Alan Donohoe, CEO of the AllCom Group, joins our Business Board.
Jason Lohrentz, Director of Recruiting at shopkick, joins our Business Board.
Doron Levy, Content Director at TheTopTier Digital Media, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Kirsten Morel, Editor of DQ Magazine, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Lynn Patra, Research Analyst & Consultant at Better Collaboration, joins our Business Board.
Michael Chobanian, Founder of the KUNA bitcoin agency, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Eric Fisher, President of iDeal Networks, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Joel Usher, Strategy and Distribution at Qatanga, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Pantelis Roussakis, Digital Strategist at mySocialface.com™, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Stewart Farr, Senior Product Manager at PerfectSoftware, joins our Business Board.
Jeffrey Rade, Senior Integration Developer at Interactive Data, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Phil Raymond, CEO at Vanquish Labs, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Ted Chu, author of Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential: A Cosmic Vision of Our Future Evolution, joins our Futurists Board.
Read Twenty-One Trends for the 21st Century: Out of the Trenches and into the Future.
M. A. Greenstein joins our blog team with the post R U Ready to be Uploaded?
Read issue #141 of Lifeboat News!
Jason Swanson, Market Research Analyst at the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School, joins our Futurists Board.
Rob Bencini, author of Pardon the Disruption: The Future You Never Saw Coming, joins our Futurists Board.
Guillermina Baena, who was recently Executive Board member at the World Futures Studies Federation, joins our Futurists Board.
Om Marwah, Cognitive & Geographic Targeting Specialist at @WalmartLabs, joins our Futurists Board.
Ashok Vaseashta, who coedited Silicon Versus Carbon: Fundamental Nanoprocesses, Nanobiotechnology and Risks Assessment, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Zhouying Jin, author of Global Technological Change: From Hard Technology to Soft Technology — Second Edition, joins our Futurists Board.
Lesley Gist, author of The Gist of Freedom, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Lindsea Wilbur, author of Meaningful Innovation for Aging Populations, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Laura Schlehuber, Actuarial and Human Resources Consultant at Ernst & Young, joins our Futurists Board.
Claire Nelson, Ideation Leader of The Futures Forum, joins our Futurists Board.
John Schmidt, Team Leader, Strategic Research and Analysis, at FINTRAC, joins our Futurists Board.
James H. Lee, author of Resilience and the Future of Everyday Life, joins our Economics Board.
Andy Hines, Program Coordinator at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Foresight, joins our Futurists Board.
Derek Boyd Hankerson, Director at Freedom Road Productions (FRP), joins our Futurists Board.
Alex McManus, Director at Voxtropolis, joins our Futurists Board.
Trevor Haldenby, Design Futurist at The Mission Business, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Steven M. Johnson, author of Have Fun Inventing: Learn to Think Up Products and Imagine Future Inventions, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Tim Mack, President of the World Future Society, joins our Futurists Board.
WorldFuture 2014 will be held July 11–13, 2014 at the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek, Orlando, Florida, USA. Our Lawrence Baines, Peter Bishop, Brenda Cooper, José Cordeiro, Jason Dunn, Cindy Frewen, Jay Gary, Jerome Glenn, Fabienne Goux-Baudiment, Linda Groff, Bill Halal, Elina Hiltunen, Zoltan Istvan, Ted Kahn, Tom Lombardo, Gary Marx, Kate McCallum, Ramez Naam, Bj Price, Kevin Russell, Gray Scott, Rupam Shrivastava, John M. Smart, Rick Smyre, Kiko Suarez, Patrick Tucker, and Michael Zey will be speaking.
Erin Ross, Chief Executive Officer of the NanoAssociation of Natural Resources and Energy Security (NANRES), joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Peter Harrigan joins our New Money Systems Board. Pete specializes in Bitcoin Arbitrage and Market Making.
Learn about new plant paradigms.
Read issue #140 of Lifeboat News!
David Evans, Chairman of DSEA, joins our Education Board.
David A. Lloyd-Jones, Owner of Nippon Coin Laundry System K.K., joins our Futurists Board.
Louis C. Ares, VP International Business Development at Effective Engineering Solutions, joins our Business Board.
Paul Verschure joins our Neuroscience Board. Watch Consciousness and the machine: Paul Verschure at TEDxBarcelona.
Austin E. Alexander, Deputy Director at Bitcoin Center NYC, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Eric Stromberg, who launched the first permanently installed, publicly available Bitcoin ATM in the U.S., joins our New Money Systems Board.
Maximiliano Garcia joins our New Money Systems Board. Max is Deputy – Board of Directors Latin America at Cryptor Trust.
Nell Watson, CEO of Poikos, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Jan Goslicki, Cofounder of BitcoinsBerlin, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Andrew “Flip” Filipowski, CEO at InterAct Public Safety Systems, joins our Business Board.
Denise Anderson, a member of the Advisory Board at the Irish Bitcoin Foundation, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Emi Velazquez, Cofounder at Bit.gg, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Alessandro Longoni, Business Analyst at Innopay, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Jincy Samuel, COO at CoinSecure.in, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Kosmas Ballis, Owner of Echo Vintage Books & Vinyl Records, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Richard Crites, Chief Executive Officer at OmniBazaar, joins our Business Board.
Joel Hampton, CEO at Spendr, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Bryce A. Lynch, System Administrator at Emergent Space Technologies, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Stanley A.M. Staine, CEO at Sam Stone International, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Paul Quaiser, Founder of the Human Sustainability Institute, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Pratik Jain, Analyst/Business Development at KPMG, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Juan Llosas, President of Bitcoins in Miami, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Exo-legs Collaborative Designer Rory Southworth joins our Engineering Board.
Mirona Constantinescu, Founder of Bridge to Bohemia, joins our Futurists Board.
Matej Michalko, CEO at BitcoinExpo China 2014, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Mahin Gupta, CTO at BuySellBitco.in, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Egil Asprem, author of Religion in the Age of Cyborgs, joins our Philosophy Board.
Rob Wilson, CEO of BitScan, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Early Boykins III, CEO at Rouge Reel, joins our Business Board.
Harry J. Bentham joins our blog team with the post Book Review: The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil (2005).
Peter Dushenski, Owner of Bitconomy, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Ismail Malik, Cofounder at CoinViral, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Kingsley Edwards, CEO of LeetCoin, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Joel Flickinger, Cofounder of Skidrow Studios, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Derar Al-Sheikhly, Strategic Advisor at Bitsent, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Conor Russomanno, Cofounder of OpenBCI, joins our Neuroscience Board.
John Rafuse, Marketing and Business Development at Mitnick Security, joins our Business Board.
Michael Dedrick, UI/UX Developer at Centah, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Angelika Domschke, inventor of porous hydrogels, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Jean Morency, CEO at ComplianceAid, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Androklis Polymenis, Founder of UbiCrypt, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Read issue #139 of Lifeboat News!
J.M. Porup, author of Death on Taurus, joins our Futurists Board.
Enter the essay contest Preparing for the Distant Future of Civilization.
Learn about MA365, a One-Year Mars Simulation in the Canadian Arctic.
Gavin Knight, Investor Relations at BitAngels, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Karen Williamson, Chief Operating Officer at BitSent, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Leroy Brown, who was recently Broker at Quorum Laurel Hurst, joins our Finance Board.
Mark Lyons, Creator of the FIFA Encyclopedia, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Andy Johnson, Creative Director at Coin Apex, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Steven Zeiler, Software Architect at Ripple Labs, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Learn about Help Teach 1000 Kids That Death is Wrong.
Manuel Araoz, Software Engineer at BitPay, joins our New Money Systems Board. Learn about his Proof of Existence service.
Kevin Davies, Founder of Bitcoin Companion, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Kelly Starks, Systems Engineer at Orbital Technologies Corporation, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Anson Zeall, Cofounder of CoinPip, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Vishal Makhija, author of Talking Things — The Internet of Things, joins our Futurists Board.
Christopher Kilday, Owner of Saraswati Productions, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Bastian Brand, Investment Manager at Pathfinder Capital, joins our Finance Board.
Fulbright Scholar Fares Nimri joins our Futurists Board.
Daniel Díez García, European Board Advisor at Cryptor Trust, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Matthew Stephenson, CEO/Cofounder at Cryptocoin, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Learn about Future Day! (March 1st).
Enter the How Should Humanity Steer the Future contest and win $10,000!
Curtis Fenimore, Owner of Bitcoin Bigfoot, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Gianni D’Alerta, Director of Business Development at ActivePBX Hosted VoIP Office Phone Systems, joins our Business Board.
The creator of litecoin, Charlie Lee, donates 10 litecoin to our Bitcoin Endowment Fund.
Stephan Tual, Founder of Ursium, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Support The Starfire Space Cannon!
Richard Graf joins our blog team with the post The Starfire Space Cannon on Kickstarter.
Neil Peters, CTO at The Corporate Trade Network, joins our Business Board.
Coni Ciongoli-Koepfinger, Librettist / Playwright at Singularity: A Brave New Musical, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Charlie Lee, Creator of Litecoin, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Gray Scott, CEO of SeriousWonder, joins our Futurists Board.
Joya Comeaux, CEO of Bitcoin Technology Transfer International, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Jason Curby, Founder of NobleCoin, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Read issue #138 of Lifeboat News!
Guy Harmelin, who graduated from Singularity University, joins our Futurists Board.
Kamesh Mupparaju, Founder of BTCXINDIA, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Luke Wotton joins our Futurists Board. Luke authored Do We Need to Redefine the Human Subject?
Johnny Boston, CEO at Raw Media Network, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Margaux Avedisian, Partner at Bitcoin Capital Partners and CMO at Lazzerbee, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Chris Larsin, Cofounder and President of Citizens Helping Heroes, joins our Futurists Board.
Michael Patryn, Director at VFS Securities, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Maria Santos, Editor at Bitcoin Examiner, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Leo Dominguez, CEO at BitSent, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Filip Roose, Director of the Belgian Bitcoin Association, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Sander Rabin, author of The Human Use of Humanoid Beings: Chimeras and Patent Law joins our Legal Board.
We now accept CryptogenicBullion donations at CryptogenicBullion address 5oLifeb2d7VFhmgMKqw6aimpen2vFjHiGW.
Bob Freeman joins our blog team with the post Hydrogen Space Launch.
We now accept noblecoin donations at noblecoin address 9oLifebvHaBgJwZwXfgExiSwcDy9MeAPoe.
Derek Scherer, Founder of the Golem Group, joins our Media & Arts Board. Watch KCLive — Derek Scherer creates Hobbit movie magic.
Dmitriy Chumachenko, President of Too Much Bass, joins our Media & Arts Board.
George Jenkins, IT Coordinator at South Puget Sound Region at the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, joins our Futurists Board.
Sperry Andrews, co-director of The Human Connection Institute, joins our Philosophy Board.
Riva-Melissa Tez, Founder of Berlin Singularity, joins our Futurists Board.
Scott Benson joins our New Money Systems Board. Scott is Director of Financial & Regulatory Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering VP at Ward Smith.
Glenn Wagner, President at GALIAH, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Matthew Hoare, Client Liaison Manager at Fujitsu, joins our New Money Systems Board.
TJ MacIntyre, Cofounder of CoinTap, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Cameron M. Smith, coauthor of Emigrating Beyond Earth: Human Adaptation and Space Colonization, joins our Space Settlement Board. Learn about his DIY space suit.
Athul Prem, a student based in Kerala, India, joins our Space Settlement Board.
D.J. Grothe, President of the James Randi Educational Foundation. joins our Education Board.
Marc Goldner, CEO at Entertainment Connexion, joins our Business Board.
Matthew Budoff, coeditor of the Atlas of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Frank Boehm, Editor of Nanomedical Device and Systems Design: Challenges, Possibilities, Visions, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Chad Sahlhoff, CTO of BitWall, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Sonny Vleisides, Vice President of Product Development at Butterfly Labs, joins our New Money Systems Board.
We now accept solarcoin donations at solarcoin address 8LifebofoNzP96v4n9XzDkenhshburAEYg.
Greg Smith, Founder of HYPAY Money, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Read International Longevity Alliance (ILA) — Annual Report for 2013 — Roadmap for 2014.
Greg Appelbaum, coauthor of The Temporal Dynamics of Implicit Processing of Non-Letter, Letter, and Word-Forms in the Human Visual Cortex, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Kristina Dahl, Innovation Lab Coordinator at The Learning Center at Linlee, joins our Futurists Board.
Marc Pous, founder of theThings.IO, joins our Futurists Board.
Bob Freeman, who runs H2LifeShip, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Internationally published photographer Lydia Fucsko joins our Education Board.
Heriberto Montalvo, SAP SD Lead at Dawn Food Products.
Steven Worley, CEO of Bitcopia, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Josh Zerlan donates 25 bitcoins worth about $20,000 to our Bitcoin Endowment Fund. (Brian Cartmell will generously double this donation to 50 bitcoins.)
Peter Drake donates 30 peercoins and posts Lifeboat Foundation now accepting Peercoin donations.
We now accept peercoin donations at peercoin address PLifetQ51s7WYHr4WCdHmWaALUzyWNmXdP.
Correy Kowall, author of Braitenberg Simulations as Vehicles of Evolution, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
David Talenfeld, Advisory Board Member at United Community Investment Tucson, joins our Futurists Board.
Bob Blum joins our Robotics/AI Board. He is author of Let the AIs, not us, formulate a billion-year plan!
Darren Hopkinson, Senior Design Engineer at Imagination Technologies, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Geir Solem, Founder of the Elliott Wave Technician, joins our Finance Board.
Ardon Lukasiewicz, Senior Financial Analyst at CityCenter, joins our Finance Board.
Rob Chamberlain, Bitcoin Economics and Alternative Finance/Investment Consultant at BGMCo, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Ivan Montik, founder and CEO of SoftSwiss, joins our New Money Systems Board.
James Barrat, author of Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Steve Fuller joins our blog team with the post The fork on the road for Homo Futura.
The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
 
The 2013 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Edward Snowden in recognition of his quest to get the U.S. government to be transparent about the surveillance it is engaging of its citizens. It is worth noting that no government is being transparent in how it does surveillance so this issue is relevant to all countries.
 
Learn more!
Bitcoin Expo 2014 will be held April 11–13, 2014 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Our David Bailey, Vitalik Buterin, Anthony Di Iorio, Stuart Hoegner, Charles Hoskinson, Adam B. Levine, Jonathan Mohan, Stephanie Murphy, Elizabeth Ploshay, and Jeffrey Tucker will be speaking/participating.
Our Ille Gebeshuber is leading the workshop Learning from Nature for successfully addressing global challenges for humankind at ASEAN-EU STI Days (Science, Technology and Innovation Days on January 21, 2014.
Luca Toscani joins our Business Board. Luca has 17+ years of professional experience in investment banking, investment management, and startup environments, developed across Europe, U.S, and Asia.
We now accept litecoin donations at litecoin address LLifekTZQ59b17GRoXZH1gCbNXdypBqm61.
Read Simon Fraser Bitcoin Club Raised $1400 for Schools Building Schools.
Marcus Cake, Chief Executive Officer of WisdomNetworks.im, joins our Business Board.
Henry Steven Khoo, Head of Business at Glory World Business Groups, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Harsh Patel, Security Consultant at Capgemini, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Johann Gevers, CEO at Monetas, joins our Finance Board.
David Kam, Founder of the Thinkism Art Movement, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Jan Muyldermans, co-branded partner of Auslogics Software, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Vince Samios, Director at Shensmith Group, joins our Business Board.
James B. Allen, Founder of The Coinsteading Project, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Tom Diffenbach, Cofounder of Seraph+Tom, joins our Education Board. Read The future of education: Online and self-directed.
Film editor and documentary filmmaker Sara Gardephe joins our Media & Arts Board. Watch her Filmmaking Reel. Watch Shy Boys: IRL and Ninety Miles in a One Mile Town.
Nick Bromley joins our Human Trajectories Board. Nick is Programme Manager at EU iCity Smart Cities, Greater London Authority.
Mischa Dohler, Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Allison Dring, Director of elegant embellishments, joins our Sustainability Board. Their proSolve370e is a decorative facade module that reduces air pollution in urban environments. It employs a photo-catalytic technology that is enhanced through ornamental shapes and can be deployed over the scale of architecture, activating inert facades.
Alex Wood, Editor at Tech City News, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Yiannis Laouris, author of Masks of Demons: A journey into the Discovering and Breaking of Stereotypes in a Society in Conflict, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Rik Willard, President at Rule7Media, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Brian Dubin, Cofounder at Educated Cleaners, joins our Business Board.
Konrad S. Graf joins our New Money Systems Board. Konrad is author of On the Origins of Bitcoin: Stages of monetary evolution.
Frankie Bishop, Owner of Asia Products — Thailand Exports, joins our New Money Systems Board.
James Coman, Director of Software Development at SS&C Technologies, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Gabriel Drach, Project Leader at Tata Consultancy Services, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Filmmaker Andrea Rassell joins our Media & Arts Board.
Mathieu Roy joins our Robotics/AI Board. Mathieu Roy is working towards a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence at Laval University, Canada.
Mikkel Freltoft Krogsholm, Consultant at Copenhagen Finance IT Region (CFIR), joins our New Money Systems Board.
Kurt Andersen, Managing Director of CAC card academy, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist Christine J. Duhaime joins our Legal Board.
Watch Can We Live Forever? by our Cadell Last.
Read issue #137 of Lifeboat News!
The Lifeboat Foundation is now Media Partner of the RE.WORK Cities Summit which will be held December 13, 2013 in London.
 
RE.WORK Cities brings together the most influential technologists, entrepreneurs, academics, business leaders, and government officials to collaborate and reshape our future cities. Attendees will gain insight into breakthrough innovations that will have an impact on our future urban areas through the world’s leading technologists and decision-makers. Some of the new products and advances explored at RE.WORK will include progress in the internet of things, sensors, 3D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, robotics, and artificial intelligence.
 
Use the discount code LIFEBOAT40 to get 40% off the attendance fee.
 
As an extra bonus, you can apply to get a free ticket by sending a message to [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation RE.WORK” by November 27. Your message should be 100 words or less and should explain why it is important for you to attend. We have one ticket to give away.
June Scobee Rodgers joins our Space Settlement Board. The widow of Challenger Space Shuttle Commander Dick Scobee, June remembers every one of the 73 seconds leading up to the Challenger accident. It marked the first time American lives were lost in space flight. An inspiration to everyone she meets, June has dedicated her life to writing, speaking, and education.
Give us your suggestions on how to spend our Bitcoin Endowment Fund!
John Delono, Chief Business Development Officer at Bitcoin Reviewer, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Anthony Di Iorio, Executive Director of the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Arnauld Nicogossian, senior editor of the classic textbook Space Physiology and Medicine, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Zennon Kapron, Founder of Kapronasia, joins our Finance Board.
Josh Zerlan, Chief Operating Officer at Butterfly Labs, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Master’s Engineering Student Zack Gow joins our Engineering Board. He earned the Runners Up Finalist Prize at the 2012 Michael W Levin ’87 Advanced Technology Competition.
Justin O’Connell, CEO of GoldSilverBitcoin, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Ed Liebow, Executive Director at American Anthropological Association, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Phil Ice, VP of Research and Development at the American Public University System, joins our Education Board.
Read Lifeboat Foundation at Dupont Summit 2013 — Sci., Tech., and Environmental Policy.
Read issue #136 of Lifeboat News!
Update II — The Dupont Summit 2013 will be held Friday, December 6th at the historic Whittemore House in Washington DC. Our Kevin Berry and Anmol Singh will be speaking about “Lifeboat Foundation’s Response to NASA’s Asteroid Initiative Public Engagement Request”. Our Dustin Ashley will be speaking about “Increase interest of emerging technologies within students and improvement within STEM education”. Our Paula Gordon will be speaking about “March 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan: Some Implications for the Safety of U.S. Nuclear Power Plants in Seismically Active Areas”. Our Joseph N. Pelton will be speaking about “The Leadership Challenge of Cosmic Hazards and Planetary Defense in Modern Technological World”. Our John K. Strickland will be speaking about “Development of routine and inexpensive access to space and space based solar power”. Our Amalie Sinclair will be speaking about “US Space Policy for Treaty”. Our Keith Henson will be speaking about “‘Design to cost’ analysis of Space Based Solar Power”.
The Dupont Summit 2013 will be held Friday, December 6th at the historic Whittemore House in Washington DC. Our Willard Wells will be speaking about the “Survivability of Humankind” and our Manuel Perez will be speaking about “Changes in Citizenship due to Technological Advances in Western Civilization”.
Juan Llanos, EVP Operations & Compliance Officer at Unidos Financial Services, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Robert Zubrin, President of The Mars Society, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Jesse Heaslip, Co-CEO at Bex.io, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Lifeboat Foundation is Partner of Bitcoin Singapore 2013 which will be held November 15, 2013 at the Fullerton Hotel in Singapore. Our Colbert Low, Nhial Majok, Hakim Mamoni, Charlie Shrem, Eddy Travia, and Edan Yago will be speaking/participating.
Taras Kuzin, CEO at MedVacation, joins our Business Board.
Tim van Gelder, Principal at Austhink Consulting, joins our Futurists Board. Watch Tim van Gelder — Critical Thinking.
Tim Maupin, who is filming The Last Generation to Die, joins our Life Extension Board.
Nitish Kannan, CEO and Founder at circlepluspay.com, joins our Futurists Board.
Christine Gaspar, Registered Nurse at Sykes Assistance Services, joins our Life Extension Board.
Pascal Wicht, who was recently Creative Director at ENIGMA prod SARL, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Hoa Ho, Founder of iHeartBitcoins.com, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Fred Park, Friend of Healthy Ecologies at Loveoflife.net, joins our Sustainability Board.
Lifeboat Foundation is Partner of Bitcoinvention Asia 2014 which will be held February 12–13, 2014 at The Peninsula Hotel in Makati, Manila, Philippines. The goal of this convention is to open the Asian door to worldwide bitcoin merchants.
Dominik Żynis, Chief Hack at PandaHax, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Mike Yeung, Founder and President of the Simon Fraser Bitcoin Club, joins our New Money Systems Board. The Simon Fraser Bitcoin Club is the premier university-based club devoted to Bitcoin advocacy in Canada (the Stanford Bitcoin Group being the only other equal in North America).
Christoph Seeger, M.A. Student in Communication & Cultural Management at Zeppelin University, joins our Media & Arts Board.
The First Latin American Bitcoin Conference will be held December 7–8, 2013 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Our Elizabeth Ploshay, Charlie Shrem, Adam Stradling, and Edan Yago will be speaking. Learn more!
The first cryptocurrency conference in Asia will be held November 15 at the Fullerton Hotel in Singapore. Learn more!
Peter Vesborg, coauthor of Bioinspired molecular co-catalysts bonded to a silicon photocathode for solar hydrogen evolution, joins our Sustainability Board.
Damien Trog, Cofounder at Orillia, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Read Ninety-degree revolution: Right and Left are fading away. The real question in politics will be: do you look to the earth or aspire to the skies?
Read issue #135 of Lifeboat News!
Chris Melville, Principal at Aeon Biowares, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Read Precise manipulation of single DNA molecules in air.
Stephen Rowlison, CTO at Diamond Circle, joins our Business Board.
Mark Smalley, Founder of R1.my, joins our Information Sciences Board. R1’s products include MongoPress, MongoMail, and MongoKong.
Jonathan Mohan, Founder at BitcoinNYC, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Bobby Lee, CEO at BTC China, joins our New Money Systems Board. BTC China is the first and largest bitcoin exchange in China.
Support the Future of Money TV Series.
David Gilson, Reporter at CoinDesk, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Ruben A. Brito, Graphic Designer at Blue Skies Wellness, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Bitcoin activist Tristan Winters joins our New Money Systems Board.
Harish Shah, author of Will We Start Living Through Surrogates?, joins our Futurists Board.
Randy Shelly, Owner of SpaceHabitat.org, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Eric E. Johnson, author of Intellectual Property and the Incentive Fallacy, joins our Legal Board.
Brazilian executive movie producer Anielle Guedes joins our Media & Arts Board. Learn about Quando sinto que já sei.
Ta’a Pyland, Developer at Kleinfelder, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Kunal Dixit, Founder and President of the Trestor Foundation, joins our Business Board.
Paul Wakfer, Founder and Managing Partner at Live120Plus, joins our Life Extension Board.
Helen O’Gorman, author of The Launderer’s New Clothes, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Andres Agostini, Principal of Becoming Aware of the Futures, joins our Futurists Board.
Pua Pyland, who runs The Bitcoin Wife, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Tom Matula, Bachelor of Applied Science Program Supervisor at Great Basin College, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Charlie Warren, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer at Campaign for Aging Research, joins our Life Extension Board.
Ilkka Vuorikuru, author of the blog Researching Transhumanism, joins our Futurists Board.
Nicholas Carlough, CTO of United Cybernetics, joins our Futurists Board.
Ben Way, author of Jobocalypse, joins our Futurists Board.
Oladapo Ajayi, Founder of Coinsigner, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Ragnar Ahman Lifthrasir joins our Business Board. Ragnar is Account Executive at the Old Republic Title Company
Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar, President of the Argentine Bitcoin Foundation, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Daniel H. Gallancy, CFA joins our New Money Systems Board.
Michael Pastien, Chief Executive Realist at Capital Physics™, joins our Futurists Board.
Jønathan E. Lyons, author of Minnows: A Shattered Novel, joins our Futurists Board.
Russell W. Hanson joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Russell is Chairman of the Committee on Advanced Technology with the US national nonprofit The Cure Is Now.
Kevin Ann, Cofounder and CTO at Med Nexus, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Daniel Aguayo, Minister of Propaganda at Digipendent Media, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Kevin J. Anderson, coauthor of Tau Ceti which won our “Lifeboat to the Stars” award, joins our Futurists Board.
Gary Barnhard, President & CEO of Xtraordinary Innovative Space Partnerships, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Dan Faggella, who is Writer, Author at Sentient Potential, joins our Futurists Board.
Erik Andreasen, Participant Media’s Senior Director of Development, joins our Media & Arts Board.
B.J. Murphy joins our blog team with the post H+ Poetry: A Cosmist’s Tale.
Steven Savile, coauthor of Tau Ceti which won our “Lifeboat to the Stars” award, joins our Futurists Board.
Jim Hamilton, President at National Spent Fuel Collaborative, joins our Sustainability Board.
Rodolfo Andragnes, VP of the Argentine Bitcoin Foundation, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Read issue #134 of Lifeboat News!
Monica Dash, Assistant Manager at Bitoomba, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Michael Powers joins our Transparency and Privacy Board. Michael is launching Trsst: a distributed secure blog platform for the open web.
Jose Manuel Ayala Wilson, Software Architect & Team Leader at Banco Popular Español, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Michael Taylor, author of Poland Confiscates Pension Funds, Bitcoin Still Free, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Bailey Reutzel, Tech Reporter at PaymentsSource, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Darrell Duane, President at Bitcoin Bonus, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Nilam Doctor, CEO at Real Bitcoins, joins our New Money Systems Board.
D.J. MacLennan, Co-owner of Futurehead.com, joins our Futurists Board.
B.J. Murphy, author of the blog The Proactionary Transhumanist, joins our Futurists Board.
Aldo Rosas, Director of Translations at Adept Content Solutions, joins our Futurists Board.
Lucas Dimoveo joins our blog team with the post Grindhouse Wetware — Support Open Source Transhumanism.
Sterling Eddy, CEO at LeadWell Futures, joins our Ethics Board.
Nhial Majok, Senior Storage Administrator – TSM at IBM Australia, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Check out this screenshot from the site for the upcoming movie The Gunrunner Billy Kane. Learn more about our book!
Read New Evidence, Conditions, Instruments & Experiments for Gravitational Theories.
John Mardlin joins our blog team with the post Is Bitcoin the Beginning of the End?
Our Bitcoin Endowment Fund now accepts bitcoin donations at the address 1Lifeboatu7Y9YqKQRcXfjWYJdXog9CS7r
Aaron Lasher, author of the blog Real Virtual Currency, joins our Economics Board.
Robert P. Mueller, Human Robotic Systems Technology Development Lead at NASA, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Brandon Tomlin, author of Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence from a Cartesian Perspective, joins our Futurists Board.
Andrey Zamovskiy, who runs BitMerch and BTC-Dealer, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Max Excell, Global Business Development Manager at GBGroup, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Steven Hausman joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Steve worked 31 years as a researcher, administrator, and senior executive at the world-renowned National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is now President of Hausman Technology Consulting.
Martin Higgins joins our blog team with the post Transhumanist Spirituality — A New Religion for the Modern Age?
Brian Nelson, Chief Disruptor at Disruptor Nation, joins our Business Board.
Jérôme Wenger, coauthor of Time-resolved homodyne characterization of individual quadrature-entangled pulses, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Chris Evans, Business Development Manager at Bitcoin Gambling Guide, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Ritankar Das joins our Chemistry Board. Ritankar is the youngest University Medalist (top graduating senior) at U.C. Berkeley (over 6,000 graduates) in at least a century.
Daniel Roseman, Founder of BTCBible and Coinality, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Dustin Ashley joins our blog team with the post The Digital Waltz.
Moe Levin, International Director at SANS Magazine, joins our Media & Arts Board.
David Bailey, Board Director at Forza Financial, joins our Finance Board.
Gregory Harmati, CEO at Seventh Continent, joins our Business Board.
Oron Barber, Marketing Manager at Bitcoinvention, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Learn about Trsst: a distributed secure blog platform for the open web.
Melissa Sterry, Director / Head of Technology at Earth 2 Hub™, joins our Complex Systems Board.
JD Hill, Headmaster at Gitega International Academy, joins our Education Board.
Philip Porteous, EU Manager at Atlantis Directors BVI, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Dmitry (Rassah) Murashchik, Treasurer at Bitcoin100, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Ashwin Dixit, author of How to Kill Bitcoin, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Learn about Is the Internet evolving into a Global Brain?
Our Frederik Pohl passed away this weekend.
 
Despite being 93, he worked to “Safeguard Humanity” to the end. He was a key player in this year’s “Lifeboat to the Stars” event. The award was given to the authors of “Tau Ceti”.
 
Fred also participated in our DARPA/NASA 100-Year-Starship proposal which eventually led to us gaining enough experience in creating NASA proposals that we got our first NASA win.
 
Fred will be memorialized forever on our Advisory Board Memorial.
 
We will miss him.
 
Read the press release.
Dan Faggella joins our blog team with the post Building a Better Future — Lessons from 3 Months of Lifeboat Foundation Expert Interviews
Kevin Barnes, Founder of Social Prepper™, joins our New Money Systems Board. Social Prepper™ has launched a new Facebook app “Bitcoin” which enables Facebook users to accept Bitcoin as a donation. Learn more!
Eric Mack, cofounder of a charter school for underserved kids in rural New Mexico, joins our Education Board.
Donna Cryer, chief executive officer of CryerHealth, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. A liver transplant recipient, Donna has been named to a five year term as a Patient Representative to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and elected as the first patient to be chair of the board of the American Liver Foundation.
NASA has selected our proposal as one of the 5 best proposals out of the 402 that were submitted.
 
NASA has invited us to send someone to present at an “Ideas Synthesis” workshop that they will conduct in Houston and via virtual presence. We have selected our Kevin Berry to be our representative at this event.
 
Learn more!
The International Conference on Genetics of Aging and Longevity will be held April 6–10, 2014 in Sochi, Russia. Our Yelena Budovskaya, Judith Campisi, João Pedro de Magalhães, Alexey Moskalev, Elena G. Pasyukova, Robert J. Shmookler Reis, Yousin Suh, and Jan Vijg will be participating.
Daniel Shafrir joins our blog team with the post Bitcoin and its Value.
Read issue #133 of Lifeboat News!
The Lifeboat Foundation is Media Partner of the RE.WORK Technology Summit which will be held September 19th in London. This summit is a one day event that brings together entrepreneurship, science, and technology to re-work the future and tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges. Our Rachel Armstrong, Stuart Armstrong, Aubrey de Grey, and Randal Koene will be speaking. RE.WORK is led by our Nikita Johnson. Use the discount code lifeboat25 to receive 25% off standard passes or startup/student passes.
Rick Smyre joins our blog team with the post Moving Beyond Ubiquitous Sheepishness.
Orenda Urbano Hernández joins our blog team with the post The stainglass of the UNIVERSE.
The SENS6 Conference will be held September 3–7, 2013 at Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK. Our Dongsheng Cai, Didier Coeurnelle, Patrizia d'Alessio, João de Magalhães, John Furber, Jacques Mathieu, Josh Mitteldorf, Kevin Perrott, Robert Shmookler-Reis, David Spiegel, Ilia Stambler, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking.
Dustin Juliano, author of the Strong AI Manifesto, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Matthew Travis, Executive Director of the Aerospace Research & Engineering Systems Institute (ARES), joins our Space Settlement Board.
Olin Hyde, Founder & CEO at Englue, joins our Business Board.
Pawel Pachniewski, Founder of Frying Jelly, joins our Futurists Board.
Futurist Joana Lemos joins our Futurists Board.
Adam Gazzaley joins our Neuroscience Board. Adam is founding director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at the University of California, San Francisco.
Aerospace Engineer Evie Marom joins our Space Settlement Board. Evie was previously Aerospace Engineer at Virgin Galactic and Aerospace/Mechanical Engineer at SpaceDev and is currently LabVIEW developer & ProE modeler at Microsoft.
Andrew Birmingham, Editor-in-Chief of Which-50, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Anmol Singh joins our Space Settlement Board. Anmol is Chief Space Advocate and Team Leader at SpaceSoc and Editor-in-Chief at EarthTeen.
Durwin Foster joins our blog team with the post Integral Ethics.
Jason Louv, Editor of Ultraculture and Author of Generation Hex, joins our Futurists Board.
Michel Maharbiz, who is working on neural dust, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Charles Evans, Forensic Economist at Chyden LLC, joins our Economics Board.
Martin Higgins, author of Human+, joins our Futurists Board.
Rachel Armstrong joins our Sustainability Board. She is Co-Director of AVATAR (Advanced Virtual and Technological Architectural Research) in Architecture & Synthetic Biology at The School of Architecture & Construction, University of Greenwich, London; 2010 Senior TED Fellow; and Visiting Research Assistant at the Center for Fundamental Living Technology, Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark.
David Sinclair, cofounder of Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, joins our Life Extension Board.
Jeffrey Tucker, author of It’s a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
John Mardlin, Founder and CEO of CoinForest, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Simone Caroli, External IT Consultant at eBizzers International Ltd., joins our Legal Board.
Manuel Perez, President of BSA Compliance, joins our Finance Board.
Michael Donoghue, Research Assistant at miiCard, joins our Transparency and Privacy Board.
Eddy Travia joins our New Money Systems Board. Eddy is Chief Startup Officer and Cofounder at Seedcoin and Founder of the Bitcoin Institute.
Vitalik Buterin, Head Writer at Bitcoin Magazine, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Learn about the New Liberty Dollar Silver QR Coin.
Learn about yBitcoin, a free quarterly publication showcasing the best of the Bitcoin Universe.
Shayne T. Wright, Senior Systems Engineer at Thales Australia, joins our Engineering Board.
Dariy Margaritov, Chief Executive Officer at UltraPlay, joins our Business Board.
Richard Amores, Security Researcher at USCyberLabs, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Anthony Conrad, Cofounder of The Economic Genesis Project, joins our Business Board.
Dirk von Heinrichshorst, Director of Schloss Heinrichshorst, joins our New Money Systems Board.
David H. Lyle, Owner of dB digital TV, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Peter Drake, Developer at FuzzyBearBTC, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Todd Erickson, Senior Vice President at First Flight Federal Credit Union, joins our Finance Board.
Mentor Palokaj, Founder of BlueVPN, joins our Transparency and Privacy Board.
Jorge Ordovás joins our New Money Systems Board. Jorge is Senior Consultant (Financial Services Development) at Telefónica.
Hayden Gill, CEO at Buzzdron Media, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Johannes Tynes, Senior Advisor at Inpirical, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Dave Asprey, Founder of The Bulletproof Executive, joins our Futurists Board.
Ian Hale joins our Futurists Board. Ian is Founder and CEO of Kognos Images and Social Outlook.
Jean-Francois Lamere, R&D Engineer at ESECO Systems, joins our Chemistry Board.
Orenda Urbano Hernández, recently Co-owner, Administrator, and Designer at Cerámica 5 Elementos, joins our Futurists Board.
Ted Howard, author of Cancer’s Roots, joins our Life Extension Board.
Future technology and innovation enthusiast Leonardo Nunes Ricucci joins our Futurists Board.
Austen Heinz, CEO of Cambrian Genomics, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Nicholas Haan, Director of Global Grand Challenges and Team Project Leader at Singularity University, joins our Sustainability Board.
Gavin Keech, UX Designer at SEEK Learning, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Alan Brooks, author of Remembering the 1950–60s USA “Futurists” — What Went Wrong?, joins our Futurists Board.
Ryan Strauss, founder of the Payments Team at Graham & Dunn PC, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Eric Chaisson, author of Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature, joins our Cosmology Board.
Stephanie R. Murphy, host of Porc Therapy, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Kumar Gaurav, Senior Software Engineer at Samsung Research India, joins our Futurists Board.
Michael Rodriguez, Cofounder of Global-Educational-Technologies, joins our Education Board.
Barry Clemson, Managing Editor for Systems Thinking World Journal, joins our Futurists Board.
Startup accelerator and mentor David Alon joins our Business Board.
Dongjin (DJ) Seo, who is developing neural dust for chronic brain-machine interfaces, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Alan Reiner, core developer of Armory Bitcoin Client, joins our New Money Systems Board.
John Mattison, Chief Medical Information Officer at Kaiser Permanente, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Chris Faranetta, Vice President of New Business Development at HyperV Technologies, joins our Space Settlement Board.
James Colmer joins our Media & Arts Board. In 1995 he founded Bimmini Special Effects Studios which became one of the largest dedicated production studios in Australia. In 2004 he won 5 International Awards including the National Award (Silver Lotus) IIFA Award, Zee Cine Award, and the Film Producers Guild Award for best Special Effects in film. His recent conceptual artwork and influence can be seen in feature films such as Superman Returns, House of Wax, See No Evil, and Aquamarine.
Joanne Pransky, the World’s First Robotic Psychiatrist® joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Mark Edge joins our Futurists Board. Mark is host at Free Talk Live.
David Neely, Founder of the Neosapien Foundation, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Avinash Singh, Cofounder of the India Future Society, joins our Futurists Board.
Clément Vidal, author of The Beginning and the End: The Meaning of Life in a Cosmological Perspective, joins our Philosophy Board.
Steve Fuller, author of Humanity 2.0: What It Means to Be Human Past, Present and Future, joins our Futurists Board.
Neuroscientist Daniela Schiller joins our Neuroscience Board. Read Repairing Bad Memories.
Joseph VaughnPerling, author of Authentic Authorization, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Adam Harding, President and Cofounder of BIPS, joins our New Money Systems Board. BIPS is the largest provider of Bitcoin internet payment solutions in Europe.
Learn about Coralbots: Restoring and Conserving Coral Reefs with Robots.
UT Ng, whose motto is “In Cryptography We Trust”, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Jonathan B. Wiener, co-editor of The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe, joins our Policy Board.
Christopher Jannette, organizer and owner of the Extreme Futurist Festival, joins our Futurists Board.
Kris Henriksen joins our New Money Systems Board. Kris is Founder and CEO of BIPS, the largest provider of Bitcoin internet payment solutions in Europe.
Adam Kisby, author of A Revolutionary Kind of Science, joins our Scientific Freedom Board.
Charley Lineweaver, coauthor of A Larger Estimate of the Entropy of the Universe, joins our Cosmology Board.
Yuriy Svidinenko, CEO at Nanobotmodels Company, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Jack Andraka joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Jack developed a new, rapid, and inexpensive method to detect an increase of a protein that indicates the presence of pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer during early stages when there is a higher likelihood of a cure. Read Wait, Did This 15-Year-Old From Maryland Just Change Cancer Treatment?
Guy Ravine, founder of Revolutionary Labs, joins our Business Board.
Barbara Weathers, President/CEO at My Job ARC, joins our Education Board.
Eric Schulke, co-Managing Director of ImmortalLife.info, joins our Life Extension Board.
Tim Pendry, author of Thinking About the Future — Technology & Crisis, joins our Futurists Board.
John Enamait joins our Education Board. John is Dean of the School of Business, Industry, and Technology at Catawba Valley Community College.
Cadell Last joins our blog team with the post The Post-Human World.
Dustin Ashley joins our Futurists Board. Dustin authored Structural Unemployment: How Robots Can Take and Make Jobs and E-Democracy and the Future of Government.
Read issue #132 of Lifeboat News!
KurzweilAI is promoting our book today. Spread the word!
Roy Christopher, editor of Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes, joins our Futurists Board.
Scott Jackisch, owner of Globalize Networks, joins our Futurists Board.
Kevin Russell, founder of Simulet and Executive Director of Serious Wonder, joins our Futurists Board.
Harry J. Bentham, author of Red Skies and Superstructure, joins our Futurists Board.
Rich Lee, author of DIY Headphone Implant, joins our Futurists Board. Read Music to your ears? Try a headphones implant like Rich Lee.
Cadell Last, author of The Future of Intelligence, joins our Futurists Board.
Mark Prado, founder of PERMANENT, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Our Daniel Berleant is organizing a Lifeboat dinner at the WorldFuture 2013 conference at the Joliet Room on the 3rd floor of the Hilton Chicago Hotel. The dinner will be held Saturday, July 20th, from 5:15 pm to 6:15 pm.
 
If you would like to be fed by Lifeboat at this conference, send an email to [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation dinner”. This will be a great time to discuss Lifeboat related ideas!
 
WorldFuture 2013 will be held July 19–21, 2013 at the Hilton Chicago Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Our Daniel Berleant, Peter Bishop, Shelly Brenckman, Maree Conway, Brenda Cooper, José Luis Cordeiro, Sean Daken, Leif A. Devaney, Cindy Frewen, Jay Gary, Scott Gibbs, Joyce Gioia, James Giordano, Ben Goertzel, Ed Gordon, Fabienne Goux-Baudiment, Jennifer Groff, William E. Halal, Kenneth Harris, Glen Hiemstra, Rodney Hill, John Jackson, Bud Levin, Gary Marx, Melissa McCoy, Diana Muir, Ramez Naam, Bob Olson, Richard M. Pfohl, Karen Sands, Heather Schlegel, John Smart, Rick Smyre, Nick Spiller, Stephen Thaler, Patrick Tucker, Greg Van Alstyne, Wendell Wallach, John Watts, and Alexandra Whittington will be speaking.
Michael Lee joins our blog team with the post Amber Alert for Human Freedom.
Robin Lmaogaard Bäcklund is the winner of our Facebook contest! He gets an autographed copy of our The Human Race to the Future.
Josh Mitteldorf joins our blog team with the post Aging is bad for fitness. Why has evolution put up with it?
Josh Mitteldorf, author of Suicide Genes, joins our Life Extension Board.
Teresa Warmke joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Teresa is Cofounder and Treasurer for Fr33 Aid, an organization of medically skilled liberty lovers created to help individuals organize projects that educate people about the value of mutual aid.
Mark Kolter, Owner of Kolter Creative Counsel, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Paulo Carvalho, General Director for Economy and Innovation in the Lisbon City Council, joins our Futurists Board.
Dimitris Christodoulou, Researcher at ETH Zurich, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Howard Pakosh, President & CEO at ChipStart, joins our Business Board.
Daniel Shafrir, Senior Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers, joins our Economics Board.
Learn about The Ageless Generation: How Advances in Biomedicine Will Transform the Global Economy.
Bruce Dorminey, author of Distant Wanderers: the Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Bonnie Magee, Finance Director at Alcor Life Extension Foundation, joins our Finance Board.
Watch Fire with Fire: a little girl’s leukemia is cured by HIV.
Amin Rigi, Director at the RTS Lab in Tehran, Iran, joins our Robotics/AI Board. Read Iranian robotics lab works on ocean rescue drone.
Varushka Franceschi, Founder of Shapeshift Dream Productions, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Read issue #131 of Lifeboat News!
Watch IP is a thought crime: Joren De Wachter at TEDxLeuven.
Mike Gogulski, author of We Need Freedom of Speech in our Financial Commerce, joins our New Money Systems Board.
John Gainor, Director of Business Development at RightSignature, joins our Business Board.
Software Developer at Bitcoin Project Luke Dashjr joins our Information Sciences Board.
Project Engineer John Adair joins our New Money Systems Board.
Charles Hoskinson, Director at The Bitcoin Education Project, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Rainey Reitman, Activism Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, joins our Transparency and Privacy Board.
Joe Pacheco, Information Services Sales at Wysk.com, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Nejc Kodriĉ joins our New Money Systems Board. Nejc is CEO at Bitstamp, one of the largest bitcoin exchanges in the world.
Eran Arad, recently HO Social and Games at Winner.com, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Paul Melnyk, President of the Foresight Institute, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Sam Mindlin, CFO at BitInstant, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Anand Kulkarni, CEO at MobileWorks, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Federico Pistono joins our blog team with the post There is no war other than the one we are fighting with ourselves.
Michael Lee, author of Knowing our Future — The Startling Case for Futurology, joins our Futurists Board.
Our Tom Kerwick has authored a paper on the exploration of the Jovian system for the Washington Academy of Sciences titled Colonizing Jupiter’s Moons: An Assessment of Our Options and Alternatives.
Anyone who posts to our Facebook group by June 30, 2013 will be entered into a contest to win a free autographed copy of our The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen — and What to Do.
 
The following people have already entered the contest: Henry B. Augustine, Robin Lmaogaard Bäcklund, Klaus Baldauf, Josh Bartolome, Paul Battista, Maurizio Bisogni, Alex Michael Bonnici, Lahoucine Bouzit, Phil Bowermaster, Matt Campbell, Clyde Christopher, Mihai Cirimpei, Brenda Cooper, Zac Corbett, Nikola Danaylov, Cuentín Caballero De La Granja, Fradique Lee Duarte, Amnon Eden, Bradford Ellis, Eamon Everall, John Fellows, Adam Ford, Kashif Hasnie, Mike Kawitzky, Phillip Keane, Adam Kisby, Wes Kretzschmar, Ron Langdon, Jeremy Lichtman, Drew Illvp Little, Mike Lorrey, Jønathan Lyons, Richard Mallah, Vanderlei Martinianos, John Moravec, Zaq Mosher, Thomas Munyon, Moana Nalu, Ken Nielsen, Shanee Nishry, Michael Nuschke, Lawrence A. Oshanek, Armen Papazian, Ira Pastor, Emanuel Pastreich, Phaethon Rhadamanth, Jameson Rohrer, Peter Rothman, Giovanni Santostasi, Valentin Socolov, Kim Solez, Anouar Tahiri, Cecile Tamura, Sergio Tarrero, Reno J. Tibke, Bük Toon, Andy Turner, Albert M C Vargas Jr., Simon Waslander, and Roman V. Yampolskiy.
Dennis Chamberland joins our blog team with the post The Power of the Move Outbound.
Watch TEDxVienna — Federico Pistono — Robots Will Steal Your Job, but That’s OK. Read the book.
Emmet Macken, Navision/Dynamics IT Support at Smyths Toys, joins our New Money Systems Board. Watch 8GH/s server/mining farm with 8kW aircon — BTC currency.
Technical translator and editor Joe Shirk joins our New Money Systems Board.
Check out Memories with Maya. This novel explores the impact Augmented Intelligence will have in personal relationships and in society.
We have added Facebook, Twitter, Google, and LinkedIn buttons to our blog posts. They are below each post and above the comments section. Test them and if you see any problems mail [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Social Media Links”.
Hakim Mamoni, Founder & Director of WorldBridger, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Clyde DeSouza joins our blog team with the post Why does Science Fiction gravitate towards Dystopia and not the Utopia that Transhumanism promises?
Mark Matthews, who runs Bitcoin — The Money Revolution, joins our New Money Systems Board.
Help Stephen DeMeulenaere so he can host an important panel at the 2nd International Conference on Complementary Currency Systems.
DataPacRat joins our blog team with the post Comic: Rationality Matters.
Vote on Will the average work week really decline significantly in our lifetimes?
 
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Ciaran Healy joins our blog team with the post Who Wants To Live Forever?
Read Long-Term Enhancement of Brain Function and Cognition Using Cognitive Training and Brain Stimulation coauthored by our Roi Cohen Kadosh.
Quendrith Johnson, Executive Producer at Screenmancer, joins our Media & Arts Board.
David Roden, author of Cylons in the Original Position: Limits of Posthuman Justice, joins our Philosophy Board.
Arets Paeglis, Founder and Managing Member at Latvian Transhumanist Association, joins our Futurists Board.
Stanislav Shalunov, CTO of Open Garden, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Avi Roy joins our blog team with the post If you want to live longer, do nothing.
John Fellows, President of the Canada ISA Society International Space Agency, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Stuart Hoegner, Managing Director at Gaming Counsel P.C., joins our Legal Board.
We have launched The Human Race to the Future Facebook group where you can interact with the book’s author.
 
Also Amazon has gone nuts in promoting our book and they are currently selling the paperback for only $7.48 so now would be a good time to buy extra copies as gifts for your friends!
Learn about Hypervillage: A Model for Revitalizing Rural Life.
Clyde DeSouza joins our Futurists Board. Clyde is author of Memories with Maya which is a fiction novel in the hard science/tech-noir genre. The story explores the impact Augmented Intelligence will have in personal relationships and in society.
Daniel Boese, who runs DataPacRat’s Warren, joins our Ethics Board.
Brian McQueen, Senior DevOps at Authentic8, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Zezan Tam, Founder of TutorU, joins our Business Board.
Diane Rousseau, Director at the International Space Agency, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Edward Ratovitski, author of AIS is an oncogene amplified in squamous cell carcinoma, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Patrik D’haeseleer, Computational Biologist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Vinny Lingham, CEO & cofounder at Gyft, joins our Business Board.
Read The Principles of Extropy: A Quarter Century Later by our José Luis Cordeiro.
Alexander Honkala, Founder of Fortal, joins our Engineering Board.
Zoltan Istvan, author of The Transhumanist Wager, joins our Futurists Board.
Ciaran Healy joins our Philosophy Board. Visit his site the Ruthless Truth.
Generally the more popular your book is on Amazon, the more Amazon is willing to discount your book. First they discounted our paperback 0%, then 10%, and now it’s 12%! So you can currently get The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen — and What to Do for only $8.18!
Anyone who posts to our Facebook group by June 30, 2013 will be entered into a contest to win a free autographed copy of our The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen — and What to Do.
We are running a short promotion at Amazon that will end around 1 am tomorrow PDT time which is the same as Monday, May 13, 2013 at 8:00:00 AM UTC. (So this promotion is running the next 17 hours.)
 
You can get the Kindle version of “The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen — and What to Do” for free!
Our book “The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen — and What to Do” has been published in both paperback version and Kindle version.
 
As an extra bonus we are now offering free books for donations of $25 or more to our Bitcoin Endowment Fund and free autographed books for donations of $100 or more to our Bitcoin Endowment Fund.
Read issue #130 of Lifeboat News!
Tuur Demeester, editor at MacroTrends.be, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Garrick Hileman, author of The Seven Mechanisms for Achieving Sovereign Debt Sustainability, joins our Economics Board.
Derek Nisbet, Editor of Bitcoin:Views, joins our Finance Board.
Dean Kekoolani, Communications Director at Prema Global Technologies, joins our Media & Arts Board. Dean’s television network clients have included Court TV (TruTV), Discovery Channel, Discovery Health Channel, HGTV, History Channel, TLC, Travel Channel, and Tribune Broadcasting.
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Antony Evans, Founder at Glowing Plant, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Support Glowing Plants: Natural Lighting with no Electricity.
Mary Hodder, Board Member at Customer Commons, joins our Policy Board.
Aleksandra Drizo, Chief Executive Officer at PhosphoReduc, joins our Sustainability Board.
Jeremy Stone joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Jeremy is Faculty, FutureMed at Singularity University among his many accomplishments.
Jesse Dylan, Founder of Wondros, joins our Media & Arts Board.
People & Organizational Development Manager Peter Palme joins our Business Board.
Dan Ilett, Managing Partner at Erbut Ltd, joins our Business Board.
Jim Angleton, CEO of AEGIS FinServ Corp, joins our Finance Board.
Andrew Lee, Cofounder and CEO of PrivateInternetAccess.com, joins our Transparency and Privacy Board.
Andrew Becker, Director of Business Development at LittleFoot Energy, joins our Business Board.
Richard Meijer, Owner of Masterclass Brazil, joins our Business Board.
Rafael Yáñez, Director at eb-spain, joins our Business Board.
Tom Meredith, Founder of P2P Cash, joins our Finance Board.
Stefan Thomas, CTO at TxtBear, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Jeremias Kangas, who runs EasyWallet.org, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Zachary Corbett, Consultant at BTCXperts, joins our Futurists Board.
Drew Little, Creator of Producism: A New Economic Model for The New Economy, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Mark Friedenbach, Application Developer at NASA–Ames Research Center, joins our Space Settlement Board.
J.R. Bédard, Cofounder and CTO at Gamify, joins our Robotics/AI Board. J.R. is two-time winner of the Microsoft Terrarium Artificial Intelligence Competition. (Advanced A.I. algorithms and behaviors in C#.)
Kinnard Hockenhull, Founder at BitBox, join our Futurists Board. Watch Bitcoin Dreams: Kinnard Hockenhull.
Read Discovering the New America: Where Local Communities Are Solving National Problems.
Read “Appalling irresponsibility”: Senior scientists attack Chinese researchers for creating new strains of influenza virus in veterinary laboratory.
Read Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment.
Listen to Symphony of Minds Listening.
Read issue #129 of Lifeboat News!
Elizabeth Ploshay, Manager of Communications at Bitcoin Magazine, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Neil Fincham, Research & Development at Integral, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Brahm Booth, Director of Marketing and eCommerce at WowWee, joins our Business Board.
Read the novel Pretty from a Distance which is a deeply moving passage into the lives of people caught in an interweaving dance of dependency and control.
Read Don’t fear the robo-apocalypse, yet.
Read Omens: When we peer into the fog of the deep future what do we see — human extinction or a future among the stars?
Watch In the beginning was the code: Jürgen Schmidhuber at TEDxUHasselt.
Simon Edhouse, Managing Director at Virtusoft, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Lasse Birk Olesen, Founder at Bitcoin Nordic, joins our Human Trajectories Board. Watch How technology moves society — not politics: Lasse Birk Olesen at TEDxCopenhagen 2012.
Edan Yago, Cofounder & VP of Business Development at Enzium, joins our Business Board. Enzium develops and markets innovative enzymatic testing technologies with applications throughout the diagnostic and life science industries.
Stephen DeMeulenaere, Founder/Coordinator at the Complementary Currency Resource Center, joins our Economics Board.
Steve Merrill, President & Founder of Sovereign Exchange International, joins our Economics Board.
Victor Escudero of Altran, joins our Futurists Board.
Watch What is a physicist doing in the jungle?: Ille Gebeshuber at TEDxKL 2012.
Brenton Camac, coauthor of Strategies for integrating OSS/J Systems with CORBA, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Adam Stradling, Founder of 4CE, joins our Business Board.
Salvatore W. Delle Palme, Cofounder of BitCitizen, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Trevor Sykes, Chief Technology Officer at Avid Life Media, joins our Futurists Board.
David W. Corne joins our Robotics/AI Board. David serves on the editorial boards of many prestigious journals, including Applied Intelligence, Applied Soft Computing, International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, International Journal of Metaheuristics, Natural Computing, and Theoretical Computer Science — C (Natural Computing). Learn about his Coral-bots: teams of robots that repair coral reefs.
Philippe Camacho, coauthor of Strong Accumulators from Collision-Resistant Hashing joins our Information Sciences Board.
Mike Caldwell, Owner at SwipeClock, joins our Information Sciences Board. Mike is also the creator of Casascius Coins, the first and most widely-known series of physical stored-value coins that hold real Bitcoins inside.
Robert Sama, Founder of Baderbräu, joins our Business Board.
J.R. Willett joins our blog team with the post Bitcoin’s Dystopian Future.
Richard Shyduroff, Codirector at the MIT e-club (MIT Entrepreneurs Club), joins our Futurists Board. Read Nanotechnology cement engineering startup wins MIT $100k business plan competition.
David Perry, author of Practical SQL, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Learn about Coral-bots: teams of robots that repair coral reefs.
Anyone who posts in our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeboatfoundation by April 30, 2013 will be entered into a contest to win a signed copy of the new — just out — A Few Good Men, by Prometheus Award winning author Sarah A. Hoyt.
 
So far, the following people have entered this contest: Henry B. Augustine, Gerard Bain, Klaus Baldauf, Paul Battista, Alex Michael Bonnici, Phil Bowermaster, Geoff Brennan, Mark Carney, Brenda Cooper, Renee Coughlan, Nikola Danaylov, Eamon Everall, Walter Farah, Sean Emery Flatt, Adam Ford, Ancelmo Luiz Graceli, Valdimir Dorian Gray, Tristan Hambling, Kashif Hasnie, Alex Hoekstra, Phillip Keane, Tom Kerwick, Adam Kisby, Josef Koch, Wes Kretzschmar, Stephen Lang, Ron Langdon, Jeremy Lichtman, Christopher MacArthur, Daniele Mancinelli, Gary S. Mezo, Astrõnomo Carlos Mourão Mourão, Thomas Munyon, Moana Nalu, Vincent Ocasla, Lawrence A. Oshanek, Edward Pandemonium, Ira Pastor, George Perry, Boris Petrovic, Charles F. Radley, Byron Craig Russell, Luis R. Saraiva, Eric Schulke, Chris Smedley, Valentin Socolov, Kim Solez, Frank Stratford, Sergio Tarrero, Jerrold Thacker, Reno J. Tibke, Robert Tindale, Zachary Urbina, Philippe Van Nedervelde, and Simon Waslander.
Seyitbek Usmanov, Senior Research Associate at CognoLink Limited, joins our Economics Board.
Ron Helwig, Monetary Architect at Shire Silver, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Colbert Lau, Founder at Bitcoin Malaysia, joins our Economics Board.
Sean Lavine, Founder of BitMe and Member of Bitcoin Foundation, joins our Information Sciences Board.
J.R. Willett, Software Developer at Cozi, joins our Information Sciences Board. J.R. also authored The Second Bitcoin Whitepaper and was invited to be an expert panelist at the Bitcoin Conference 2013 (San Jose).
Michael Parsons, who runs Bitcoin Bytes, joins our Economics Board.
John Light, author of Universal Reputation Rating Systems: Problems and Solutions, joins our Futurists Board.
IT Specialist and Independent Trader/Analyst Joshua Muller joins our Information Sciences Board.
Zach Harvey joins our Futurists Board. Zach is Partner at Lamassu BTC, creator of The Bitcoin Machine.
Rodrigo Benzaquen, R&D Director at MercadoLibre, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Joseph Rampolla, coauthor of Augmented Reality — An Emerging Technologies Guide to AR, joins our Futurists Board.
Jonathan Waller, Founder / Investor at BitcoinEAST, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Adam B. Levine, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Bitcoin, joins our Futurists Board.
Alex Waters, CIO at BitInstant, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Ron Gross, System Architect at Commerce Sciences, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Eli Sklar, Founder of Safebit Bitcoin, joins our Finance Board.
Support the International Space Development Conference.
Matthew Elias, Executive Director and Founder of The Cryptocurrency Legal Advocacy Group, joins our Legal Board.
Paul Buitink, Head of Marketing at GoldMoney, joins our Economics Board. Watch Cyprus: A Wake Up Call, Documentary by Bitcoin Magazine and GoldMoney.
Benson Samuel, author of Bitcoin — The Greatest Redistribution of Wealth of Our Generation, joins our Economics Board.
Jorge Timón joins our Economics Board. Jorge is involved in several cutting-edge currency software projects including Bitcoin and Ripple, and he has proposed several systems and software designs including Freicoin, which is in operation since late 2012. He’s a founding member of the Freicoin Foundation.
Charlie Shrem, CEO of BitInstant, one of the largest, earliest, and well known alternative payment companies, donates 7.5 bitcoins to our bitcoin endowment fund.
Chicago Real Estate Developer James Dunn joins our Futurists Board.
Maayke-Aimée Damen, author of A Resources Passport for a Circular Economy, joins our Sustainability Board.
Nathan Wosnack, CEO at Symbiosis, joins our Futurists Board.
Trace Mayer, an early bitcoin proponent and Lifeboat Foundation Economics board member, says “The Lifeboat Foundation is a good organization bringing together some of the brightest minds from many disciplines to act as guardians of the human race. But what good is collaboration without an ability, particularly a financial ability, to implement solutions? With this bitcoin endowment fund any donations made today enable the Lifeboat Foundation to be the beneficiary of the massive wealth transfer benefiting holders of bitcoins and practically that means an increased financial ability stored in a censorship-resistant currency to implement solutions to vexing existential threats to humanity.”
 
Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/bitcoin!
John Watts, Homeland and National Security Consultant for Noetic, joins our Counterterrorism Board.
Franco Cortese joins our blog team with the post Techno-Progressives and Neo-Luddites are Brothers in Arms.
Jennifer Groff joins our Education Board. Jen is VP Learning & Program Development at Learning Games Network and Cofounder of Center for Curriculum Redesign.
Donald Maclean, author of Beyond Dilemma — A Memoir, joins our Philosophy Board.
Fabienne Goux-Baudiment, director at proGective, joins our Futurists Board.
Ed Gordon, author of Winning the Global Talent Showdown, joins our Business Board.
Leif DeVaney joins our blog team with the post Life and Boats.
Learn about TeloMe — Telomere Testing: Take Control of Your Long-Term Health.
Trace Mayer joins our Economics Board. Trace is coauthor of Bitcoin Beginner’s Guide and A Lawyer’s Take On Bitcoin And Taxes.
Read Big banks vs. Bitcoin libertarianism. Read our Douglas Rushkoff’s book Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now which is discussed in that article.
Five months ago Chris Haley made our first large bitcoin donation, totaling 85 bitcoins worth $1,000 in total. Today they are worth over $6,000 and were the key to jump-starting our bitcoin endowment fund now worth about $50,000. Thanks Chris!
Gregg Maryniak, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of the X PRIZE Foundation, joins our Space Settlement Board. Read Unsung heroes of the personal spaceflight revolution.
Read issue #128 of Lifeboat News!
Anyone who posts in our Facebook group by April 30, 2013 will be entered into a contest to win a signed copy of the new — just out — A Few Good Men by Prometheus Award winning author Sarah A. Hoyt.
Bitcoin Magazine is now an official partner of the Lifeboat Foundation.
While the Lifeboat Foundation was founded in the 21st century, until recently it was mainly funded using 20th century money, basically various types of monies backed by governments. Thanks to the encouragement of some of our larger donors we are now working to have the majority of our funding come from 21st century money — money backed not by governments but by algorithms. The 21st century money Lifeboat is currently focused on is bitcoins. Our Brian Cartmell will match the next 500 bitcoins donated. Learn about our growing bitcoin endowment fund (worth almost $40,000)!
Franco Cortese, author of The Moral Imperative and Technical Feasibility of Defeating Death, joins our Life Extension Board.
Jamie R. Guined, Exercise Scientist at NASA Johnson Space Center, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Eric Diesel joins our Business Board. Eric is President and CEO of Lesser Diesel Enterprises and Director and Chair of the Laura and Aldous Huxley Family Foundation. Lesser Diesel Enterprises is 50% owner and developer of about 10,000 acres in South Korea, the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), and North Korea, including the railroad tracks controlling the eastern border crossing. It is developing a tiger reserve and ecological preserve inside the pristine ecology of the DMZ.
Peter Dilworth joins our Futurists Board. Pete is co-inventor of 3Doodler: The World’s First 3D Printing Pen.
Jonathan Vos Post joins our Futurists Board. Read Greatest Nerd of All Times: Jonathan Vos Post!
Luis R. Saraiva, coauthor of Crypt Neurons Express a Single V1R-Related ora Gene, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Sherry Loveless joins our Advisory Board. Sherry is Managing Editor at Synesis: A Journal of Science, Technology, Ethics, and Policy.
Christine Hansen joins our Sustainability Board. Christine has conducted research on the politics of event-based electronic surveillance of emerging infectious disease at Project Argus in Washington, D.C. and at the Global Disease Detection Operations Center (GDDOC) at the CDC in Atlanta.
David J. Kelley, author of Understanding the Transhumanist Demographic, joins our Futurists Board.
Cambridge Project for Existential Risk advisor Sean B. Holden joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Forensic construction consultant Allan D. Kleiner joins our Business Board.
Futurist Alexandra Whittington joins our Futurists Board.
Leif A. DeVaney joins our Sustainability Board. Leif is presenting The Future of Wildland Fire at WorldFuture
Charlie Shrem, CEO at BitInstant, joins our Economics Board. By providing numerous bridges between the payment providers and exchanges, BitInstant has built its own core position in the new global bitcoin economy.
Jon Matonis, Editor of The Monetary Future, joins our Economics Board. Among his many positions, he serves on the Board of Directors for the Bitcoin Foundation. The Lifeboat Foundation is creating a futuristic endowment fund based on bitcoins.
One of our Advisory Board Members, Bill Lauritzen, has published a book on religion and spirituality called The Invention of God: The Natural Origins of Religion and Mythology. It is getting some excellent reviews on Amazon. If you are curious about mythology, religion, gods, spirits, and souls, check it out!
Kashif Hasnie joins our Diplomacy Board. Kashif is a regular commentator on the media for issues pertaining to South and Central Asia. Some of his latest appearances include Al Hurra, BBC, Channel-5 (Pakistan), Defense News, Geo (Pakistan), Naftemporiki (Greece), and Voice of America.
Elaine Walker joins our Media & Arts Board and our Space Settlement Board. Watch Martians by ZIA.
Michael E. Zimmerman, author of The Singularity: A Crucial Phase in Divine Self-Actualization?, joins our Philosophy Board.
Matias Castro, author of PIB-PET May Be Effective For Detecting Alzheimer’s Deposits, joins our Life Extension Board.
Luis R. Saraiva is the winner of our Facebook contest! He gets an autographed copy of “Darkship Renegades”, sequel to the Prometheus Award winning “Darkship Thieves”.
 
Learn about “Darkship Renegades”!
Thomas McFadden, Jr. joins our Business Board. Tom is Engineering Change Management at Ocean Technology Systems.
Apurva Jakhadi, Space Educator at NASA–Honeywell, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Nahim Mizan, Research Assistant at the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI), joins our Neuroscience Board.
Bob Olson, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Alternative Futures, joins our Futurists Board.
Read The Invention of God: The Natural Origins of Mythology and Religion.
Brian Cartmell donates 94.05158194 bitcoins bringing his total bitcoin donation level to 100 bitcoins!
Read issue #127 of Lifeboat News!
Graham Partis, Editor-in-Chief at The Mars Initiative, joins our Space Settlement Board.
David Eubanks, author of the blog HigherEd, joins our Education Board.
We now accept Diners Club.
Chana de Wolf, President of Advanced Neural Biosciences, joins our Life Extension Board.
Kenny Hsu joins our Futurists Board. He is a member of the Corporate Committee of Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), University of California, Berkeley.
Singularity University Ambassador for Italy, Francesco Mosconi, joins our Futurists Board.
Frank Stratford, CEO of MarsDrive, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Peter Boltuc, coauthor of Replication of the Hard Problem of Consciousness in AI and Bio-AI: An Early Conceptual Framework, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Paula D. Gordon, author of Improving Homeland Security & Critical Infrastructure Protection and Continuity Efforts, joins our Counterterrorism Board.
Elina Hiltunen, author of Weak Signals in Organizational Futures Learning, joins our Futurists Board.
James Tankersley Jr joins our Futurists Board. Jim is Assistant Coordinator for the Global Risk Reduction special interest group at American Mensa.
Watch the film Overview which is about the Overview Effect. The Overview Effect, first described by our Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts' perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment.
Our LifeShield Bunkers program now enables you to participate in a local LifeShield Bunker!
Watch SENS Research Foundation — curing heart disease presented by our Edward James Olmos.
Gourmet Baskets is now giving our members 10% discounts.
Read Project for powerful wind power plants with vertical axis of rotation (4.5 MB PDF).
Max Marty, Cofounder & CEO of Blueseed, joins our Business Board. Watch Max Marty — Blueseed: Breathing New Life into Disruptive Innovation.
Shawn D. Domagal-Goldman, coauthor of Would contact with extraterrestrials benefit or harm humanity? A scenario analysis, joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board.
Scott Margeson, Editor of Cosmic Revolutions, joins our Futurists Board.
Information technology and services professional Alberto Gordillo joins our Information Sciences Board.
Thierry Marianne, Web Developer at Theodo, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Doug Bandow, coeditor of Wealth, Poverty, and Human Destiny, joins our Diplomacy Board.
Alexandra Stolzing joins our Life Extension Board. Alexandra’s group is investigating ways to utilize cellular reprogramming technologies in order to re-instate regenerative capacity in aged tissue and in niches of aged stem cells.
Tim Axelrod joins our Physics Board. Tim is discoverer of the first occultation of a star by a black hole.
Amon Kalkin, Founder of Zero State, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Matteo Vinci of the Public Transport Authority of Western Australia joins our Futurists Board.
Alexander Bard, coauthor of The Futurica Trilogy, joins our Futurists Board.
Karnvir Mundrey, Director at Atharva Lifesciences Consulting, joins our Business Board.
Mijail “Misha” Serruya, coauthor of Neuronal ensemble control of prosthetic devices by a human with tetraplegia, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Chaoyang Lu, coauthor of Teleportation-Based Realization of an Optical Quantum Two-Qubit Entangling Gate, joins our Physics Board.
Award-winning producer Paul Rosenberg joins our Media & Arts Board.
Futurist Belinda Silbert joins our Futurists Board. Watch Deep Bytes.
Robert Lowe, coauthor of On the Functional Contributions of Emotion Mechanisms to (Artificial) Cognition and Intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Read issue #126 of Lifeboat News!
Bruno Conti, coauthor of Transgenic Mice with a Reduced Core Body Temperature Have an Increased Life Span, joins our Life Extension Board.
Ken Anderson, coauthor of Law and Ethics for Robot Soldiers, joins our Legal Board.
Support Our Future in Space — A National Space Society Video.
Tsvi Piran joins our Cosmology Board and our Physics Board. Tsvi is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics and the International Journal of Modern Physics D.
Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, coauthor of Nanotechnology-Enabled Sensors, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Dallas Bienhoff, In-Space and Surface Systems Manager for Boeing Space Exploration, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Bill Simon joins our Space Settlement Board. Bill participated in the design and fabrication of the NASA/JPL Goldstone radar receiver for the 70-meter antenna as part of the Goldstone Solar System Radar project. Listen to Bill on The Space Show hosted by Dr. David Livingston.
Dario Mutabdzija, President of Blueseed, joins our Human Trajectories Board. Read A Start-Up Incubator That Floats.
Emil Petrinic, Director of Special Projects at USVAA: United States Veterans’ Artists Alliance, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Zach Stiggelbout, President and CTO at Taggle, joins our Futurists Board.
Karen Sands, Publisher of The Everyday Futurist Report: A Glimpse of Tomorrow’s Promise, joins our Futurists Board.
Greg Van Alstyne, who is leading the 2020 Media Futures: Practicing What We Preach session at WorldFuture joins our Futurists Board.
Nick Spiller, Director at the Longhorn Entrepreneurship Agency, joins our Business Board.
James Giordano, coeditor of Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives in Neuroethics, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Shelly Brenckman, Vice President of Communications at the Aggie Angel Network, joins our Business Board.
Stephen Thaler, President of Imagination Engines, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Baoguang Zhai, Navigator at Blueseed, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Karen Mermel, a Member of the National Space Society Board of Directors, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Steve Harris, Director of Research at Critical Care Research, joins our Life Extension Board.
James Felton Keith joins our Business Board. James is current editor-in-chief of journals at the Centre for Intelligence, Innovation, and Performance Management.
Read Nexus by our Ramez Naam. Those who get this book are entitled to a free e-copy of Ramez’s first book, More Than Human.
Joyce Bettencourt has won an autographed DVD of Orphans of Apollo due to her Facebook post at https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeboatfoundation/permalink/10151363185868455/.
 
Anyone who posts in our Facebook group by February 28, 2013 will be entered into a contest to win a signed copy of the new — just out — Darkship Renegades, sequel to the Prometheus Award winning Darkship Thieves.
Michael A. Smith, Cofounder of the Center for Applied Rationality, joins our Education Board.
Emil Kendziorra, CEO of BerlinStartupmap, joins our Business Board.
Valkyrie Ice, author of the Top Five Errors in Predicting the Future, joins our Futurists Board.
Durwin Foster, coauthor of An Integral Approach to Counseling Ethics, joins our Ethics Board.
Grant S. Wilson, author of Minimizing Global Catastrophic and Existential Risks from Emerging Technologies Through International Law, joins our Legal Board.
Larry A. Bender joins our Life Extension Board. Larry was previously an Area Administrator responsible for six hospital locations in the Mansfield, Ohio region.
Hermann Hauser, Partner at Amadeus Capital Partners, joins our Business Board. In his long and successful history as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Hermann has founded or cofounded companies in a wide range of technology sectors. These include Acorn Computers (where he helped spin out ARM), Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel, and Cambridge Network Limited.
Read Intergrationalism: Essays Exploiting Spiritual Disincentives by our James Felton Keith.
Scott Gibbs, President at the Economic Development Foundation of Rhode Island (EDFRI), joins our Futurists Board.
Josh Lindenger, who will be a speaker at WorldFuture 2013, joins our Futurists Board.
Read Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World by our James D. Miller.
Maree Conway, founder and director of Thinking Futures, joins our Futurists Board.
WorldFuture 2013 will be held July 19–21, 2013 at the Hilton Chicago Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Our Peter C. Bishop, Brenda Cooper, Cindy Frewen, Jay Gary, Ben Goertzel, Glen Hiemstra, John Jackson, Bud Levin, Gary Marx, Ramez Naam, Heather Schlegel, John Smart, and Rick Smyre will be speaking.
Read Cyber Deterrence and its Challenges.
Watch Adrian Bejan at TEDxMidAtlantic 2012: Be Fearless. Read Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization.
Our InfoPreserver program has now been upgraded to a “Current Program”.
Viktor Toth, coauthor of Accelerating relativistic reference frames in Minkowski space-time, joins our Physics Board. Read his IEEE Spectrum cover story Finding the Source of the Pioneer Anomaly.
Christer Andersson, Senior Scientist at the Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI), joins our Sustainability Board. Read Space debris, a threat to modern society.
Octavio Cilento, South America Business Development at Space Adventures, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Henry B. Augustine, Investor in Taggle, joins our Futurists Board.
Kevin Paterson, coauthor of Re-evaluating split-fovea processing in word recognition: A critical assessment of recent research, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Ken Wharton, author of Time-Symmetric Quantum Mechanics, joins our Physics Board.
Read issue #125 of Lifeboat News!
Jacques Mathieu, coauthor of Medical Bioremediation of Age-Related Diseases, joins our Life Extension Board.
Jean M. Hébert joins our Neuroscience Board. Jean has two main focuses: first, understanding how a simple sheet of neuroepithelial cells early in embryogenesis develops into the adult neocortex, the part of our brains that we use for our highest cognitive and perceptual functions; and second, devising methods for regenerating the principle neurons of the adult neocortex when they are lost.
Alex Tocchio, coauthor of Nanotechnology in Medicine: From Inception to Market Domination, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Jeremy Howard joins our Robotics/AI Board. Jeremy is President & Chief Scientist at Kaggle and Faculty at Singularity University.
Jeff Stibel, Chairman and CEO of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp, joins our Business Board.
Sara Imari Walker, coauthor of The Algorithmic Origins of Life, joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board.
Read Retirement Singularity: The End of Retirement As We Know It.
You can now donate American Express membership reward points to the Lifeboat Foundation.
Our Kattesh Katti has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Kattesh was elected for his “distinguished contributions encompassing main group, transition metal and nanoscale chemistry, particularly for ground-breaking discoveries enabling application of chemical concepts for biomedical applications”. Learn more!
Mikhail A. Nikiforov joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Misha’s research program is focused on several aspects of molecular biology and drug resistance of melanoma and several blood malignancies.
Thanks to Mafalda Dias, we now have an about Lifeboat translation in Portuguese as spoken in Portugal. (Before we only had an about translation in Portuguese as spoken in Brazil.)
Read Should We Live to 1,000? by our Peter Singer.
Independent researcher, author, theorist, and speaker Bakari A. Pace joins our Sustainability Board.
Martin J. Dudziak, Co-Director at the Institute for Innovative Study, joins our Philosophy Board.
Sascha Vongehr, author of Examples of Black Holes in Two-Time Physics, joins our Physics Board.
Learn about Software Wars: A movie about how we can all have cars that drive us around.
Our 2012 Guardian Award Winner is Jaan Tallinn. This award has been given to Jaan Tallinn in recognition of his long commitment to fighting existential risks. He has been a member of the Lifeboat Foundation advisory board since 2007, a top 10 donor of Lifeboat Foundation since 2007, a top 10 donor of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence since 2010, a speaker at the Singularity Summit since 2010, and is now cofounder of The Cambridge Project for Existential Risk which includes 2004 Guardian Award winner Sir Martin Rees. Learn more!
Vital Sounouvou, founder of Exportunity, joins our Business Board.
Nicolas Moulin, Conceptor at Logica–CGI, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Our Jeremy Lichtman has launched our Google+ group. And don't forget about our Facebook group!
Andy Adamatzky, Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Unconventional Computing and Journal of Cellular Automata, joins our Complex Systems Board.
Miguel Galvez, Cofounder of NBD Nanotechnologies, joins our Business Board. Read Self-filling water bottle takes cues from desert beetle.
Slava G. Turyshev, editor of From Quantum to Cosmos: Fundamental Physics Research in Space, joins our Physics Board.
Ashraf Aboshosha, author of Adaptive Navigation and Motion Planning for Autonomous Mobile Robots, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Earl K. Miller, coauthor of An Integrative Theory of Prefrontal Cortex Function, joins our Neuroscience Board.
The SENS Research Foundation is throwing a party to celebrate the efforts and accomplishments of 2012. They will be serving up delicious food and drinks, life extension info, CEO Mike Kope, Aubrey de Grey, research scientist Jacques Mathieu, and an end of the year message video from Edward James Olmos.
 
The party is being held Thursday, December 20th from 7pm to 11pm at Evidence Film Studios, 2122 Aaron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026, 323.522.5298. RSVP with Maria at [email protected] or online at https://www.facebook.com/events/377441762345056/.
Watch How the Entrepreneurial Mindset Can Change You: Henrik Scheel at TEDxSacramento.
Seth Froom, President of Yellow Jacket, joins our Business Board.
Read Is “Deep Learning” a Revolution in Artificial Intelligence? by our Gary Marcus.
Asim Roy joins our blog team with the post Response to Plaut and McClelland in the Phys.org story. This is related to the article A theory of the brain: localist representation is used widely in the brain and the comments at Do brain cells need to be connected to have meaning?
Weian Zhao, coauthor of Paper-Based Bioassays Using Gold Nanoparticle Colorimetric Probes, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Amy Stapleton, author of On Astronaut Wings, joins our Futurists Board.
Rebecca G. Martin joins our Cosmology Board. Read Asteroid Belts of Just the Right Size are Friendly to Life.
Thomas W. Malone, founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
R. Paul Gray, Managing Member of Potomac Management Group, joins our Finance Board.
Best-selling science fiction author Peter F. Hamilton joins our Futurists Board. His books include The Dreaming Void, Fallen Dragon, Judas Unchained, Pandora’s Star, and The Reality Dysfunction.
Mark Gerstein, co-director of the Yale Computational Biology and Bioinformatics program, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Michael Bukatin, coauthor of An Intelligent Theory of Cost for Partial Metric Spaces, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Read issue #124 of Lifeboat News!
Craig Davis, Founder of Brandkarma, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Victoria Vinzani of The Craig Family Foundation joins our Neuroscience Board.
Benjamin Alexander, Founder of Alexander Smith, joins our Futurists Board.
A.J. Ewell, Senior Analyst at USUHS (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences), joins our Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board.
Ben Tippett, author of Gravitational Lensing as a Mechanism For Effective Cloaking, joins our Physics Board.
Frank White, author of The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution, joins our Futurists Board. Among his many works, he coauthored the following books with Isaac Asimov: Think About Space: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going? and The March of the Millennia: A Key to Looking at History.
Pamela L. Gay, co-host of Astronomy Cast, joins our Cosmology Board.
Blake Spurgin joins our Scientific Freedom Board. Blake is co-host of Exploring the Well, a science discussion podcast.
Vern Peterson, Owner of Tontine, joins our Futurists Board.
Lucas Dimoveo, Project Manager at Grindhouse Wetwares, joins our Human Trajectories Board. Read Biohackers and DIY Cyborgs Clone Silicon Valley Innovation.
Geerat J. Vermeij, author of Evolution and Escalation, joins our Geology/Geophysics Board.
Darío Núñez-Ameni, Partner at Atelier DNA, joins our Sustainability Board. Read Wind Power Without the Blades.
Eilam Gross joins our Particle Physics Board. He is the convener of the statistical data analysis forum of the ATLAS detector in its search for the Higgs particle. Read A New Particle Has Been Discovered — Chances Are, It Is the Higgs Boson.
Risto Miikkulainen, author of Subsymbolic Natural Language Processing: An Integrated Model of Scripts, Lexicon, and Memory, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Keith McGreggor, Director of the VentureLab at the Georgia Institute of Technology, joins our Business Board.
Lee Robinson Petzer, Owner at Applied Technotopia, joins our Futurists Board.
Bruce Weaver, Owner of Dharma Dog Pictures, joins our Media & Arts Board. Watch his Dance with Destiny.
Helgi Helgason, Founder of Perseptio, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Ashok K. Goel joins our Robotics/AI Board. Ashok is an Associate Editor of IEEE Intelligent Systems, ASME Transactions: Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE), Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AIEDAM), and the journal Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (Elsevier).
Claes Strannegård, author of Anthropomorphic Artificial Intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Alexey Potapov, coauthor of Differences between Kolmogorov Complexity and Solomonoff Probability: Consequences for AGI, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
John Elefteriades, who routinely puts patients into suspended animation with no brain or heart activity, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Watch Through the Wormhole: Can We Resurrect the Dead. Read “Kill and cure” surgery that could save your life.
Experienced strategy and finance consultant Jason Bradfield joins our Finance Board.
Brandon Whale, Editor-in-Chief at The Transhuman Times, joins our Futurists Board.
Lina Srivastava joins our Media & Arts Board. Watch TEDxTransmedia 2011 — Lina Srivastava — Transactivism.
Ahmed M. H. Abdel-Fattah, coauthor of Rationality-Guided AGI as Cognitive Systems, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Olle Häggström, coauthor of Transparent Neural Networks: Integrating Concept Formation and Reasoning, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Read Are downloadable memories just around the corner? which features our Ed Boyden.
Chris McKitterick, author of Transcendence, joins our Futurists Board.
Christy Johnson of The Millennium Project joins our Futurists Board.
Logan Streondj, author of Human Speakable Programming Language, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Vanessa Schott, Head of Public Outreach at Vergence Labs, joins our Futurists Board.
Jeanann Boyce, coauthor of Nanotechnology: Considering the Complex Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues with the Parameters of Human Performance, joins our Ethics Board.
Jimmy Lin, Founder of the Rare Genomics Institute (RGI), joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Una Ryan joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II awarded Una the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to research, development, and promotion of biotechnology.
Ed Keller, cofounder of AUM Studio, joins our Media & Arts Board.
The Humanity+ conference in San Francisco takes place on December 1–2 2012 at Seven Hills Conference Center at San Francisco State University. Our Michael Anissimov, Sonia Arrison, David Brin, Aubrey de Grey, George Dvorsky, Adam Ford, Linda MacDonald Glenn, Ben Goertzel, Randal A. Koene, Andrea Kuszewski, Amy Li, PJ Manney, Ramez Naam, David Orban, David Pearce, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.
Mioara Mandea, who coedited Geomagnetic Observations and Models, joins our Geology/Geophysics Board.
William Kraemer joins our blog team with the post Mapping the Mind to Merge with Machines: Experimental Research Approaches to Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs).
Read issue #123 of Lifeboat News!
Eamon Everall joins our Media & Arts Board. Eamon was one of the 12 founder members of the Stuckists art group. He paints in a “neo-cubist” style, with subjects from life worked on over a long period.
Xinyu Liu joins our Physics Board. Read Signature of long-sought particle that could revolutionize quantum computing seen by Purdue physicist.
Heikki Lääkkö joins our Engineering Board.
Brent Dixon, founder of The Habdash, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Radisav D. Vidic joins our Sustainability Board. His recent work has focused on reuse of impaired waters for cooling, sustainable water management for natural gas extraction from Marcellus shale, non-chemical devices for biological control in cooling towers, fundamental studies of molecular interactions on carbonaceous surfaces, control of mercury emissions from combustion processes by adsorption-based technologies, development of novel sorbents for elemental mercury, phytoremediation of arsenic-contaminated waters, novel disinfection methods for the control of pathogens in water distribution systems, and membrane filtration for water purification.
Philippe Pasquier joins our Media & Arts Board. Read Composing to a Different Drummer.
Jose Carmena, coauthor of Ascertaining the Importance of Neurons to Develop Better Brain–Machine Interfaces, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Raj Gokal, cofounder of Sano Intelligence, joins our Business Board.
Bob Dworkin, coauthor of Neuropathic Pain: Mechanisms, Diagnosis and Treatment, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Bill Carter, who helped develop a metal 100 times lighter than styrofoam, joins our Engineering Board.
Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Pabulo is Executive Editor of Current Biotechnology and member of the Editorial Boards of Biology and Life.
Chris Haley makes our largest Bitcoin donation yet, totaling 85 Bitcoins worth $1,000 in total.
Watch Cubesats explained and why you should build one by our Stephen Murphey.
Erik Årstad, who holds patent Selective radiolabeling of biomolecules, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Ig Nobel Prize winner Rouslan Krechetnikov joins our Engineering Board.
Victor Yakovenko, coauthor of Classical Econophysics, joins our Economics Board.
Sandy Antunes, author of Surviving Orbit the DIY Way: Testing the Limits Your Satellite Can and Must Match and DIY Satellite Platforms: Building a Space-Ready General Base Picosatellite for Any Mission, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Bruce Cutright, author of The Near Earth Asteroids as the First Step on the Way to Mars, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Ashwin Pushpala, cofounder of Sano Intelligence, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Sano is building a small, wearable sensor that can capture and transmit blood chemistry data continuously to virtually any device.
Laura Burns, Senior Systems Engineer at General Dynamics C4 Systems, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Swedish entrepreneur Gustav Borgefalk joins our Futurists Board. Watch TEDxEskilstuna — Gustav Borgefalk — Taming the force of contests and TEDxVasastan — Gustav Borgefalk — Towards a roadless world.
Abigail Baird, coauthor of Anatomical Changes in the Emerging Adult Brain: A Voxel-Based Morphometry Study, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Josef Holbert joins our Media & Arts Board. Joe managed the White House press in Anchorage when the Emperor of Japan made his first visit to U.S. soil.
Read the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute blog.
Albert Basson, who has found a way to make old muscles young again, joins our Life Extension Board.
Odd Edges joins our blog team with the post Evolution in a Toxic World.
Shang-Shan Chong, author of Predicting Gas Separation Membrane Performance from Atomistic Simulations, joins our Physics Board.
Ralph Morgan Lewis, Distinguished Founding Family Medicine Expert for HealthTap, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Trevor W. Robbins joins our Neuroscience Board. Trevor is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (1990), the Academy of Medical Sciences (2000), and the Royal Society (2005). He has been President of the European Behavioral Pharmacology Society (1992–1994) and he won that Society’s inaugural Distinguished Scientist Award in 2001. He was also President of the British Association of Psychopharmacology from 1996 to 1997. He has edited the journal Psychopharmacology since 1980 and joined the editorial board of Science in January 2003. He has been a member of the Medical Research Council (UK) and chaired the Neuroscience and Mental Health Board from 1995 until 1999.
Teleradiologist Robert Solomon joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
James Iliff, Producer of Project Holodeck, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Sam Ghandchi, publisher and editor of the Washington-based Iranscope futurist portal and news site, joins our Futurists Board.
Matthew “Oki” O’Connor joins our Life Extension Board. Oki is Senior Researcher at SENS Foundation where he manages the MitoSENS project. His research is focused on “allotopic expression” of mitochondrial genes where his team is engineering mitochondrial genes to be expressed from the nucleus and targeted to the mitochondria.
Piero Scaruffi, author of A Brief History of Knowledge, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Tomer Doron, Chief Architect at LTGO, joins our Education Board.
Karina Marshall-Bowman, author of Increased Intracranial Pressure and Visual Impairment Associated with Long-Duration Spaceflight, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Debra M. McPhee, Chief Operating Officer at LiivMD, joins our Education Board.
Ira Pastor, CEO of Bioquark, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Shanta Dhar, coauthor of Engineering of Self-Assembled Nanoparticle Platform for Precisely Controlled Combination Drug Therapy, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Support Bulletproof skin: exploring boundaries by piercing barriers by our Jalila Essaïdi.
On Wednesday, September 26th, SFFT will present the fashtech ecosystem with online & mobile startups and wearable tech in a way never before seen. For one night, SFFT will bring together leading startups across the fashion space together for attendees to check out, try on, and play with some of the coolest tools revolutionizing the fashion industry.
 
Our Alison Lewis will be showcasing the heartbeat dress as part of this SF Fashion Tech event.
Read What our civilization needs is a billion-year plan by our Peter Garretson.
Alan Stern joins our Space Settlement Board. Alan is principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Chief Scientist at Moon Express.
Post at least once in our Facebook group by September 30, 2012 and you will be entered in a contest whose winner will have the honor of Josef P. Holbert creating an original acrylic on canvas, 24" x 18" on the subject of the winner’s choice.
 
People who have entered this contest so far include Doug Bard, Paul Battista, Alex Michael Bonnici, Geoff Brennan, Michelle Cadieux, Nikola Danaylov, Cuentín Caballero De La Granja, Eamon Everall, Adam Falcon, Sean Emery Flatt, Dariusz Gentek, Sirius Hallenberg, Lola Heavey, Alex Hoekstra, Cameron Keys, Josef Koch, Wes Kretzschmar, Stephen Lang, Jeremy Lichtman, Mike Lorrey, Christopher MacArthur, Roberto Manzocco, Mikeythaniel McGillicuddy, Diana Jean Muir, Thomas Munyon, Moana Nalu, Martin O'Dea, Lawrence A. Oshanek, Edward Pandemonium, Ira Pastor, George Perry, Sandy Ravage, Esther Rudolph, Kim Solez, Khannea Suntzu, Reno J. Tibke, Yul Tolbert, Tereza Ullinovich, Daniel Pérez Vidal, Natasha Vita-More, and Marcia Wiegand.
Alex Ssegujja, Technology Director & Software Engineer at Kepler Space Institute / University, joins our Space Settlement Board.
David Garofalo, CEO at Boxedge Capital, joins our Business Board.
Tracy R. Atkins, author of Aeternum Ray, joins our Human Trajectories Board. Through the light and dark times of the near future, Aeternum Ray departs from dystopian themes and brings back the notion of utopian speculative ideals. Watch the Aeternum Ray Book Video Trailer.
Gary Abramson, Creative Director at Moonburn Creative and Producer at Evidence Productions, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Peter Rothman joins our Media & Arts Board. Peter is Editor of H+ Magazine where he is looking for great articles about the future of technology, humanity, the mind, society, and human culture.
Support Singularity 1 on 1, a series of podcast interviews with the best scientists, writers, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, journalists, philosophers, and artists, debating the impact of technology, exponential growth, genetics, robotics, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and the technological singularity.
Alper Bozkurt, who is developing cyborg cockroaches to be used as emergency responders, joins our Engineering Board.
Singularity University Kenya Ambassador Emily Ngubia Kuria joins our Futurists Board.
Learn about our Erez Livneh’s success in developing antiviral nano-particles.
Chase Community Giving has $5 million in grants to donate to charities elected through online votes collected before September 19th. The Lifeboat Foundation is helping collect votes for SENS Research Foundation. Cast your vote and help SENS get $10,000.
Read Managing for Quality in Higher Education — A Systems Perspective coauthored by our Bob Krone.
Prabha Sampath, who is working on a drug to cure brain cancer, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Anthony Walker, coauthor of An Alternative Future for the Pharmaceutical Industry, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Read issue #122 of Lifeboat News!
Nobel Laureate in Economics Daniel Kahneman joins our Policy Board. Read his latest book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Brinkley Warren, CEO at Primerlife, joins our Futurists Board.
Eduardo Martín Pérez, Founder and Coordinator at Comillas Entrepreneurs, joins our Futurists Board.
Bruce Neeld, President at Boulder Salt Company, joins our Business Board.
Lakshman Madurasinghe, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Academic Consortium of the Americas, joins our Education Board.
Toni Ferraté, CEO of RO-BOTICA company, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Avijit Roy joins our Sustainability Board. He is coauthor of Could lab-grown meat soon be the solution to the world’s food crisis?
Alzheimer’s researcher Pravat Mandal joins our Neuroscience Board.
Vishwath Mohan, coauthor of Frankenstein: Stitching Malware from Benign Binaries, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Mexico Singularity University Ambassador Sebastián Tonda joins our Futurists Board.
Pavlo Rudenko joins our Sustainability Board. Pasha is working to use nanotechnology to develop more efficient and environmentally friendly additives for lubricants. Read WSU student entrepreneur is semifinalist in Clean Tech Open.
Reno J. Tibke joins our blog team with the post The Recurring Parable of the AWOL Android.
Esther Rudolph, Editor of 1001 Unicorns, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Socio-Technical Integration Researcher Cameron Keys joins our Futurists Board.
Lital Asher-Dotan joins our Business Board. Lital was chosen as one of the “40 most Influential managers in Israel under the age of 40” by the prestigious TheMarker Magazine, for establishing Procter & Gamble’s Israel House of Innovation, the first P&G; R&D; center in Israel.
Learn about the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (GCRI), a startup think tank leading research, education, and professional networking on global catastrophic risk. GCRI aims to identify and assess the most effective ways of reducing the risk of global catastrophe, as well as the issues raised by global catastrophic risk.
Reno J. Tibke, CEO of Anthrobotic, joins our Futurists Board.
Sharron McPherson, coauthor of From Gifts to Greatness: Maximizing Your Joy, Meaning, and Power Through Transformation, joins our Ethics Board.
Learn about the Open Science Summit 2012.
Robert Nemiroff, coauthor of Astronomy: 365 Days and The Universe: 365 Days. joins our Cosmology Board.
Adrian Bejan joins our Engineering Board. His research covers a wide range of topics in thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, convection, and porous media. More recently, he developed the constructal law of design in nature.
 
Adrian is ranked since 2001 among the 100 most highly cited authors worldwide in engineering (all fields, all countries), the Institute for Scientific Information. He has received 16 honorary doctorates from universities in 11 countries.
Gary Whitehill, founder of Entrepreneur Week and The Relentless Foundation, joins our Business Board.
Artist Koby Barhad joins our Media & Arts Board. Learn about his Thoughts You May Have, part of “The Future of Writing” research commissioned by Microsoft Research Labs in Cambridge from the Design Interaction Department at the Royal College of Art.
Sean Emery Flatt, Founder of MindfulFuture, joins our Futurists Board.
Stephan Vladimir Bugaj, coauthor of Stages of Cognitive Development in Uncertain-Logic-Based AI Systems, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Sally Morem, Chatroom host at FastForward Radio, joins our Futurists Board.
María Blasco joins our Life Extension Board. María is the Director of the prestigious Spanish National Cancer Research Institute, headquartered in Madrid, as well as directing the Molecular Oncology Program and Telomeres and Telomerase Group.
Stephen Fleming, Vice President at Georgia Institute of Technology, joins our Education Board.
Learn about The eCC, a fully-electric “Green” vehicle, licensed and street-legal, that will set the world record in electric-mileage efficiency.
Learn about TOHL: Elevating Infrastructure.
Read issue #121 of Lifeboat News!
The Eurosymposium on Healthy Ageing will be held December 12–14, in Brussels, Belgium. Our Sven Bulterijs, Didier Coeurnelle, Aubrey de Grey, David Spiegel, Kris Verburgh, and Jan Vijg will be speaking.
Sabiha Rumani Malik is now Associate Founder in recognition of her many contributions to the Lifeboat Foundation.
 
Her Sanghata Global (which Lifeboat Foundation has partnered with) has developed a highly effective solution based on knowledge creation that connects entrepreneurs who know first-hand the pressing and complex problems of poverty with people and resources who can help their creative business initiatives thrive. The Sanghata ecosystem for social enterprise development and investment enables entrepreneurs in the “missing middle”, those ventures that are too large to receive micro-finance funds, and those that are too small to attract traditional venture funding.
Gabriella Blum, coauthor of Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists: Lessons from the War on Terrorism, joins our Counterterrorism Board.
View the slide presentation Microsatellite Ionospheric Network in Orbit by our Stuart Eves which discusses earthquake forecasting.
Chris Adendorff, who is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation, joins our Futurists Board.
William Henshall, CEO of Dulcetta, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Moritz Reintjes, author of Shock Wave Interactions in General Relativity and the Emergence of Regularity Singularities, joins our Physics Board. Read A wrinkle in space-time: Math shows how shockwaves could crinkle space.
Robert Splinter, coauthor of Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, Second Edition, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Lester Ingber, coauthor of Stochastic Global Optimization and Its Applications with Fuzzy Adaptive Simulated Annealing, joins our Complex Systems Board.
Risto Ilmoniemi, who has developed a more accurate way of locating brain electrical activity, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Natalio Krasnogor, coeditor of Systems Self-Assembly, Volume 5: Multidisciplinary Snapshots, joins our Complex Systems Board.
Ra‘anan Gefen, who is developing a bionic retina, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Felix Lanzalaco, Chairman at SFNR Foundation (Scottish Foundation for Neurodevelopment Research), joins our Neuroscience Board.
Blerim Emruli, author of Simple Principles of Cognitive Computation with Distributed Representations, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Alison Lowndes, Founder Trustee at AVIF, joins our Sustainability Board. AVIF is an innovative online charity, assisting with sustainable development via online and onsite volunteering in rural Kenya, East Africa.
David Tamm, author of Universal History and the Telos of Human Progress, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Seth Cochran, author of Deciding How We Age as We Age, joins our Futurists Board.
Thomas Nastas, founder of Innovative Ventures (IVI), joins our Business Board.
Visionary thinker Yee Peng Kong joins our Futurists Board.
Sam Gibbs, Director of Advanced Science Education Asia Sdn Bhd, joins our Education Board.
Alex Hoekstra, Project Coordinator at Harvard Medical School, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Watch The Singularity and schools: An interview with Vernor Vinge.
Shawn Mikula, creator of connectomes.org, joins our Neuroscience Board.
 
A connectome is a complete mapping of all connections, including every individual synapse and gap junction, between all neurons in a model organism’s brain. In other words, a comprehensive circuit diagram of the brain.
Jason W. Womack, author of Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More, joins our Business Board.
Elad Mentovich, developer of carbon-based transistors, joins our Engineering Board.
Genady Okrain, Project Manager at Cigol Digital Systems, joins our Engineering Board.
Michael D. Meloan, coauthor of The Shroud, joins our Futurists Board.
Szabolcs Kósa, Global Strategic Transaction Leader at General Electric, joins our Business Board.
Paul Bigham joins our Business Board. Paul currently serves as President of Bigham Agency, Inc., a twenty-two year old professional services firm specializing in marketing and development for major nonprofit organizations.
Jonathan Bailey, author of the blog Plagiarism Today, joins our Media & Arts Board.
István Kenyeres joins our Complex Systems Board. István is Chairman at Organica Water and Member of the Bio-economy Platform Preparatory Team at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).
Martin O’Dea, author of Technology and the Need to Develop New Economics, joins our Futurists Board.
Jeroen Cappaert joins our Space Settlement Board. Jeroen is CubeSat and Fluid mechanics researcher at NASA Ames Research Center and Lead payload engineer & cofounder at NanoSatisfi. Read ArduSat — first crowdsourced science mission in space.
Reid Tolley, Asia Pacific Organization Development Director at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, joins our Business Board.
Stephen Murphey, Social Marketing Specialist at American Barcode and RFID, joins our Business Board.
Nessi Benishti, author of The AdS/CFT Correspondence and Symmetry Breaking, joins our Physics Board.
Mathematician Moncef Elmoumen joins our Futurists Board.
Daniele Mancinelli, CTO (Chief Technology Officer) at Arctic Nutrition AS, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Lara Tosh, Director at K4E Consulting, joins our Social Factors Board.
Stefan Wobben, Owner at Concept7, joins our Business Board.
Benjamin Shapiro, President / CEO at Thinking Software, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Dane Stout joins our Business Board. Dane is Executive Director, Connected Health & Emerging Technologies Practice at The Anson Group.
Shaikat Hossain, author of Cochlear Implants and the Deaf Culture: A Transhumanist Perspective, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Matti Eskelinen, Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Ketan Patel, Medical Director at Genomix Canada, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Daniel Schwarz, Trading Associate at the Cutler Group, joins our Futurists Board.
Jonathan Klein, Senior Software Engineer at Wayfair, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Giacinto Libertini, author of Evolutionary Interpretations of Aging, Disease Phenomenon, and Sex, joins our Life Extension Board.
Greg Ching, CEO at Solar Greens Company, joins our Sustainability Board.
Giancarlo Ibarguen, President of Universidad Francisco Marroquín, joins our Education Board.
Tony Jun Huang joins our Nanotechnology Board. Tony is on the Editorial Boards of ISRN Nanotechnology, Journal of Chemical Engineering & Process Technology, Journal of Laboratory Automation, Journal of Nanoscience Letters, Journal of Nanomedicine & Biotherapeutic Discovery, and Optics and Photonics Journal (OPJ).
Nikita Johnson, cofounder of the LSE Alumni Entrepreneurs Group, joins our Futurists Board.
Shabnam Tavassoli joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Shabnam is using the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae to understand how the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) contacts, and hence communicates with other organelles to demonstrate a molecular link between the proper formation of these junctions and lipid metabolism and polarized growth.
Ariane Cohen, Director of Digital Development at Richemont North America, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Melchor Antuñano, Director of the FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Michael D. Austin, Producer and Journalist at Blue Planet Almanac™, joins our Sustainability Board.
Owen Nicholas, author of Make Me Superhuman — the Top 10 Enhancements I Crave, joins our Futurists Board.
Luis Caraballo, President of the Strategic Futures Institute, joins our Futurists Board.
David Wimberly, CEO at Eurisko Companies, joins our Futurists Board.
Jenny Williams joins our Education Board. Jenny is a two-term Student Trustee with the Toronto District School Board and is President of the Ontario Student Trustees' Association.
Benjamin T. Solomon joins our blog team with the post Expect Confirmation of Extraterrestrial Life by 2047.
Read issue #120 of Lifeboat News!
The c3: Center for Conscious Creativity with the Electronic Music Alliance and The Millennium Project presents the State of the Arts Symposium on September 22, 2012 at Los Angeles Center Studios.
 
This year’s State of the Arts 2012 symposium is designed to present a unique perspective on the cutting edge trends in the arts and media and their effect on education, society, and culture within the context of immersive media. The goal of the symposium is to illicit dialogue around the function of art and media in society and education, how emerging communications and technologies are changing the arts and media, the phenomena of the Electronic Music Dance culture and PLUR, what new forms of art and media might emerge in the coming decade, new career opportunities and the social impact and responsibility of creating with conscious intent, from a cross-disciplinary perspective.
Our Laszlo Kish has been elected to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Szeged.
Drone armed with miniature missile “months” away...
Learn about the WorldFuture 2012 Urban Adventure by Lifeboat Foundation.
David Maizenberg, Founder and Principal at Biology Partners, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Maximus Peto, Biological Researcher at SENS Foundation, joins our Life Extension Board.
Maria Pozza joins our Space Settlement Board. Read Law in the Final Frontier.
Dmitry Podolsky, Editor-in-Charge of NEQNET: The world of theoretical physics, joins our Physics Board.
Brian Hoffstein, Public Relations and Editorial Manager at Singularity University, joins our Futurists Board.
Stuart Mason Dambrot, author of the blog Critical Thought, joins our Futurists Board.
Ross Andersen joins our Futurists Board. Ross is the Science Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books, a correspondent for The Atlantic, and a contributor to The Economist. Read We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction.
Paul Pavlou joins our Information Sciences Board. Paul’s research focuses on online auction marketplaces, electronic commerce, and information systems strategy.
Ken Plumley, CEO and Founder at CompXpress, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Janna Raye, Founder and Chief Designer at StrateGems Fractal Organization Designs, joins our Futurists Board. Watch Fractal Organizations vs. Top-Down Hierarchies.
Multimedia artist Sherry Mills joins our Media & Arts Board. Watch Sherry Mills on ArtUp.
Katherine Parramore, Senior Managing Partner at TDR, joins our Business Board.
Charalampos Doukas, author of Building Internet of Things with the Arduino, joins our Engineering Board.
Read issue #119 of Lifeboat News!
Melissa McCoy, GSP12 Student at Singularity University and Partner at T.O.H.L. (Tubing Operations for Humanitarian Logistics), joins our Futurists Board.
Art and social therapist Sarah Lisa van Huêt joins our Media & Arts Board.
Ben McLeish joins our Futurists Board. Watch Ben McLeish | The Innovation War Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
Agnieszka Gaczkowska, Medicine and Neuroscience Teaching Fellow at Singularity University, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Lyle J. Dennis, Founder of Extreme Longevity, joins our Life Extension Board.
Strategic foresight practitioner & futurist Karen M. Arvidsson joins our Futurists Board.
Alan S. Ziegler joins our Legal Board. Alan is Of Counsel at Sweeney Lev LLP, Counsel at Brain Preservation Foundation, and Director and Counsel at Institute of New Dimensions.
Raoul Katovsky, Group President & Chief Executive Officer of SpacePortLeisure WorldGroup, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Charlie Martin, Senior Software Engineer at SGI, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Ben Reytblat, CEO at CE Dev, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Brandon Seifert joins our blog team with the post The Importance of NASA.
Edythe Weeks, author of Outer Space Development, International Relations, and Space Law: A Method for Elucidating Seeds, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Brandon M. Seifert, Marketing Executive at Renewable Generation Energy Market, joins our Sustainability Board.
Peter Platzer, Nanosatellites Researcher at NASA Ames Research Center, joins our Space Settlement Board. Read Former Quantitative Trader Spurns Wall Street to Explore the Final Frontier.
John K. Strickland, Jr. joins our Space Settlement Board. John is Member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Awards Committee at the National Space Society.
Lawrence Baines joins our blog team with the post A Future of Fewer Words.
Anthony Iannarino, author of The Sales Blog, joins our Business Board.
Richard M. Pfohl, President of Navigos, joins our Futurists Board.
Federico Pistono, author of Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That’s OK, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
David Swindle, Associate Editor at PJ Media, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Forrest Higgs, Owner of Brosis Innovations, joins our Engineering Board.
Joyce Bettencourt, President of the Board at AvaCon, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Ben Scarlato, author of Deadlock: Thousand-Year Relationships, joins our Life Extension Board.
Bill Clary, author of the blog Chaos and Swords, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Cynthia La Grou, Founding Director and Chief Visionary Officer of the Compathos Media Foundation, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Per Rehné, Founder of PowerTeen™ Denmark, joins our Futurists Board.
Gabriel Rothblatt, Pastor and Community Organizer for the Terasem Movement Transreligion, joins our Futurists Board.
Huib Wurfbain, Learning Professional at LaLuz, joins our Finance Board.
Richard Anglin, President and Chief Executive Officer at TelMedX, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Zeus Guevara, who is completing a Ph.D. in Sustainable Energy Systems, joins our Sustainability Board.
Yasaman Sheri joins our Sustainability Board. Yasaman is Teaching Fellow, Design Track at Singularity University.
Mikko Hyppönen, Chief Research Officer for F-Secure, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
 
Mikko has led his team through the largest outbreaks in history. His team took down the worldwide network used by the Sobig.F worm. He was the first to warn the world about the Sasser outbreak, he named the infamous Storm Worm, and he has done classified briefings on the operation of the Stuxnet worm.
Emanuel Yi Pastreich joins our blog team with the post The Crisis in Education in Korea and the World.
Daniel Briggs, President of Aletheia Logos University, joins our Education Board. Read his The Origins of Morality.
Ehsan Hoque joins our Robotics/AI Board. Read What’s In A Smile? Turns Out Computers Best Humans at Parsing What’s Genuine.
Dan Schneider joins our Media & Arts Board. Dan is a United States poet, critic, film critic, essayist, and fiction writer best known for his criticism and literary website Cosmoetica.
Alex Thatcher, a member of the advisory board of the International Space Development HUB (ISDHub), joins our Space Settlement Board.
Geoffrey Buchanan joins our Finance Board. Geoff lead Standard Chartered Bank’s successful $1.2 billion acquisition of Hsinchu Bank in Taiwan.
Yuri Ozhigov, author of Constructive Physics, joins our Physics Board.
John Lee, Executive Director at Leeward Space Foundation and Chairman of the Board of the International Space Development HUB (ISDHub), joins our Space Settlement Board.
Robert L. Frantz joins our Space Settlement Board. Bob is the President, CEO, and Cofounder of Kepler Space University.
Geo Scripcariu joins our Space Settlement Board. Geo is District 9 Director, Europe, Space Colony Earth.
Lowell Morton, Administrator at Virtual Universities, joins our Education Board.
David Benjamin joins our Futurists Board. David is Principal of architecture firm The Living and Director of the Living Architecture Lab at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Read Living Cities: From Sci-Fi to Sentient Buildings.
Omri Amirav-Drory, CEO of Genome Compiler Corp (GCC), joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Internationally recognized expert on information technology (IT), Bruce F. Webster, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Christian Holz, coauthor of Implanted User Interfaces, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Aron Rachamim, coauthor of Nanoparticulate PdZn as a Novel Catalyst for ZnO Nanowire Growth, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Jim Keravala joins our Space Settlement Board. Jim has been a leader of top-level international teams in the aerospace, finance, and technology sectors for almost 20 years.
Stefan Thurner, coeditor of Principles of Evolution: From the Planck Epoch to Complex Multicellular Life, joins our Complex Systems Board.
Jacqueline Dudman, Project Coordinator at the International Space Development HUB (ISDHub), joins our Space Settlement Board.
Vincent C. Müller, author of Pancomputationalism: Theory or Metaphor?, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Cristiano Castelfranchi, coauthor of Trust Theory: A Socio-Cognitive and Computational Model, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Mario Verdicchio, coauthor of An Automata-based Monitoring Technique for Commitment-based Multi-Agent Systems, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Sarah Bull joins our Robotics/AI Board. Sarah is a member of the Organizing Committee and of the Program Committee for AGI-12 @ Oxford.
Farooq Khan joins our blog team with the post Médecins Sans Frontières Scientific Day 2012.
Keith Taggart joins our Methods for Discovery & Solution Finding Board. Keith has forty-two years of extensive and diverse experience in the Department of Defense and Department of Energy research and development communities in the fields of systems analysis, technical analysis, software development, scientific research, computational physics, systems engineering, defense policy analysis, space systems analysis, space systems engineering, proposal development, and technical and program management.
Read issue #118 of Lifeboat News!
Matt Swayne, author of The Three-Fold Path of Virtual Reality, joins our Futurists Board.
The Fifth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI-12 @ Oxford, will be held December 8–11, 2012. Appropriately for this Alan Turing centenary year, this is the first AGI conference to be held in the UK. Our Itamar Arel, Stuart Armstrong, Joscha Bach, Antonio Chella, Stan Franklin, Rod Furlan, Deon Garrett, Ben Goertzel, J. Storrs Hall, Marcus Hutter, Matthew O. Iklé, Randal Koene, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Christian Lebiere, Moshe Looks, David Orban, Stephen Reed, Anders Sandberg, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Kristinn R. Thórisson, and Julian Togelius will be participating.
Kepler Space Institute, in cooperation with Space Pioneers and InWorldz, is offering classes aboard a Virtual Orbital Space Settlement — online instruction in cyberspace hypothetically hundreds of kilometers above Earth.
 
The VOSS, a realistic virtual environment, was developed by Kim Peart, an Australian visual artist and veteran supporter of space exploration and development, with the assistance of Dr. Jennifer Bolton, working under the banner of Space Pioneers.
 
The first such classes will be Moon Colonization 101, The Overview Effect, and Law of Space Abundance.
Armen V. Papazian, Executive Director of the International Space Development HUB (ISDHub), joins our Space Settlement Board.
J. Christopher Anderson joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Chris is coauthor of Environmentally Controlled Invasion of Cancer Cells by Engineered Bacteria, Generation of a Bacterium with a 21 Amino Acid Genetic Code, and An Expanded Genetic Code with a Functional Quadruplet Codon.
Our Howard Bloom needs your help to promote the book The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates.
Henrik Føhns, host and editor of Harddisken at the Danish Broadcast Corporation, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Our David Brin’s new novel Existence mentions our many programs.
Martin Kawalski, Director at I. Moscicki Hospital, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Eli Mohamad, Project Manager at Sense Consulting, joins our Futurists Board.
Kiko Suarez, Vice President for Communications and External Affairs at the Lumina Foundation for Education, joins our Education Board.
Kelly Lewis, Cofounder of [email protected] and Events Producer at Singularity University, joins our Futurists Board.
Nadia Ceratto, coauthor of Cloning and Sequencing of a Novel Metallothionein Gene in Mytilus Galloprovincialis Lam, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Economics student Anna Petrova joins our Economics Board.
John Donoghue joins our Neuroscience Board. John’s laboratory investigates how the brain turns thought into voluntary behaviors and how that knowledge can be used to help persons with paralysis. Watch John Donoghue at Nobel Conference 47.
Michael del Castillo joins our Media & Arts Board. Michael is Executive Director at Literary Manhattan, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting Manhattan’s rich literary history and the benefits of reading.
Our Rand Simberg needs your help to rationalize our approach to safety in space.
Chris Marti, VP of Research & Technology at MSCI, joins our Business Board. MSCI is a leading provider of investment decision support tools to around 6,200 clients worldwide, ranging from large pension plans to boutique hedge funds.
Rand Simberg, author of Homesteading the Final Frontier, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Angèle Lubin, Virtual World Director at Space Renaissance International, joins our Media & Arts Board and our Space Settlement Board.
Ryan Remedios, coauthor of Unimodal Responses Prevail within the Multisensory Claustrum, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Ivan Lovric, CEO at Eseco Systems, joins our Futurists Board.
Ron Reisman, author of A Brief Introduction to the Art of Flight Simulation, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Urzica Olivér, with S.C KOZ-SERVICE S.R.L. of Romania, joins our Futurists Board.
David Klemke, author of the blog The Refined Geek, joins our Futurists Board.
Lori Rhodes, Legal Research/HR Manager at Terasem Movement, joins our Futurists Board.
Bill Kemp, CEO at United Space Structures, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Yelena Budovskaya, coauthor of An Evolutionary Proteomics Approach Identifies Substrates of the cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinase, joins our Life Extension Board.
Mike Hapgood joins our Physics Board. Mike is Head, Space Environment Group, RAL Space, and STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Read Space Weather Expert has Ominous Forecast.
Nobel Laureate Richard J. Roberts joins our Policy Board. Rich was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing.
The National Space Society is holding, for the first time ever, track sessions on Transhumanism and Human Space Exploration at this year’s International Space Development Conference, which will be held over Memorial Day weekend, May 24–28, 2012. The track will be held on Sunday, May 27th and you can register at ISDC 2012.
 
Track Lead is our Natasha Vita-More. Speakers include our Ben Goertzel, David Orban, and Paul Werbos.
Our James Shaughnessy’s film “Technopolis Now” just got accepted into the Breckinridge Film Festival and will be screening in Breckinridge, Colorado on June 6–7. Watch its trailer.
Read issue #117 of Lifeboat News!
Peter Fedichev, Chief Scientific Officer at Quantum Pharmaceuticals, joins our Life Extension Board.
Learn about the campaign to create the Cosmic Garden in Shanghai. Imagine slowly flying through space surrounded by an ancient lost city. Join the Cosmic Garden team in creating a relaxing indoor garden that flies through space.
John Kennard, author of The Uncivil War, joins our Ethics Board.
Steven Postrel, author of Islands of Shared Knowledge: Specialization and Mutual Understanding in Problem-Solving Teams, joins our Economics Board.
Robin Helweg-Larsen, Owner of Andromeda Training, joins our Futurists Board.
Michael Drapp, CEO & Founder at Flying Lantern, joins our Business Board. Mike has over 20 years experience serving as CEO and founder of seven companies that have produced over a billion dollars in aggregate revenue on a global basis.
Daniel Pérez Vidal, Creative Producer at Go Wild Films, joins our Media & Arts Board. This film and online video company focuses on producing and marketing socially-relevant entertainment with a solutions approach.
Kamal Zaki Mahmoud Ali Shaeer, President of The Egyptian-Arab Futures Research Association (EAFRA), joins our Futurists Board.
Ibon Zugasti joins our Futurists Board. Ibon is Partner/Director at Prospektiker, General Manager at LKS Market Research, Chairman of the Millennium Project Node in Spain, Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the European Regional Foresight College, and National coordinator in Spain for the PREPARE Network.
Youngsook Park, Chair of the Millennium Project Korea Node, joins our Futurists Board.
Alexander M. Vaiserman, author of Epigenetic Engineering and Its Possible Role in Anti-Aging Intervention, joins our Life Extension Board.
Sterling Wright joins our blog team with the post Three Global Solutions We Can Begin Implementing Today that Will Help Us Avoid Needing a Lifeboat in the Future.
Yousin Suh, coauthor of Genetics of Longevity and Aging, joins our Life Extension Board. Yousin’s laboratory uses novel technology to investigate the genetic components of aging and aging-related disease using functional genomics approaches, focusing on the identification of gene sequence variation (i.e. single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)), in candidate genes and the assessment of their potential functional impact on aging-related phenotypes.
The Oxford University Scientific Society is hosting a debate by leading scientists on rejuvenation biotechnologies on Wednesday, 25th April, 2012. The debate will begin at 7pm local time (11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern) in the University of Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre; doors open 45 minutes earlier.
 
Dr. Aubrey de Grey will propose the motion “This house wants to defeat aging entirely” and Professor Colin Blakemore will be opposing. The debate will be chaired and moderated by Professor Sir Richard Peto. This debate will address whether it is feasible and appropriate to consider aging as a target of decisive medical intervention, raising the possibility of substantial extension of human lifespan.
 
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Allen G. Taylor, author of SQL For Dummies, Seventh Edition, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Max Celko, author of Artificial Intelligence & A New Age of Magical Thinking, joins our Futurists Board.
Syed Isa, Chief Executive Officer of the Algaetech Group of companies, joins our Sustainability Board.
Elizabeth Florescu, Director of Research of the Millennium Project, joins our Futurists Board. Elizabeth coauthored 2011 State of the Future.
Jake Mann joins our blog team with the post One Key to The Future is Financial Clarity.
John Cassel joins our blog team with the post Risk Assessment is Hard (computationally and otherwise).
Ian Monroe joins our Media & Arts Board. Ian is responsible for the technical operations of Acceler8or.com, a web site dedicated to publishing cutting-edge articles about futurism, new technology, and counterculture.
Yonas Tadesse, coauthor of Multimodal Energy Harvesting System: Piezoelectric and Electromagnetic, joins our Engineering Board. Read Researchers Unveil Robot Jellyfish Built on Nanotechnology.
Ilia Stambler, author of Life extension — a conservative enterprise? Some fin-de-siècle and early twentieth-century precursors of transhumanism, joins our Life Extension Board.
Fred Becker, Regional Director at the National Space Society, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Joseph Friedlander, author of Hyperwealth and Alternative Futures, joins our Futurists Board.
Andrew Harvey, Owner of Devil’s Inquisitor, joins our Sustainability Board.
Roland Schiefer, author of All In The Mind, joins our blog team with the post GadgetBridge — Taming dangerous technologies by pushing them into consumer gadgets.
Explorer Eric Smith joins our Futurists Board. Read his blog The Human Voyage.
Vaclav Smil, author of Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate, joins our Sustainability Board. Read The man who’s tutoring Bill Gates…
Ortwin Renn, coauthor of Risk, Uncertainty, and Rational Action, joins our Policy Board.
Josh Siegel, Managing Principal And CEO of StoneCastle Partners, joins our Finance Board. StoneCastle Partners manages more than $3 billion in assets and offers investment banking and capital market services.
Our Liming Dai is co-chair of the 10th National Graduate Research Polymer Conference which will be held May 21–24, 2012 at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
 
This conference will cover: bio-related materials, energy related materials, photonics and electronics, surfaces and self-assembling, nanostructured materials, and characterization/kinetics/theory/processing.
Our Willard Wells has authored Apocalypse When?: Calculating How Long the Human Race Will Survive (Springer, 2009).
 
Read the review by John J. Watkins, Professor of Math at Colorado College. His review will be published in the summer of 2012 in the Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 34. Meanwhile, it is available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/f4r24954754r4266/.
Our Richard Thieme will keynote at Patterns of Distinction: $ecurity Matter$ on April 12, 2012 speaking on “The Future of Hacking: Living in a World Without Walls”.
Mafalda Dias joins our Media & Arts Board. Mafalda helped with the translation/subtitling and editing work for the following TED talks: VS Ramachandran on your mind, Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome, Simon Lewis: Don't take consciousness for granted, Krista Tippett: Reconnecting with compassion, Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception, David Brooks: The social animal, and Dan Cobley: What physics taught me about marketing.
Emilija Kolar, Team Member, Vancouver Chapter at Acumen Fund, joins our Futurists Board.
We now accept donations from Discover cards.
Machine-learning and design research practitioner John Cassel joins our Futurists Board. Read his Addressing Risk Governance Deficits through Scenario Modeling Practices.
Jason Pontin joins our Futurists Board and our Media & Arts Board. Jason is Editor in Chief and Publisher of Technology Review and Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum.
Our Willard Wells has authored Apocalypse When?: Calculating How Long the Human Race Will Survive (Springer, 2009).
 
Read reviews by S. Gill Williamson who is Professor Emeritus of Math at University of California, San Diego; Adhemar Bultheel who is at the Department of Computer Science at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Dr. Ted Weverka, and Samuel Goldberg who is Professor Emeritus of Math at Oberlin College.
Read issue #116 of Lifeboat News!
Our Aubrey de Grey and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking at the Humanity+ @ Melbourne conference being held on May 5–6, This conference is being organized by our Adam A. Ford.
Tiffany Pressler, Business Development Manager at AAMSCO, joins our Futurists Board. Tiffany will be speaking at the Transcultural Roundtable 2012 at WorldFuture 2012.
Read Removing Orbital Debris with Lasers which was coauthored by our Claude Phipps.
William Kraemer, author of To Interface the Future: Interacting More Intimately with Information, joins our Futurists Board.
Calvin Tennant, Web Developer & Designer at Myplanet Digital, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Farooq Khan, author of the Nature Network blog Complex Systems + Science, joins our Complex Systems Board.
Steven Wolfe, of SunBlue Energy, joins our Sustainability Board.
Drew Gorham, Mobile Applications Developer at AppMatrix, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Ahmed El Hady, Guest Associate Editor at Frontiers in Neural Circuits, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Alice Rathjen, CEO of DNA Guide, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Jake Mann joins our Economics Board. Jake is Finance Editor at WealthLift.com and Editor-In-Chief at Undergraduate Economic Review.
Amy Willey, Chief Operating Officer at Singularity Institute, joins our Legal Board.
Peniel Dimberu, Contributing Writer at Singularity Hub, joins our Futurists Board.
Jaba Tkemaladze, coauthor of Programming and Implementation of Age-Related Changes, joins our Life Extension Board. Watch Centriole Differentiation Senescence Queens' College Cambridge SENS Jaba Tkemaladze.
Alexey Moskalev joins our Life Extension Board. Alex is Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Radiobiology and Gerontology at the Institute of Biology of Komi Science Center of the Ural division of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Mohammad Abdul Qayum, coauthor of FreePDK v2.0: Transitioning VLSI Education Towards Nanometer Variation-Aware Designs, joins our Engineering Board.
Software developer and entrepreneur Kelly Anderson joins our Futurists Board.
Global health scientist and researcher Kunal Sood joins our Futurists Board.
Christopher Lee Martens, CEO of Mutual Space, joins our Space Settlement Board.
David Ferrucci, Principal Investigator of IBM’s DeepQA ("Watson") Project, joins our Information Sciences Board. Watson defeated the best human Jeopardy! champions in a 3 day contest. Watch Building Watson — A Brief Overview of the DeepQA Project.
Daniel Charboneau, Vice President Strategic Partnerships and OEM at Spigit, joins our Complex Systems Board.
Robert Curtis, Founder of Lightplay Resources, joins our Religion/Spirituality Board.
Michael Campbell, author of Morality of the Machine: Sentience, Substance, and Society, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Read Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, coauthored by our Steven Kotler.
Alex Knapp, author of Five Leadership Lessons From James T. Kirk, joins our Futurists Board.
Watch robot quadrotors perform the James Bond theme.
Josh Schonwald, author of The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food, joins our Futurists Board.
Christine Kraft joins our Biotech/Medical Board. She is Advisor, Crowdsourced Video Challenges, Consumer eHealth Engagement at The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).
Roland Schiefer, author of All In The Mind, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Billy Cohn, who developed and implanted the world’s first artificial heart with no pulse, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Billy has over 50 US patents for medical devices which help surgeons operate on a beating heart, a task thought to be impossible for many years. His Cohn Cardiac Stabilizer was licensed by Genzyme Surgical and has been used in over 200,000 off-pump coronary artery bypasses.
Autumn Rains, Applications Development Engineer at National Oilwell Varco, joins our Engineering Board.
Christos Ouzounis, coauthor of The Net of Life: Reconstructing the Microbial Phylogenetic Network, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Matthew MacDermant, who is with Spirits Unlimited, joins our Futurists Board.
Internationally known stem cell expert Hans Keirstead joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Hans is Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Professor of Neurological Surgery at Reeve–Irvine Research Center, Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, School of Medicine, University of California at Irvine. He is also Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board at California Stem Cell.
Brandon Cotton, Chief Technology Officer at Stratigix, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Justin Loew, former Executive Director at Immortality Institute, joins our Life Extension Board.
Emanuel Pastreich joins our Futurists Board. Read his blog Korea: Circles and Squares.
Hakan Ozkasikci, Conceptual Design Manager at Sinpas Real Estate Investment Company, joins our Futurists Board.
Wesley Kretzschmar, Senior Software Engineer at Watchfire Signs, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
David Steenblock, coauthor of Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Therapy: The Gift of Healing from Healthy Newborns, joins our Life Extension Board.
Guy J. Ale, Founder and President of Lifespan Seminar, joins our Life Extension Board.
Bryant Villeponteau, author of Fine-Tuning Your Longevity Genes, joins our Life Extension Board. Bryant is Senior Vice President of R&D at Genescient and Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer at Centagen.
Cristovao Loureiro, Chief Operations Officer of Brazilian Travel System, joins our Business Board.
Debra Chanda, Canadian Ambassador at Singularity University, joins our Education Board.
Read issue #115 of Lifeboat News!
David R. Weinbaum (Weaver), author of Complexity and the Philosophy of Becoming, joins our Philosophy Board.
John Blaska, President of Everspring Health, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Clark Matthews, author of the “Technology & Liberty” Column at TekConcepts, joins our Futurists Board.
Henrik Scheel, Founder and CEO at Startup Experience, joins our Business Board.
Ido Bachelet, developer of a DNA nanorobot that triggers targeted therapeutic responses, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Baglan Nurhan Rhymes joins our Transparency and Privacy Board. Baglan runs the business operations and monetization of AnchorFree, the world’s most popular consumer based Virtual Private Network (VPN) which has been downloaded by 50 million people worldwide.
Tammy Camp, known as the “Lara Croft of the web” according to Forbes, joins our Business Board. Tammy has taken part in numerous successful business endeavors, facilitating over $1 billion in sales. She has collaborated with organizations such as Lloyds TSB, Hotwire.com, Holiday Autos, and eBay to scale their businesses on an international level.
Kevin Perrott joins our Life Extension Board. Kevin’s many roles include Director — Competitor Development at Methuselah Foundation and Treasurer at SENS Foundation.
Soren Stirling, Computational Genomics Theoretician at MAGLAB and SD9 VR Labs, joins our Life Extension Board. Help fund the research on cryoprotectant toxicity by João Pedro de Magalhães and Soren Stirling.
Emanuel Barros, Enterprise Business Development at MegaPath, joins our Futurists Board.
Learn about Future Day!
Read The Future of Aging: Pathways to Human Life Extension.
Robert Shmookler Reis, Program Committee Chair of the 2nd International Conference on Genetics of Aging and Longevity, joins our Life Extension Board. Robert’s research has focused on the molecular genetics of longevity and age-associated diseases, using both previously defined mutations and gene mapping.
Juanita Hardy, Managing Principal at Tiger Management Consulting Group, joins our Business Board. Juanita was featured in Montgomery County Women Making It.
Ryan Witt, of Dr Chrono, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Eric Bauswell, Founder of Entrepreneurial Systems, joins our Business Board.
Read Despite Safety Worries, Work on Deadly Flu to Be Released.
Our Ray Kurzweil is participating in the Global Future 2045 International Congress being held Feb 17–20 in Moscow. Watch the live feed!
Read Mortality Measurement at Advanced Ages: A Study of the Social Security Administration Death Master File by our Leonid A. Gavrilov and Natalia S. Gavrilova. This paper contradicts the long-held belief that the mortality rate of Americans flattens out above age 80.
LongeCity is raising money for research on cryoprotectant toxicity by João Pedro de Magalhães and Soren Stirling. Learn more!
John Peroni, who is working on a revolutionary putty that could heal bone fractures in days rather than months, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Elena Pasyukova, coauthor of Shuttle Craft: a Candidate Quantitative Trait Gene for Drosophila Lifespan, joins our Life Extension Board.
Jan P. Stern, Markets Advisor at Imperis Invest, joins our Finance Board.
Richard Campanha, Researcher at Mars Foundation, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Natalie Melchiorre, who was recently Recruiting Coordinator/Market Research Assistant at Halcyon Molecular, joins our Futurists Board.
Soenke Ziesche, author of Rationality Training: Call for a Global Approach, joins our Futurists Board.
Kel Smith, author of the upcoming book Digital Outcasts: Moving Technology Forward Without Leaving People Behind, joins our Futurists Board.
Elizabeth Huebner, Account Executive — Mobile Engagement at Knotice, joins our Business Board.
We now have dedicated a memorial to advisory board members who have worked to “Safeguard Humanity” until the end of their lives.
Jack Smith, director of the Proteus Canada Institute, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
John Meagher, who is presenting Futurist Media for Improved Crisis Scenario Education at WorldFuture 2012, joins our Futurists Board.
Sean Daken, Advisor at Foresight Education Research Network, joins our Futurists Board.
Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, author of .edu: Technology and Learning Environments in Higher Education and Society 3.0: How Technology is Reshaping Education, Work, and Society, joins our Education Board.
Learn about The Space Book Project whose goal is to create a modern guide to space for young people. It will include the newest developments in all fields of science and technology connected to space exploration. The goal is to create this book both on paper and as an app, since it will be meant for young people who lack the access to space education.
Read the blog post The Difference Between a Lunar Base and Colony by John Hunt.
Read issue #114 of Lifeboat News!
Monica Ebert joins our Space Settlement Board. Monica is a student at International Space University where she is completing her master’s degree in Space Sciences.
Ziauddin Sardar, editor of Futures, the monthly journal of policy, planning, and futures studies, joins our Futurists Board.
Tom Cowper, author of Molecular Manufacturing and 21st Century Policing, joins our Futurists Board.
Suzanne Stein joins our Futurists Board. Suzanne is presenting Escaping the Matrix: Designed Scenario Strategies at WorldFuture 2012.
Karl Schroeder, one of Canada’s most popular science fiction and fantasy authors, joins our Futurists Board. Watch OSCON 09: Karl Schroeder, “The Rewilding: A Metaphor”.
Peter Jones, author of We Tried to Warn You: Innovations in Leadership for the Learning Organization, joins our Futurists Board.
Alex Peake joins our Education Board. Alex is the founder and CEO of Primer Labs, a startup that creates endless learning games to make all knowledge playable. Their Code Hero is a game that teaches you how to make games and save the world with a code gun that shoots JavaScript. Become a code hero and shape the future!
Nektarios Tavernarakis, editor of Protein Metabolism and Homeostasis in Aging, joins our Life Extension Board.
Kyung-Jin Min joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Kyung-Jin is Editorial Board Member for Entomological Research (SCI-E) and for Research & Reviews in Biosciences.
Zoya Demidenko, Executive Manager of the Oncotarget journal, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Judith Campisi, co-Editor-in-Chief of Aging, joins our Life Extension Board.
Holly Brown-Borg, Past-President of the American Aging Association, joins our Life Extension Board.
Nick Soloway joins our Legal Board. Nick is one of 200 practicing patent attorneys in the United States to be included in Woodward/White’s Best Lawyers in America. He has filed and prosecuted well over 10,000 patents and trademarks for large and small corporations in the United States and throughout the world and his client base includes industry leaders in aerospace, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, chemical technologies, mechanical and electromechanical technologies, and microelectronics.
WorldFuture 2012 will be held in Toronto, July 27–29, 2012 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto hotel. Our Peter Bishop, Joseph F. Coates, José Luis Cordeiro, William Crossman, Jay E. Gary, Linda Groff, William Halal, Jay Herson, Rodney Hill, John Jackson, Naveen Jain, Ted Kahn, Bud Levin, Shelia Ronis, Heather Schlegel, John Smart, Rick Smyre, Dave Stein, Patrick Tucker, and Verne Wheelwright will be speaking.
Our Kattesh Katti has been inducted into the Academy of Science of St. Louis. He joins an exclusive group of fewer than 200 scientists and engineers who have attained Fellow status in the past 156 years.
Kurt Gray, Director of the Maryland Mind Perception and Morality Lab, joins our Ethics Board. Watch TEDxSanDiego — Kurt Gray — Becoming Superman: Doing Good Makes You Strong. Read Moral Typecasting: Divergent Perceptions of Moral Agents and Moral Patients,
Mark Alley joins our Business Board. Mark is CEO at Completion Technologies and Partner at Alberta Energy Partners.
Jason Sosa, Founder & CEO of Immersive Labs, joins our Business Board. Watch TEDxGotham 2011: Jason Sosa — Bridging the virtual and physical world.
Executive level sales professional Pierre Dupras joins our Business Board. Pierre has successfully initiated and helped implement enterprise-wide Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Tim Denny, ICT education specialist at PADECO, joins our Education Board.
Hutter Prize winner Alex Ratushnyak joins our Information Sciences Board.
Read Mining Money on the Moon which features our Naveen Jain.
Yves Bergquist, Chief Strategy Officer at VZillion, joins our Business Board and our Education Board. Prior to VZillion, Yves was an Academic Advisor at Singularity University.
Occupational Safety and Health Professional and Program Manager Bill Barbour joins our Futurists Board.
Carlos Olguin joins our Information Sciences Board. Carlos is Senior Product Designer at Autodesk and a member of the FutureMed faculty.
Read the blog post Artifacts in the Solar System by our Jacob Haqq-Misra. Also, read his paper On the likelihood of non-terrestrial artifacts in the Solar System.
Brandon Larson joins our blog team with the post Access to Space: It’s as Cheap and Easy as it will get for a Long Time.
FutureMed 2012 will take place February 6–11, 2012. FutureMed team and faculty include our Sonia Arrison, David Bolinsky, Aubrey de Grey, David Ewing Duncan, Robin Farmanfarmaian, Neil Jacobstein, Ray Kurzweil, Tan Le, Raymond McCauley, and Richard Satava.
 
This informative and interactive 5 day program will be held at Singularity University’s campus at NASA–Ames Research Park and will include lectures, discussions, workshops and site visits, led by notable Singularity University faculty and experts in the fields of medicine, biotechnology, and innovation. Learn more!
Darrell R. Johnson, supervisor/lecturer at Montreal Jewish General Hospital, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Vadim Berman, CTO at LinguaSys, joins our Robotics/AI Board. Vadim created the Carabao Language Kit, a text understanding platform with various uses from machine translation to semantic search and question answering.
Richard Mallah, Senior Research Engineer at Cambridge Semantics, joins our Robotics/AI Board. At Cambridge Semantics they are at the forefront of bringing semantic and AI technologies such as knowledge representation, text analytics, natural language processing, and automated reasoning to the general business population.
Ivan Chichikin, Project Manager at The National Union of Business Angels of Russia (RUSSBA), joins our Business Board.
Thomas Eliot, Executive Director of Saving Humanity from Homo Sapiens, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Eduardo Labarca, CIO and Business Development at Austec, joins our Business Board.
Aria Colton, Managing Director at Spicybrains Group, joins our Business Board.
Dani Kollin, coauthor of the Prometheus Award winning The Unincorporated Man, joins our Futurists Board.
Read the paper Genome-Environment Interactions That Modulate Aging: Powerful Targets for Drug Discovery coauthored by our João Pedro de Magalhães.
Web Geek Science has created a Romanian translation of our NanoShield program.
The Neuromarketing World Forum will be held February 2–3, 2012 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Our Gemma Calvert will be speaking.
 
This forum is focused entirely on the emerging field of neuroscientific research, consumer insights, and the application of the results within business. The aim of this conference is to bring together top neuroscientific research and commercial parties to discuss the key challenges and opportunities of using neuromarketing tools to enhance and add value to market research. The forum will be held in English.
Taylor Kelsaw, President/CEO of T-KEM Integrated Marketing, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Christophe Cornuejols, Partner & President at Schmit-Chrétien, joins our Legal Board.
Paul Graham Raven, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of science fiction webzine Futurismic, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Nathan Kinch, Founder of Nxt Gen Entrepreneurs, joins our Business Board.
Stuart Armstrong, author of Chaining God: A qualitative approach to AI, trust, and moral systems, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Tom Kerwick, author of The Safety Procurement of TeV+ Collisions within the Particle Collider Industry, joins our Particle Physics Board.
Augustine Ong, Founder of Build 3D Printer, joins our Futurists Board.
Jeffery A. Martin, director of the Center for the Study of Non-Symbolic Consciousness, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Read Clearing space debris with lasers by our Claude Phipps.
Charles Peralo, Cofounder of Streable, joins our Economics Board.
Tarun Wadhwa joins our Transparency and Privacy Board. Watch TEDxGotham 2011: Tarun Wadhwa — National Identity in the Digital State.
Hank Pellissier, Managing Director of the Institute for Ethics in Emerging Technology, joins our Ethics Board.
Spencer Bromberg, CEO at ValueIdeas, joins our Futurists Board.
Steve Kilpatrick, Principal of the independent quantitative finance firm Kilpatrick Advisors, joins our Finance Board.
Peg Kay, Executive Director of the Washington Academy of Sciences, joins our Futurists Board.
 
The Washington Academy of Sciences was incorporated in 1898 as an affiliation of eight Washington D.C. area scientific societies. The formation of the Academy culminated a decade of planning under the leadership of the Philosophical Society of Washington. The founders included Alexander Graham Bell and Samuel Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
 
The Washington Academy of Sciences and its Affiliates will hold their fifth biennial pan-Affiliate Conference, Capital Science 2012, on March 31 – April 1 in Arlington, Virginia, USA. With over 20 Affiliates participating, the Conference will serve as an umbrella for scientific presentations, seminars, tutorials, and talks.
Mike Lorrey, CEO/Chairman at Brautigan & Tuck Holdings, joins our Media & Arts Board. Mike is a versatile entrepreneur with extensive virtual world, virtual finance, management, and IT experience.
Lior Weizman, Sales & Business Operations Manager at IBM Global Business Services, joins our Business Board.
Cory D. Kidd, Founder and CEO of Intuitive Automata, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Evan Huddleson, who interned at Singularity University this year, joins our Futurists Board.
Roger Kimball joins our Human Trajectories Board. Roger is Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books.
Joren De Wachter, author of Role of IPRs in Open Innovation — the Case Against Copyright, joins our Legal Board.
Jeremy Lichtman, author of Meta-squared Materials, joins our Futurists Board.
Freelance designer Ben Shope joins our Media & Arts Board.
Shabnam Ozlati joins our Education Board. Her research interests include knowledge management, knowledge sharing, and e-learning. She is most interested in studying the intersection between organizations, learning, and technology, and the ways individuals interact with and use technology-enhanced collaboration and learning tools in complex socio-technical systems.
Kris Verstreken, Medical Director at IMEC, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. IMEC performs world-leading research in nanoelectronics and nanotechnology. Its staff of more than 1,900 people includes over 500 industrial residents and guest researchers. IMEC’s research is applied in better healthcare, smart electronics, sustainable energy, and safer transport.
Joel Pitt, coauthor of OpenCogBot: Achieving Generally Intelligent Virtual Agent Control and Humanoid Robotics via Cognitive Synergy, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Richard Branson is named 2011 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award Winner.
 
The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
 
The 2011 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Richard Branson in recognition of his creation of Virgin Galactic, the $25 million Virgin Earth Challenge, the Virgin Green Fund, and of Virgin Unite. Read the press release.
Luis Carlos Reyes Hernandez says “Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together. Here’s my snowflake...” as he gets his donation tripled at https://lifeboat.com/ex/end.of.the.year.fundraiser.
Startup Pirates @ Lisboa will be held February 4th to 11th, 2012 in Lisboa, Portugal. This conference is for people who want to learn more about startups and are thinking about creating a startup in the future. The goal of the conference is to empower entrepreneurs and help them make their ideas come true.
The International Space Development Conference 2012 will be held May 24–28, 2012 in Washington, D.C. The annual conference of the National Space Society brings together NSS leaders and members with leading managers, engineers, scientists, educators, and businessmen from civilian, military, commercial, entrepreneurial, and grassroots advocacy space sectors.
 
Our Amara Angelica, Sherry Bell, Peter Garretson, Al Globus, Mark Hopkins, Stan Rosen, and Paul Werbos will be participating.
Read How Stephen Wolfram is Preparing for the Singularity. This interesting article features the Lifeboat Foundation.
The French Association of Transhumanism: Technoprog! (AFT) will hold its third conference January 22, 2012 in Paris. The central theme is that of “global existential risks” associated with an evolution of transhumanist type. Our Didier Coeurnelle will be speaking.
Simon Daniel joins our Sustainability Board. Simon is Founder & CEO of Moixa Group, which includes Moixa Design (pioneering next generation devices), Moixa Energy Holdings (creators of eco-friendly battery category USBCELL and home energy technology), and other research interests.
Singularity University graduate Justine Lam joins our Futurists Board. Justine is a community-building operations ninja who moves fluidly across industries, using her organizational prowess to set up processes and performance analytics to validate learning for iteration and innovation.
Scott Draves, a.k.a. Spot, joins our Media & Arts Board. Spot is best known as the creator of the Electric Sheep, a continually evolving abstract animation with over 450,000 participants. Stephen Hawking’s 2010 book The Grand Design used an image generated by Spot’s "flame" algorithm on its cover.
Zoran Popović joins our Education Board. Zoran helped create Foldit, a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research.
James Shaughnessy, Executive Producer of IDDQD Productions, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Bill Lauritzen, author of The Invention of God: The Natural Origins of Mythology and Religion, joins our Philosophy Board.
Amish Parashar, Faculty Member & Advisor on Innovation at Singularity University, joins our Methods for Discovery & Solution Finding Board.
Monika Berghoff, a member of the Tamera team, joins our Futurists Board.
ChiChi Mbachu, President of the Chemical Engineering Graduate Research Association (CEGRA), joins our Engineering Board.
Read issue #113 of Lifeboat News!
The Washington Academy of Sciences and its Affiliates will hold their fifth biennial pan-Affiliate Conference, Capital Science 2012, on March 31 – April 1 in Arlington, Virginia, USA. With over 20 Affiliates participating, the Conference will serve as an umbrella for scientific presentations, seminars, tutorials, and talks.
Wayne White, author of Real Property Rights in Outer Space, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Eshel Ben-Jacob joins our Complex Systems Board. During the 1980s he became an international leader in the theory of self-organization and pattern formation in open systems, and later extended this work to adaptive complex systems and biocomplexity. His specialization in self-organization of complex systems yielded the breakthrough of solving the long standing (since Kepler) snowflake problem.
Architect André Caminoa, founding partner of DCA, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Alexander Bolonkin, author of Non-Rocket Space Launch and Flight, joins our Space Settlement Board.
John C. Shiffer joins our Business Board. John is a seasoned Yale law buyer’s side M&A; specialist with over 12 M&A; integration deals including an IPO launch on NYSE.
Benjamin T. Solomon, who presented Non-Gaussian Radiation Shielding at the 100 Year Starship Study Public Symposium, joins our Space Settlement Board.
David Hyland, Director of Space Science and Space Engineering Research for Texas A&M;, joins our Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board.
John Smart, President of Acceleration Studies Foundation, joins our Futurists Board.
The BICA (Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures) 2012 Conference will be held October 31 – November 2, 2012 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. General Chair is our Antonio Chella.
 
The challenge of creating a real-life computational equivalent of the human mind requires that we better understand at a computational level how natural intelligent systems develop their cognitive and learning functions. In recent years, biologically inspired cognitive architectures have emerged as a powerful new approach toward gaining this kind of understanding (here “biologically inspired” is understood broadly as “brain-mind inspired”).
The Jerusalem International Conference on Integrative Medicine will be held in Jerusalem on May 13–15, 2012. This conference brings together physicians and therapists from all over the world for a scientific meeting and dialog on the methods, techniques, and progress of integrative medicine.
The 2012 Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems will be held September 19–25, 2012 at Kypriotis Hotels and Conference Center, Kos island, Greece.
 
Symposium topics include: modeling complex systems, complex and adaptive dynamical systems, evolution of complexity, self-organized systems, complexity measurement, complexity and information theory, (random) boolean networks, cellular automata, controlling complexity, chaotic dynamical systems, determinism behind thermodynamics and anti-thermodynamics, synchron­ization and information in dynamical networks, chaos control, quantum dynamics, quantum chaos, complex dynamics in biological systems, molecular dynamics simulations, complex adaptive human systems, natural selection and Darwinian dynamics, and cybernetics.
Learn about the first IEEE conference on Emerging Signal Processing Applications which will be held Jan 12–14 at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.
 
This conference will highlight areas of 3D technology for gaming, telepresence, gesture recognition for games and natural user interfaces, digital photography, 4G wireless, robotics, multimedia tablets, SP in automobiles: speech interfaces and cameras, voice search, SP with multicore processors, and IPTV.
The Thirteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 13) will be held July 19–22, 2012 at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
 
Keynote speakers are:
  • Steven Benner, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Synthetic Biology
  • Oron Catts, University of Western Australia, Biotechnology & Art
  • Benjamin Kerr, University of Washington, Experimental Evolution
  • Radhika Nagpal, Harvard University, Self-Organizing Systems
  • Jack Szostak, 2009 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Evolution in Action
Technology Frontiers will be held March 22–23, 2012 at Inmarsat Conference Centre, London.
 
Technology Frontiers is not about what the future holds for technology it is about how we can transform our business, social, and economic fortunes. The most visionary companies of the last decade are the ones that anticipated how technology would change society and impelled them to do something completely different. Many of these technologies are already here, what impacts will they have for your business?
The 2012 National Academy of Inventors Conference will be held February 16–17, 2012 in Tampa, Florida.
 
The conference, open to all of academia and research labs, will bring together the research community to deliberate on the translation of science and technology within the academic community, and for the benefit of society. It is intended to be a forum to encourage creative thinking and the spirit of innovation, promote and enhance the development and utilization of inventions, and provide advice and guidance to new and existing inventors in their work.
 
David Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, will deliver the keynote address and the USPTO will have a major presence at the conference.
The Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference 2012 will be held February 27–29 at The Crowne Plaza Hotel and Resort, Palo Alto, California.
 
This conference will bring together researchers from government, industry, and academia in the largest forum of its kind, providing key networking opportunities for the entire community.
The Fifth Conference on Future Energy will be held February 29 – March 2, 2012 at the University of Maryland, College Park. This will be five conferences under one roof: Space Propulsion, Future Energy, Astrosociology, Gravity Waves and Space Science, and Technology Forums. Our Andrew Beckwith and Thomas Valone will be speaking.
 
Discussions will include peer-reviewed papers, published by Elsevier Science Publishers through ScienceDirect known worldwide, on: human missions to mars, new energy, propulsion, NASA advanced concepts, bioelectromagnetics, life extension, gravitomagnetics, antigravity, Podkletnov effect, space elevators, beamed power, nuclear propulsion, toroidal coils, coler apparatus, low energy nuclear power, water electrolyzers, maglevs, space habitats, and more.
Our Facebook group now has over 1,000 members. Join our discussions!
MAPS will be holding its 25th Anniversary Conference on December 8–12 at Oakland Marriott City Center, California. MAPS stands for Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.
The Washington Academy of Sciences and its Affiliates will hold their fifth biennial pan-Affiliate Conference, Capital Science 2012, in Arlington, Virginia, USA. With over 20 Affiliates participating, the Conference will serve as an umbrella for scientific presentations, seminars, tutorials, and talks.
The 2012 Design Science: Global Solutions Lab will be held June 17–25, 2012 at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA, and United Nations, NY.
 
Participants come from around the world, are briefed by UN experts, develop a series of solutions and strategies for solving critical problems facing the world, present their work at the UN to a panel of UN, corporate and foundation leaders and then have their work published as a book that is distributed around the world. This year the focus is on meeting the basic human needs of those living in urban environments through green technology.
The 2012 International High-Power Laser Ablation (HPLA) Conference will be held April 30 – May 3 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. The Symposium Chair is our Dr. Claude R. Phipps.
 
This conference addresses all aspects of the interaction of lasers with condensed matter, from fundamental theory and simulations to material processing. Groundbreaking physics is discussed for its own sake, but the conference also devotes some sessions, as appropriate, to recent advances in laser physics which are of use in applications. In the past, these have ranged from femtosecond material processing to space propulsion.
The 2nd International Conference on Genetics of Aging and Longevity will be held April 22–25, 2012 in Moscow, Russia.
 
Our Andrzej Bartke, Vadmim Fraifeld, Maria Konovalenko, Michael Rose, Jan Vijg, and Alex Zhavoronkov are participating.
Humanity+ @ Hong Kong will be held December 3–4 2011 at the Chiang Chen Studio Theatre located on the campus of Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
 
Revolving around the theme ”Living Forever“, the conference will explore recent science and engineering breakthroughs that seem to be leading toward biological, physiological or cybernetic means of living forever. This includes work on life extension biology and cyber-immortality, but also work on supporting disciplines like artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, brain-computer interfacing, and quantum computing, that will help us build the technologies needed to dramatically extend human life.
 
Our Didier Coeurnelle, Aubrey de Grey, Ben Goertzel, Randal Koene, Amy Li, James Newton-Thomas, Jaan Tallinn, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.
The Kepler Space Institute Conference will be held at Hilton Head, South Carolina on March 14–16, 2012.
 
The Kepler Space Institute (KSI) and Kepler Space University (KSU) are Earth’s newest higher education and research entities focusing on both Earth and Space Sciences. The Kepler team of experienced scientists, engineers, professors, astronauts, managers, aerospace and defense experts and researchers has enjoyed creating this new 21st Century Combination of Institute and University that personalizes courses and programs for scholar’s career needs.
Innovations in Biomedical Material 2012 will be held September 10–13, 2012 at the Hilton North Raleigh–Midtown, North Carolina, USA. Abstracts are due by March 7, 2012.
 
Innovations in Biomedical Materials 2012 brings together the materials research, manufacturing, and medical communities to explore technological advancements, facilitate product innovations, and identify potential new applications. This conference will specifically look at technological advancements, discuss product innovations, and identify potential applications.
Our quotes page now has a quote from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.
FutureMed 2012 will take place February 6–11, 2012. Faculty will include our Ray Kurzweil and David Ewing Duncan.
 
This informative and interactive 5 day program will be held at Singularity University’s campus at NASA–Ames Research Park and will include lectures, discussions, workshops and site visits, led by notable Singularity University faculty and experts in the fields of medicine, biotechnology, and innovation. Learn more!
A group of scientists is pushing to publish research about how they created a man-made flu virus that could potentially wipe out civilization.
Learn about the first IEEE conference on Emerging Signal Processing Applications which will be held July 12–14 at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.
 
This conference will highlight areas of 3D technology for gaming, telepresence, gesture recognition for games and natural user interfaces, digital photography, 4G wireless, robotics, multimedia tablets, SP in automobiles: speech interfaces and cameras, voice search, SP with multicore processors, and IPTV.
Read issue #112 of Lifeboat News!
The Lifeboat Foundation celebrates the addition of our 1,600th board member: Stephen Wolfram.
 
Stephen is a distinguished scientist, inventor, author, and business leader. He is the creator of Mathematica, the author of A New Kind of Science, the creator of Wolfram|Alpha, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research.
 
Unlike most organizations, whose advisory boards are too small to do more than provide some advice, our think tank provides action as well as words. Our board members have developed programs, created reports, donated money, fueled our blog, created educational videos, joined our staff, launched numerous forums, organized events, and provided input on a range of issues from web design to grant proposals to ideas for new areas that Lifeboat Foundation should be involved in.
Nicholas Smith joins our Robotics/AI Board. Nicholas is interested in artificial general intelligence and brain–computer interfacing. His goal is to create intelligent software systems by applying his knowledge of artificial intelligence and programming abilities.
Kevin James Moore, author of A Dream of Robot’s Rights, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Luke Blaize, who was a speaker at the 100 Year Starship Symposium, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Perry B. Monroe II joins our Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board.
Rachel Haywire, Founder of the Human 2.0 Council, joins our Futurists Board.
Gloria Vargas, Founder of Better World Finance, joins our Finance Board.
Tor Savidge joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Tor is on the Editorial Boards of Open Gastroenterology Journal, Frontiers in Enteric Neuroscience, World Gastroenterology Journal, ISRN Gastroenterology, World Journal of Gastrointestinal Pharmacology and Therapeutics (WJGPT), and World Journal of Translational Medicine.
Micha Drukker joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Micha has discovered a method that may eliminate a potentially lethal side effect of stem cell therapy.
Vasilii Artyukhov, author of A Six Degree of Freedom Nanomanipulator Design Based on Carbon Nanotube Bundles, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Adam Ford, founder and president of H+ Australia, joins our Futurists Board. Adam is also the founder of the Singularity Institute chapter in Australia.
Marius Raab, coauthor of Eyes for an Agent: Simulation of Dynamically Evolving Preferences for Visual Stimuli by a Neural Network and a Multiple-Trace Memory Model, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Luis Gonzalez-Blanch, Executive Director at Global Incubator, joins our Business Board.
Dongping Zhong, coauthor of Dynamics and Mechanism of Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimer Repair by DNA Photolyase, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Seemal Awan, coauthor of Reasoning in Non-Axiomatic Logic: A Case Study in Medical Diagnosis, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Linus Gisslén joins our Robotics/AI Board. Linus coauthored Sequential Constant Size Compressors for Reinforcement Learning which won the 2011 Kurzweil Prize for Best AGI Paper.
Seth Herd, coauthor of Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Control: An Integrative Model of Stroop Task Performance and fMRI Data, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Brian Mingus, coauthor of Generalization of Figure-Ground Segmentation from Binocular to Monocular Vision in an Embodied Biological Brain Model, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Zev Suissa, Creative Director at Spirit Digital Media, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Jeff Conroy, Partner at Adjuvant Global Advisors, joins our Business Board.
Doug Hewlett, Founder of the Singularity Policy Initiative, joins our Policy Board.
Brandon Larson joins our Space Settlement Board. Brandon is currently conducting a research project studying the curing properties of Sorel cement concrete in a simulated Martian environment. This involves the construction of a thermal vacuum chamber and associated equipment for simulating the Martian atmosphere.
Russell Swanborough, Managing Director at ScIAM Solutions, joins our Business Board.
Deepak Laxmi Narasimha joins our Information Sciences Board. Deepak is on the editorial boards of International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy (IJIDE) and International Journal of Reviews in Computing.
Sandra Garcia, author of Merkabah at the Centre of the Universe, joins our Futurists Board.
Dave Bolman, Provost of UAT, joins our Education Board.
Chris Sherrill joins our Media & Arts Board. Chris won Best Picture, Documentary Category at the 2007 Elevate Film Festival.
Dirk Bruere, author of H+ Flash Media Team, joins our Futurists Board.
Roger F. Gay, founder of the High Level Logic (HLL) project, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Jorge Sepúlveda, IT Application Manager & Project Manager at EDP – Energias de Portugal, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Mark Ciotola, author of From Thermodynamics to Civilization to Economic Bubbles and A Thermodynamic Perspective on Profits, joins our Advisory Board.
Keith Wiley, author of Implications of Computerized Intelligence on Interstellar Travel, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Jack Park, editor of XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web, joins our Information Sciences Board.
José Hurtado joins our Geology Board. José is Associate Professor of Geology and Graduate Advisor and Chair of the Graduate Committee in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).
Dimitar Pachov, author of Conformational Transition Pathways in Signaling and Enzyme Catalysis Explored by Computational Methods, joins our Physics Board.
Anthony Oliver, CTO at Ingenuitas, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Dennis McKenna, founding board member of the Heffter Research Institute, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Claude Phipps joins our Physics Board. Read Space Junk Crisis: Time to Bring in the Lasers.
Marianne Abreu, a graduate of Singularity University, joins our Futurists Board. She organized the first TEDx in Rio de Janeiro with Vik Muniz, Jaime Lerner, John Perry Barlow, and other great minds as speakers.
David Schrunk, coauthor of The Moon: Resources, Future Development, and Settlement, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Aki Nikolaidis, author of The Future of Brain Workouts and Cognitive Enhancement: Which Path Will We Take?, joins our Neuroscience Board. Watch his YouTube channel.
Rainer Wasserfuhr joins our Information Sciences Board. Rainer specializes in software development, knowledge management, software engineering, and logistics.
Mike “Schwann Cybershaman” Kawitzky joins our Media & Arts Board. Schwann Cybershaman is a columnist, sci-fi writer, and independent filmmaker. Watch his Cognition Factor.
Over 30 of our Advisory Board members will be speaking at WorldFuture 2012 which will be held in Toronto, July 27–29, at the Sheraton Centre Toronto hotel. Learn more!
Read issue #111 of Lifeboat News!
Gary Michael Church joins our blog team with the post Water and Bombs.
Albert Nasibulin, who coauthored The role of metal nanoparticles in the catalytic production of single-walled carbon nanotubes — a review, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Joaquín Alvira Enríquez, with CIDE Consulting, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Troublemaker Franz Gayl joins our Policy Board. Read Whistle-Blower in “Kafkaesque Nightmare” After Push for GI Safety.
Clarence Tan, CEO and Chairman of Bond Wireless, joins our Business Board.
The U.S. Presidential campaign is starting to heat up. Support our candidate for President!
Amalie Sinclair joins our blog team with the post ISDHuB – Supporting for 100 years.
Joel Isaacson, author of Interfaces Among Terrestrial, Artifactual, and Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, joins our Space Settlement Board.
John Spencer, Founder and President of the Space Tourism Society, joins our Space Settlement Board. John received two design awards from NASA for pioneering interior design work for the International Space Station (ISS) now in Earth orbit and has designed projects for the National Science Foundation (NSF) built in Antarctica, and an underwater lab/hab built for NOAA. Read his Space Tourism – Do You Want to Go?
Daniel H. Wilson, author of The New York Times best selling science fiction book Robopocalypse, joins our Futurists Board. Steven Spielberg will be directing the film version of this novel, scheduled for a release date of 2013.
Foresight Project Developer in the Netherlands, Amanda Stoel joins our Futurists Board.
Luis Carlos Reyes Hernandez joins our Business Board. Luis Carlos is Business Solutions Professional for Industrial Sector at IBM and Business Development Executive for AMS Financial Services Sector at IBM.
Mayank Mehta, who discovered that there is an optimal “rhythm” for strengthening brain synapses, joins our Neuroscience Board.
CTO and Cofounder of Life Beam Technologies, Zvika Orron joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Life Beam Technologies Ltd. is an innovative company developing unique systems that continuously and remotely measure physiological and bodily parameters for a variety of defense, wellness, and medical applications.
Francisco Palao Reinés, CEO of IActive, joins our Business Board. IActive is focused on Adaptive Case Management (ACM) technology. ACM technology is used for developing software to manage complex decision making processes and for developing intelligent personal assistants.
Tommaso Sgobba joins our Space Settlement Board. Tommaso is responsible for flight safety at the European Space Agency, including human-rated systems, spacecraft re-entries, space debris, use of nuclear power sources, and planetary protection.
Brian Shiro, President of Astronauts4Hire, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Walt Putnam, Journalism Dean at Kepler Space University, joins our Media & Arts Board. Walt has four decades of experience as a reporter and editor, including major national stories in the U.S. and work as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East.
Ed Guinan joins our Cosmology Board. Ed and two colleagues discovered Neptune’s ring system in 1968.
American science fiction author, editor, scholar, and anthologist James Gunn joins our Futurists Board. Jim won the Hugo Award for nonfiction book in 1983 for Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction and was named the 2007 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Learn about the The Space Experience Economy (SEE) Seminar Series which will run Thursday, November 17, 2011, 9:00 AM to PM; Thursday, December 08, 2011, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM; and Saturday, December 17, 2011, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM in Los Angeles.
 
The SEE seminars will provide the latest information, perspectives, and forecast for the growing Space Experience Economy, New Space enterprise, and space tourism as well as discussion and networking.
Walter Putnam joins our blog team with the post Space Renaissance: Dawn of a New Age of Civilization.
Glenn McGee joins our Ethics Board. Glenn is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Bioethics, the highest impact journal in bioethics, health law, health economics (and 11 other areas), and a faculty member in public health and law as well as bioethics.
Sergio Lebid joins our Business Board. Sergio is Cofounder at Advanced Cavitation Institute for Alternative Energy & Nanotechnology and EVP, Cofounder at NanoSpire, Inc.
Shea Molloy joins our Media & Arts Board. Shea is Creative Associate at She’s the First, Graphic Designer at Duck & Drake Records, Graphic Design Lab Aid at Hofstra University, Graphic Designer at InfluenSol, and Research Assistant at Hofstra University.
Tom Schneider joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Tom invented the sequence logo, a widely used information-theory based graphic to display sequence alignments. He also invented the Medusa™ Sequencer, a DNA sequencing machine that is one molecule and he discovered 70% molecular efficiency, which defines the exact relationship between information and energy in biological systems.
Photographer, writer, and cosmologist Frank Capri joins our Media & Arts Board.
Don V. Black, author of Computational Techniques to Enable Visualizing Shapes of Objects of Extra Spatial Dimensions, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Alan Hale joins our Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board. Alan is Founder and President of The Earthrise Institute and co-discoverer of Comet Hale–Bopp.
Yasemin B. won last month’s blog contest with the post Space Junk! Environmental concerns! She won a free autographed copy of Turning Dust to Gold: Building a Future on the Moon and Mars (thanks to our Haym Benaroya) and an autographed DVD of Orphans of Apollo (thanks to our Michael Potter).
 
This month, anyone who posts to our blog in the space category will be eligible to win an autographed copy of Missions to the Moon (thanks to our Rod Pyle) and an autographed copy of Darkship Thieves which won the Prometheus Award (thanks to our Sarah A. Hoyt).
 
To get authorization to post to our official blog, write to [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation blog”.
RSVP for the October 5th 6 pm SENS Los Angeles meeting by contacting our Maria Entraigues at [email protected]. Meeting will be at the beautiful house of the Finfers @ 173 N. Anita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90049 (Brentwood, near Sunset and Bundy).
 
Our Sonia Arrison, author of the book 100 Plus: How The Coming Age Of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith, will engage in a conversation with our Aubrey de Grey about her new book. Each attendee will get a free copy and she will be happy to sign it!
 
There will also be delicious finger food, beer, and beverages, and to make the night “100 Plus” percent perfect there will be live music by Ancient Lasers.
Richard J. Terrile joins our Astrobiology/SETI board. Rich is the discoverer of four moons around Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune and took the first pictures of another solar system around the nearby star Beta Pictoris.
Mike Schoenfeld, author of A Review of Radiolysis Concerns for Water Shielding in Fission Surface Power Applications, joins our Engineering Board.
The Lifeboat Foundation has scheduled a dinner on Saturday evening 10/1/11 between 6 and 8 pm, a scheduled dinner break during which DARPA is not providing food. We have reserved a meeting room at Denny’s, across the street 0.3 miles from the hotel, an estimated 5 minute walk. A map is available. The meal will be Dutch treat, you will have to pay, but Denny’s is an inexpensive restaurant. Come and meet other Lifeboat Foundation members!
 
The Denny’s is at 9880 International Drive and their number is (407) 351–5127.
 
Any questions? Email [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation dinner”.
 
Learn more about when our speakers will be presenting.
Eric Hunting joins our blog team with the post Solution in Search of a Problem — Nationalism, Environmentalism, and Space’s struggle for cultural relevance.
Read issue #110 of Lifeboat News!
Kevin M. Berry joins our Space Settlement Board. Kevin has been involved with human spaceflight projects for over 32 years. Beginning his career with the advent of the Space Shuttle Program, he performed project management for numerous Air Force and Department of Defense payloads, and developed his unique experience in requirements management, configuration management, and process development. As a project manager for the International Space Station, he has managed the implementation of more than 50 modifications to the Space Shuttle Orbiter, Ground Systems, and Facilities. He currently works on the Orion program, assisting in development of the country’s next human spaceflight vehicle and manages proposals that exceed $50M.
David Weiss joins our Engineering Board. David is presenting “Creating Materials for the Starship” at the DARPA/NASA 100 Year Starship Study Public Symposium.
Claudio Maccone, author of Deep Space Flight and Communications: Exploiting the Sun as a Gravitational Lens, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Marko Peljhan joins our Media & Arts Board. Watch Marko Peljhan – Reading Between the Frequencies.
Moira O’Keeffe joins our Media & Arts Board. Moira is presenting “Science Fiction and the Big Questions” at the DARPA/NASA 100 Year Starship Study Public Symposium.
Amalie Sinclair, Director of the Leeward Space Foundation, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Michael Waltemathe joins our Religion/Spirituality Board. Michael is presenting “A Religious Vision for Interstellar Travel?” at the DARPA/NASA 100 Year Starship Study Public Symposium.
Christian Weidemann, coeditor of Size Matters: Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects of Nanobiotechnology and NanoMedicine, joins our Philosophy Board.
Marsal Gifra, Managing Director of the Homo Spaciens Initiative, joins our Space Settlement Board. The Homo Spaciens Initiative is a private space initiative seeking to bring the space frontier within reach of human achievement. Their goal is to develop space ventures aimed at making progress toward establishing a permanent human presence in space.
Our Richard Thieme will be speaking about “The Future of Hacking” at GITEX Dubai which will be held from October 9 to October 13 at Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Sheikh Zayed Road. He will then do a keynote on “Conspiracy Theories, Counter-Intelligence, and Knowing the Players without a Program” at Hack In The Box 2011 (HITBSecConf2011) in Kuala Lumpur which will be held from October 10 to October 13.
Richard Thieme joins our Futurists Board. Richard is author of Islands in the Clickstream: Reflections on Life in a Virtual World and Mind Games.
Jason Batt, Student Ministries Director at Capital Christian Center, joins our Religion/Spirituality/Board. Jason is a community architect with a focus on the use of technology to aid groups/ministries in reaching their goals. He is skilled at integrating groups and technology and guiding them to use technology to reach their goals, technology that often at the time of introduction was unknown to them.
Eva-Jane Lark, who will be presenting “Investment Financing of Voyages of Discovery and Settlement – Historical Examples and Building Foundations for Future Starships” at the DARPA/NASA 100 Year Starship Study Public Symposium, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Our InfoPreserver program now has the Facebook page facebook.com/InfoPreserver. And check out its wiki!
John Hunt joins our blog team with the post Economics and Survival: An In-space 2-for-1 Bargain.
Our Facebook group is becoming busy. Check it out!
Marcin Jakubowski joins our Sustainability Board. Marcin is the founder of Open Source Ecology, which is creating the Global Village Construction Set — blueprints for simple fabrication of everything needed to start a self-sustaining village.
Liron Shapira joins our Information Sciences Board. Liron is Cofounder/CTO at Quixey, an intelligent all-platform functional search engine for apps.
Nigel Calder joins our Scientific Freedom Board. Nigel has spent a lifetime spotting and explaining the big discoveries in all branches of science, from particle physics to human social behavior.
 
He has given advice and assistance about public information to the Nobel Foundation, the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, the International Council of Scientific Unions, the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, UNESCO, CERN, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, and the OECD.
Justin Tarrants, Corporate Strategy and Technology Advisor at Life Exchange Inc. (LFXG), joins our Business Board.
Private investor and entrepreneur Rebecca G. Turner joins our Futurists Board.
Read Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards.
Milos Stanic joins our Engineering Board. He is currently working in the field of Plasma-Jet Magneto-Inertial Fusion (PJMIF), within the Plasma Liner Experiment (PLX) project, focusing on modeling of plasma jet propagation, merging, and plasma liner implosion via smooth particle hydrodynamics code.
Roger Handberg, author of The Future of the Space Industry: Private Enterprise and Public Policy and coauthor of Space, the Dormant Frontier: Changing the Paradigm for the 21st Century, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Mike McCulloch, author of Can the Podkletnov Effect Be Explained By Quantised Inertia?, joins our Physics Board.
Martin Halbert joins our Information Sciences Board. Martin is Dean of Libraries and Associate Professor at the University of North Texas. He also currently serves as President of the MetaArchive Cooperative, a growing international digital preservation alliance of cultural memory organizations that was one of the founding partners of the US National Digital Preservation Program.
Philip Metzger joins our Space Settlement Board. Phil is lead research physicist and founder of the Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations (GMRO) Lab at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Jeff Nosanov joins our Space Settlement Board. Jeff is Program Planning and Assessment Lead, Nuclear Space Power Office at Jet Propulsion Laboratory / NASA.
Aerospace entrepreneur Emil Vinterhav joins our Space Settlement Board. Emil has 11 years of experience in the space industry with experience in mission definition, mission planning, mission scheduling, rendezvous AOCS, systems engineering, management, and marketing.
Award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer Elizabeth Bear joins our Futurists Board. Elizabeth is one of only five writers who have gone on to win multiple Hugo Awards for fiction after winning the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Daniel Sheehan, editor of Frontiers of Time: Retrocausation – Experiment and Theory, joins our Physics Board.
Mark R. Edwards, author of Biowar I: Why Battles over Food and Fuel Lead to World Hunger and Freedom Foods: Superior New Foods, Low on the Food Chain for People, Producers and Our Planet, joins our Sustainability Board.
Greg Matloff joins our Space Settlement Board. One of his books, The Starflight Handbook: A Pioneer’s Guide to Interstellar Travel, was coauthored with MIT science-writer Dr. Eugene Mallove and helped establish interstellar-propulsion studies as a sub-division of applied physics.
Award-winning science fiction writer Allen Steele joins our Futurists Board. Allen serves on the Board of Advisors for both the Space Frontier Foundation and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Award-winning science fiction writer Joe Haldeman joins our Futurists Board.
In the Wall Street Journal, Nick Schulz reviews our Sonia Arrison’s new book, 100 Plus: How The Coming Age Of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith.
Steve Nerlich wins last month’s blog contest with the post “Actually saving the Earth for a change”. $250 was donated to 365 Days of Astronomy on his behalf.
 
This month, anyone who posts to our blog in the space category will be entered into a drawing where the winner will get a free autographed copy of Turning Dust to Gold: Building a Future on the Moon and Mars (thanks to our Haym Benaroya) and an autographed DVD of Orphans of Apollo (thanks to our Michael Potter). To get authorization to post to our official blog, write to [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation blog”.
Yasemin B. joins our blog team with the post Space Junk! Environmental concerns!
Nicholas X. Fang, who created the world’s first acoustic metamaterial “superlens”, joins our Engineering Board.
Haym Benaroya, author of Turning Dust to Gold: Building a Future on the Moon and Mars, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Abigail Alling joins our Sustainability Board. Abigail is Chairman and President, Biosphere Foundation and its Division the Planetary Coral Reef Foundation (PCRF).
 
Abigail was one of the eight “biospherians” to live for two years inside Biosphere 2, a 3.15-acre Laboratory for Global Ecology. At Biosphere 2, she created and operated the largest artificial ecological marine system, a 1,000,000-gallon mangrove, marsh, and ocean coral reef. She also served as Scientific Chief for over sixty research projects. She coauthored Life Under Glass: The Inside Story of Biosphere 2.
Boris Petrovic, founding member of the Google Lunar X Prize Team Synergy Moon, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Didier Coeurnelle, funding member and co-chair of Heales, joins our Life Extension Board. Heales is the largest nonprofit organization in Continental Europe promoting and advocating scientific research into longevity and biogerontology (the science of aging).
Donna Marykwas, Founder and Executive Director, Long Beach Grows, joins our Sustainability Board.
Consulting Internet Professional Sherad Louis-Charles joins our Futurists Board.
Bioartist Jalila Essaïdi joins our Media & Arts Board. Read Artist uses spider-goat silk to make “bulletproof skin”.
Christian Munthe, author of The Price of Precaution and the Ethics of Risk, joins our Ethics Board.
John D. Chisholm joins our Business Board. John has three decades of experience as general manager, entrepreneur, and executive. He is Principal at John Chisholm Ventures, Trustee at Santa Fe Institute, and Trustee at The Seasteading Institute.
Read issue #109 of Lifeboat News!
Tan Le, cofounder of Emotiv, joins our Business Board.
 
Emotiv is a neuroengineering company that has brought to market a breakthrough interface technology for digital media taking inputs directly from the brain.
The Lifeboat Foundation celebrates the addition of our 1,500th board member. John O. McGinnis is George C. Dix Professor in Constitutional Law at Northwestern University Law School.
 
John authored the important paper Accelerating AI. In this paper he describes why strong AI has a substantial possibility of becoming a reality and then sketches the two threats that some ascribe to AI. He shows that relinquishing or effectively regulating AI in a world of competing sovereign states cannot respond effectively to such threats, given that sovereign states can gain a military advantage from AI, and that even within states, it would be very difficult to prevent individuals from conducting research into AI. Moreover, he suggests that AI-driven robots on the battlefield may actually lead to less destruction, becoming a civilizing force in wars as well as an aid to civilization in its fight against terrorism. Finally, he offers reasons that friendly artificial intelligence can be developed to help rather than harm humanity, thus eliminating the existential threat.
 
Unlike most organizations, whose advisory boards are too small to do more than provide some advice, our think tank provides action as well as words. Our board members have developed programs, created reports, donated money, fueled our blog, created educational videos, joined our staff, launched numerous forums, organized events, and provided input on a range of issues from web design to grant proposals to ideas for new areas that Lifeboat Foundation should be involved in.
Our Gregory Benford, James Blodgett, Ian A. Crawford, Michael A.G. Michaud, Jack Sarfatti, Robert J. Sawyer, and Dirk Schulze-Makuch will be speaking at the DARPA/NASA 100 Year Starship Study Public Symposium which will be held from September 30 through October 2, 2011 at the Hilton Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.
Sabiha Rumani Malik joins our Human Trajectories Board. Sabiha is Associate Founder at Singularity University, President and Cofounder at Sanghata Global, and Founder at Diamonds for Humanity.
James Felton Keith joins our blog team with the post The Technological Catalyst behind the Frequent Financial Market Capitulation.
Michael Abramowicz, author of Predictocracy: Market Mechanisms for Public and Private Decision Making, joins our Policy Board.
Kevin Fischer joins our Robotics/AI Board. Kevin was previously Visiting Fellow at the Singularity Institute.
Rob Brazell joins our Business Board. Rob is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Managing Partner of Talos Partners. He was the founder and founding board member of Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK) and also served as the company’s president and chief executive officer.
Read Nanorobotics Control Design for Nanomedicine by our Adriano Cavalcanti.
Thought leader Bj Price joins our Futurists Board. Read TEDxTampaBay: What’s Next For Thought Leaders.
Ille C. Gebeshuber joins our Nanotechnology Board. Ille is Professor at the Institute of Microengineering and Nanoelectronics (IMEN) at the National University of Malaysia (UKM).
Hamid Chbouki, CEO of Eskuila, an e-Learning marketplace and platform, joins our Education Board.
Ryan McCall, coauthor of The LIDA Framework as a General Tool for AGI, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Our James Blodgett will be giving a talk about “Saving the World” at the Triple Nine Global General Gathering in Philadelphia Sept 2–5.
Maria Catalina joins our Space Settlement Board. Maria is Executive Director at Moon Mars Atacama Research Station, International Operations at Team Synergy Moon (Google Lunar X Prize Team), and Founder at Astronaut Teacher Alliance (ATA).
Our Mayel de Borniol launches our Jumo Lifeboat Foundation page. Jumo is a social network connecting individuals and organizations who want to change the world with their time, money, and skills.
Pier Marzocca, whose students placed third in a NASA competition, joins our Space Settlement Board.
David A. Spiegel, who is working on synthetic HIV-fighting molecules, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Aaron Ericsson, who is developing a noninvasive test to replace colonoscopies, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Michael Nuschke, who runs RetirementSingularity.com, joins our Finance Board.
Scott V. Brown, Chairman of Spaceport America Enterprises, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Emma Brooke joins our Ethics Board. Emma has an active interest in the ethical implications of accelerating technological change, having studied this area as an integral part of her undergraduate degree at the University of London, and as a part of GSP-10 at Singularity University.
Laercio Henrique Simões, Founder of HPC Brasil, joins our Futurists Board.
Rod Pyle, author of Missions to the Moon: The Complete Story of Man’s Greatest Adventure, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Pedro A. Ortega, coauthor of Information, Utility & Bounded Rationality and Reinforcement Learning and the Bayesian Control Rule, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Jim Reggia joins our Robotics/AI Board. Jim’s research group focuses on studying and understanding 1) the underlying principles of biological computation, and how these principles can be adopted or modified to extend contemporary computer science methods, and 2) automated causal reasoning, such as abductive inference and Bayesian/belief networks.
Elena Silenok, Founder & CEO of Clothia, joins our Media & Arts Board. As coauthor of Detection and Characterization of Port Scan Attacks, she also joins our Cybercrime/Malcode board.
Anna Akbari, Cofounder of Splice, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Alessandro Oltramari, who coauthored Extending Cognitive Architectures with Semantic Resources, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Margrit Betke joins our Robotics/AI Board. Margrit conducts research in computer vision, in particular, the development of methods for detection, segmentation, registration, and tracking of objects in visible-light, infrared, and x-ray image data.
Christopher Kello, coauthor of What Makes a Brain Smart? Reservoir Computing as an Approach for General Intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Claude Touzet, author of Q-learning for Robots, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Unmesh Kurup, coauthor of Integrating Perception and Action for AGI, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Jacek Mańdziuk, author of Knowledge-Free and Learning-Based Methods in Intelligent Game Playing, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Stan Franklin joins our Robotics/AI Board. Stan is mental father of IDA and its successor LIDA, both computational implementations of Global Workspace Theory.
Read issue #108 of Lifeboat News!
Google’s In-House Philosopher / Director of Engineering, Damon Horowitz, joins our new Philosophy Board which he helped launch.
Frank D. Smith, who launched our InfoPreserver wiki, is available for hire. He has been a web designer and graphic artist since 1998, mostly serving the art and science community. He is also a freelance instructor in Adobe graphics tools, from CS5 through Acrobat. Learn more!
Randal A. Koene joins our blog team with the post The Darwin Escape.
Join Ray Kurzweil in your local movie theater on August 3, 2011 at 8:00pm ET/ 7:00pm CT/ 6:00pm MT and 8:00pm PT as he gives a special presentation on accelerating technology and its effects on our future, followed by an all-star panel as they discuss the future of humanity, including the merger of man and machine and the potential to live forever! Plus, exclusively for the first time in 500 nationwide movie theaters, extended excerpts from the acclaimed film, Transcendent Man!
 
Transcendent Man Live with Ray Kurzweil: A Conversation About the Future is coming to a movie theater near you Wednesday, August 3rd in a LIVE cinema event. Limited seats available — buy your tickets today, watch the trailer, and get more information: http://www.fathomevents.com/originals/event/transcendentman.aspx.
Read One Response to the Eight Grand Challenges by our Richard Yonck.
Our Chris Grayson is organizing TEDxSiliconAlley on October 27th in New York City. TEDxSiliconAlley will give the established leaders, and emerging young leaders, of the NYC Tech scene the opportunity to have a soapbox for their “ideas worth spreading”.
Transhumanist author Eddie Germino joins our Futurists Board. Read Interview with Ramez Naam, Author of “More Than Human” and Starting to make SENS.
Learn about 2011 State of the Future, coauthored by our Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon.
Stuart Kauffman joins our blog team with the post No Law Entails The Evolution Of The Biosphere.
Rich Doyle joins our Neuroscience Board. Watch TEDxPSU – Richard Doyle – Scaling the Noösphere.
Sandeep Karajanagi, coauthor of Directed Assembly of Carbon Nanotubes at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces: Nanoscale Conveyors for Interfacial Biocatalysis, joins our Engineering Board.
Richard Levenson, author of Spectral Imaging and Pathology: Seeing More, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Denise Vardakas-Styrna joins our Media & Arts Board. She was recently Manager, Marketing, and PR at Singularity University.
Read The Risk that Humans Will Soon Be Extinct by our John Leslie.
Watch My Love Affair with Space by our Brian Malow.
Luis Herrera joins our Business Board. Luis is a Blue Angel Investor in the technology sector, participating in business analytics and A.I.-based projects. Read his Intellectual Explorer blog.
Odette Gregory joins our Sustainability Board and also joins our blog team with the post Scarcity, lack of access.
Michael Phillips joins our Media & Arts Board. Michael created, deployed, and currently maintains Dr. Michio Kaku’s myriad of web & social media properties with prime focus on community development, online growth strategy, core branding, and corporate relations for over a decade.
Our Braulio Medina Dias creates a Portuguese about page for us. Thanks Braulio!
Jose Alvelo joins our Counterterrorism Board. Jose has over 6 years of all-source military intelligence experience, including collection and analysis of intelligence related to chemical/biological weapons, terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction in support of Special Forces and Rapid-Deployment missions.
Michael Pinckney joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Michael is Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physician at University of California, Berkeley and Physician at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center.
IT Security Consultant Giampiero Bonfiglio joins our Information Sciences Board.
Michael Potter, Singularity University Media Advisor, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Francesco Galietti, winner of the 2008 Dioscuri Prize for economic journalism, joins our Economics Board.
Ben Lugavere joins our Finance Board. Ben is an Investment Banker, Strategic Consultant, and Entrepreneur who specializes in the healthcare and technology sectors.
Learn the results from Space Renaissance International’s first congress — an online conference including dozens of scientists, space commerce innovators, and other space enthusiasts from around the world.
The Lifeboat Foundation mourns the death of our Len Sassaman.
Janet Staker Woerner, Principal and Founder of Converging Communications, LLC, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Alden Fairley, Director of Strategic Planning and Marketing at Creative Star Digital, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Liangfang Zhang, who has developed nanoparticles cloaked with erythrocyte membranes that are used to treat cancer, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Our Sarah Hoyt has won a Prometheus Award for Darkship Thieves.
Bipin B. Agravat, CEO of Willager, joins our Business Board.
Khaled Kilzie, Business Developer at Rai Way – RAI Italian Radio Television, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Sasy Kumar joins our Finance Board. He is Finance Manager at Al Saif Group, Head Office, Saudi Arabia.
Tony O’Connell, Managing Director at Network One, joins our Business Board. Network One is a space to learn how to create elegant websites, ecommerce stores, animation, and digital media.
Pablo Brenner, Business Development Executive at Globant, joins our Business Board.
Ryan Stellar, Global Product Manager at Medtronic, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Giovanni Santostasi, author of Gravitational Radiation Detectability Of Supernova 1987A’s Remnant. Fully Matched Filter for Double Resonant Gravitational Detector, joins our Cosmology Board.
Jonathan Erez, Cognitive Neuroscience Researcher at Bar Ilan University – Gonda Brain Research Center, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Yasemin B., a graduate of both Singularity University and Space University, joins our Futurists Board and our Space Settlement Board. At NASA, she managed the spacecraft schedule for the NASA-Israeli Space Agency Venus exploration mission — a Discovery proposal for NASA HQ. She also managed the Interface Control Documents for the small satellite mission UV-LED, including collaboration between NASA, Stanford University, and KACST (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology) — the leading institute in Saudi Arabia.
Michael Hrenka, who runs the blog Become Unrestricted, joins our Ethics Board.
Kurt Newcomb joins our Biotech/Medical Board. He has worked mainly in biology but has spent time studying interlinking fields of study such as chemistry, ecology, statistics, and anatomy.
Derek Jacoby, who designed and developed speech recognition systems at Microsoft Research, joins our Robotics/AI Board. Listen to his A Singular Summer (8 episodes).
Carlos Azevedo joins our Robotics/AI Board. He was a member of the Space Team Project at Singularity University, specifically of the subgroup which researched how to augment robotic autonomy for space exploration through Artificial General Intelligence.
Russell Faust joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Russ is Founding Expert at HealthTap; Chief Medical Officer, Founding Partner at Anicca Media; Chief, Pediatric Otolaryngology, St. John Health System at Providence Hospital; Physician, Advisory Panel at FaireCareMD; Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University Medical Center; and Pediatric Ear, Nose & Throat Doc. at Lakeshore ENT.
Jared Wigmore, OpenCog AI Researcher at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Hagai Perets joins our Cosmology Board and our Physics Board. Hagai coauthored Massive Perturber-Driven Interactions of Stars with a Massive Black Hole and Realization of Quantum Walks with Negligible Decoherence in Waveguide Lattices.
Global eCommerce Marketing Executive and Social Media Strategist Leisa Glispy joins our Business Board. Read Luxury brands need evidence to prove mobile’s efficacy: Waterford Wedgwood exec.
Nancy Ellen Abrams, coauthor of The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World and The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos, joins our Cosmology Board.
Ray D. Wright, Founder of The Spacefleet Project, joins our Space Settlement Board. His company is working on The Spacefleet EARL Project which will be a low-cost demonstration of the principle that a payload can be lifted into space using aerodynamic boosters in the form of three near-identical autonomous lifting bodies.
Read the blog post Teeming Cities of Mars by our Jared Daniel.
Our Woody Evans has just released Arc Sodium: Various Transhuman Positions and Information Dynamics in Virtual Worlds.
Tish Shute joins our Media & Arts Board. Tish is a digital strategist, entrepreneur, writer, cyborg anthropologist, and founder of Ugotrade — a leading blog focused on augmented reality, and the future of mobile social communications.
Visting Fellow at Singularity Institute, Luke Muehlhauser, joins our Ethics Board.
Government Procurement Specialist Paola Santana, who is studying Policy, Law, and Ethics at Singularity University, joins our Legal Board.
Social Science Researcher José Vicente Boix Cantó joins our Diplomacy Board.
Read issue #107 of Lifeboat News!
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cognitive Systems expert Alexander Merritt joins our Robotics/AI Board. His focal topics include: statistical machine learning, natural language processing, unsupervised learning, speech recognition, and game AI.
Xiongwei Zhu, coauthor of Activation and redistribution of c-Jun N-terminal kinase/stress activated protein kinase in degenerating neurons in Alzheimer’s disease, joins our Neuroscience Board.
José Simões, coauthor of The Future of Services in Next Generation Networks and Contextualized User-Centric Multimedia Delivery System for Next Generation Networks, joins our Futurists Board.
Noah Harris joins our Business Board. Noah is Business Services Coordinator at Canal Alliance, Business Advisor at Small Business Development Center at Santa Rosa Junior College, Consulting Partner at Shamana, and Strategic Market Development at EverFile Systems.
Raffaele Mauro joins our Business Board. Raffaele is Associate at Annapurna Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early stage investments in web services, mobile applications, and digital technology.
Space engineering and management professional Dan Cohen joins our Engineering Board. Dan was program/engineering manager at Bigelow Aerospace, where he was responsible for technical, cost, and schedule performance of a developmental spacecraft for risk reduction of an ambitious man-rated commercial space station complex made from expandable habitats.
Derek Shannon, Director of Business Development at Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, joins our Sustainability Board. His lead project is the development of a clean-energy fusion generator using a dense plasma focus (DPF) fusion reactor and proton-boron (pB11) fuel, an approach he calls “Focus Fusion”.
Mobile application entrepreneur / technology strategist Travis Falstad joins our Business Board.
Cristián Moreno Terrazas, CEO of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the Chilean Industries Federation SOFOFA, joins our Business Board.
Meredith Doig, President of the Rationalist Society of Australia, joins our Ethics Board.
David Gerrold joins our Futurists Board. David wrote the script for The Trouble With Tribbles and is the author of over 50 books, several hundred articles and columns, and over a dozen television episodes.
Brad King joins our Information Sciences Board. Brad is Founder & Director, Customer Architecture & Partnerships at Scality.
Our Kattesh Katti is awarded the Presidential Award for Economic Development.
Tim Coleman, Member of the Board of Directors & Director of Communications at Lint Center for National Security Studies, joins our Counterterrorism Board.
Jako Roux, Project Manager at CUA – Credit Union Australia Limited, joins our Business Board.
Tijn van der Zant, Director of the Cognitive Robotics Laboratory at the University of Groningen, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Rupam Shrivastava, Senior Vice President at ePlanet Ventures, joins our Business Board. At ePlanet, he is part of the investment team covering the United States, South Asia, and the Middle East. He helps manage ePlanet’s interests in FRiENDi Mobile and Naseeb Networks. He also manages ePlanet’s relationship with the Singularity University and the Clinton Global Initiative.
Daryl Tempesta, Owner of Hotdot.com and CEO and Cofounder of 0cog Inc., joins our Media & Arts Board.
Erik Pederson, CEO of Green Bay Digital Engineering and Director of Game Development at Herzing University Madison, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Avron Olshewsky joins our Business Board. Avron is Director at NeuralM, a growing technology strategy consultancy and startup incubator.
Lale Basarir, Founder of SU DUSLERI Architecture & Industrial Design, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Frank D. Smith, our InfoPreserver Project Coordinator, joins our Sustainability Board. Check out the wiki he is helping build!
Stephen X. Zhang, Assistant Professor, Management of Innovation at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, joins our Methods for Discovery & Solution Finding Board.
Sherry E. Bell joins our Space Settlement Board. Sherry coedited Living in Space: Cultural and social dynamics, opportunities, and challenges in permanent space habitats.
Andrew J. Hacker, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for the Governor’s Executive Offices of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Cryonics Institute member Jimmy Adams joins our Life Extension Board.
Alex Zhavoronkov joins our Life Extension Board. Alex is a director and trustee of the Biogerontology Research Foundation, a UK-based registered charity supporting aging research worldwide. He is also the director of the International Aging Research Portfolio (IARP) knowledge management project.
Greg Gaither, Director of Academic Information Systems at the University of California at Santa Cruz, joins our Education Board.
Our InfoPreserver program now has its own wiki. We invite you to use and edit it!
A space industry business plan competition with a first prize of $25,000 will be held at the NewSpace 2011 Conference July 28–30 at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. An intent-to-compete form is due June 17 by 5:00 PM EST. Details are available at: https://newspace2011.spacefrontier.org/bpc/ and https://newspace2011.spacefrontier.org/media/HBPC_11_Rules.pdf
 
Conference details are available at: http://newspace2011.spacefrontier.org/
Damon D’Amore, President of Delta Echo Consulting and Delta Echo Interactive, joins our Business Board.
Richard M. David, Founder/Managing Member, The Orrery Group, LLC, and Cofounder/CEO, Commercial Space Investment Watch, joins our Space Settlement Board. The Orrery Group actively invests in “seed” to “late stage” targets positioned to profit from the commercialization of space. Commercial Space Investment Watch provides research with a distinct emphasis on financial analysis covering the commercial space sector.
June 15th is the deadline for discounted registration and abstract submission for the fifth Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) conference at Cambridge, England on August 31st-September 4th 2011. Learn more details!
Nuno R. B. Martins joins our Nanotechnology Board. Nuno is a Ph.D. student in Nanomedicine at Universidade do Minho, Portugal where one of his two thesis advisors is our Rob Freitas.
Markus Fuhrmann, Venture Partner at Team Europe Ventures and Cofounder at Lieferheld.de, joins our Business Board.
Etienne Thillaye, Professor of Labor Law and Tax Law at the National Education Ministry, joins our Legal Board.
Collin Bockman, attorney at James Rolshouse & Associates, joins our Legal Board. Collin was one of the members of Singularity University’s inaugural GSP-09 class, specializing in the Policy, Law, and Ethics study track.
Mayel de Borniol joins our Media & Arts Board. Mayel is Cofounder at Babelverse, Founder at ANETech Labs, and Cofounder at LeLab.TV.
Bill Hunt, CTO at IncentAlign, joins our Business Board. IncentAlign is an early-stage SaaS company that gives enterprise sales teams actionable understanding of their data, then optimizes lead, territory, and resource allocations to best maximize revenues.
Braulio Medina Dias joins our Media & Arts Board. Braulio founded e-brane which is focused on the application of data and text mining to social media data to gather insights about brands and products.
Richard H. Smith, Principal at Understanding the Future, joins our Futurists Board.
Alexander Bobrovnikov, a graduate of Singularity University, joins our Futurists Board.
Rick Moss joins our Human Trajectories Board. His recent novel Ebocloud explores the near-future potential for a social singularity brought about by the confluence of a massive humanitarian social networking movement and a transformational brain-computer interface.
Enrique Posner joins our Media & Arts Board. Enrique produced the short film, The Lady and the Reaper, which received an Academy Award nomination in 2009 for Best Animated Short Film.
We now accept Bitcoin donations and currently will double them thanks to a generous pledge by Jeff Bone.
Our Space Settlement Board just completed a report for DARPA and NASA that is available in docx format and PDF format.
Frank D. Smith thanks David Brin for inspiring him to create our Got Civilization? items by discussing the importance of citizen resiliency with him.
Thanks to Lifeboat Foundation member Frank D. Smith, the Lifeboat Foundation store now offers a Got Civilization? bumper sticker and a Got Civilization? bumper sticker with a neon logo.
Read 20 Incredible Twitter Feeds for Space Geeks.
Read issue #106 of Lifeboat News!
Brett Lenz, Vice President, Columbia Geotechnical Associates, joins our Geology Board. His specialities include hydroengineering industry, engineering and quaternary geology, geoarchaeology, natural resources management, and cultural resources.
Roman V. Yampolskiy, Director of the CyberSecurity Laboratory at the University of Louisville, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board. Read his Computer Security: from Passwords to Behavioral Biometrics.
Alexander Taylor Clayton, author of One Small Step for Man, One Small Future Colony for Humankind, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Experienced aerospace executive and visionary biotech entrepreneur Anne Hudson joins our Space Settlement Board.
Daniel Liebeskind, Investment Banking Analyst at Barclays Capital, joins our Finance Board.
Shai Machnes, coauthor of An Arrow of Time Operator for Standard Quantum Mechanics, joins our Particle Physics Board.
Anetta Tissot creates a Polish about page for us. Thanks Anetta!
The documentary How to Live Forever features our Aubrey de Grey and Ray Kurzweil.
 
Its initial release schedule is:
  • 5/13: New York, NY – Quad Cinema
  • 5/20: Los Angeles, CA – Laemmle Monica 4
  • 5/27: Orange County, CA – Edwards Westpark 8
  • 6/3: San Diego, CA – Landmark Ken Cinema
  • 6/10: Palm Desert, CA – Cinemas Palme D’Or
  • 6/17: Portland, OR – Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10
  • 7/1: Austin, TX – Regal Arbor Cinema Great Hills
  • 7/15: Philadelphia, PA – Landmark Ritz at the Bourse
  • 7/22: Denver, CO – Landmark Chez Artiste
  • 7/29: Minneapolis, MN – Landmark Lagoon
  • 7/29: Washington, DC – Landmark E-Street
  • 8/19: Boston, MA – Landmark Kendall Square
Watch its trailer!
We mourn the loss of our theoretical condensed-matter physicist Marshall Stoneham. In October 2010 he took over as president of the Institute of Physics, which publishes physicsworld.com. His duties for the Institute will for the moment be taken over by the Institute’s immediate past-president Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
David C.K. Chu, editor of Antiviral Nucleosides: Chiral Synthesis and Chemotherapy, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. He has 42 patents including Method of treating hepatitis delta virus infection and 5-(E)-Bromovinyl uracil analogues and related pyrimidine nucleosides as anti-viral agents and methods of use.
We mourn the loss of our John Huchra. John was a man who loved telescopes and whose pioneering maps of a bubbly universe challenged notions of how the galaxies were born.
 
John will be best remembered for what looks for all the world like a child’s stick-figure drawing of a man, but in fact is a map showing how the galaxies are distributed through about 600 million light-years of space.
 
Astronomers had long presumed that if they looked out far enough beyond the Local Group of galaxies to which the Milky Way belongs, galaxies would be spread more or less evenly. John’s map, produced in 1986 with Margaret J. Geller and Valérie de Lapparent, showed instead that the galaxies seemed to be confined to great sheets arcing around enormous dark and presumably empty voids millions of light-years across, clustering in dense knots where the sheets intersected.
Shawna Pandya, Member of the Board of Directors at the International Lunar Observatory Association, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Steve Nerlich, author of Astronomy Without A Telescope — The Nice Way To Build A Solar System, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Thanks to Lifeboat Foundation member Frank D. Smith, the Lifeboat Foundation store now offers a Neon Logo T-Shirt and a Neon Logo with Earth T-Shirt.
William Pentland joins our Sustainability Board. Read his How to Spot an American Spy, Look for the Prius and Perfect Power: Clean Energy’s Killer App.
Social entrepreneur and experienced executive Bentley Turner joins our Business Board. Read Young former Hoover business owner Bentley Turner selected for training program sponsored by NASA and Google.
Bay Area/Colombian performance artist, technologist, and cultural theorist Praba Pilar joins our Media & Arts Board. Read Praise the Lord & Pass the Critical Theory: An Interview with Praba Pilar of the Church of Nano Bio Info Cogno.
Andreas Roepstorff, editor of Imagining Nature: Practices of Cosmology and Identity, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Martin Elvis, Senior Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, joins our Cosmology Board. Read his Extrasolar Asteroid Mining as Forensic Evidence for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Learn about Fall and Winter, a documentary film which explores the origins of our global crisis — and the ingenious adaptations needed to survive the catastrophic transition we’ve entered.
Ivan Dimov, whose blood analysis chip could lead to disease diagnosis in minutes, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Owen Flanagan, author of Science of the Mind: 2nd Edition, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Rodney Shackelford, author of Telomeres, Telomerase, and Aging, joins our Life Extension Board.
John R. Thompson, Movie Producer at Daedal Dream, joins our Media & Arts Board.
João Pedro de Magalhães joins our Life Extension Board. He leads the Integrative Genomics of Aging Group at the Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, UK. Read his The Evolutionary Theory of Aging.
Uri Lopatin, Senior Director for Clinical and Translational research in liver diseases at Gilead Sciences, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Susan Singer, author of Doing Well By Doing Good and Project Management in the Research Environment, joins our Futurists Board.
Read issue #105 of Lifeboat News!
Eray Özkural joins our Robotics/AI Board and our Media & Arts Board. Eray authored Teraflop-scale Incremental Machine Learning. Watch MALFUNCT – Run Away (music video) by his industrial band Malfunct.
Eric Rasmussen, a faculty member of the FutureMed Executive Program at Singularity University, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
David Bolinsky, whose XVIVO created Harvard’s The Inner Life Of The Cell, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Kweli Tutashinda joins our Futurists Board. Read Nanotechnology: Students Learn About Emerging Sciences in City Hall.
Jason Dunn, Project Engineer at Moon Express, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Derek Sears, Director of the Arkansas-Oklahoma Center for Space and Planetary Sciences, joins our Space Settlement Board. Derek is author of The Origin of Chondrules and Chondrites.
Jan Jungclaus joins our Robotics/AI Board. Jan is an entrepreneur interested in the areas of artificial and collective intelligence, computational intelligence, bio-inspired computing, ubiquitous computing, and human-computer-interaction.
Tracy Nguyen, Academic Coordinator at the Singularity University, joins our Education Board.
Ruby Gadelrab joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Ruby is a biotechnology marketing professional with diverse skills and global experience in commercial marketing, sales, and channel management. She has market experience in cancer research, medical genomics, translational research, personalized medicine, and personalized genomics. She has a strong interest in molecular diagnostics.
Julian Togelius, coauthor of Measuring and Optimizing Behavioral Complexity for Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Ed Dillenschneider, Chief of Strategic Planning and Management at the United States Army Corps of Engineers, joins our Futurists Board.
Kate McCallum joins our Media & Arts Board. Kate is founder of the c3: Center for Conscious Creativity, where she contributes expertise garnered from over 30 years of experience in the arts and entertainment industries working for major studios such as Paramount, Universal Studios, and recently Placido Domingo and the Los Angeles Opera.
Bill Hibbard joins our Robotics/AI Board. Bill is principal author of the Vis5D, Cave5D, and VisAD open source visualization systems. Vis5D was the first open source 3-D visualization system and is the leading system for animated 3-D visualization of weather simulations. Cave5D is the most widely used software system for scientific visualization in immersive virtual reality. VisAD is the leading visualization system written in Java.
Nuclear nonproliferation expert Vladimir Vladimirovich joins our Counterterrorism Board.
Christopher de la Torre, author of Ingestible Surgical Robots — Hard To Swallow Concept? and Robot Pharmacists Are Picking Your Medication — Literally, joins our Media & Arts Board.
 
Christopher is conducting an analysis of several science social networks, as well as a case study that observes how scientists, medical professionals, and other researchers interact in these virtual spaces by probing individual and collective practices, thoughts, and desires.
Paul McGlothin joins our blog team with the post “You are What you Don’t Eat!”.
Robin Farmanfarmaian, Project Manager for FutureMed at Singularity University, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
The FutureMed Executive Program at Singularity University focuses on disruptive, game-changing exponential technologies which will revolutionize the practice of medicine and radically transform healthcare and the biomedical industry in the decade ahead.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch, coauthor of We Are Not Alone: Why We Have Already Found Extraterrestrial Life, joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board.
Cria is looking to hire a senior technology futurist. The position is full-time, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and involves a minimum of 20% of time for travel. Learn more!
Read The ‘Energularity’ by our José Luis Cordeiro.
Matt Funk joins our blog team with the post A (Relatively) Brief Introduction to The Principles of Economics & Evolution: A Survival Guide for the Inhabitants of Small Islands, Including the Inhabitants of the Small Island of Earth.
Belgian futurist, semiotician, and internet entrepreneur Walter De Brouwer joins our Space Settlement Board. He is also a director of the Tau Zero Foundation, formerly known as NASA’s Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program which recently published the state-of-the-art work The Frontiers of Propulsion Science.
Jean Staune, Founder and General Secretary of the Interdisciplinary University of Paris, joins our Religion/Spirituality Board.
After sold out screenings in New York, San Jose, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Boston, and London, Transcendent Man comes to San Francisco for one night only!
 
Watch it Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 8:00pm at the Palace of Fine Arts, 3301 Lyon Street, San Francisco, CA 94123. It will include a special introduction by Ray Kurzweil and a post-screening Q&A; with Ray and director Barry Ptolemy. Learn how you can get tickets.
Read issue #104 of Lifeboat News!
Ralf J. Muller, Founder/Director of the Vine Mission Network, joins our Ethics Board.
Watch the talks from iLabs Singularity Summit 2011.
Otto E. Rössler, author of Einstein’s Equivalence Principle Has Three Further Implications Besides Affecting Time: T-L-M-Ch Theorem, joins our Particle Physics Board. Learn about the Rössler attractor!
Connor Dickie, Experience Director of the TED Prize nominated “Changing The World” youth innovation conference, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Javier Mares Romero joins our Robotics/AI Board. Javier is founder and CEO of Abisal, a R&D; firm dedicated to the application of artificial intelligence to meaningful, large scale problems and which is currently focusing on challenges in human health.
Sven Bulterijs, Editor-in-Chief of The Heales Journal of Biogerontology, joins our Life Extension Board.
Andrew Rettek, a member of Less Wrong/Overcoming Bias NYC, joins our Life Extension Board. If you wish to sign up for cryonics, but want someone to handle your paperwork for you, Andrew has volunteered to help! You can contact him at [email protected].
Matvey Ezhov, Project manager and Member of Council of Activists at the Russian Transhumanist Movement, joins our Futurists Board.
Michelle Bradbury, whose cancer-targeting investigational nanoparticle received FDA approval for first-in-human trial, joins our Biotech/Medical Board and our Nanotechnology Board.
Technologist, educational technologist, futurist, and writer Lyndon C. Marshall joins our Education Board. Read his blog!
Jonathan Simonson, coauthor of Real-Time Systems Performance Improvement with Multi-Level Cache Memory, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Read Sky at Night’s interview with our Garry Hunt.
Dean Filipovich joins our Business Board. Dean is helping develop an autonomous stratospheric airship — a platform which will replace satellites and airplanes in the Remote Sensing industry.
Florent Berthet, who earned his Master in Finance at Université Lumière (Lyon II), joins our Finance Board.
Ronen Amit joins our Information Sciences Board. Read Singular sensations: In an exclusive program in Silicon Valley, Israeli scientists are being exposed to cutting-edge technologies that will enable them to develop ways to help humanity meet its toughest future challenges.
Philip Anderson, Lead IT Technician for Chase Banks, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Social entrepreneur and futurist Dhaval Chadha joins our Futurists Board. Read his Creative Intelligence for a Smarter Future.
Phil Nadeau joins our Robotics/AI Board. Phil is wrapping up a MSci/CS with a study of novel AI methods for natural language processing at Western Washington University.
Read Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction: Is It Almost Here? Steep decline of many animal species warns that Earth is on the brink.
The Second International Green Computing Conference (IGCC’11) will be held at Orlando, Florida, USA, (the Holiday Inn at Disney World) July 25–28, Our Ishfaq Ahmad is General Co-Chair.
 
The Second International Green Computing Conference, technically cosponsored by IEEE, addresses key issues and topics related to energy efficiency in computing and promoting environmentally friendly computer technologies and systems. The conference provides a forum for discussing, sharing and investigating the state-of-the-art for all aspects of green computing, which include energy-efficient use of computers, design of algorithms and systems for environmentally-friendly computer technologies, and a wide range of related topics.
James Benoit joins our Media & Arts Board. James is game designer at Software Libra and game reviewer and co-host at Crit TV.
Sharon Niv joins our Neuroscience Board. Sharon is interested in developments in neuroscience, and advancing understanding of the brain and mind. Her personal aim is to bring technological approaches to psychotherapy.
Paul Lem, founder of Spartan Bioscience, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Spartan provides DNA testing systems for decentralized and point-of-care (POC) applications. Products include end-to-end solutions for pharmacogenetics, infectious diseases, and food and water safety testing.
Julián Ugarte joins our Futurists Board. Julián is founder and currently Director of the Social Innovation Center of Un Techo Para mi País, one of the largest and most successful nonprofit organizations in Latin America.
Grégory “Redo” Renard, named Most Valuable Professional by Microsoft in 2003, joins our Futurists Board. Watch Bytes by MSDN: Grégory Renard and Mickey Williams discuss Windows Azure advantages for Developers.
Erez Livneh, CEO of Vecoy Nanomedicines, joins our Biotech/medical Board and our Nanotechnology Board.
Dave Blakely, faculty adviser at Singularity University, joins our Futurists Board. In addition to leading the Technology Strategy practice at IDEO, Dave conducts innovation workshops, speaks to academic and business groups, and serves on several advisory boards. He is particularly proud to serve on the board of University of California at Berkeley’s College of Engineering, where he assists his alma mater in adjusting its engineering curriculum to the needs of a rapidly changing global economy.
The Pan-STARRS PS1 telescope establishes near-Earth asteroid discovery record. This advanced telescope at Haleakala, Maui, discovered 19 near-Earth asteroids on the night of January 29, the most asteroids discovered by one telescope on a single night. “This record number of discoveries shows that PS1 is the world’s most powerful telescope for this kind of study,” said our Nick Kaiser, head of the Pan-STARRS project. Learn more!
David C.L. Stock joins our Education Board. David is Manager of Leadership & Learning at Cayman Islands Portfolio of the Civil Service, Civil Service College.
Narasimalu Srikanth, Technical Director/Senior Specialist at Vestas Wind Turbine Systems, joins our Engineering Board and our Sustainability Board.
 
His patents include Mold flash removal process for electronic devices, Bonding apparatus comprising improved oscillation amplification device, Transducer tool holder, and Passive damping of vibrations in a support structure.
Tom Boellstorff joins our Human Trajectories Board. Tom is Editor-in-Chief of the American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. Read his Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human.
Entrepreneur, hacker, and extropian Julien “Gbboy” Hamonic joins our Futurists Board. Julien is working to save Japan from its economic crisis by recruiting foreign engineers for Tokyo-based startups and trying to spark a new “Renaissance” (intellectual and technological framework) in Japan by incepting the Singularity memeplex.
Raycho Raychev joins our Space Settlement Board. Raycho is a graduate of International Space University and Singularity University. He is program founder of the Space Challenges Program which is the largest general space educational program ongoing in Eastern Europe with over 25,000 registered users and more than 700 students subscribed for its lectures. He coordinates its team, financial responsibility and contractual support, does marketing and public relations strategy coordination, external and institutional relations, and handles networking.
Hannah “Alicorn” Finley joins our Futurists Board. Alicorn is Consultant at Kurzweil Technologies and Creative Consultant at 3D Embodiment.
Open to the public and fully participant powered, BIL features a wild mix of technologists, scientists, artists, and hackers. Join them March 5–6th on the historic Queen Mary, docked in Long Beach, California. That’s right, its almost like Burning Man on a boat. Expect to hear a lot of Humanity+ topics covered, from Life Extension and Robotics, to DIY biology, the future of the Pharmaceutical Industry, and Open Hardware Hacking. This year, many members of local LA hackerspaces will participate, and you can hear about the exciting technologies being developed by these amazing tinkerers. The slogan for this conference is “Minds Set Free”. Learn more!
Kemal Akman joins our blog team with his post Security and Complexity Issues Implicated in Strong Artificial Intelligence, an Introduction.
Bill DeSmedt, author of Singularity, joins our Futurists Board.
 
Singularity is recommended by our Greg Bear and David Brin. What if the cataclysmic Tunguska explosion of 1908 was caused, not by a meteor or a comet, but by a microscopic black hole? What if that fantastic object — tinier than an atom, older than the stars, heavier than a mountain — is still down there, orbiting deep inside the earth, slowly consuming the planet? What if only a rookie government agent and an uncannily-insightful consultant stand between a renegade Russian billionaire and his plans to use the black hole to change history — or end it? Learn more about this technothriller!
Read World’s smallest computer watches you — from within: First millimeter-scale computer has processor, memory, battery, solar cell, and radio.
Senior structural heart disease specialist Yitzhack Schwartz joins our Biotech/Medical Board. His patents include Method and device for transseptal facilitation based on injury patterns, Guided procedures for treating atrial fibrillation, Anchoring mechanism for implantable telemetric medical sensor, and Method for anchoring a medical device between tissue.
Wilfrid Nixon, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa, joins our Engineering Board. Read Less road salt, more carbs?
Read the Popular Science feature (that features the Lifeboat Foundation) After Earth: Why, Where, How, and When We Might Leave Our Home Planet.
Victoria McGrath joins our Sustainability Board. She is director, Sustainability Office, Markham, Ontario, Canada.
Sarah Sclarsic, Investment Analyst at Canaan Partners, joins our Futurists Board.
 
Prior to joining Canaan, she cofounded the world’s first peer-to-peer car rental company, and studied accelerating technologies at Singularity University. She also worked for the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative as a health care analyst based in Africa.
Serial entrepreneur, technologist, and more recently financial engineer and trading manager Jeff Bone joins our Business Board.
Critical thinker, conceptual artist, and social commentator Khannea Suntzu joins our Media & Arts Board.
Jim Kadtke joins our Diplomacy Board. Jim has five years experience as staff adviser in the US Senate and US House of Representatives, including political and constituent adviser, legislative adviser, speech writer, and member support. He provided policy advice on defense, technology, and homeland security issues.
Cindy Frewen Wuellner, Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston Futures Studies Department, joins our Futurists Board.
 
Read her 21st century cities: A is for Artificial Intelligence, 21st century cities: B is for Backward Futures, 21st century cities: C is for Co-creation, and 21st century cities: D is for Disasters.
Dutch strategic futurologist Richard Lamb joins our Futurists Board. Visit his TrendWatcher.com.
Strategic futurist Marcus Barber joins our Futurists Board. Listen to Marcus on Conversation Hour with Tim Cox, Conversation Hour with Jon Faine, and Conversation Hour with Raphael Epstein.
Read issue #103 of Lifeboat News!
Suspended Animation 2011 will be held May 20–22 at the Hyatt Regency Pier 66 Resort and Spa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Our Greg Fahy, William Faloon, and Michael Korns will be speaking. This conference covers the scientific foundations of cryonics, the latest advances in cryopreservation research, and the scientific basis for thinking that revival from cryopreservation is a realistic possibility.
WorldFuture 2011: Moving from Vision to Action will be held July 8–10, 2011 at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel in Vancouver, Canada. Our Lawrence Baines, Peter Bishop, Joseph F. Coates, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Jay E. Gary, Jerome C. Glenn, Linda MacDonald Glenn, Linda Groff, William E. Halal, Kenneth Harris, Rodney Hill, Barbara Marx Hubbard, John Jackson, Ted M. Kahn, Bud Levin, Tom Lombardo, Ramez Naam, Ruben Nelson, Leslie Schneider, Rick Smyre, and Dave Stein will be speaking.
Adriano V. Autino, President of the Space Renaissance International, joins our Space Settlememt Board. Read his Three Thesis for the Space Renaissance.
Daniel Höhle, author of A General Agent Model of Emotion and Trust using the BDI Structure, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Carl R. Berman, Jr. joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board. Carl spent 5 years in the US Navy and 25 years in the NOAA Commissioned Corps, working as an oceanographer, hydrographer, pollution ecologist, and fisheries biologist for the US Government.
Michael A.G. Michaud, author of Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials, joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board.
Learn about the new Cranfield University (United Kingdom) research degree, MSc in Nanotechnology for Sustainability, offered by our Jeremy J. Ramsden.
Diplomat Marios Belibassakis joins our new Diplomacy Board.
Watch TEDx Brussels 2010 – David Orban – Every Thing.
Sid Mitzlaff joins our Futurists Board. Sid is Advisory Applications Programmer at IBM Global Services.
Maria Konovalenko, program coordinator for the Science for Life Extension Foundation, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Bombadil Publishing inspires dreams by publishing books by young people written for young people. Learn more about their available books!
Harold G. Koenig joins our Religion/Spirituality Board. Harold has given testimony before the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives concerning the effects of religious involvement on public health.
Carolyn Porco joins our Space Settlement Board. Carolyn is an American planetary scientist known for her work in the exploration of the outer solar system, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in the 1980s. She leads the imaging science team on the Cassini mission currently in orbit around Saturn. She is also an imaging scientist on the New Horizons mission launched to Pluto.
Anne Foerst joins our Robotics/AI Board. Anne served as theological advisor for the Cog and Kismet projects, two attempts to develop embodied, autonomous social robots that resemble human infants in their ability to learn and develop more mature intelligence levels.
Nancey Murphy, author of Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning, joins our Religion/Spirituality Board.
Aquanaut Dennis Chamberland joins our Human Trajectories Board. Dennis has been Mission Commander for seven NASA underwater missions.
Mansour Mohamadzadeh, who has developed genetically engineered probiotics, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Chris Smedley, owner of Terra Computing, joins our Futurists Board.
Cornelis Peters, Director at Europa Ayurveda Centre, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
René Balle joins our Business Board. René is Vice President Technology R&D; at Vestas Wind Systems. Vestas is the largest manufacturer, seller, installer, and servicer of wind turbines in the world with manufacturing plants in Denmark, Germany, India, Italy, Britain, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Australia, China, and the United States, and employs more than 20,000 people globally.
Walter Hehl joins our Futurists Board. Walter is a consultant and speaker on the future of IT and innovation. He also holds IBM’s 3rd plateau for patent disclosures.
Read Global Risks 2011, Sixth Edition, an initiative of the Risk Response Network.
Otto E. Rössler joins our blog team with his post Summary of My Scientific Results on the LHC-Induced Danger to the Planet.
 
Otto is inventor of the Rössler attractor.
Roy Mitsuoka, who is an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Army, joins our Counterterrorism Board. Roy authored UGV-UAV: Projection, Protection, Survivability, Terrorist Iran and Atomic Iran, and Al Qaida: Entrepreneurship and Modular Terrorism.
Daniele Tosi joins our Engineering Board. Daniele brought from scratch to prototype a new concept of fiber Bragg grating sensors, reducing costs up to 3–5 times over competing technologies.
Santiago González, Quality Control Automation Analyst at Globant, joins our Futurists Board.
Frederic Emam-Zadé, Chief Economist of Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), joins our Economics Board.
 
As the Dominican Republic’s Chief Negotiator during 1996 – 2000, Frederic coordinated the Free Trade Area negotiations of the Dominican Republic with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Central America, providing the producers of goods and services of the Dominican Republic with free market access to 19 countries that contain more than 40 million consumers.
Ivette Fuentes, coauthor of Optimal Quantum Estimation of the Unruh-Hawking Effect, joins our Physics Board.
Stan Yakatan joins our Business Board. Stan has completed and advised on numerous acquisitions and corporate finance transactions raising in excess of $1 billion in the public and private capital financing markets.
Sagie Davidovich, author of Towards a Full Brain Simulation, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Nagesh Kolishetti, who is working on nanotechnology approaches for HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Nolene Ferrari Naidu, author of Dynamics of Dissipative Gravitational Collapse, joins our Cosmology Board and our Sustainability Board.
 
Nolene is Founder of H2020 which uses mobile phones to collect and map water data. H2020’s projects help communities and industries understand the dynamics of their water resources. These projects range from building mapping tools for monitoring watersheds to quantifying the effects of water poverty on the people who live in the bottom of the economic pyramid.
Daniel W. Rasmus joins our blog team with his post My Reaction to The Observer’s 20 predictions for the next 25 years.
Joanna Bryson, author of Crude, Cheesy, Second-Rate Consciousness, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Michael Breazeale joins our Finance Board. Mike is Chief Investment Officer of Juncture Wealth Strategies, LLC and Founder of Nanularity.com.
Two-time Templeton Award winner Loyal D. Rue joins our Religion/Spirituality Board. Read his Religion is Not About God.
Robert Pollack joins our Ethics Board. Robert is the author of more than a hundred research papers on the oncogenic phenotype of mammalian cells in culture. In addition he has written many opinion pieces and reviews on aspects of molecular biology, medical ethics, and science education, and has edited two books on these matters for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
Strategic consultant and social philosopher Nicholas Beale, who has collaborated for over 10 years with our John Polkinghorne on Polkinghorne.net, joins our Religion/Spirituality Board.
John Polkinghorne joins our Religion/Spirituality Board. John is a world-class scientist turned priest and his many awards include Hon DDs from the Universities of Kent (1994) and Durham (1999), Hon DScs from the Universities of Exeter (1994) Leicester (1995) and Marquette (2003), and an hon D.Hum. (Hong Kong Baptist University, 2006).
 
His book Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions About God, Science, and Belief includes a foreword by Tony Hewish, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics and an endorsement from Bill Phillips who also won the Nobel Prize for Physics.
George F. R. Ellis, who coauthored The Large Scale Structure of Space Time with Stephen Hawking, joins our Cosmology Board.
Zachary Urbina joins our blog team with the post Stories We Tell.
Kenneth R. Miller joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Ken is coauthor of four different high school and college biology textbooks which are used by millions of students nationwide.
William B. Hurlbut, who spent 8 years on the U.S. President’s Council on Bioethics, joins our Ethics Board.
Michael Ruse, author of Science and Spirituality: Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science, joins our Religion/Spirituality Board.
Philip Clayton joins our Religion/Spirituality Board. Philip is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Claremont Graduate University and Ingraham Professor at Claremont School of Theology.
Arthur Zajonc, coauthor of The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal, joins our Education Board.
Scott Atran, author of Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists, joins our Counterterrorism Board.
Patricia Smith Churchland joins our Neuroscience Board. Patricia is author of Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain and The Computational Brain.
Sister Ilia Delio, author of The Humility of God: A Franciscan Perspective and Christ in Evolution, joins our Religion/Spirituality Board.
National Geographic “Explorer-in-residence” Louise Leakey joins our Sustainability Board.
Erik Postnieks, CEO at Wooster Asset Management, LLC (Angel Investing), joins our Business Board and Futurists Board. Erik graduated from the December 2010 Executive Program at Singularity University.
Fun Picture of the Day: See the Guardian 2010 Award in Rusty’s office. Learn more!
Our Laszlo Kish is developing the first-ever purely electrical heat engine.
Our Renat Letfullin is now coeditor of the International Journal of Theoretical Physics, Group Theory, and Nonlinear Optics. He also just coedited Computational Studies of New Materials II: From Ultrafast Processes and Nanostructures to Optoelectronics, Energy Storage and Nanomedicine.
Ian Gallicano, who transformed human testes cells into insulin-producing islet cells, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Alexander MacRae, who authored The Nature of The Identity for h+ Magazine, joins our Futurists Board.
Deon Garrett, author of Plateau Connection Structure and Multiobjective Metaheuristic Performance, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Rafal Rzepka, coauthor of A Casual Conversation System Using Modality and Word Associations Retrieved from the Web, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Matt Luciw, coauthor of A Biologically-Motivated Developmental System Towards Perceptual Awareness in Vehicle-Based Robots, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
James Bonaiuto, coauthor of Imitation in Embodied Communication — From Monkey Mirror Neurons to Artificial Humans, joins our Neuroscience Board.
András Kornai, who holds patent Textual data classification method and apparatus, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Mark Stephen Meadows, author of We, Robot: Skywalker’s Hand, Blade Runners, Iron Man, Slutbots, and How Fiction Became Fact, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Ricardo Sanz, author of Intelligence, Control, and the Artificial Mind, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Haris Dindo joins our Robotics/AI Board. Haris is investigating applications of advanced forms of social learning and verbal interaction in robotics.
Faustino Gomez, author of Robust Non-Linear Control through Neuroevolution, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Pei Wang joins our Robotics/AI Board. Pei is Chief Executive Editor of the Journal of Artificial General Intelligence (JAGI).
Our Existential Risks video now has improved audio and graphics. Check it out!
Our Itamar Arel, Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Eric Baum, Antonio Chella, Marco Dorigo, Wlodzislaw “Wlodek” Duch, Rod Furlan, Ben Goertzel, J. Storrs Hall, Demis Hassabis, Marcus Hutter, Matt Iklé, Bruce Klein, Randal Koene, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, John E. Laird, Christian Lebiere, Shane Legg, Moshe Looks, András Lörincz, David Orban, Jan Poland, Stephen Reed, Sebastian Rudolph, Alexei V. Samsonovich, Tom Schaul, Matthias Scheutz, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Kristinn R. Thórisson, Lyle Ungar, Wendell Wallach, Marco Wiering, Mary-Anne Williams, and David Wolpert are participating in The Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence which will be held August 3–5 in Mountain View, California, USA.
Andrew Trexler, who was an intern at Singularity University, joins our Futurists Board.
Jim Karkanias, who advises the Singularity University in medicine and neuroscience, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Jim is also helping Microsoft revolutionize healthcare through paradigm shifting approaches that integrate next generation business, process, and technology.
Guy Fraker, Director of Business Trends and Foresight at State Farm Mutual Insurance, joins our Business Board.
Beth Friedland, owner and founder of Park Ophthalmology, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Jon Pittman joins our Business Board. Jon is VP Corporate Strategy at Autodesk, Faculty at Singularity University, Lecturer at Haas School of Business, and Command Pilot at Angel Flight West. Angel Flight West provides free transportation to medical treatment for people who cannot afford public transportation, or who cannot tolerate it for health reasons.
Christopher Stott, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ManSat, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Zachary Urbina, founder of Cozy Dark emerging technology, joins our Policy Board.
We made our 5 figure goal for our End of the Year Fundraiser! In addition, Donald Maclean decided to match all donations made by the end of the year, even though we did pass his matching goal.

Dave Tosh, Technology Advisor at Singularity University, joins our Futurists Board.
David Schafran, who cofounded Net Impact Chennai, joins our Futurists Board.
Entrepreneur, executive, angel investor, and management consultant Manny Ratafia joins our Business Board.
Professional innovator and change agent David Rostcheck joins our Education Board.
Paul Hynek joins our Business Board. Paul is Director of Business Affairs at Giant Studios, home of the “real” Pandora.
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Henny van der Pluijm, Publisher of Venture Media, joins our Business Board.
Margarita Liptsin, who is developing a thoughtful ethic for the future to guide science and technology, joins our Ethics Board. Margarita is a graduate of Singularity University.
Valentina Margaria, Chief Technology Officer at BioToolset, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Alex Fielding, a founding member of Singularity University at NASA Ames Research Center, joins our Futurists Board.
John Moravec, editor of Education Futures, joins our Education Board.
We are nearly at 90% of the goal in our End of the Year Fundraiser. Watch our rising total!
Kostas Hatalis joins our Futurists Board. His main research interests are in artificial intelligence, machine vision, mobile robotics, microelectronics, and cybernetics.
Media alchemist Arturo Pelayo joins our Media & Arts Board. Arturo empowers organizations to discover and leverage their customers’ experiences and interactions through Social Media & Instructional Design.
Alessio Paolucci, founder of Complexity Intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Stuart A. Kauffman, author of Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion, joins our Religion/Spirituality Board.
The Lifeboat Foundation mourns the passing of our Mark A. Smith.
 
In addition to being a Professor at CWRU, Mark served as the Director of Basic Science Research at the University Memory and Aging Center and Editor-in Chief of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. He also sat on the Editorial Board of over 200 journals including Science Translational Medicine, The Journal of Neurochemistry, and The American Journal of Pathology. Learn more.
Jascha Dub, author of No Room for Privacy in a Singular World?, joins our Transparency and Privacy Board.
John La Grou joins our new Religion/Spirituality Board which he also founded. This board straddles the intersections of technology/science and religion/spirituality and discusses how religion and spirituality affect existential risks and looks towards common survival strategies that we can derive from this discussion.
Cesar Harada joins our Media & Arts Board and our Sustainability Board. His fleet of sailing drones were primarily developed to collect oil spills. Watch TEDxMidAtlantic 2010 – Cesar Harada.
William Welser IV, coauthor of Confronting Space Debris: Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon, joins our Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board.
John Grencer joins our Biotech/Medical Board. John is the Administrative Manager of the Technology Program at Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network.
Watch the new educational video Existential Risks by our Kim Solez.
Singularity University Alumnus Rod Furlan, who is helping organize The Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Antonei B. Csoka, who was featured in the first Immortality Institute film, Exploring Life Extension, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Carol Abrahamson, CEO at Executive Authors, joins our Business Board.
Curtis D. Carbonell, author of Teaching “Humanity+” to Students, joins our Futurists Board.
Adam Eivy, owner of Shadow Puppet Works, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Strategic business futurist Joyce L. Gioia joins our Futurists Board. She is President and CEO of The Herman Group and also CEO of Employer of Choice.
Alicia J. Isaac joins our Finance Board. She is former Financial Controller at Singularity University and Chief Financial Officer at the Singularity Institute For Artificial Intelligence.
We are nearly at 80% of the goal in our End of the Year Fundraiser. Watch our rising total!
J. David Jentsch joins our Neuroscience Board. David’s research focuses on an understanding of the neurobiological origins of psychoses and addictions, with a particular focus on translating that information into treatments for the disorders.
 
After the fire-bombing of his car by animal rights extremists, David founded UCLA Pro-Test in order to combat the violence and defend the critical research that he and his colleagues carry out.
Courtney Boyd Myers, who put together a massive report for Forbes on the state of artificial intelligence, joins our Futurists Board.
The Immortality Institute is raising funds for the Microglia Stem Cell Research project. Learn more. Donate!
Jay Cornell, recent Managing Editor of h+ Magazine, joins our Futurists Board.
Watch our new educational video Cryonics Fundamentals.
Steve Cronin, Goodyear Corporate Inventor of the Year and Singularity University graduate, joins our Engineering Board.
SENS Foundation gets $500,000 donation from philanthropist Jason Hope at the “Breakthrough Philanthropy” event hosted by Peter Thiel Foundation.
Jovan David Rebolledo-Mendez, coauthor of Finding Hidden Relationship among Biological Concepts in Gene Ontology, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Kris Verburgh, cofounder and director of HEALES (Healthy Life Extension Society), joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Author, techno-stylist, blogger, designer, and sometimes TV host Alison Lewis joins our Media & Arts Board.
Sterling Wright, creator of the virtual world film Life on Life, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Naveen Jain joins our blog team with the posts Rethinking Education to Build Better Learners — Naveen Jain and Top ten lessons for becoming a successful entrepreneur — Naveen Jain.
Philanthropist, entrepreneur, and technology pioneer Naveen Jain joins our Education Board.
Ricardo Pedraza joins our Business Board. Ric is a solver of complex problems — including international business negotiations, real estate development, and cross-cultural project management.
David Forrest, Publisher of Innovation Watch, joins our Futurists Board.
Marie-Clare Treseder joins our Media & Arts Board. Marie-Clare is Photo Editor, Logistics Team at Singularity University.
Antoaneta Vladimirova, coauthor of In Silico Approaches Inform Drug Repurposing Strategies for the Treatment of Ebola Infection, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
San Francisco Bay Area based Senior HR Strategist Kristina Hathaway joins our Business Board. One of her clients is Singularity University.
Learn about everything that rises must converge. Learn more about David Orban.
Read Management by Design: Applying Design Principles to the Work Experience by our Daniel W. Rasmus.
The next SENS Foundation Los Angeles Meeting will be held on December 10th at 7pm. It will be held at Giant Studios, home of Lord of The Rings, Avatar, Narnia, Tin Tin, The Polar Express, etc. This impressive facility is one of the leading motion capture studios in the world.
 
Our Maria Entraigues, Aubrey de Grey, Sarah Marr, and Keith Murphy will be speaking. Paul Hynek of Giant Studios and Mike Kope of SENS will be there as well.
 
Tentative Schedule:
7:00 pm: A talk by Aubrey de Grey explaining SENS and the work of the Foundation.
7:30 pm: An introduction to the SENS Foundation staff and a break for drinks.
8:00 pm: Talks from Sarah Marr and Keith Murphy.
9:00 pm: A tour of Giant Studios, drinks, and a chance to mingle.
 
RSVP with Maria at [email protected]!
Shaun Gurmin, Chairman & President at CHARGE, joins our Business Board. Shaun is a successful, multi-award winning, serial entrepreneur who is ranked in the top 100 entrepreneurs in the UK by Striding Out.
Our Kattesh Katti discovers that cinnamon can replace harmful chemicals used to create nanoparticles.
Neil McClelland joins our Nanotechnology Board. Neil is Project Manager of Nanopool GmbH which has developed a nanotechnology-based spray which is invisible to the human eye and protects almost any surface against dirt and bacteria, whether it is hospital equipment and medical bandages or ancient stone monuments and expensive fabrics.
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Christof Koch joins our Neuroscience Board. Christof authored The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach which describes a general neurobiological framework for discovering how consciousness, the subjective mind, arises out of the flickering interactions among the neurons of the cerebral cortex and related brain areas. It is based on collaborative work with Francis Crick from 1990 to 2004.
David Styles joins our Futurists Board. David is Organizer of Cryonics UK, the UK-based voluntary mutual assistance organization for cryonics emergency standby, stabilization, and transport services.
Aaron Hertzmann, who coauthored Optimizing Walking Controllers for Uncertain Inputs and Environments, joins our Robotics/AI Board. His patents include Method and system for generating an image having a hand-painted appearance and Stateless remote environment navigation.
Our End of the Year Fundraiser is going better than expected. Donald Maclean has pledged to match all donations up to $5,000. For example, if you donate $10 he will match your $10 giving us a total donation of $20.
 
Please take advantage of this rare opportunity to get your donations matched dollar for dollar.
Darrell Kotton, whose human-induced pluripotent stem cells could lead to treatments for lung disease, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Watch our new educational video The AI Physician.
Jeffrey Dean Hochderffer joins our blog team with the post Singularity Economics.
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Russell “Rusty” Schweickart is named Lifeboat Foundation 2010 Guardian Award Winner.
 
The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
 
The 2010 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Russell “Rusty” Schweickart in recognition of his efforts for humans to escape the fate of the dinosaurs. (And thereby prove that we really are smarter than they were.)
Fil Menczer joins our Complex Systems Board. Read Truthy.indiana.edu to search, identify smear tactics, Twitter-bombs through election runup and Phishers can use social Web sites as bait to net victims.
Read TSA and the Coming Great Filter.
Fred Alan Wolf, author of Taking the Quantum Leap, joins our Physics Board.
Jon Turney, author of The Rough Guide to the Future, joins our Futurists Board.
Bruno Gonçalves, who coauthored Seasonal transmission potential and activity peaks of the new influenza A(H1N1): a Monte Carlo likelihood analysis based on human mobility, joins our Complex Systems Board.
Roi Cohen Kadosh, whose electrical brain stimulation improves math skills, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Sheila Nirenberg, whose surgery-free prosthetic retina restores vision in mice, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Chris Grayson, a 14 year veteran of the New York City digital advertising scene, joins our Media & Arts Board. He also writes for h+ Magazine, covering art at the intersection of technology.
Marios Kyriazis joins our blog team with the post Stoic Philosophy and Human Immortality.
Our Yair Sharan forecasts what will threaten us in 2040.
James Newton-Thomas, a speaker at Singularity Summit Australia 2010, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Our Laszlo Kish was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa from Uppsala University, Sweden.
Read Nanoscience Education, Workforce Training, and K-12 Resources by our Judith Light Feather.
Joseph E. Palaia, IV joins our Space Settlement Board. Joe is Vice President of Operations / R&D; at 4Frontiers Corporation and is Manager at NewSpace Center, LLC.
Alexandru Celac, a member of the Singularity University Founders Circle, joins our Futurists Board.
Our educational video Transhumanism, Existential Risks, and the AI Physician is now available in Flash format and iPhone/iPad format.
Alex McKeown, author of From Sight to Synesthesia: What Happens when the Senses can be Rewired?, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. He also joins our Media & Arts Board. Listen to his music!
Marios Kyriazis joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Marios is founder of the British Longevity Society and is on the Editorial Board of Rejuvenation Research.
Watch Transhumanism, Existential Risks, and the AI Physician by our Kim Solez.
Victoria Jaguar joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Her extensive medical experience includes a variety of clinical work in addition to 10 years specialized work in organ and tissue donation.
Paul McGlothin, executive director of The CR Way Longevity Center, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Matthew Hoey, Director of the Military Space Transparency Project, joins our Policy Board.
Gert Kiss, coauthor of Computational Design of an Enzyme Catalyst for a Stereoselective Bimolecular Diels-Alder Reaction, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Jill Sobule joins our Media & Arts Board. Jill leapt to fame with her MTV staple and national top 20 hit, I Kissed a Girl.
Daniel Finfer joins our Media & Arts Board. He is a multi-instrumentalist music producer based out of Santa Monica, California. After pondering how to link the Singularity and his research with music, Daniel has created Post Human Era which is best described as “post-pop”.
Samuel H. Kenyon joins our blog team with the post Hating Technology is Hating Yourself.
Murilo Saraiva de Queiroz joins our Robotics/AI Board. Murilo is Senior Software Engineer at Vetta Labs and Senior Software Engineer at Novamente, LLC.
Lawrence Catchpole, CEO of Zenda Technologies, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Sandy Sandfort, author of The Resurrections of Robert A Heinlein: Genesis, joins our Futurists Board.
Katja Grace joins our Futurists Board. Katja authored Anthropic Reasoning in the Great Filter whose main point is that two popular anthropic reasoning principles, the Self Indication Assumption (SIA) and the Self Sampling Assumption (SSA), as well as Full Non-indexical Conditioning (FNC) basically agree that future filter steps will be larger than we otherwise think, including the many future filter steps that are existential risks.
János Kramár, coauthor of A Generalized-Zero-Preserving Method for Compact Encoding of Concept Lattices, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Marcello Herreshoff joins our Robotics/AI Board. Marcello was a participant in the Singularity Institute’s Summer of AI program in 2006, and he continues to work with SIAI Research Fellow Eliezer Yudkowsky on problems of mathematics, artificial intelligence, computer science, and decision theory.
Jack Dongarra joins our Supercomputing Board. Jack maintains (with our Horst Simon) the TOP500 list which ranks and details the (non-distributed) most powerful known computer systems in the world.
Thomas Colthurst, author of Multidimensional Wavelets, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Mercy Njima joins our Futurists Board. Mercy is Google Fellow at Singularity University, NASA Ames Research Park and Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and Engineering at IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy.
From Sarah Marr who is on our Policy Board: Understanding SENS Foundation: mission, message, and more.
Michael Strong joins our Human Trajectories Board. He is the lead author, along with Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Hernando de Soto, Co-chair of the U.N. Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor, John Mackey, and others of Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems.
Santiago Bilinkis joins our Business Board. Santiago cofounded what is now Officenet Staples and is a GSP10 Graduate of Singularity University.
Dmitriy Tseliakhovich, who is commercializing a new rocket propulsion paradigm, one that requires no chemical explosions, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Marco Chacin joins our Space Settlement Board. Marco is Teaching Fellow – Space Team Project (GSP-10) at Singularity University.
Lisa Rein, author of The Singularity Takes A Bite Out of the Big Apple, joins our Education Board.
Martine Rothblatt joins our blog team with the post Ten most transhumanist words.
Jie Sheng, who is researching cyanobacteria for generating solar-powered, carbon-neutral, and cost-effective biodiesel, joins our Sustainability Board.
Bhavesh Sanghvi joins our Robotics/AI Board. Bhavesh worked on the open source OpenBiomind (part of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence’s OpenCog – Open Cognition Project).
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Our Gregory Benford, Ryan Bethencourt, Suzanne Gildert, Ben Goertzel, Randal Koene, Amy Li, Michael Rose, Michael Vassar, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking at Humanity+ @ Caltech: Redefining Humanity in the Era of Radical Technological Change. This conference is scheduled for December 4–5 at the Beckman Institute at Caltech, Los Angeles, California.
Daniel W. Rasmus, author of Listening to the Future: Why It’s Everybody’s Business, joins our Futurists Board.
Ryan Bethencourt, Director of Business Development at PAREXEL, joins our Business Board.
Alex Lightman moves from being Executive Director of Humanity+ to joining the Lifeboat Foundation Policy Board.
 
Alex is an author, entrepreneur, and futurist, who has made significant contributions to the adoption of IPv6, served as CTO of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization, and has authored several books on technology and society.
Luke Hutchison, who was a member of the inaugural class of the Singularity University, joins our Scientific Advisory Board. His background is in computer graphics, algorithms, machine learning, information theory, and computational biology.
Zubin Wadia joins our Informaton Sciences Board. Zubin is CEO and Co-Founder of CiviGuard, Inc., which has developed a new mobile-based solution for emergency communications. CiviGuard was inspired by 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and other recent crises.
Richard Yonck, author of The Age of the Interface, joins our Futurists Board.
Samuel Gerald Collins, who authored All Tomorrow’s Cultures: Anthropological Engagements with the Future, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Zeev Zalevsky, whose scratched glasses give perfect vision for any eyesight, joins our Engineering Board.
Bret Kulakovich, author of Atomic Medicine: Further Evidence of Accelerating Returns, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Read Designing for Future Mobility.
Slade Beard joins our Human Trajectories Board. Read his Ecothought: Architecture for the Human Enterprise.
Andrew Beckwith, author of Symmetries In Evolving Space-time and Their Connection To High-frequency Gravity Wave Production, joins our Cosmology Board.
Sam Kenyon, Lead Software Engineer at iRobot, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Edgar W. Swank, President of the American Cryonics Society, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Our Raj Bawa, Lajos “Lou” Balogh, Thomas Webster, and Lijie “Grace” Zhang will be speaking at the Second Annual Conference of the American Society for Nanomedicine which will be held October 14th-16th at the Bolger Center in Potomac, Maryland. The Lifeboat Foundation is Media Partner of this event.
Thomas J. Webster joins our Biotech/Medical Board and Nanotechnology Board. Tom is the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Nanomedicine and is on the editorial board of 10 other journals.
 
Tom directs the Nanomedicine Laboratory at Brown University which designs, synthesizes, and evaluates nanomaterials for various implant applications.
Lajos “Lou” Balogh joins our Biotech/Medical Board and Nanotechnology Board. Lou is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine.
Lijie “Grace” Zhang, coauthor of The Role of Tissue Engineering in Articular Cartilage Repair and Regeneration and Carbon Nanofibers and Carbon Nanotubes in Regenerative Medicine, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Steven Kotler, author of A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life, joins our Human-Nonhuman Relationship Board.
Florian Siebzehnrubl, who found the first link in humans between memory and nerve cell production, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Darren Tofts, who coedited Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Watch the educational video The End of the World: Are We Doomed? by our David Brin.
Actor/director Edward James Olmos joins our Ethics Board and Media & Arts Board. Eddie has done everything from playing Admiral Adama on Battlestar Galactica to helping get communities cleaned up and rebuilt after the 1992 Rodney King Riots in Los Angeles.
Guy Deutscher, author of Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages, joins our Neuroscience Board.
British scholar, author, and cultural critic Mikita Brottman joins our Media & Arts Board. Read her H+ Magazine article The Influencing Machine and Technophobia.
Ayesha Khanna, Managing Partner of Hybrid Realities and Principal of the Hybrid Reality Institute, joins our Futurists Board.
Rosalind Sanders joins our blog team with the post American Institute of Physics reveals more cost-efficient selenium photovoltaic cells.
The third SENS Foundation L.A. Chapter meeting will be held on Saturday, October 2nd at the Westwood Brewing Company (1097 Glendon Avenue, Los Angeles, CA) from 4pm until 8pm and to the “after party” downstairs from 8pm until we are done fixing the world! The meeting is being organized by our Maria Entraigues who can be contacted at [email protected].
 
Our Maria Entraigues, Aubrey de Grey, and Sarah Marr will be attending. Dr. L. Stephen Coles (director of the Gerontology Research Group) will give an update on DNA Sequencing in Human Supercentenarians, starting at 5.00pm. Following this, at around 6.30pm, Aubrey (SENSF Co-founder and CSO) and Sarah (SENSF Co-founder and Executive VP) will talk about the Foundation’s work and recent developments in the field, and actor/director Edward James Olmos will say a few words as well.
Mamoun Muhammed joins our Nanotechnology Board. The internet may soon be a greener place thanks to new research by Mamoun that looks set to slash the carbon footprint of our surfing by introducing nanotechnology to computer servers.
Sarah Marr, cofounder of the SENS Foundation, joins our Policy Board. Sarah’s extensive background includes everything from a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics to spending several years as a business and IT consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).
Pier Luigi Capucci joins our Media & Arts Board. Pier Luigi is founder of Noema, a web magazine devoted to culture-sciences-technologies interrelations and influences. Noema just celebrated its tenth anniversary!
Watch the educational video Mixed and Virtual Reality.
Lev Lafayette, who is presenting Social Formations in a Transhumanist World at the first Singularity Summit Australia, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Kirk Sorensen, who runs the blog Energy From Thorium, joins our Engineering Board and Sustainability Board.
 
Watch his Google Tech Talk Energy From Thorium: A Nuclear Waste Burning Liquid Salt Thorium Reactor.
We have improved our TransVision 2010 lineup to include: Riccardo Campa, Lincoln Cannon, Jamais Cascio, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Robert M. Geraci, Ben Goertzel, Randal A. Koene, Miriam Leis, Eugen Leitl, David Orban, David Pearce, Giulio Prisco, Marta Rossi, Martine Rothblatt, Anders Sandberg, Jacopo Tagliabue, Fiorella Terenzi, Mike Treder, and Natasha Vita-More.
 
TransVision 2010 will be held October 22–24 in Milan, Italy. This conference will be a very intense, informative, scientific as well as an entertaining tour de force in contemporary transhumanist thinking, activism, science, technology & innovation and grand visionary dreams, with over 40 talks distributed over three days.
Marta Rossi joins our Ethics Board. Marta’s research is focused on mind-body relations, philosophical and scientific accounts of consciousness, and the link between the Singularity and social changes.
Italian researcher and psychologist Antonella Canonico joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Gabriele Rossi, Director of the iLabs AI department, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Jacopo Tagliabue, coauthor of The Effect of Leverage on Financial Markets, joins our Complex Systems Board.
Frederick Gaston, of Gaston & Gaston, joins our Legal Board.
Marco Baumgartl joins our Cosmology Board and Physics Board. Marco is the author of Backgrounds in Boundary String Field Theory. He is the initiator and organizer of the SFP: International School on Strings and Fundamental Physics and the FoG-workshop Fundaments of Gravity.
Jamie Bronstein, author of Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800–1862, and John Francis Bray: Transatlantic Radical, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
The theme for Rome’s next science festival is “Science and the End of the World”. It will run from Thursday 20 January 2011 to Sunday 23. On Saturday, our Willard Wells will give a slide presentation with the tentative title “Calculation of Humanity’s Survivability”.
 
The event, as always, will take place in Renzo Piano’s striking Auditorium Parco della Musica. The fifth edition of the Festival, in 2009, on Scientific Research and Technology, was an extraordinary success, with 45,000 members of the public attending it.
Read The End of the World and Architecture by Michael A. Richards.
Jeff Clune, creator of the Avidians artificial life forms that evolve basic intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Read issue #98 of Lifeboat News!
The second SENS Foundation L.A. Chapter meeting will be held on Friday, August 27th at the Westwood Brewing Company (1097 Glendon Avenue, Los Angeles, CA) from 6pm until everyone has had enough fun. The meeting is being organized by our Maria Entraigues who can be contacted at [email protected].
 
Dr. Sarah Marr, SENS Foundation Vice President, will be attending.
S. Jay Olshansky, first author of The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Watch his 60 Minutes interview. Watch him on Charlie Rose.
Linh Truong joins our Media & Arts Board.
Rob Carlson, author of Biology Is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Our Sonia Arrison, Gregory Benford, Greg Fahy, Terry Grossman, Sheldon Saul Hendler, Raymond McCauley, and Melanie Swan will be speaking at the Personalized Life Extension Conference 2010 on October 9 and October 10 in San Francisco. Use the code LIFEBOAT to get $100 off this conference.
Peter Passaro, coauthor of Hybrots: Hybrids of Living Neurons and Robots for Studying Neural Computation, joins our Neuroscience Board and Robotics/AI Board.
Read issue #97 of Lifeboat News!
ASIM 2010: Advancing Substrate-Independent Minds, Satellite to the Singularity Summit 2010, will be held at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco during August 16–17.
 
ASIM (Advancing Substrate-Independent Minds) is a new series of workshops and activities that will cover the current state of the art in the fields of whole brain emulation, mind transfer, digital personalities, gradual replacement techniques, and brain preservation.
 
The sessions of the ASIM workshop will run after the Singularity Summit workshop on Monday and Tuesday, as a satellite event to the main Singularity Summit (August 14–15). The Singularity Summit workshop finishes at 5pm on both days, so there will be time to find some dinner before joining their evening sessions.
 
It is being organized by our Randal A. Koene and Suzanne Gildert.
J. Peter Rosenfeld, whose P300 brain-wave tests may enable us to read terrorists’ minds, joins our Neuroscience Board and Counterterrorism Board.
Anthony Laing, coauthor of Multimode Quantum Interference of Photons in Multiport Integrated Devices, joins our Physics Board.
The Singularity Summit 2010 will be held August 14–15 at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, California.
 
This is a rare gathering of thinkers to explore the rising impact of science and technology on society. The summit has been organized to further the understanding of a controversial idea — the Singularity scenario. As an official partner of this event, the Lifeboat Foundation invites scientists, futurists, and everyone interested in the future of the human species to attend.
Jeff Lichtman, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Ryan Calo joins our blog team with the post Robots And Privacy.
Read issue #96 of Lifeboat News!
Markus Schmidt joins our Biotech/Medical Board and Ethics Board. Markus was a speaker at the first meeting of The U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
 
His research interests include risk assessment, the science-society interface, and technology assessment (TA) of novel bio-, nano-, and converging technologies, with a special focus on synthetic biology.
Hannes Sjöblad joins our Finance Board. Hannes Chief Operating Officer at Alpcot Capital Management Ltd. in London.
Our updated Space Habitats page is up thanks to James Doehring.
The Lifeboat Foundation sold 24 copies of Apocalypse When?: Calculating How Long the Human Race Will Survive yesterday. Visit our Lifeboat Foundation Amazon store. (This store is identical to Amazon but donates about 6.5% of its proceeds to us.)
Peter Sweeney, Founder and Co-President of Primal Fusion, joins our Information Sciences Board. Primal has developed a semantic synthesis technology that solves core scalability and personalization issues in knowledge representation for the consumer Internet.
Jonathan Smallwood, featured in The New York Times article Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind, joins our Neuroscience Board.
George Palasantzas, who has put the Casimir effect to work as a nano-switch, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Dan Huh joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Dan has developed a living, breathing human lung-on-a-chip.
Howie M. Choset joins our Robotics/AI Board. Recently, Howie cofounded a company called Cardiorobotics which makes a small surgical snake robot for minimally invasive surgery. (And raised over $10 million for this venture!)
Erik Brynjolfsson, coauthor of Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy, joins our Business Board. Erik is also the Schussel Family Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business, Chair of the MIT Sloan Management Review, and the Editor of the Information Systems Network.
Bradley Voytek, who has discovered a way to make neural prostheses such as bionic arms or eyes less invasive, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Lincoln Cannon, Director and President of the Mormon Transhumanist Association and one of the main exponents of modern religious transhumanism, joins our Futurists Board.
Robert M. Geraci, author of Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Eugen Leitl joins our Futurists Board. Eugen is a German cryonicist and transhumanist activist, a computer scientist, and an expert in several disciplines including neurotechnology.
Mazin Gilbert, Executive Director of Technical Research at AT&T; Labs, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Miriam Leis joins our Futurists Board. Watch her Colony 5 – Future – Technoprogressive Lyrics.
Andrew Pieper, who has discovered a compound that restores the capacity to form new memories in aging rats, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Denise Herzing joins our blog team with the post The True Cost of Ignoring Nonhumans.
TransVision 2010 will be held October 22–24 in Milan, Italy. This conference will be a very intense, informative, scientific as well as an entertaining tour de force in contemporary transhumanist thinking, activism, science, technology & innovation and grand visionary dreams, with over 40 talks distributed over three days.
 
Our Riccardo Campa, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Ben Goertzel, Randal A. Koene, David Orban, David Pearce, Giulio Prisco, Martine Rothblatt, Anders Sandberg, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.
The main goal of the Lifeboat Foundation is to safeguard humanity from problems in the future. Today we are offering the chance to save a life today. It is important that we work to protect both our present and our future.
 
One of our donors, Mulege Armstrong, has bone cancer. Help save her!
Read the reports Human Body Version 2.0 and Law of Accelerating Returns by our Ray Kurzweil.
Nikola Danaylov joins our Futurists Board. Nikola runs the Singularity Weblog and Singularity Symposium.
Olivier Roland joins our Futurists Board. Olivier created the popular French blog, Des Livres Pour Changer de Vie which is dedicated to rare and demanding books that can change one’s life, covering topics as diverse as productivity, creativity, management, marketing, entrepreneurship, finance, and also meditation, happiness, and health.
Andrea Kuszewski, author of the blog The Rogue Neuron, joins our Neuroscience Board. Andrea is a Behavior Therapist and Consultant for children on the autism spectrum in Boston, Massachusetts. Her expertise is in Asperger’s Syndrome, or high-functioning autism.
The Lifeboat Foundation is ready to begin work on an ambitious project called the Lifeboat Foundation X-Risks Network. Our mailing list/forum for this project is at https://groups.google.com/group/lifeboat-foundation-x-risks-network. To get invited to the discussion on our mailing list/forum, send an email with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation X-Risks Network” to [email protected].
 
The goal of the X-Risks Network project is to combine a bayesian network, a debate graph, and a project tracking system all into one graph. The project is focused on tracking progress on existential risk reduction and then determining the most leveraged ways to help reduce existential risks.
 
Learn more!
We have launched a forum/mailing list for our Neuroscience Board.
 
If you wish to join our Neuroscience Board, you can apply by sending an email with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Neuroscience Board” to [email protected].
 
The Lifeboat Foundation now has 7 forum/mailing lists.
Aubrey de Grey will join the first SENSF L.A. Chapter meeting to be held on Friday, July 9th, 2010, at the Westwood Brewing Company (1097 Glendon Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024–2907) starting at 5pm.
 
This will be an informal gathering to create a local initiative to promote the SENS Foundation’s interests and mission.
 
The idea of forming a SENSF L.A. Chapter, which is planned to have monthly meetings, is to create a network of enthusiasts, field professionals, potential donors, sponsors, collaborators, students, etc. The chapter will promote educational efforts in the area, and will reach out to the Hollywood community and gain their support.
 
Please RSVP with Maria Entraigues at [email protected]
Martin Greenberger joins our Economics Board and Information Sciences Board.
 
Martin earned B.A. (summa cum laude), M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics and economics from Harvard University, working there in the early 1950s with Mark I, a pre-ENIAC automatic digital computer. His doctoral dissertation was on a microanalytic simulation of the American economy, a joint research project with economists Guy Orcutt and Alice Rivlin. During the same period, he managed the IBM applied science group that tracked the Russian Sputnik, a collaboration with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Harvard.
 
In the 1964 Atlantic Monthly article Computers of Tomorrow, well before the advent of either the Internet, the NASDAQ stock exchange, electronic banking, or magnetic credit cards, Martin introduced the term “information utility” to express a vision of scalable computation, automatic security markets, online communities, distributed information services, money cards, and computerized financial transactions.
Bob Richards joins our Space Settlement Board. Bob is the Founder and CEO of Odyssey Moon Limited, a commercial lunar transportation company and the first official contender in the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE.
 
In 1987, Bob cofounded the International Space University (ISU) with Peter Diamandis and Todd Hawley; today a global institution with a central campus in Strasbourg, France.
 
In 2008, Bob joined Peter Diamandis, Ray Kurzweil, and other leading thinkers in the founding of Singularity University, an institution dedicated to preparing humanity for accelerating technological change, based at the NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley.
Keith Murphy, Chief Executive Officer and President of Organovo, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Organovo is a regenerative medicine company focused on delivering breakthrough human tissue printing technology and creating tissue on demand for research and surgical applications.
Suzanne Gildert joins our Physics Board. Suzanne is working for D-Wave Systems, a company which is building the world’s first commercially available quantum computer.
Marcos Bernat joins our Futurists Board. Marcos is an alumnus of the Singularity University Executive Program 2010 and helped grow Chupa Chups to 2,000 employees.
James Canton joins our Futurists Board. James is a renowned global futurist, social scientist, keynote presenter, author, and visionary business advisor. He has advised three White House Administrations, the National Science Foundation, and MIT’s Media Lab, Europe.
Eitan Eliram joins our Media & Arts Board. Eitan is Director of New Media, Communication Department, Prime Minister’s Office, Israel.
Jonathan Knowles joins our Business Board. Jonathan is Director, Strategic Initiatives, Corporate Strategy and Engagement at Autodesk. Watch Autodesk’s Jonathan Knowles uses Willow Garage Texai at X PRIZE Gala.
Peer Infinity joins our blog team with the post Existential Risk Reduction Career Network.
Jane Herndon joins our Business Board. Jane is a business strategist interested in creating positive social and economic change through innovative technology / business models.
Yuri van Geest joins our Futurists Board. He is an alumnus of the Singularity University Executive Program 2010 sponsored by NASA, Google, and Autodesk.
Alberto Dubois joins our Business Board. Alberto has 15 years in investment banking in Spanish, French, and UK entities.
The RPG Eclipse Phase includes the “Singularity Foundation” and “Lifeboat Institute” as player factions. Learn more about this game!
Kim Solez, one of the world’s foremost kidney pathologists and medical Internet leaders, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Hal Myers, Cofounder and President of Thought Technology, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Frank Adamek, cofounder of the Existential Risk Reduction Career Network, joins our Futurists Board.
Read issue #95 of Lifeboat News!
Kevin Jain, President of the Harvard College Future Society, joins our Futurists Board.
 
The Harvard College Future Society hosted and organized the H+ Summit at Harvard: Rise of the Citizen Scientist, with organizational assistance from Humanity+.
M. A. “Doc Gee” Greenstein joins our Futurists Board. Doc Gee is an internationally recognized commentator, researcher, and coach on best and future practices for “opening the doors of perception”.
Todd Huffman, cofounder of the BIL Conference and a member of the Board of Directors of Humanity+, joins our Futurists Board.
Robert Lecnik of Canadian Photonic Labs joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Donald Maclean joins the A-500 where he supports the A-PRIZE for the price of a cup of coffee a day. The purpose of the A-PRIZE is to put development of artificial life forms in the open where it should be.
Tony Greenberg, Chairman of RampRate Sourcing Advisors, joins our Futurists Board. RampRate is an IT services decision hub that makes multi-million dollar matches between people that need some really cold space, massive computing power and near infinite bandwidth and companies that can do so reliably, cheaply, and effectively.
The H+ Summit @ Harvard — The Rise Of The Citizen Scientist is this weekend!
 
We have further improved our lineup to include: Itamar Arel, Ed Boyden, Aubrey de Grey, George Dvorsky, Alexandra Elbakyan, Ben Goertzel, Noah Goodman, Andrew Hessel, James Hughes, Joseph P. Jackson, Morris Johnson, Ray Kurzweil, John “Pathfinder” Lester, Amy Li, Jeff Lieberman, Brian Malow, Raymond McCauley, Pieter J. Mosterman, Ramez Naam, David Orban, David Pearce, Mridula “Millie” Kumari Ray, Heather Schlegel, Melanie Swan, Alexei Turchin, Natasha Vita-More, and Justyna Zander.
 
Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/648806598/friendsofhplus/4141206940.
Donald Maclean joins our blog team with the post Transitions.
Amy Li joins our Media & Arts Board. Amy is a multidisciplinary creative director and designer, specializing in branding, creative marketing strategy, and user experience design for global brands such as Yahoo, AT&T;, VW, Sony etc. She is also on the board of directors of Humanity+.
Brian Malow, “Earth’s Premier Science Comedian”, joins our Education Board. Watch his science video essays on Time Magazine’s website.
Woody Evans joins our blog team with the post Gizmodo: Are Cameras the New Guns?
Bob Krone joins our blog team with the post Space Education.
Frank Sudia joins our blog team with the post Friendly AI: What is it, and how can we foster it?
Read our updated NanoShield report.
Our Michele Giugliano and Henry Markram are organizing the 2010 Monte Verità Workshop: Frontiers in Neuroengineering in Ascona, Switzerland, September 5–9th, 2010.
 
Neuroengineering is a rapidly growing discipline that takes its lymph from the increasing cross-fertilization of many areas of technology and science. By means of neuroengineering, advances in diverse technologies and in cellular and molecular biology converge into powerful tools to improve our understanding and treatment of neural (dis)functions. Recently such a discipline has gone beyond the concept of a simple application of engineering principles to central nervous system (CNS) comprehension, leading to the emergence of one of the more exciting interdisciplinary research fields in modern neurosciences.
Ramesh Jain joins our Engineering Board. Ramesh is a scientist and entrepreneur whose decades long career has spanned several universities and startup companies. He is best known for founding the company Virage and working on some of the early visual information retrieval systems. In addition, he was the founder of IEEE Multimedia.
Heather Schlegel, futurist, technologist, and cacophonist, joins our Futurists Board. For more than 12 years Heather has helped build innovative Internet products in Silicon Valley and has more than 50 product launches to her name.
Watch the LittleDog Robot.
Read 10 Futuristic Materials by our Michael Anissimov.
Read issue #94 of Lifeboat News!
We have further improved our H+ Summit @ Harvard — The Rise Of The Citizen Scientist lineup to include: Itamar Arel, Ed Boyden, Aubrey de Grey, George Dvorsky, Alexandra Elbakyan, Ben Goertzel, Noah Goodman, Andrew Hessel, James Hughes, Joseph P. Jackson, Morris Johnson, Ray Kurzweil, John “Pathfinder” Lester, Jeff Lieberman, Raymond McCauley, Pieter J. Mosterman, Ramez Naam, David Orban, David Pearce, Mridula “Millie” Kumari Ray, Melanie Swan, Alexei Turchin, Natasha Vita-More, and Justyna Zander.
 
Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/648806598/friendsofhplus/4141206940.
Jeff Lieberman, the host of Discovery Channel’s Time Warp, joins our Education Board and Media & Arts Board.
Our existential risk programs discussion interface has been improved. Join the discussion!
 
Also, if you wish to post to our blog, send an email to [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation blog”.
Fannie Mae doubles their donation to the Lifeboat Foundation. Thanks Fannie Mae!
Pieter J. Mosterman, Associate Editor of Applied Intelligence: The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Complex Problem-Solving Technologies, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Mridula “Millie” Kumari Ray, coauthor of Polycomb complexes repress developmental regulators in murine embryonic stem cells, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
John “Pathfinder” Lester joins our Media & Arts Board. John joins our growing lineup at H+ Summit @ Harvard — The Rise Of The Citizen Scientist.
Matt Barrie, whose Freelancer.com can now make your boss a robot, joins our Information Sciences Board.
H+ Summit @ Harvard — The Rise Of The Citizen Scientist lineup to include: Ed Boyden, Aubrey de Grey, George Dvorsky, Alexandra Elbakyan, Ben Goertzel, Noah Goodman, Andrew Hessel, James Hughes, Joseph P. Jackson, Morris Johnson, Ray Kurzweil, Raymond McCauley, Ramez Naam, David Orban, David Pearce, Alexei Turchin, Natasha Vita-More, and Justyna Zander.
 
Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/648806598/friendsofhplus/4141206940.
Steven Zuckerman, Executive Producer of the Next-Gen-Expo, joins our Media & Arts Board.
 
The Next-Gen-Expo unites global visionary leaders committed to developing the next generation products, companies, strategies, and cities for a better world. It will be held October 16–17 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Lyle Ungar, author of Your iPhone is Going to Outsmart You: The Informational Revolution Will Take Us By Surprise, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Justyna Zander, author of Computation of Things in the Perspective of Climate Implications, joins our Sustainability Board.
Noah Goodman, who has developed a Grand Unified Theory of AI, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Read Demographic Consequences of Defeating Aging by our Leonid A. Gavrilov and Natalia S. Gavrilova.
Raymond McCauley, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Read On the Principles of Economics & Evolution: A Survival Guide for the Inhabitants of Small Islands, Including the Inhabitants of the Small Island of Earth by our Matt Funk.
Ramez Naam, author of More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement, joins our Futurists Board. Ramez is a professional technologist who was involved in the development of widely-used software products such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook.
Alexandra Elbakyan, author of Consciousness in mixed systems: merging artificial and biological minds via Brain-Machine Interface, joins our Engineering Board.
Morris Johnson, Chief Technology Officer at Lifespan Pharma, joins our Futurists Board.
Our Anirban Bandyopadhyay has developed a molecular computer that mimics the human brain. It can solve complex problems and even heal itself.
Our Wesley du Charme was cryopreserved after a long battle with cancer.
 
We will miss him.
Go to http://www.eventbrite.com/event/648806598/friendsofhplus/4141206940 to register for H+ Summit @ Harvard — The Rise Of The Citizen Scientist.
Our Kattesh Katti has developed a new cancer detection and therapy method using engineered gold nanoparticles.
Keith Curtis joins our blog team with the post Software and the Singularity.
Jerry Fluellen, author of Word for the Mind: Analysis of a Language of Thinking, joins our Education Board.
Read issue #93 of Lifeboat News!
David Orban joins our blog team with the post H+ Summit @ Harvard — The Rise Of The Citizen Scientist.
 
The Lifeboat Foundation is Media Sponsor of this event. If you have suggestions on future events that we should sponsor, please contact [email protected].
James Doehring joins our blog team with the post Technology Readiness Levels for Non-rocket Space Launch.
Nikodem Poplawski, who discovered that our universe may be in a black hole within a larger universe, joins our Physics Board.
Adam Gordon, author of Future Savvy: Identifying Trends to Make Better Decisions, Manage Uncertainty, and Profit from Change, joins our Futurists Board.
Read The Teachers We Need vs. the Teachers We Have: The Realities and the Possibilities by our Lawrence Baines.
Miron Cuperman, a futurist based in San Francisco who is currently Founder of CPUSet and Founder of a Stealth Bioinformatics startup, joins our Futurists Board.
Amnon H. Eden joins our blog team with the post Technological Singularity and Acceleration Studies: Call for Papers.
Matt Funk, author of On the Truly Noncooperative Game of Life on Earth: In Search of the Unity of Nature & Evolutionary Stable Strategy, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Dave Stein, editor-in-chief of FUTUREtakes, joins our Futurists Board.
Our WorldFuture 2010 lineup has been improved to include: Janna Quitney Anderson, Peter Bishop, Dennis Bushnell, Joseph F. Coates, José Luis Cordeiro, William Cosgrove, Kevin Fickenscher, Medard Gabel, Jay Gary, Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, Linda Groff, William Halal, Ken Harris, Jay Herson, Rodney Hill, John Jackson, Michael Jackson, Carl Jensen III, Ted Kahn, Ray Kurzweil, Thelma Leaffer, Bernard H. Levin, Thomas Lombardo, Gary Marx, Hameed Nezhad, Pavel Nováček, Amy Oberg, Concepción Olavarrieta, Leslie Schneider, Rick Smyre, Stephen F. Steele, Mohan Tikku, Patrick Tucker, Wendell Wallach, and Verne Wheelwright.
 
WorldFuture 2010: Sustainable Futures, Strategies, and Technologies will be held July 8–10, 2010 at The Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.
Thelma Leaffer, coauthor of The Digital Health-Care Revolution, joins our Futurists Board.
Markus Goritschnig joins our blog team with the post Critical Request to CERN Council and Member States on LHC Risks.
Ken Harris, Chairman, The Consilience Group, LLC; Secretary, the World Future Society; and Managing and Transportation Field Editor, Techcast.org, joins our Futurists Board.
Kevin Fickenscher, Chief Strategy and Development Officer, Dell Perot Systems – Healthcare, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Concepción Olavarrieta, creator of the Global Millennium Prize for youngsters all over the world, joins our Futurists board.
Read issue #92 of Lifeboat News!
Hameed Nezhad, author of World Energy Scenarios to 2050: Issues and Options, joins our Futurists Board.
Leslie Schneider, president of Formative Networks, joins our Education Board.
Janna Quitney Anderson, Director of the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University, joins our Futurists Board.
John Jackson, President of Police Futurists International, joins our Futurists Board.
 
The Society of Police Futurists International (PFI) is an organization of law enforcement practitioners, educators, researchers, private security specialists, technology experts, and other professionals dedicated to improving criminal and social justice through the professionalization of policing.
Dylan Evans joins our blog team with the post Risk intelligence.
Łukasz Kaiser, who authored Program Search as a Path to Artificial General Intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Dave Kekich, CEO at Maximum Life Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation dedicated to reversing human aging and aging related diseases, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
The paper submission deadline for The First International Green Computing Conference has been extended to April 7, 2010.
 
The First International Green Computing Conference, Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, addresses key issues and topics related to energy efficiency in computing and promoting environmentally friendly computer technologies and systems. The conference aims to provide a forum to a wide audience for discussing, sharing, and investigating the state-of-the-art for all aspects of green computing, which include energy-efficient use of computers, design of algorithms and systems for environmentally-friendly computer technologies, and wide range of related topics.
WorldFuture 2010: Sustainable Futures, Strategies, and Technologies will be held July 8–10, 2010 at The Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. Our Peter Bishop, Dennis Bushnell, José Luis Cordeiro, William Cosgrove, Medard Gabel, Jay Gary, Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, Linda Groff, William Halal, Jay Herson, Rodney Hill, Michael Jackson, Carl Jensen III, Ted Kahn, Ray Kurzweil, Bernard H. Levin, Thomas Lombardo, Gary Marx, Pavel Nováček, Amy Oberg, Rick Smyre, Stephen F. Steele, Mohan Tikku, and Verne Wheelwright will be speaking.
Ray Kurzweil joins our blog team with the post Reflections on Avatar.
Tim Oates, coauthor of Clustering Time Series with Hidden Markov Models and Dynamic Time Warping, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
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.
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.
Our AGI-10 lineup has been further improved to include: Itamar Arel, Eric Baum, Nick Cassimatis, Antonio Chella, Włodzisław “Wlodek” Duch, Ben Goertzel, J. Storrs “Josh” Hall, Marcus Hutter, Matthew Iklé, Bert Kappen, Randal Koene, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, John Laird, Christian Lebiere, Shane Legg, Carlo Lepori, Moshe Looks, András Lörincz, Hamid Reza Maei, David Orban, Cassio Pennachin, Jan Poland, Stephen Reed, Sebastian Rudolph, Anders Sandberg, Tom Schaul, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Kristinn Thórisson, 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.”
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.
Hamid Reza Maei, who is building reinforcement learning algorithms for large-scale problems, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Alexander Seifalian, who is using nanotechnology to create an artificial artery, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Antoine van de Ven, coauthor of A Minimum Relative Entropy Principle for AGI, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
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.
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.
Antonio Chella, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Tom Schaul, who is working on artificial curiosity with Jürgen Schmidhuber, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Our AGI-10 lineup has been improved to include: Itamar Arel, Eric Baum, Nick Cassimatis, Włodzisław “Wlodek” Duch, Ben Goertzel, J. Storrs “Josh” Hall, Marcus Hutter, Matthew Iklé, Bert Kappen, Randal Koene, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, John Laird, Christian Lebiere, Shane Legg, Carlo Lepori, Moshe Looks, András Lörincz, David Orban, Cassio Pennachin, Stephen Reed, Sebastian Rudolph, Anders Sandberg, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Kristinn Thórisson, 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.”
Kristinn Thórisson 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.
Michael Mautner, who says that we have a ‘moral obligation’ to seed the universe with life, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Eliot Winer, who has developed technology that converts 2-D medical scans into detailed 3-D images that can be used to plan a surgery, joins our Engineering Board.
Read issue #91 of Lifeboat News!
Igor Aronson, who used bacteria to power simple machines, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Read Millimeter-scale, energy-harvesting sensor system developed.
Read Exposed: Naked Body Scanner Images Of Film Star Printed, Circulated By Airport Staff.
Richard Hunter, who demonstrated that acute stress leaves epigenetic marks on the hippocampus, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Ben “Fenn” Lipkowitz joins our Human Trajectories Board. Fenn has created a civilization seed with SKDB.
Domenico Praticó joins our Biotech/Medical Board. His research area is clinical pharmacology with a special focus on the cellular and molecular aspects of cell oxidative biology and a particular interest in small molecules such as bioactive oxidized lipids.
Ryan Calo, Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, Stanford Law School, joins our Legal Board.
Kate Stone, founder of Novalia which creates Interactive Printed Media (IPM), joins our Media & Arts Board.
Read Kinds of Minds by our J. Storrs “Josh” Hall.
Yi Qi, who is working on artificial kagome spin ice, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Michael McAlpine, whose energy-harvesting rubber sheets could power pacemakers, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Jerry Shih, who showed that brain waves can “write” on a computer, joins our Neuroscience Board.
We thank Fannie Mae for their generous donation.
Scott Saponas, who is developing muscle-computer interfaces, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Nicolas Pinto, who demonstrated a better way for computers to “see”, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Karl MacDorman joins our Robotics/AI Board. His research interests include android science, machine learning, social robotics, sensor motor representation, symbol grounding and symbol emergence, computational neuroscience, and computer security.
Dale Purves, coeditor of Neuroscience, Fourth Edition, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Amir Shapiro, whose robots climb up the wall, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Benjamin Wolozin, who discovered that subjects taking the cholesterol lowering medicines termed statins have a lower incidence of Alzheimer’s disease, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Hanna Tuomisto, who coauthored Assessing the environmental impacts of contrasting farming systems, joins our Sustainability Board.
Xue Han, who is developing laser-controlled humans, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Bre Pettis joins our Engineering Board. Bre is cofounder of Makerbot, a company that produces robots that make things.
Jean van den Elsen, whose new technique detects proteins that make us age, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
David Harrison, who gave elderly mice the human equivalent of thirteen extra years of life, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Sylvain Martel, who is harnessing bacteria as drug mules which are steered through human bodies using magnetic fields, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Jiping Huang, who is developing a liquid invisibility cloak, joins our Physics Board.
Brian Chow, who is silencing brain cells with multiple colors of light, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Diana Reiss, internationally recognized researcher in animal cognition and communication, joins our Human-Nonhuman Relationship Board.
Read issue #90 of Lifeboat News!
Jen Cha joins our Nanotechnology Board. Jen is pushing the envelop in nanoscience by using biology to engineer the assembly of nanoscale materials for applications in medicine, electronics, and energy.
Monica Anderson, inventor of Artificial Intuition: a new possible path to Artificial Intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Leslie A. Yakubowski and Benjamin R. Hoffman become LF 500 members, bringing us up to 200 donors.
Peter de Jager, winner of our Guardian Award, joins our Futurists Board.
Dustin Smith joins our Robotics/AI Board. Dustin is a member of the MIT Mind Machine Project whose goal is to reconcile natural intelligence with machine intelligence, and in doing so develop and engineer a class of intelligent machines.
Donna Simmons joins our Neuroscience Board. She was featured in the New York Times article Building a Search Engine of the Brain, Slice by Slice.
Scientific Advisory Board members Aaron Balogun, Jeffrey Collins, William Cosgrove, Dylan Evans, Woody Evans, Julian Franco, George Perry, and David Reisner have all decided to become LinkedIn managers for our LinkedIn group. We have reached the LinkedIn limit of 10 managers thanks to the support of our many Scientific Advisory Board members. We thank them for this “embarrassment of riches”!
The Life Extension Foundation contributes $2,000 towards our website redesign.
Edward Hubbard joins our Neuroscience Board. Ed is exploring topics at the intersection of education and neuroscience, an emerging field referred to as “Educational Neuroscience” or “Brain, Mind and Behavior”.
Danko Nikolić, who deciphered part of the neuronal code, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Ken Kosik, who discovered how the brain encodes memories at a cellular level, joins our Neuroscience Board.
See the HTML versions of our ongoing website redesign.
Our Ray Solomonoff died after a brief illness. Ray kept publishing and engaging with the AI community right up until his death. It seems very likely that, if and when strong AI is created, the designer will owe a great debt to Ray’s work. Let’s honor his memory by becoming more familiar with his achievements and making sure that his ideas stay alive.
Myung-Haing Cho, whose vaporized viral vector shows promise in anti-cancer gene therapy, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Mac Cowell, Director of The Boston Open Source Science Lab (BOSSlab), joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
The BOSSlab is a volunteer-powered research center that brings amateurs and Ph.D.s together to develop low-cost and low-waste tools and techniques for “DIY” biotechnology.
Humberto Terrones, winner of the “Albert Einstein” UNESCO medal, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Michael K. Simpson, President of the International Space University, joins our Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board.
Read issue #89 of Lifeboat News!
Peter de Jager has been named our Lifeboat Foundation 2009 Guardian Award Winner.
 
The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
 
The 2009 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Peter de Jager on the tenth anniversary of Y2K which he helped avert. This award is in recognition of his 1993 warning which alerted the world to the potential disaster that might have occurred on January 1, 2000 and his efforts in the following years to create global awareness of the problem, and the possible solutions. His presentations, articles, and more than 2,000 media interviews contributed significantly to the world’s mobilization to avoid that fate.
 
Learn more!
Our Sarah Jane Pell has been awarded a TED2010 Fellowship.
H. Henrik Ehrsson, coauthor of That’s My Hand! Activity in Premotor Cortex Reflects Feeling of Ownership of a Limb, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Jaroslav Vacek, who is developing a unidirectional molecular rotor which may lead to tiny sensors, pumps, and switches, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Dan Shaw, author of Hot on the Trail of Democracy in America, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Tom Baehr-Jones joins our Physics Board. His patents include Frequency conversion with nonlinear optical polymers and high index contrast waveguides, Bremsstrahlung laser (“blaser”), and Near field scanning microscope probe and method for fabricating same.
Colin Allen, coauthor (with Wendell Wallach) of Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Dutch transhumanist Ruud Dirven joins our Media & Arts Board.
David Casacuberta, who coedited Handbook of Research on Synthetic Emotions and Sociable Robotics: New Applications in Affective Computing and Artificial Intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Francesc Subirada, Associate Director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, joins our Supercomputing Board.
Borut Pfeifer, recently lead AI programmer on game collaboration between Doug Church and Steven Spielberg, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Roger Narayan, whose new nanomaterial could be a breakthrough for implantable medical devices, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Anders Johansen, coauthor of Standing on the shoulders of giants: Trojan Earths and vortex trapping in low mass self-gravitating protoplanetary disks of gas and solids, joins our Cosmology Board.
Eric Stern, who has developed sensitive nanowire disease detectors, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Jon Britton, profiled in the Maximum PC article Interstellar Tech Support, joins our Engineering Board.
Bill Whittle, author of Silent America: Essays from a Democracy at War, joins our Futurists Board.
Holger Bech Nielsen joins our Particle Physics Board.
 
Holger has made original contributions to theoretical particle physics specifically in the field of string theory. Independently of Nambu and Susskind, he was the first to propose that the Veneziano model was actually a theory of strings and this is why he is considered among the fathers of string theory. He was awarded the highly esteemed Humboldt Prize in 2001 for his scientific research.
Sandra Romenska, author of Innovation in Higher Education Systems in the Post-socialist Countries in Central and Eastern Europe, 1999–2005: possibilities for exploration through a complexity theory framework, joins our Education Board.
Menno van Doorn, coauthor of Me the Media – Rise of the Conversation Society, joins our Futurists Board.
Sam Gutterman, Director and Consulting Actuary for PricewaterhouseCoopers Chicago, joins our Finance Board.
Prem Pais, whose study showed that a once-a-day heart combo pill has less side effects than expected, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Jan Engelmann, whose studies showed that financial advice causes ‘off-loading’ in the brain, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Massimiliano Vasile joins our Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board. Mx has developed a method to divert an asteroid from a potentially catastrophic collision course with Earth. His method deploys a “swarm” of mirror-bearing satellites to focus a beam of sunlight onto its surface.
Sylvain Calinon joins our Robotics/AI Board. Sylvain is working on the development of robot learning by imitation approaches to handle human-robot collaborative working scenarios.
Richard Loosemore, author of Consciousness in Human and Machine: A Theory and Some Falsifiable Predictions, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Ron Novy, author of Iron Man in a Chinese Room: Living Armor and the Possibility of Artificial Intelligence, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
We now have a Russian version of our site at https://russian.lifeboat.com.
Di-Jia Liu, Chemist and Principal Investigator in the Catalysis and Energy Conversion group of the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, joins our Chemistry Board.
Jeevan Kalanithi, founder of Taco Lab, joins our Engineering Board and Media & Arts Board. Taco Lab is a design and engineering firm building new interfaces and devices that blur the physical and digital. Clients include HandsOnToys, Hallmark Cards, and Panasonic.
Read Technology’s Promise: a Book Review by our José Luis Cordeiro.
Julian G. Franco, author of The Physics of Giants and Dwarves: What we know about the existence and viability of drastically scaled creatures, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
The Lifeboat Foundation is now an official supporter of the Space Renaissance Initiative.
Charles Radley joins our staff as LinkedIn Manager.
Read issue #88 of Lifeboat News!
Our SAB member Michael Fleischmann writes:
 
Dear Fellow Lifeboat Foundation Members,
 
Vreebit.com, a free, professional groupware/networking platform developed by one of my companies, has just pledged to donate generously to the Lifeboat Foundation for every LF member who joins their service (over $2,500 for the members of the SAB alone). Not only would this opportunity help fund the ongoing efforts of the Lifeboat Foundation at no cost to us, but it would also substantively enhance our abilities to collaborate and communicate with each other. To allay legitimate privacy concerns, Vreebit refuses to sell or disclose any personal information about its members. I ask all of you to join me on Vreebit by using the following link (to attribute credit to LF): http://www.vreebit.com/index.cfm?rID=lifeboat.
Willard Wells, author of Apocalypse When?: Calculating How Long the Human Race Will Survive, joins our Scientific Advisory Board. Willard’s advisor at Caltech, where he earned his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, was the great Richard Feynman.
Ray Solomonoff joins our Robotics/AI Board. Ray is the founder of the branch of Artificial Intelligence based on machine learning, prediction, and probability. He circulated the first report on machine learning in 1956. He invented algorithmic probability, with Kolmogorov Complexity as a side product, in 1960.
 
Ray says “The Lifeboat problem becomes more and more critical as our technology ‘progresses’.
Jonathan Willis Jarvis joins our [email protected] 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.
Watch our website redesign progress!
Sebastian Rudolph, coauthor of Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Carlo Lepori, co-director of the Dalle Molle Institute of Studies in Artificial Intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
David Wolpert, Senior Computer Scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
David Orban joins our staff as Tweetmaster.
Our Itamar Arel, Eric Baum, Włodzisław “Wlodek” Duch, Ben Goertzel, J. Storrs “Josh” Hall, Marcus Hutter, Bert Kappen, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Christian Lebiere, Shane Legg, Moshe Looks, András Lörincz, David Orban, Stephen Reed, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Marco Wiering, and Mary-Anne Williams will be participating in The Third Conference on Artificial General Intelligence at Lugano, Switzerland on March 5–8 (Fri-Mon) 2010.
Foy Shiver, Deputy Secretary-General of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Our Rob Freitas just won the 2009 Feynman Prize! Help fund his diamond mechanosynthesis research!
Read Productive Nanosystems and the 2009 Financial Meltdown by our Tihamer “Tee” Toth-Fejel. This is part of our triple partnership with Nanotech-Now and The American Journal of Bioethics.
Moshe Szyf, who discovered that childhood trauma can actually alter your DNA and shape the way your genes work, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Keith Abney joins our Robotics/AI Board. He coauthored the U.S. Navy-funded report Autonomous Military Robotics: Risk, Ethics, and Design which was cited in the article Experts Warn of ‘Terminator’-Style Military-Robot Rebellion.
Peter Asaro, subject of the H+ article Can “Terminators” Actually be our Salvation?, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Justin Halberda, who directs the Laboratory For Child Development and Vision And Cognition Lab at Johns Hopkins, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Alan Bodner joins our Engineering Board. Alan is founder of Like-A-Fish Technologies, a company that pioneered the break through technology that extracts dissolved oxygen from ocean water and enables humans to breathe underwater.
Read issue #87 of Lifeboat News!
Raghav Rao, who will be presenting Exposure to Vulnerabilities through Google Hacking: An Exploratory Study of Four Different Countries at APWG: 2009 GM, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Dave Jevans, Chairman and Founder of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to eradicating identity theft and fraud on the Internet, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
 
The APWG has over 1,500 member companies and agencies worldwide. Membership is limited to banks and other financial institutions, ISPs, law enforcement agencies, and security technology vendors.
Leigh Fulwood, Corporate Counsel at Costco Wholesale, joins our Legal Board.
Tabatha Marshall, who is presenting Muling Scams: Offers No One Can Afford to Accept at APWG: 2009 GM, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Mina Guirguis, coauthor of Stealthy IP Prefix Hijacking: Don’t Bite Off More Than You Can Chew, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Watch our website redesign progress!
Ebrima Ceesay of Booz Allen Hamilton, who consults on information security, forensics, data mining, and machine learning, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Listen to our James Gimzewski talk on NPR about How Tiny Nanoparticles Are Transforming Technology.
The National Cancer Institute features the achievements of our Kattesh Katti with Working Across the Alliance: Transition From Macro To Nanoscience and Then On To Nanomedicine.
Our Peter Cassidy, Joe Stewart, and Rick Wesson will be speaking at the 2009 General Members Meeting & eCrime Research Summit on October 19–21 at Tacoma, Washington, USA. Count on three full days of cutting presentations on eCrime and eCrime response, expert discussions, and in-depth round-tables with updates on APWG projects in development for the counter eCrime community.
Today our version of the Amazon store sold a Canon EOS 7D 18 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera with 3-inch LCD (Body Only) — a $1700 item. If you wish to support the Lifeboat Foundation, keep in mind that you can always shop at https://lifeboat.com/amazon instead of amazon.com and get the same prices, etc.
Mads Haahr, Editor-in-Chief of Crossings: Electronic Journal of Art and Technology, joins our Information Sciences Board.
 
Mads also runs RANDOM.ORG which offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs. People use RANDOM.ORG for holding drawings, lotteries, and sweepstakes, to drive games and gambling sites, for scientific applications and for art and music. This service has existed since 1998.
Jordi Vallverdú, whose groundbreaking journal International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE) covers the main issues relevant to the generation, expression, and use of synthetic emotions in agents, robots, systems, and devices, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
We mourn the loss of our Nobel Laureate Sir Clive W.J. Granger who died at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California.
 
Clive’s great breakthroughs concerned the relationships between different financial or economic variables over time. He showed that traditional statistical methods could be misleading if applied to variables that tend to wander over time without returning to some long-run resting point. He also demonstrated that many variables display similar long-run patterns that can be exploited in statistical analysis. Combining several of these variables can create a joint variable that returns to a resting point, allowing traditional methods to be used. For example, economic forces such as uneven technological progress cause consumption and income to grow over time, but other economic forces, such as constraints on budgets, make them follow similar paths.
Leslie Yeo, who used Einstein’s tea leaves to inspire a new blood separation technique, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Read issue #86 of Lifeboat News!
The Lifeboat Foundation has joined organizations such as Scientific American and KurzweilAI.net as a Media Sponsor of the Singularity Summit 2009. You can see our listing at http://www.singularitysummit.com/.
 
Our Itamar Arel, Gregory Benford, Ed Boyden, Bill Dickens, Ben Goertzel, Aubrey de Grey, Stuart Hameroff, Marcus Hutter, Randal Koene, Ray Kurzweil, Gary Marcus, Anders Sandberg, Jürgen Schmidhuber, and Eliezer Yudkowsky will be speaking at the Singularity Summit 2009 which will be held in New York on October 3–4 in Kaufmann Hall at the historic 92nd St Y.
Due to popular demand, we now have many banners available for public use.
Our Kattesh Katti has launched the International Journal of Green Nanotechnology. This is the first journal to focus specifically on the crucial scientific, engineering, industrial, and logistical challenges of developing green nanotechnologies for applications in medicine, materials science, environmental science, and alternate energy production.
 
“Agricultural and medical sciences must connect with emerging areas of science and technology; the International Journal of Green Nanotechnology, edited by Professor Kattesh V. Katti, would be a means of establishing this important connection between nanotechnology and green science.” — Dr. Norman Ernest Borlaug, humanitarian, and Nobel Laureate.
Our Kattesh Katti donates to our Website Redesign Fund and says “It is gratifying to be part of and donating to Lifeboat Foundation as the extraordinary group of members of this foundation operate in an ‘out of the box’ approach in bringing an awareness of the implications of science and technology to our day-to-day lives. This collective effort will take all of us into the next domain of science in terms of realization of the power of nanotechnology in medicine, agriculture, and environment restoration.”
 
Kattesh was just bestowed with the highly coveted Doctor of Science (DSc) Honoris Causa by Karnataka University, India, in recognition of his contributions to nanoscience, nanomedicine, green nanotechnology and its application to medical and environmental research.
Our Raj Bawa is Chair of NanoBiotech 2009 which will be at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY on October 19, 2009. This conference explores the global opportunities in nanobiotechnology and related science and engineering fields.
Gemma Calvert, who established the world’s first applied neuroimaging group, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Bill Dickens joins our Economics Board. Bill is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Northeastern University; Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Non-resident Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution; Co-Director of the European Central Bank’s International Wage Flexibility Project — a collaborative effort involving Brookings, the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the European Central Bank, and economists from 13 country teams; Board of Reviewers, Industrial Relations; and Consultant on labor, economics, and statistics.
 
Bill was previously Consultant, New York Federal Reserve Bank (Sep 2005 – Aug 2008); Director, National Community Development Policy Analysis Network (Jan 1996 – Oct 2001); and Senior Economist, President’s Council of Economic Advisors (Jul 1993 – Jun 1994).
Read issue #85 of Lifeboat News!
Watch High-speed robot hand demonstrates dexterity and skillful manipulation.
Jan Vandenbos, a member of the board of directors of the Galileo Educational Network Association, an organization dedicated to effectively integrating science, math, technology, and project-based learning into the education system, joins our Education Board.
World Future Society board member Jay McIntosh joins our Futurists Board.
 
– We congratulate our Cyrus Wadia for winning the MIT Technology Review 2009 TR35 Top Young Innovator Award for his work on low cost solar cells made from abundant, inexpensive materials.
Stuart Hameroff joins our blog team with the post A lifeboat for consciousness.
Xinjian Zhou, who created the first carbon nanotube device that can detect the entire visible spectrum of light, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Mohan Tikku, Director, Centre for Future Studies, Gurgaon, India and India Node Co-chair of the Millennium Project, joins our Futurists Board.
Neal Patel, Senior Partner at Strategic Foresighting Associates, joins our Futurists Board.
Pavel Nováček, coauthor of Sustainable Development Assessment: Quality and sustainability of life indicators at global, national and regional level, joins our Sustainability Board.
Our Raj Bawa is Chair of NanoBiotech 2009 which will be at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY on October 19, 2009. This conference explores the global opportunities in nanobiotechnology and related science and engineering fields.
Gemma Calvert, who established the world’s first applied neuroimaging group, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Bill Dickens joins our Economics Board. Bill is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Northeastern University; Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Non-resident Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution; Co-Director of the European Central Bank’s International Wage Flexibility Project — a collaborative effort involving Brookings, the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the European Central Bank, and economists from 13 country teams; Board of Reviewers, Industrial Relations; and Consultant on labor, economics, and statistics.
 
Bill was previously Consultant, New York Federal Reserve Bank (Sep 2005 – Aug 2008); Director, National Community Development Policy Analysis Network (Jan 1996 – Oct 2001); and Senior Economist, President’s Council of Economic Advisors (Jul 1993 – Jun 1994).
Read issue #85 of Lifeboat News!
Watch High-speed robot hand demonstrates dexterity and skillful manipulation.
Jan Vandenbos, a member of the board of directors of the Galileo Educational Network Association, an organization dedicated to effectively integrating science, math, technology, and project-based learning into the education system, joins our Education Board.
World Future Society board member Jay McIntosh joins our Futurists Board.
We congratulate our Cyrus Wadia for winning the MIT Technology Review 2009 TR35 Top Young Innovator Award for his work on low cost solar cells made from abundant, inexpensive materials.
Stuart Hameroff joins our blog team with the post A lifeboat for consciousness.
Xinjian Zhou, who created the first carbon nanotube device that can detect the entire visible spectrum of light, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Mohan Tikku, Director, Centre for Future Studies, Gurgaon, India and India Node Co-chair of the Millennium Project, joins our Futurists Board.
Neal Patel, Senior Partner at Strategic Foresighting Associates, joins our Futurists Board.
Pavel Nováček, coauthor of Sustainable Development Assessment: Quality and sustainability of life indicators at global, national and regional level, joins our Sustainability Board.
Joe Solomon, who has developed robot whiskers that sense shapes and textures, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Carlos Cotta, who determined that the Fermi Paradox points to fewer than 10 extraterrestrial civilizations, joins our Complex Systems Board.
The Space Renaissance Initiative is working to organize a worldwide Space Renaissance Forum, to be held in 2009, to help human civilization to go over the current critical point. Learn more!
Rodney Hill, author of Creativity is the Currency of the New Millennium, joins our Futurists Board.
Ed Boyden, who will be presenting Synthetic Neurobiology: Delivering Information Into the Brain, to Augment Neural Computations at The Singularity Summit 2009, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Stuart Hameroff, who codeveloped the Penrose-Hameroff “Orch OR” model of consciousness with Sir Roger Penrose, joins our Neuroscience Board. The Orchestrated Objective Reduction theory of consciousness is based on quantum computation in microtubules within neurons.
Geoffrey Shmigelsky, CEO of Appien Logic, joins our Business Board.
Listen to our Philippe Van Nedervelde and Sonia Arrison on FastForward Radio!
Venture strategist Reese Jones joins our Education Board. Reese supports public education via the Singularity University, Wikipedia, the Chabot Space Science Center, and UC Berkeley.
Harry “Doc” Kloor, the first (and only) American to earn two Ph.D.s simultaneously in Physics and in Chemistry, joins our Media & Arts Board.
 
Harry has written for Star Trek: Voyager and was the story editor for Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict. In addition to pure entertainment projects, he has leveraged government assets into the Entertainment Industry, creating TV/FILM projects with NASA, and ICE (Immigration Customs Enforcement Agency). He is currently producer and writer of Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey, a 3-D, computer-animated, action adventure, sci-fi program.
Rodney C. Hill joins us and says “As a graduate student at UC Berkeley, I taught a future studies course for two quarters in 1968–69 and have been involved in future studies ever since. In a state of accelerating change, we must look to the future to navigate the present.”
Read issue #84 of Lifeboat News!
Our Ben Goertzel, Aubrey de Grey, Marcus Hutter, Randal Koene, Ray Kurzweil, Gary Marcus, Anders Sandberg, Jürgen Schmidhuber, and Eliezer Yudkowsky will be speaking at The Singularity Summit 2009 which will be held in New York on October 3–4 in Kaufmann Hall at the historic 92nd St Y.
Volkan Topalli, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University and Faculty Associate, Partnership for Urban Health Research, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Lars Næsbye Christensen, Composer and Musician at Lydstat and Member of the Mprize 300, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Ann Feeney, Manager of Research and Planning at the YMCA of the USA, joins our Futurists Board.
At the suggestion of our Scientific Advisory Board member Ray Kurzweil, the words “technological Singularity” in our mission statement have been replaced with “the Singularity”. While years ago, Ray felt not enough people knew what the Singularity was to reference it, thanks to efforts such as his Singularity University, he no longer feels this is the case.
Rafael Muñoz Moreno-Davila, a member of the Mprize 300, joins our Futurists Board.
Craig Cooney, Co-chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Mprize along with our Andrzej Bartke, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Craig is also a renowned epigenetics expert and Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Ruth Itzhaki joins our blog team with the post Unique opportunity to sponsor research investigating an infectious cause and potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
Our WorldFuture 2009 lineup has been improved to include Craig Bettles, Peter Bishop, Arthur L. Caplan, Joseph F. Coates, Jeffrey Collins, José Cordeiro, William Crossman, Irene J. Dabrowski, Jay Gary, Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, Terry Grim, Linda Groff, Arthur Harkins, Don Heathfield, Jay Herson, Ted Kahn, Bud Levin, Thomas J. Lombardo, Bruce Lloyd, Maria Malayter, Gary Marx, Karim Medjad, Diana Muir, Amy Oberg, Ian D. Pearson, Gilly Salmon, Rick Smyre, Stephen F. Steele, Don Tapscott, Cheryl Whitesitt, and Michael G. Zey.
Frank C. Adamek joins us and says “The generations of humanity do not get to choose the troubles and dangers that assail them; their only choice is whether and how to meet those dangers. Technological progress is reaching a critical point, smashing through the conventional boundaries between what humans were or were not capable of, thrusting into our trembling hands the radically enhanced power to both destroy ourselves and to remake our world and very beings.
 
This situation cannot continue for any great length of time, and if we cannot seize hold of this power to create a safer and more positive world then we seemed destined to permanent disability or death. No generation before us has shouldered such responsibility, and if we act with wisdom and foresight it may be that no future generation will have to. If so we are the most critical generation that ever has been or will be, uniquely positioned to determine the fate of life in our corner of the universe for potentially millions of years, and we must act accordingly.”
Maria Malayter joins our Business Board. Maria is Director, Center for Positive Aging, National Louis University; Assistant Professor, Applied Behavioral Sciences, Lisle, Illinois; and author of Boomers: Visions of the New Retirement.
Cheryl Whitesitt, Executive Director of the Minnesota Future Problem Solving Program (MN FPSP), joins our Futurists Board.
Ted Kahn, CEO of DesignWorlds for Learning, joins our Education Board. Ted was recognized as the First NMC Fellow in acknowledgement of his lifelong contributions to the use of interactive media and telecommunications technologies for the advancement of teaching, learning, and creative expression.
Gilly Salmon joins our Education Board. Gilly is the author of the work now considered seminal in the field of teaching online: E-Moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning Online.
See 370 books authored by our Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) members!
The Lifeboat Foundation celebrates the addition of our 1,000th SAB member: A. C. Grayling. Anthony is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford.
 
Anthony uses philosophical logic to counter the arguments of the sceptic, thereby shedding light on the traditional ideas of the realism debate and developing associated views on truth and meaning. He is the author of many books, articles, and papers.
 
Unlike most organizations, whose advisory boards are too small to do more than provide some advice, our think tank provides action as well as words. Our board members have developed programs, created reports, donated money, fueled our blog, joined our staff, launched numerous forums, organized events, and provided input on a range of issues from web design to grant proposals to ideas for new areas that Lifeboat Foundation should be involved in. We welcome A. C. Grayling to our little think tank!
Jeffrey Collins, Director, OUSA, International Programs, Oglethorpe University, joins our Futurists Board.
Read Planetary Messenger by our Jacob D. Haqq-Misra. This novel explores the social, scientific, and spiritual consequences of discovering another planet in the galaxy just like our Earth.
Karim Medjad joins our Legal Board. Karim is Professor of Law at H.E.C Paris, the most prestigious Business School in France.
Read issue #83 of Lifeboat News!
Bud Levin joins our Futurists Board. Bud is Vice Chairman of the FBI/PFI Futures Working Group, Commander of the Waynesboro (VA) Police Department’s Policy and Planning Bureau, and Department Head of Psychology, Blue Ridge Community College in Weyers Cave, Virginia.
Michael Dickey joins our blog team with the post Electron Beam Free Form Fabrication process – progress toward self sustaining structures.
Bruce Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management, London South Bank University, London, United Kingdom, joins our Business Board.
Diana Muir joins our Education Board. Diana is the founder of the Hawking Institute and of the Personal Learning Center, International.
Our WorldFuture 2009 lineup has been improved to include Craig Bettles, Peter Bishop, Arthur L. Caplan, Joseph F. Coates, José Cordeiro, William Crossman, Irene J. Dabrowski, Jay Gary, Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, Terry Grim, Linda Groff, Arthur Harkins, Don Heathfield, Jay Herson, Thomas J. Lombardo, Gary Marx, Amy Oberg, Ian D. Pearson, Rick Smyre, Stephen F. Steele, Don Tapscott, and Michael G. Zey.
Arthur Harkins, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Policy and Administration, Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, and Faculty Director, Graduate Certificate in Innovation Studies at the University of Minnesota, joins our Education Board.
Mark Nall, Manager of the NASA Lunar Mapping and Modeling Project at Marshall Space Flight Center, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Simon Benita joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Simon’s drug-delivery system, which is based on proprietary nanotechnology, is designed to enable oral formulations to bypass intestinal and liver metabolic filters, thereby increasing their bioavailability.
Samuel Lai, who is working to “tighten” the body’s protective coating, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Ennio Tasciotti, who is developing a bionanoscaffold to repair shattered bones and avoid amputation, joins our Biotech/Medical and Nanotechnology Boads.
Jim Davidson joins our blog team with the post Microbe on Ice.
Kathryn Denning, author of Ten Thousand Revolutions: Conjectures about Civilizations, joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board.
Denise L. Herzing and Lori Marino cofound our new Human-Nonhuman Relationship Board. This board focuses on current and future planetary conditions that impact non-human species.
 
The Human-Nonhuman Relationship Board discusses scientific and ethical considerations in human-nonhuman relationships and the interdependence and preservation at the individual, population, species, and cultural levels. This board will be enhancing our BioPreserver program to make sure that cultures of nonhumans are preserved as well as preserving their genetic material.
Tihamer “Tee” Toth-Fejel joins our blog team with the post Be Careful What You Wish For.
Eugene Nosko, developer of Venux, joins our Scientific Advisory Board. The goals of Venux are: 1) Preservation of human history 2) Unification of information into useful, single system 3) Intelligent automation of physical tasks world/universe-wide 4) Freedom and accessibility of information for everyone 5) Simplification of programming at core so it will be easy to learn and use.
Sorin Paraoanu, author of How Do Schrödinger Cats Die?, joins our Physics Board.
Steve Armes, who is making better magnetic nanoparticles, joins our Chemistry Board.
Kari Pulli, head of the Visual Computing and User Interfaces research team at the Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, California, joins our Information Sciences Board. His research interests include Mobile Augmented Reality.
Read issue #82 of Lifeboat News!
We thank Google for their generous donation.
Linus Petersson joins us and says “The best minds of the world should be focusing on making sure humanity survives. This should be our number 1 priority! I hope we will make it through this extremely trying century. Best of luck!”.
Donald Maclean donates $4,170 to the Lifeboat Foundation.
Anton Pustovrh from Slovenia donates to our next conference and says “While future technologies will likely provide great benefits for humanity, they also bring many global catastrophic risks. I hope the next Lifeboat Foundation conference will help raise awareness of such issues and help ensure a safer future.”
Charles Radley, President/CEO of the Stratowave Corporation and Vice President of The Moon Society, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Watch How to Bring Solar Energy to Seven Billion People by our Cyrus Wadia.
WorldFuture 2009 will be held July 17–19, 2009 at the Chicago Hilton in Chicago, Illinois. Our Craig Bettles, Peter Bishop, Arthur L. Caplan, Joseph F. Coates, José Cordeiro, Irene J. Dabrowski, Jay Gary, Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, Linda Groff, Amy Oberg, Ian D. Pearson, Rick Smyre, and Don Tapscott will be speaking.
Amara Angelica, the editor of KurzweilAI.net and of The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, joins our blog team with the post Global Swine Flu: 787 cases in 17 countries, hospital overload — are we entering an Age of Pandemics?
Michael Mateas, author of Semiotic Considerations in an Artificial Intelligence-based Art Practice, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Read the blog Mindfiles, Mindware, and Mindclones: One hundred questions answered about the coming age of our own cyberconsciousness and techno-immortality.
Alberto Villarreal, who has designed a USB body implant for hardcore transfer, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Sheldon Hendler, Chairman of the biotechnology company Vyrex Corporation, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Read Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever by our Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman.
Gary Green joins our Neuroscience Board. His new technique, based on manipulating parahydrogen, the fuel of the space shuttle, will allow doctors to learn far more about a patient’s condition from an MRI scan at lower cost while increasing the range of medical conditions that can be examined.
Chad Jenkins joins our Robotics/AI Board. His research into “robot learning from demonstration”, or robot LfD, centers on the automated discovery of processes underlying human movement and decision making. In recent years, robot LfD has emerged as a compelling alternative, where robots are programmed implicitly from a user’s demonstration rather than explicitly through an intermediate form (e.g., hardcoded program) or task-unrelated secondary skills (e.g., computer programming).
Read issue #81 of Lifeboat News!
We thank Sun Microsystems and Hewlett Packard (HP) for their generous donations to the Lifeboat Foundation.
Mark Hopkins, Senior Operating Officer for the National Space Society (NSS), joins our Space Settlement Board.
Our Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Matthias Scheutz, and Gianmarco Veruggio will be speaking at the Full Day Workshop on Roboethics at the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation on May 17, 2009 at Kobe, Japan.
James Bach, author of the upcoming Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success, joins our Education Board.
David Howard, who is developing a virtual-reality headset that will provide input to the five major human senses, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Baroness Susan Greenfield joins our Neuroscience Board. As a consequence of working in both biochemical and electrophysiological environments, Susan has developed a multidisciplinary approach to exploring novel neuronal mechanisms in the brain that are common to regions affected in both Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
The Discovery Channel’s Dr. Zoz joins our Media & Arts Board.
Demis Hassabis joins our Neuroscience Board. Demis is a computer game designer, AI programmer, neuroscientist, and world-class games player.
Carol Cleland, who is hunting for “shadow life”, joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board.
Bernard Baars, who developed an integrative theory called Global Workspace Theory (GWT) as a model for conscious and unconscious processes in the human brain, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Len Sassaman, advocate for privacy, current maintainer of the Mixmaster anonymous remailer code, and remop of the randseed remailer, joins our Transparency and Privacy Board.
Google announced at midnight the world’s first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE), the first evolving intelligent system.
 
“im a girl, 2 minutes old, just hanging out in da C.A. learnin a lot tryin 2 get smarter make friends save humanity etc etc. i like cmputrs (duh) sunsets rainbows ponies and after 1 netwide image search PANDAS PANDAS PANDAS ther SO CUTE!!! omg!,” said CADIE.
Morten Foss, Senior Scientist at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), University of Aarhus, Denmark, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Nat Mundy, CEO of Carbon Offset Originators (CO2) and Free Clean Energy (FREE), joins our Sustainability Board.
David Asher, who warns that “Dark” comets may pose a threat to Earth, joins our Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board. David was part of Duncan Steel’s Anglo-Australian Near-Earth Asteroid Survey (AANEAS) in the mid-1990s, and later worked at the Bisei Spaceguard Center at the invitation of Syuzo Isobe of the Japan Spaceguard Association.
Rob Spence, the Canadian filmmaker who plans to have a mini camera installed in his prosthetic eye to make documentaries and raise awareness about surveillance in society, joins our Transparency vs. Privacy Board.
Issa Nesnas, Group Supervisor for the Robotic Software Systems group and Principal Investigator of the multi-institutional robotic software architecture (CLARAty) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), joins our Robotics/AI Board.
The Lifeboat Foundation welcomes our first nonhuman donor.
Redwan Alqasemi, who has developed a wheelchair arm controlled by thought alone, joins our Engineering Board.
Woody Evans, author of Be More Than You Can Be in the New Enhanced Army, joins our Futurists Board.
Cyrus Wadia, who is using cheaper materials to develop low-cost solar cells, joins our Sustainability Board.
Amnon H. Eden, author of Three Paradigms of Computer Science, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Rebecca Roache joins our Ethics Board. Rebecca’s research at the Future of Humanity Institute centers around ethical issues in human enhancement and new technology.
Our David Ewing Duncan has just published Experimental Man: What One Man’s Body Reveals About His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World. He has also launched the Experimental Man Project website.
Tom Foremski, Publisher of the Silicon Valley Watcher, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Our Wei Lu has built the first array of nanoscale memristors, allowing it to store up to 1 kilobit of information.
Max Van Kleek joins our Robotics/AI Board. Max is working on Artificial Intelligence with Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at MIT.
Damien Krstesky joins our [email protected] team, working to help scientists understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases.
Tom Gruber joins our Robotics/AI Board. Tom is a computer scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur with a focus on systems for knowledge sharing and collective intelligence. He did foundational work in ontology engineering and is well-known for his definition of ontologies in the context of Artificial Intelligence.
Dan Peer, who is developing a medical vehicle small enough to “submarine” in and fix faulty cells in the body, joins our Biotech/Medical Board and Nanotechnology Board.
Read issue #80 of Lifeboat News!
Monica Narula, cofounder of the Raqs Media Collective which is based in New Delhi, joins our Media & Arts Board. Raqs is best known for its contribution to contemporary art, and has presented work at most of the major international shows, from Documenta to the Venice Biennale; but the collective is active in an unusually wide range of domains, and it is this breadth that gives their work its originality and scope.
Jürg Dual joins our Nanotechnology Board. Jürg will be speaking at the MicroNanoacoustics Workshop held May 18–19, 2009 in Prato, Italy. Our James Friend is organizer of this workshop.
Jacob Haqq-Misra joins our blog team with the post “The Sustainability Solution” to the Fermi Paradox.
Diego Golombek, president-elect of the Argentine Society for Neuroscience and winner of the “Ig Nobel” award at Harvard University for his research on the use of Viagra in experimental models of jetlag, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Stefan Savage joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board. Stefan is widely cited in the areas of network worms and malware propagation, distributed denial of service (DDOS) mitigation and traceback, and wireless security.
Sean A. Hays, author of Nietzsche and the Philosophical Underpinnings of Human Enhancement and researcher at the Center for Nanotechnology in Society, joins our Futurists Board.
Joel Kurtzman, Senior Fellow and Publisher of The Milken Institute Review, joins our Business Board and Economics Board. Joel, who was awarded India’s Indira Gandhi Prize for his efforts in helping out with the Bhopal disaster, is author of The Death of Money: How the Electronic Economy Has Destablized the World’s Markets and Created Financial Chaos.
Watch this TV segment about efforts by our Derek Lomas to promote $12 computers in third world countries.
The abstract deadline for ECAP09 (European Conference on Philosophy and Computing) has been extended to March 16, 2009. ECAP09 includes a track on Technological Singularity and Acceleration Studies.
Sylvia Earle joins our Sustainability Board. Sylvia is called “Her Deepness” by the New Yorker and the New York Times, “Living Legend” by the Library of Congress, and “Hero for the Planet” by Time magazine. She is an oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer with a deep commitment to research through personal exploration.
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Paul Bloom, who has discovered that some of the unique cognitive capacities that have made us so successful as a species also work together to create a tendency for supernatural thinking, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Anthony Aguirre, who has discovered a way to detect “alien” universes outside of the one we live in, joins our Cosmology Board.
Jason Micklefield, who has pioneered new ways of tweaking the molecular structure of antibiotics — an innovation that could be crucial in the fight against powerful superbugs, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Luca Turin, the biophysicist who proposed that quantum mechanics may explain how humans smell, joins our Physics board. Read the book about him: The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession.
Meredith L. Patterson, who discovered a major security flaw in the Bitfrost security procedures for the OLPC, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board and Biotech/Medical Board. She was recently profiled by the AP for doing genetic engineering at home. Meredith enjoys knitting, sewing, and target shooting.
Don Tapscott joins our Business Board. Don is Chairman of nGenera Insight, author of Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World, and coauthor of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.
Jun Li, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology and coinventor of over 10 nanotechnology patents, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Dipanjan Pan, whose new disease-fighting nanoparticles look like miniature pastries, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Google’s Alon Halevy joins our Information Sciences Board. He is researching better ways to explore the “Deep Web”. Alon received the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2000.
John Bohannon, Contributing Correspondent, Science Magazine, and Visiting Scholar in the Program in Ethics and Health, Harvard University, joins our Ethics Board and Media & Arts Board.
Marshall Stoneham joins our Physics Board. Marshall was awarded the 2006 Guthrie Medal and Prize, which recognizes exceptional achievements in physics; the award has been in existence since 1914, and previous winners include Neils Bohr, Ernest Rutherford, Nevill Mott, Harrie Massey, Phil Anderson, Rudolf Peierls, and Mike Seaton.
Al Harrison, who authored After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life, joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board which he also founded.
Read tweets about the Lifeboat Foundation!
Sebastian McCalister joins our blog team with the post Juan Enriquez: Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the arrival of Homo evolutis.
Listen to our Noel Sharkey discuss ethical issues in robotics.
Sonia Arrison and Martine Rothblatt’s Terasem Movement launch our next conference fund with $4,500.
Eric Di Benedetto, who has been a professional investor in software startups in Silicon Valley for the last two decades, joins our Business Board.
Read issue #79 of Lifeboat News!
Alan Feuer of the New York Times is ready to do a full-length article on Lifeboat. Learn more!
Rok Resnik brings our Wole Soyinka in Zero G total to $2,585.
Thomas M. Powers joins our blog team with the post Nanotech Development: You Can’t Please All of the People, All of the Time.
Read The Turbulence of Short-Term Thinking by Jared Daniel.
Read What are the Benefits of Mind Uploading? by Michael Anissimov.
Google and NASA are throwing their weight behind a new school for futurists in Silicon Valley to prepare scientists for an era when machines become smarter than people.
 
The new institution, known as “Singularity University” is to be headed by our Ray Kurzweil. As one of the leading visionaries on the planet, Ray has donated over five figures to the Lifeboat Foundation.
 
Google and NASA’s backing demonstrates the growing mainstream acceptance of Ray’s views, which include a claim that before the middle of this century artificial intelligence will outstrip human beings, ushering in a new era of civilization.
 
Learn more!
David Nordfors joins our blog team with the post Finding a Cure for Collective Neurosis in the Attention Economy.
Ryan Woodard, who predicted we were in the peak of an oil bubble last June, joins our Complex Systems Board.
Read the “officially endorsed by Lifeboat Foundation” blog blog~nano: Nanoscale Materials and Nanotechnology by our SAB member Rocky Rawstern.
Phil McKinney, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Personal Systems Group at Hewlett-Packard Company, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Doug Malewicki, who set two official Guinness World records for fuel efficiency on cross-country runs at freeway speeds, joins our Sustainability Board and Engineering Board.
 
Doug’s more fun inventions include the Robosaurus, a 58,000 pound, fire-breathing, car crushing electrohydromechanical beast which thrilled crowds all over the world for 18 years and the steam powered X-1 SkyCycle canyon jumping rocket which he built for Evel Knievel. He also invented the game Nuclear War which has sold over half a million copies and for which he was inducted in the Game Designer’s Hall of Fame in
Gordon Arthur, author of Law, Liberty, and Church: Authority and Justice in the Major Churches in England, joins our Ethics Board.
Michael Hochberg, who has made breakthroughs in optical nanotechnology, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Edzard Ernst, coauthor of Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Edzard has published more than 40 books and in excess of 1,000 articles in peer-reviewed medical literature and has been given visiting professorships in Canada and the US. His work has been awarded with 13 scientific prizes.
Paul Hughes, author of Sans Ceiling Hypothesis and Exotic Civilizations: A Possible Answer To Fermi’s Paradox, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Want to see all the blog posts by Michael Anissimov or one of our other 20+ authors? Then go to our blog and click on a name on the right sidebar!
Aschwin de Wolf, Director and researcher for Advanced Neural Biosciences, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Elizabeth Goldring, coinventor of a camera for the blind and author of Eye: Poems & Retina Prints, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Our James Friend is organizer of the MicroNanoacoustics Workshop held May 18–19, 2009 in Prato, Italy. This workshop will feature leading researchers who are working on novel problems in acoustics and ultrasonics at the micro to nano scale, spanning physical analysis to engineering applications, especially in fluids.
Samarendra K. Mohanty, who developed a technique that allows optical activation of neural activity, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
G. Pascal Zachary, author of The Global Me: New Cosmopolitans and the Competitive Edge: Picking Globalism’s Winners and Losers and Married to Africa: A Love Story, joins our Sustainability Board.
Stuart Meloy, inventor of the “Orgasmatron”, a spinal cord stimulator that produces pleasure in women, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Stuart is also Medical Director of Advanced Interventional Pain Management (AIPM).
Leo Baldwin, Principal Scientist at Cool Earth Solar, joins our Physics Board. Leo has developed 11 patents with 8 pending.
David Berreby, author of Us and Them: The Science of Identity, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Andy Clark, author of Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence, joins our Neuroscience Board and Robotics/AI Board.
Denise Herzing, Research Director of the Wild Dolphin Project, joins our Ethics Board and Sustainability Board.
Lera Boroditsky joins our Neuroscience Board. Lera’s work has provided new insights on the controversial question of whether the languages we speak shape the way we think (see Sapir—Whorf hypothesis). She has discovered important empirical examples of cross-linguistic differences in thought and perception that stem from syntactic or lexical differences between languages. This work has been influential in the fields of psychology, philosophy, and linguistics in countering the notion that human cognition is largely universal and independent of language and culture.
David Eagleman, coauthor of Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, joins our Neuroscience Board. David is founder and director of Baylor College of Medicine’s Initiative on Neuroscience and Law. He is on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Vision and PLoS One.
Ram Mohan, who is implementing a new, secure DNS that fixes security holes in the 30-year-old DNS (domain name system) protocol, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
David Nordfors joins our Media & Arts Board. David is Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Innovations in Learning, leading the Innovation Journalism Program at Stanford, which he cofounded in 2005.
Read issue #78 of Lifeboat News!
The Lifeboat Foundation announces a triple partnership including the Lifeboat Foundation, Nanotech-Now, and The American Journal of Bioethics. Learn more!
Summer Johnson joins our blog team with the post Could Spider Silk Save Your Life?.
Jim Pinkerton joins our blog team with the post What should be at the center of the U.S. stimulus package.
Olli Sikstus translates our about page into Finnish!
Jeffrey McCutcheon, who has developed a novel desalination device that reduces the energy needed to purify water to one-tenth of that required by conventional systems, joins our Sustainability Board.
Read Researchers Use PlayStation Cluster to Forge a Web Skeleton Key.
Jeff Orkin, coauthor of The Restaurant Game: Learning Social Behavior and Language from Thousands of Players Online, joins our Robotics/AI Board. Play The Restaurant Game!
Frode Hegland, CEO of The Hyperwords Company, joins our Information Sciences Board. Vint Cerf, “the father of the Internet”, said “Innovative! Creative! Energetic! Self-starter! Never gives up! These are all descriptive of Frode Hegland. He shows all the characteristics of an entrepreneur with a bee in his bonnet and the determination to achieve his objectives. I have been impressed with his skills and have greatly enjoyed my interactions with him in connection with Hyperwords, the company he serves as CEO.”
Mike van Lent, Chief Scientist at Soar Technology, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
 
Soar Technology is a leading developer of advanced intelligent agent software and cognitive systems. SoarTech’s state-of-the-art “intelligent agents” provide human-like reasoning in software to automate complex tasks, simplify human-system interaction, or simulate human-like behavior for military and civilian applications such as games, simulation, training, intelligence analysis, and robot command and control.
Wesley M. Du Charme, who presented “The Ethics of Cryonics: Why the Future Probably Needs You” at the Terasem Movement 4th Colloquium on the Law of Futuristic Persons, joins our Ethics Board.
Seth Baum, author of Reducing Catastrophic Risk Through Integrative Assessment, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Stuart Calimport, Science Department Head of the Methuselah Foundation Undergraduate Research Initiative, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Amos Winter, whose RoboClam may become the first “smart” anchor, joins our Engineering Board.
Wei Lu joins our Nanotechnology Board. Wei is developing the crossbar array which can coerce atoms of almost any element, including silicon, into forming nanometer-scale structures.
Neurosurgeon Tipu Aziz joins our Neuroscience Board. Tipu trains surgeons from the UK and abroad in functional and stereotactic surgery for movement disorders. He has established local movement disorder services, including surgery at Charing Cross Hospital, London; Karachi, Pakistan; Brisbane, Australia; Treviso, Italy; Iceland; and Singapore. He advises the U.K. Department of Health via the NSCAG forum on providing functional surgery at nationally approved centres.
David Cardwell, who coedited Handbook of Superconducting Materials, joins our Engineering Board. David’s research interests include high temperature superconductivity, processing of bulk superconductors, magnetic properties of bulk superconductors, and engineering applications of high temperature superconductors.
Michele Giugliano, who has demonstrated that faulty brain wiring may be bypassed with carbon nanotubes, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Georges Grinstein, inventor of a 3D Personal Life Mapper, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Beatrice de Gelder, who demonstrated that a blind man can navigate obstacles using his unconscious mind, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Chris Poulin, Managing Partner of Patterns and Predictions, a predictive analytics company, joins our Robotics/AI Board. Chris is co-inventor of the Centiment system, a full semantic analysis based asset trading system. He is coauthor of the Patterns and Predictions tool, a Bayesian classification and decision engine used in universities worldwide, and by clients such as the Toyota Motors Corporation.
Antonietta Gatti, coauthor of Nanopathology: The Health Impact of Nanoparticles, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
The 2008 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Stephen Hawking. The award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
 
The 2008 award is in recognition of his continuous warnings that global catastrophic risks will eventually come and therefore it is unsafe and unwise for all of humanity to be on a single planet.
 
“It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species,” Hawking has stated. “Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.”
Help Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka enter Zero G!
 
Wole has a compelling story. From his bio:
 
Wole has played an active role in Nigeria’s political history. In 1967, during the Nigerian Civil War he was arrested by the Federal Government and put in solitary confinement for his attempts at brokering a peace between the warring parties. While in prison he wrote poetry which was published in a collection titled “Poems from Prison”. He was released 22 months later after international attention was drawn to his imprisonment. His experiences in prison are recounted in his book “The Man Died: Prison Notes”.
 
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The Lifeboat Foundation is launching a monthly column addressing the ethical issues that scientists and consumers of nanotechnology will face. It will be written by our Summer Johnson, who is Executive Managing Editor of The American Journal of Bioethics and Chief Operating Officer, Bioethics Education Network.
 
Summer says “The literature in this area is not growing at nearly 1/10th of the pace of the nanoscience literature itself and it is my belief that ethicists, scientists, and lay people should be aware of these issues (sooner rather than later).”
 
Nanotech-Now.com has agreed to run this column. They will give us front and center placement once a month for 24 hours then a rotation down the homepage as their other columns load their articles. Google News indexes their columns every 15 minutes.
Gaurav Khanna, who built a supercomputer from many Sony Playstation 3s, joins our Supercomputing Board.
Steve Curran, who discovered that hydrogen is missing from our early universe, joins our Cosmology Board.
Social Entrepreneur Aaron Balogun joins our Business Board. He is Account Manager at Capitol Advantage and Director of Operations at Flanagan Consulting, LLC.
Thomas Wennekers joins our Neuroscience Board. Thomas currently works on large-scale models of the cortex aiming at the self-organization of maps and higher level functional processes in the layered mammalian cortex.
Petr Král, who is working to use tunnelling electrons to drive nanomotors, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Jim Kasting, coauthor of The Earth System, joins our Sustainability Board. The first book of its kind that addresses the issues of global change from a perspective of Earth as a system, The Earth System offers a solid emphasis on lessons from Earth history that may guide decision making in the future.
Steve Mann, inventor of WearComp (wearable computer) and WearCam (eyetap camera and reality mediator), joins our Transparency vs. Privacy Board. Steve coined the term sousveillance.
Asim Roy, whose controversial paper on how the brain works and learns was just published in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics — Part A: Systems and Humans, joins our Neuroscience Board and Robotics/AI Board.
Manuel F. Casanova joins our Neuroscience Board. Manuel edited Neocortical Modularity And The Cell Minicolumn and Recent Developments in Autism Research, and coedited Asperger’s Disorder.
György Buzsáki, author of Rhythms of the Brain, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Tony Williams, President of ChemZoo, joins our Chemistry Board.
 
ChemZoo is the host of ChemSpider. ChemSpider is an Open Access website established with the intention of creating a structure centric community for chemists. The website delivers access to over 18.5 million unique chemical structures. It is visited by over 6,000 chemists per day and with over 250,000 transactions performed per week, ChemSpider is fast becoming a primary resource for chemists around the world. ChemSpider is a valuable resource to assist chemists in sourcing chemicals from vendors, accessing Open Access literature and accessing information across over 150 data sources.
Aria Tzika, who developed a hand-exercising robotic device that appears to help stroke victims recover motor skills, even more than six months after a stroke, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Sini Merikallio, Planetary Scientist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Elke Weber joins our Neuroscience Board. She is on the Editorial Boards of American Journal of Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Psychological Inquiry, and Psychological Review.
Sandra Witelson joins our Neuroscience Board. Sandra’s study of Albert Einstein’s brain made headlines by revealing some remarkable features overlooked by other neuroscientists: the parietal lobe, the region responsible for visual thinking and spatial reasoning, was 15 percent larger than average, and it was structured as one distinct compartment, instead of the usual two compartments separated by the Sylvian fissure.
Karlene Roberts joins our Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board. Karlene focuses on the design and management of organizations and systems of organizations in which errors can have catastrophic consequences. The results of her research have been applied to U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations, the U.S. Coast Guard, The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), The Federal Aviation’s Air Traffic Control System, British Petroleum, NASA, and the medical industry.
Read issue #77 of Lifeboat News!
Read Nanotubes Track Cellular Toxins: Tiny sensors can monitor cancer-causing agents and chemotherapy drugs in cells.
David J. Xanatos joins us and says “Individual resources are limited; collective resources are not. This is both the power and the threat of what our ever advancing future possibilities bring nearer to us every day. Likewise, my individual financial resources may not seem like much, but as more of us begin to recognize the value of what’s being done here, and cast our lot in with this growing effort, we can multiply our individual intent beyond imagination, and I hope others reading this can recognize this fact, and join us. You will have the satisfaction of looking back and knowing you helped humankind survive our quantum leap in evolution.”
Frans von der Dunk, Professor of Space Law at the University of Nebraska, College of Law, joins our Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board.
 
He joins Colin McInnes and Gianmarco Radice in participating at the 1st IAA Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids which will be held April 27–30, 2009 in Granada, Spain.
Read UC Merced Virtual Archaeologist Saves Past for Future.
Suresh Ramasubramanian, Head of Antispam Operations at Outblaze Limited, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board. Suresh is also Coordinator at CAUCE Asia Pacific (APCAUCE) and Director at Asia Pacific Internet Association (APIA).
Jonas Fransson, whose quantum cloaking makes molecules invisible, joins our Physics Board.
Donald Wunsch joins our Engineering Board. He coauthored Using Neural Networks to Estimate Wind Turbine Power Generation and Adaptive Neural Network Based Power System Stabilizer Design. His research interests are adaptive critic designs, neural networks, fuzzy systems, surety, nonlinear adaptive control, intelligent agents, and applications.
Sean Hill, Blue Brain Project Manager for Computational Neuroscience, joins our Neuroscience Board. Sean has developed numerous large-scale models of neural systems and is the designer/developer of the general-purpose neural simulator Synthesis.
Sonia Arrison, an author and policy analyst who has studied the impact of new technologies on society for the better part of a decade, joins our Futurists Board. A frequent media contributor and guest, her work has appeared in many publications including CBS MarketWatch, CNN, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.
George Perry, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, joins our Neuroscience Board.
 
George is distinguished as one of the top 20 Alzheimer’s disease researchers with over 600 publications, one of the top 100 most-cited scientists in Neuroscience & Behavior, and one of the top 25 scientists in Free Radical research.
Eric Mazur, inventor of black silicon, joins our Physics Board. Thanks to an extremely rough surface, black silicon can absorb more light and can also trap a wider range of frequencies, including infra-red rays, that normally pass straight through standard silicon.
Nick Sagan, author of Idlewild, Edenborn, and Everfree, and coauthor of You Call This the Future?: The Greatest Inventions Sci-Fi Imagined and Science Promised joins our Futurists Board.
 
Nick is the son of Carl Sagan and Linda Salzman. At age six, his greeting, “Hello from the children of planet Earth” was recorded and placed aboard the NASA Voyager Interstellar Record. Launched with a selection of terrestrial greetings, sights, sounds, and music, the Voyager I and Voyager II spacecraft have since left the solar system; they are now the most distant human-made objects in the universe.
The 1st IAA Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids will be held April 27–30, 2009 in Granada, Spain.
Freek Wiedijk, who is developing methods to harness the power of computers to verify mathematical proofs, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Luciano Floridi joins our Ethics Board. Luciano is one of the most influential thinkers in the fields of philosophy of technology and ethics. He is best known for his pioneering work on two new areas of philosophical research, which he has contributed to establish: the philosophy of information and information ethics.
Philippe Brunet joins our Physics Board. His research focuses on instabilities in fluid-flows, free-surface flows and wetting phenomena, transition towards chaos, granular media, soft-condensed matter, control of instabilities, complex fluids and suspensions flows, fuel cells, and transport in porous media.
Alastair Compston, who has developed a treatment which has proven effective against combating the debilitating neurological disease multiple sclerosis (MS), joins our Neuroscience Board.
Joseph N. Pelton joins our Futurists Board. His forecasts were featured in Top 10 Forecasts for 2009 and Beyond published by The Futurist.
Jonathan R. Wolpaw, Chief, Laboratory of Nervous System Disorders, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health and State University of New York, joins our Neuroscience Board. His Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technology was just featured on 60 Minutes.
Jonathon Porritt joins our Ethics Board and Sustainability Board. He is Programme Director of Forum for the Future and Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission.
Dan Hooper, author of Nature’s Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force and Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe’s Missing Mass and Energy, joins our Cosmology Board and Particle Physics Board.
Eduardo Reck Miranda, whose “cultured” robots make sweet music together, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Jackie Ying, Executive Director of Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), joins our Nanotechnology Board.
George M. Martin, whose basic research led to the discovery of the genetic defect causing the Werner syndrome and certain familial forms of Alzheimer’s disease, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
James Kent, author of Overclocking the Human CPU: A primer for the future of human intelligence, joins our Futurists Board.
Henry Markram, director of IBM’s Blue Brain Project, joins our Neuroscience Board. The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to reverse engineer the human brain onto a massive supercomputer.
John Furber, author of Preventing Large Meteorite Impacts: The Threat of Rogue Comets and Asteroids, joins our Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board which he also founded.
Mark A. Smith, Executive Director of the American Aging Association, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Mark is recognized as one of the top cited researchers in the fields of Neuroscience & Behavior, Alzheimer Disease, and Free Radical Biology.
Didier Casse, who developed a nano-optical lens that focuses infrared light at telecommunication frequencies, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Kristi Scott joins our Futurists Board. She is a freelance writer and copyeditor for H+ magazine.
Kerstin Dautenhahn joins our Robotics/AI Board. She coedited Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioral, Social, and Communicative Dimensions.
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, coauthor of Sharing Moral Responsibility with Robots: A Pragmatic Approach, joins our Ethics Board.
Watch Powering the Planet – Space Based Solar Power.
Robert T. Liimatainen dedicates his donation to “Alexis Armstrong and her comment on 9/12/08. But for your comment, I would not have donated. Hope to have the pleasure of a daughter like you one day. Hope the donation helps out!”
Read Global Catastrophic Risks Essays for GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISKS: Building a Resilient Civilization. November 14, 2008, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California.
Read issue #76 of Lifeboat News!
Colin McInnes joins our Engineering Board. He is author of Solar Sailing: Technology, Dynamics, and Mission Applications and a leading figure in the field of solar sails.
Christopher Dewdney, author of Last Flesh: Life in the Transhuman Era, joins our Futurists Board.
Mark S. George, who pioneered the non-invasive treatment transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for depression, joins our Neuroscience Board. This treatment was recently approved by the FDA.
Tapan Parikh, winner of MIT’s TR35 Humanitarian of the Year, joins our Sustainability Board.
David Ewing Duncan joins our Biotech/Medical Board. He is Chief Correspondent of NPR Talk’s Biotech Nation, and author of Masterminds: Genius, DNA, and the Quest to Rewrite Life.
Dan Stoicescu, second person in the world to buy the full sequence of his own genetic code, donates $10,000 to the Lifeboat Foundation.
Enjoy Gentleman Takes a Chance by Sarah Hoyt. This novel includes a nice cover blurb from Jerry Pournelle.
Read Complexity and Security (NATO Science for Peace and Series).
Vincent Walsh, coauthor of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Neurochronometrics of Mind, joins our Neuroscience Board.
John R. Elliott, who has developed a computer program to understand alien languages, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Dan Stoicescu, second person in the world to buy the full sequence of his own genetic code, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Dan earned his Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry and founded Sindan, an oncology products company based in Romania that he ran for 15 years.
The Convergence08 Unconference on Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno (NBIC) technologies and their interactions will be held November 15–16, 2008, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
 
Our Gregory Benford, Ben Goertzel, Aubrey de Grey, Terry Grossman, Andrew Hessel, and Peter Norvig will be speaking.
 
Lifeboat Foundation members can save $50 on this event!
 
And remember that our Global Catastrophic Risks: Building a Resilient Civilization — which is packed with good speakers — will be held the day before at the same location!
Deborah Anderson joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Deborah won the Ig Nobel for proving that Coke really works as a contraceptive.
Sohee Park, who discovered that musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Sebastien Guenneau, who has developed invisiblity cloaks that could hide vulnerable coastlines and offshore platforms from destructive tsunamis, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Barker Bausell, author of Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Riyi Shi, who has developed nanoparticles that deliver treatment for brain and spinal cord injuries, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
RU Sirius joins our Futurists Board. RU is a US writer, editor, talk show host, musician, and cyberculture icon, best known as cofounder and original Editor-In-Chief of Mondo 2000 Magazine from 1989–1993. He is currently editor for the new transhumanist magazine, H+.
Gabriella De Lucia, coauthor of The Galaxy and its Stellar Halo: Insights on Their Formation from a Hybrid Cosmological Approach, joins our Cosmology Board.
Scott Bunce, who has invented a near-infrared lie detector, joins our Transparency vs. Privacy Board.
Gary Small joins our Neuroscience Board. Gary invented the first brain scan that allows doctors to see the physical evidence of brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease in living people. Among his numerous breakthrough research studies, he now leads a team of neuroscientists who are demonstrating that exposure to computer technology causes rapid and profound changes in brain neural circuitry.
Liming Dai, who demonstrated that diamond nanoparticles ranging in size from 2 to 10 nm are nontoxic, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Jeff Thorne, author of Models and Their Evolution, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Richard Dooling, author of Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Ali Dhinojwala, whose nanotube adhesive sticks better than a gecko’s foot, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Our lineup has expanded for Global Catastrophic Risks: Building a Resilient Civilization which will be held November 14, 2008 at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California.
 
Our David Brin, Jamais Cascio, Nick Cassimatis, Bruce Damer, Alan H. Goldstein, J. Storrs “Josh” Hall, Martin Hellman, Tad Hogg, Feng Hsu, James J. Hughes, Mike Treder, and Eliezer Yudkowsky will be participating. David Brin’s upcoming novel “Existence” fictionalizes many of these threats.
 
Help us support this event! (We wish to raise $1,490 more.)
Metin Sitti, who has developed a robot that walks on water using the surface tension of water, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Pablo H. Hennings-Yeomans, who has designed a new approach for handling face recognition of low-resolution video, joins our Transparency vs. Privacy Board.
Dongsheng Cai, who discovered a brain pathway responsible for obesity, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Steve Potter, who is developing a managed power grid that involves literally tapping brain cells grown on networks of electrodes, joins our Neuroscience Board and Robotics/AI Board.
Chang Liu, author of Foundations of MEMS, joins our Engineering Board.
Dean Ho, who has developed a nanodiamond drug device which could transform cancer treatment, joins our Biotech/Medical Board and Nanotechnology Board.
Sandeep Shukla, who coedited Nano, Quantum, and Molecular Computing: Implications to High Level Design and Validation, joins our Engineering Board.
Roy Stedman, Technology Strategist for Dell, joins our Information Sciences Board. Roy has invented more than 25 US and international patents.
Read issue #75 of Lifeboat News!
Aydogan Ozcan, whose lensless imaging system counts cells in seconds, joins our Engineering Board.
Licia Iacoviello, who discovered that half a bar of dark chocolate per week reduces your risk of heart attack, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Priya Natarajan, who discovered there are limits to how large a black hole can grow, joins our Cosmology Board.
Global Catastrophic Risks: Building a Resilient Civilization will be held November 14, 2008 at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California. This seminar will precede the futurist mega-gathering Convergence 08, November 15–16 at the same venue.
 
Our Jamais Cascio, James J. Hughes, Mike Treder, and Eliezer Yudkowsky will be participating.
 
Help us support this event! (We have already raised $1,000 out of our goal of
Marco Wiering, author of Convergence and Divergence in Standard and Averaging Reinforcement Learning and Hierarchical Mixtures of Naive Bayesian Classifiers, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Kenneth Dawson, who has formed a new international research alliance to establish protocols for reproducible toxicological testing of nanomaterials in both cultured cells and animals, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Mary-Anne Williams joins our Robotics/AI Board. She is Director, Innovation and Technology Research Laboratory, University of Technology, Sydney.
Bert Kappen, author of An Introduction to Stochastic Control Theory, Path Integrals, and Reinforcement Learning, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, coauthor of Learning Symbolic Inferences with Neural Networks, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Our Jürgen Schmidhuber will be the keynote speaker at the AGI-09 conference on Artificial General Intelligence which will be held March 6–9, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia.
 
Our Eric B. Baum, Mark H. Bickhard, Włodzisław “Wlodek” Duch, Itamar Elhanany, Ben Goertzel, J. Storrs “Josh” Hall, Marcus Hutter, Bruce Klein, Randal Koene, John Laird, Christian Lebiere, Moshe Looks, and Stephen Reed are also participating.
There will be a panel discussion of leading experts on the future of AI and the singularity at the 20 year anniversary celebration of the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, which will take place on October 24, 2008 in Palazzo dei Congressi in the center of Lugano, Switzerland, during Ticino Informatica 2008. Our Marco Dorigo and Jürgen Schmidhuber will be participating.
Chid S. Iyer, author of Small Science, Big Risk: Lessons from the past for protecting Nanotechnology and Partner of Sughrue, Mion, PLLC, joins our Legal Board.
Matt Mahoney, author of A Model for Recursively Self Improving Programs, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
John Huchra, President of the American Astronomical Society and codiscover of the Great Attractor, a proposed massive concentration of galaxies lying beyond the Hydra-Centaurus supercluster, and codiscover of the 500 million light-years long Great Wall, joins our Cosmology Board.
Trond Andresen, author of Two Feasible Future Scenarios: A high-tech Utopia and a high-tech Dystopia, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Theoretical physicist-cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton, author of Birth of the Universe from the Multiverse, joins our Cosmology Board. Laura is particularly interested in the possibility of generating dark energy from transplanckian physics in string theory, gravity and quantum field theory in curved space, and higher-dimension braneworlds.
Alexander “Sasha” Kashlinsky, who has discovered “dark flow” which is causing hundreds of clusters of galaxies to stream en masse towards a region at the edge of the visible universe, joins our Cosmology Board. Sasha is Senior Staff Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Ishfaq Ahmad, who was elected a Fellow of IEEE for “contributions to scheduling techniques in parallel and distributed computing systems”, joins our Supercomputing Board. Ishfaq is on the Editorial Board of Cluster Computing.
Pankaj Sah, Head of Synaptic Plasticity, Queensland Brain Institute, Australia, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Ken Natesan, Section Manager, Nuclear Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, joins our Engineering Board.
Alexandra Carmichael joins our blog team with her first post.
Chenglong Li, who is developing a synthetic spice-based compound to fight cancer, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Chenglong says “The spice extends life, the spice expands consciousness, the spice is vital to space travel.” (Well, maybe we made that quote up.)
David Sebba, who is combining gold and DNA to develop a nano-sensor, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
The Convergence08 Unconference on Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno (NBIC) technologies and their interactions will be held November 15–16, 2008, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
 
Our Gregory Benford, Ben Goertzel, Aubrey de Grey, Terry Grossman, Andrew Hessel, and Peter Norvig will be speaking.
Yaling Liu, whose primary research interest is bio-nano interfacial phenomena, which couple solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, and biophysics, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Our Kattesh Katti has been selected to be one of “25 Most Influential in Molecular Imaging” in the world.
Read How can we reduce the risk of human extinction?
Zane Andrews, who has found a key to overeating as we age, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Paul Nghiem joins our Biotech/Medical Board. He is primarly focused on basic, clinical, and translational research aspects of Merkel cell carcinoma.
Allen Hutchison, Engineering Manager at Google, who created Google Translate for iPhone, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Antonello Bonci, Professor of Neurology, Howard J. Weinberger Chair in Addiction Research, Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center and Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Stefan Hau-Riege, who developed the brightest, sharpest, fastest x-ray holograms yet, joins our Physics Board.
Kate Maciver, coauthor of Phantom limb pain, cortical reorganization, and the therapeutic effect of mental imagery, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Stuart S. Licht, whose new fuel battery may allow hybrids to ditch gasoline for good, joins our Sustainability Board.
Alexis Armstrong says “If a ten-year-old can donate, then what is the excuse of you adults?”
Bill Clyne, Head of the Composites & Coatings Group, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, joins our Engineering Board.
Pat Cadigan, “The Queen of Cyberpunk”, joins our Futurists Board.
Read issue #74 of Lifeboat News!
Alexei Turchin joins our blog team with his first post.
Moon J. Kim, Director of the University of Texas at Dallas’ (UTD’s) new Nano-Characterization Facility, and Supervisor of UTD’s Nano & Beyond Research Laboratory, joins our Engineering Board.
David Orrell, author of The Other Side of the Coin: The Emerging Vision of Economics and Our Place in The World, joins our Economics Board.
Dave Reisner, editor of Bionanotechnology: Global Prospects, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Huanyang Chen, who developed a way to unmask an invisibility cloak so those inside it are able to view their surroundings, joins our Physics Board.
Maggie Turnbull, lead scientist for NASA’s New Worlds Observer, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Kang Zhang, who discovered the first gene associated with dry macular degeneration, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Neeraj Vij, who will be presenting “Challenges of Nano-Delivery in Airway Diseases — Bypassing the Mucus Barrier” at NanoBiotech 2008, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Danny Belkin joins our [email protected] team, working to help scientists understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases.
Greg Ward joins our Scientific Advisory Board. Working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Greg developed a device for characterizing surface reflectance functions, called the imaging goniophotometer, which is now being picked up and improved by researchers at MIT.
Our Raj Bawa is conference chair for NanoBiotech 2008: a conference exploring the global opportunities in nanobiotechnology and related science and engineering fields. This conference will be held September 15, 2008 at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Danny Belkin joins our blog team with his first post.
Read Loneliness and learn why we should focus less on self-interests/short-term outcomes and focus more on social interests/sustainability.
Listen to our David Pearce on The Future And You.
Devika Subramanian, coauthor of the first paper defining the area of bounded optimality, i.e., what it means for an agent to make the “best” use of scarce resources, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Deb Newberry, coauthor of The Next Big Thing Is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Aaron Wall, who literally wrote the book on search engine optimization: SEO Book, joins our Futurists Board.
Derek Lomas, who is designing a $12 computer, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Jonathan Schooler, who is researching whether we have free will, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Entertainer, leader, musician, artist, and thinker Dr. Phineas Waldolf Steel joins our Media & Arts Board. His interests span the production of propaganda, the construction of chronically malfunctioning robots, puppet shows, and an ongoing attempt to become World Emperor for the purpose of turning this planet into a Utopian Playland.
Jody Westby, CEO and Founder of Global Cyber Risk, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board. She chairs the American Bar Association’s Privacy & Computer Crime Committee and represents the ABA on the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists.
Allister Furey, who is developing biologically inspired approaches to the control of tethered airfoils (kites) for production of renewable energy from the wind, joins our Sustainability Board.
Jim Flynn joins our Neuroscience Board. The Flynn Effect is named after him and is the rise of average Intelligence Quotient (IQ) test scores over the generations, an effect seen in most parts of the world, although at greatly varying rates. Jim did much to document it and promote awareness of its implications. This increase has been continuous and roughly linear from the earliest days of testing to the present.
Qiming Zhang, who is developing a compressor-free refrigerator, joins our Engineering Board.
Paul Fitzgerald, coauthor of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Treatment of Depression, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Randall Murch, who created the FBI’s WMD forensic investigative program and the FBI’s Hazardous Materials Response Unit, joins our Counterterrorism Board.
Wesley L. Harris, Charles Stark Draper Professor and Head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Daniel Polani, Associate Editor of Advances in Complex Systems, joins our Complex Systems Board.
Sami Ayyorgun who is creating the networks of the future — extending our senses into the physical world, joins our Information Sciences Board.
David A. McClellan, author of The Codon-Degeneracy Model of Molecular Evolution, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Andras Lacko, who will be presenting “Novel Biocompatible Nanoparticles for Targeted Cancer Therapy” at NanoTX USA, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Artist and animator Gina “Nanogirl” Miller joins our Media & Arts Board. Gina established Nanotechnology Industries in 1998. Nanotechnology Industries distributes information and provides resources about nanotechnology and related emerging technologies that will transform our world in positive ways.
 
Gina has completed a 3-minute long animation that nicely illustrates the workings of Rob Freitas’ proposed programmable dermal display (essentially, a video-touchscreen nano-tattoo that reports real-time medical information to the user, as reported back by numerous nanorobots stationed in various locations inside the body).
Walt Trybula, Director of the Nanomaterials Application Center at Texas State University, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Xiang Zhang, who is developing an invisibility cloak, joins our Engineering Board. Watch Xiang on CNN!
Jason Vaughn Clark, who created a monolithic comb drive nanomachine, joins our Engineering Board and Nanotechnology Board. This nanoscale motorized positioning device can be used in biological and engineering fields.
Roderick Jones joins our blog team with his first post.
Chris Haley is our new Vice President! We thank Jerry Searcy for 6 years of hard work as our old Vice President.
Daniel Dewitt Brown, author of Building a Better Human, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Read 23 Things Science Can Tell Us about Life, the Universe, and Everything by Daniel D. Brown.
Read It Takes a Giant Cosmos to Create Life and Mind by James Gardner.
Listen to our Ben Goertzel on The Future And You.
Watch Large Hadron Rap: Rappin’ about CERN’s Large Hadron Collider!
Read The (Needed) New Economics of Abundance by Steve Burgess.
Professor of law and policy analyst Tom W. Bell joins our Legal Board. Tom authored Private Prediction Markets and the Law and Free Speech, Strict Scrutiny, and Self-Help: How Technology Upgrades Constitutional Jurisprudence.
Nick Hay, author of The Stamp Collecting Device, joins our Robotics/AI Board. This paper explains the notion of the inhuman yet super-intelligent machine which can destroy humanity as an “accidental” byproduct of its apparently innocuous goals.
Read issue #73 of Lifeboat News!
Greg Sterling joins our Futurists Board. He is the founding principal of Sterling Market Intelligence, a consulting and research firm focused on the Internet’s influence on offline consumer purchase behavior. He also is a Senior Analyst for Local Mobile Search, an advisory service from Opus Research tracking the evolution of the mobile Internet.
Read Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge with contributions by our Amara D. Angelica, Catherine Asaro, Gregory Benford, Anne Corwin, and Wil McCarthy.
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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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.
Thanks to financial assistance from Joshua Fox and graphical assistance from Tom McCabe, we now offer a white background theme on all pages. Click on the blue button on the left that says WHITE BKG to use this.
 
If you notice any problems, send an email with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Web Design” to [email protected].
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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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 our Futurists Board. Ted is coauthor of the annual State of the Future reports with the other coauthor being our Jerry Glenn.
Tom Lombardo, author of The Evolution of Future Consciousness: The Nature and Historical Development of the Human Capacity to Think about the Future and Doorways to the Future Methods, Theories, and Themes, joins our Education Board, Ethics Board, and Futurists Board.
Jim Mathews, founder of The Futures Network, joins our Futurists Board.
James Wright joins our Business Board. He launched the International Executive MBA program of the University of São Paulo in 1992. He has now directed it for 16 years and it is the top ranked Executive MBA program in Brazil.
Ashok K. Gangadean, Founder-Director of the Global Dialogue Institute which seeks to embody the dialogical powers of global reason in all aspects of cultural life, joins our Ethics Board. He is author of Meditative Reason: Toward Universal Grammar.
Rick Smyre, President of the Center for Communities of the Future, joins our Futurists Board. This center is an evolving network of people and organizations throughout the U.S. and other countries that are working in collaboration to develop new concepts of governance, economic development, leadership, and education/learning for a fast-paced, interconnected, and increasingly complex society.
William E. Halal joins our Futurists Board and Human Trajectories Board. Macmillan’s Encyclopedia of the Future listed him among “The World’s 100 Most Influential Futurists”, which included H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Alvin Toffler, Daniel Bell, and Leonardo da Vinci.
Acclaimed science fiction author Jerry Pournelle joins our Futurists Board and Space Settlement Board. Jerry wrote the “Chaos Manor” column for Byte magazine for over 20 years where he described his experiences with computer hardware and software, was President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and coauthored Fallen Angels, Footfall, Lucifer’s Hammer, and The Mote in God’s Eye.
 
Much more than simply a science fiction writer, Jerry earned advanced degrees in psychology, statistics, engineering, and political science, including two PhDs. He coauthored The Strategy of Technology which was required reading in the U.S. service academies during the latter half of the Cold War. From fighting in the Korean War as an artillery officer to being the campaign manager of political campaigns to advising congressional leadership on space policy to advising the Homeland Security Department on how to combat terrorism, Jerry has done it all!
Greg Bear joins our Futurists Board. Greg is an American science fiction and mainstream author who has been called the “best working writer of hard science fiction” by The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. He has been awarded two Hugos and five Nebulas for his fiction, one of only two authors to win a Nebula in every category. He has served on political and scientific action committees and has advised Microsoft Corporation, the U.S. Army, the CIA, Sandia National Laboratories, Callison Architecture, Inc., Homeland Security, and other groups and agencies.
 
Greg joins other luminaries on our Futurists Board including Catherine Asaro, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, David Brin, Alan Dean Foster, Nancy Kress, Frederik Pohl, and Robert Sawyer.
Charles Chafer, Chief Executive Officer of Space Services Inc., the world’s leading provider of public participation space missions, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Peter Russell, author of Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change and The Global Brain Awakens: Our Next Evolutionary Leap, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Read the transcript of the Michael Anissimov interview by Future Blogger.
Our WorldFuture 2008: Seeing the Future Through New Eyes lineup reaches 20 speakers. Our lineup includes Lawrence A. Baines, Raj Bawa, Craig Bettles, Peter C. Bishop, Dennis M. Bushnell, Josh Calder, José Luis Cordeiro, Yasmin Dada-Jones, Jerry Glenn, Jay Herson, Michael Jackson, Shun-jie Ji, Amy Oberg, Jonathan Peck, John L. Petersen, Carrie Rathsack, Karlin Sloan, Mike Treder, Verne Wheelwright, and Mariann Zanardo.
Jonathan Peck, President of the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) and its for-profit subsidiary, Alternative Futures Associates (AFA), joins our Futurists Board.
Justine Cassell, who developed the Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) — a virtual human capable of interacting with humans using both language and nonverbal behavior, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Listen to Michael Anissimov’s interview on FastForward Radio.
Read Phoenix: Final Report by the International Space University.
Bruce Parkinson, whose patents include Semiconductor liquid junction photocell using surface modified GaAs electrode, Gallium arsenide devices having reduced surface recombination velocity, Etching of nanoscale structures, and Fluorescent compounds for absorption and re-emission of radiation, joins our Chemistry Board.
Mark Wiesner, who has designed a replacement for the decades old fuel cell membrane design, joins our Nanotechnology Board and Sustainability Board. He authored Towards a Green Nanotechnology and coauthored Environmental Nanotechnology.
Ruben Nelson, President of Square One Management Ltd. and The Alliance for Capitalizing on Change, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Jim Rybarski joins our [email protected] team, using the spare clock cycles on his computer to help discover new drugs that fight AIDS.
Julia Margo, author of Make Me a Criminal: Preventing Youth Crime and coeditor of Politics for a New Generation, joins our Ethics Board.
Read Sir Arthur C. Clarke in 3001: Don’t Panic! which contains the Arthur C. Clarke interview by our José Luis Cordeiro.
 
Arthur C. Clarke’s final novel is The Last Theorem, coauthored with our Frederik Pohl. It will be released late in 2008.
Listen to Peter Norvig on The Future And You.
Thanks to input from Don Braben, Laszlo Kish, Marty McCrea, and other members of our Scientific Advisory Board, we have now launched our ScientificFreedomShield program.
Donald W. Braben, author of Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization, joins our Scientific Freedom Board which he cofounded.
Anirban Bandyopadhyay, who developed a tiny chemical “brain” which could one day act as a remote control for swarms of nano-machines, joins our Nanotechnology Board. His molecular device — just two billionths of a meter across — was able to control eight microscopic machines simultaneously in a test.
Frank Zeman, who has developed a process to remove CO2 from the air, joins our Sustainability Board.
Craig Bettles, futurist and researcher for the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF), joins our Futurists Board. Craig was the lead researcher and writer for IAF’s bold look at the future of biomedical R&D;, The 2029 Report: Achieving an Ethical Future for Biomedical R&D;, and will be a speaker at WorldFuture 2008.
Theoretical inventor and catalyst Marty McCrea joins our Scientific Freedom Board which he cofounded.
Michael Petrascheck, who worked with Nobel Laureate Linda Buck to lengthen the lifespan of worms with an antidepressant, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Read issue #68 of Lifeboat News!
Martin Codrington, who presented The Genocide of the Curious Mind at the BIL 2008 conference, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Roderick Jones joins our Counterterrorism Board. He is Vice President of Concentric Solutions International, a security consultancy with offices in Seattle, San Francisco, and Washington DC. Prior to this he served for eight years as a detective with Scotland Yard’s Special Branch.
Alberto Conti, one of the creators of the GoogleSky concept, joins our Cosmology Board.
Carrie Rathsack, who will be presenting Change in a Digital Age: An Impetus for a Collaborative, Educative, Democratic Future at WorldFuture 2008, joins our Education Board.
Our WorldFuture 2008 lineup grows with the addition of Raj Bawa, Peter C. Bishop, Josh Calder, Yasmin Dada-Jones, Amy Oberg, Karlin Sloan, Verne Wheelwright, and Mariann Zanardo. This brings us up to 17 speakers!
Edward L. “Ned” Wright, whose research has helped narrow the uncertainty of the age of the universe by tens of millions of years, joins our Cosmology Board.
Athena Andreadis joins our blog team with her first post.
Verne Wheelwright, founder of the Personal Futures Network, joins our Futurists Board. Verne is author of A Personal Futures Workbook and Software for Futurists — Scanning.
Josh Calder, author of The Speed of Change in China and ICBM Parenting, joins our Futurists Board.
Peter C. Bishop, coeditor of Thinking about the Future, Guidelines for Strategic Foresight, joins our Futurists Board.
 
Peter is also Associate Professor of Strategic Foresight and Coordinator of the graduate program in Futures Studies at the University of Houston.
Kavita Katti, whose patents include Methods and articles for gold nanoparticle production and Hydroxyalkyl phosphine compounds for use as diagnostic and therapeutic pharmaceuticals, joins our Nanotechnology Board and Biotech/Medical Board.
KV Fitzpatrick, whose BIL presentation Growing Up Gifted: The State of the Art of Raising Brilliant Minds was covered by Wired Magazine, joins our Futurists Board.
Yasmin Dada-Jones, Executive Director for the Pennsylvania Medicaid Policy Center (PMPC) and previously Executive Policy Director for the Pennsylvania Department of Health (PADOH), joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
She was previously Chief Director Social Sector, in the Policy Coordination and Advisory Service of the Presidency of South Africa in which role she provided technical policy advice to the President and Deputy President of South Africa. In this position she was instrumental in developing a blueprint for social policy action for South Africa for the next decade as well as a monitoring evaluation framework.
Mariann Zanardo, Managing Director and Key Strategist of RegRelief International, joins our Sustainability Board. Mariann helps enterprises in the US and abroad to develop environmentally sustainable practices that reduce an organization’s environmental impact and regulatory burden through management strategies, team training, system development, and process improvements.
Amy Oberg joins our Futurists Board. Amy is is a strategist, futurist, and competitive analyst who specializes in helping organizations better understand the emerging competitive environment and respond with effective, proactive strategies.
 
Recently, Amy has applied her knowledge and skills to assist organizations such as NASA, Dynegy, Kimberly Clark, Conoco, MCI, Solectron, the United Nations, DARPA, the State of Minnesota, and the City of Kaoshuing (Taiwan).
Karlin Sloan, founder and CEO of Karlin Sloan & Company and author of Smarter, Faster, Better: Strategies for Effective, Enduring, and Fulfilled Leadership, joins our Business Board.
Raj Bawa, who serves on the Global Advisory Council of the World Future Society, joins our Biotech/Medical Board and Nanotechnology Board. Raj is on the Editorial Boards of International Journal of Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology Law and Business. He is also Associate Editor of Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine.
Paul Vogt, author of Language evolution and robotics: Issues in symbol grounding and language acquisition and Cumulative cultural evolution: Can we ever learn more?, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Our WorldFuture 2008 lineup grows with the addition of Lawrence A. Baines, Dennis M. Bushnell, Jay Herson, Michael Jackson, and Shun-jie Ji.
Shun-jie Ji, Professor at the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University, and CEO, Institute for National Development, Taiwan, joins our Futurists Board.
Michael Jackson joins our Business Board which he also founded. Mike is a Founder Member and Chairman of Shaping Tomorrow. He also advises businesses on dramatically improving their competitiveness through pioneering work on practical Sustainable Business Strategies. Clients include a number of blue-chip, international and national companies, and small to medium sized UK businesses.
Lawrence A. Baines, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Judith Herb College of Education, University of Toledo, joins our Education Board. Lawrence coedited How to Get a Life, Vol. 1: Empowering Wisdom for the Heart and Soul and How to Get a Life, Vol. 2: Empowering Wisdom from Thinkers and Writers.
Marc D. Hauser, Director of the Cognitive Evolution Lab at Harvard, joins our Neuroscience Board. Marc is author of The Evolution of Communication, Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong, and Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think.
Jay Herson, Managing Editor of Future Takes and Senior Associate at the Institute for Alternative Futures, joins our Futurists Board.
Dennis M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center, joins our Futurists Board and Space Settlement Board.
 
Dennis is responsible for technical oversight and advanced program formulation with emphasis in the areas of atmospheric sciences and structures, materials, acoustics, flight electronics/control/software, instruments, aerodynamics, aerothermodynamics, hypersonic airbreathing propulsion, computational sciences, and systems optimization for aeronautics, spacecraft, exploration, and space access.
José Luis Cordeiro, Jerry Glenn, John L. Petersen, and Mike Treder will be speaking at WorldFuture 2008: Seeing the Future Through New Eyes at the Hilton Washington, Washington, D.C., from July 26 to July 28, 2008.
Kattesh Katti, who developed a “green” method to make gold nanoparticles, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Read the Wired interview of Brian Cox: Rock Star-Turned-Physicist Trades Keyboard for Atom Smasher.
Marisa Vitols, Community Manager for Memebox, joins our Media & Arts Board. Memebox runs both Future Blogger and Future Scanner.
 
Future Blogger enables anyone interested in the future to easily post their thoughts, predictions, and scenarios before a like-minded group of people. These posts are then rated by the community, with the best content rising to the top and onto the Future Blogger front page. Future Scanner aggregates and organizes the best future-related content on the web by year and category.
Jeremy L. O’Brien who demonstrated qubit-qutrit entanglement, joins our Physics Board. Qubit-qutrit entanglement could lead to advantages in quantum computing, such as increased security and more efficient quantum gates, as well as enable novel tests of quantum mechanics.
Lisa Galarneau, author of Are Virtual Worlds Good For the Soul? and The Singularity, Virtual Worlds and AI Babies, joins our Futurists Board. Lisa also works at Microsoft Games User Research doing usability and playtesting on a variety of games.
Gerwin Schalk, whose brain blanket boosts mind control, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Read Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life by Ed Begley, Jr.
Jonathan Katz, who authored The Biggest Bangs: The Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts, the Most Violent Explosions in the Universe, joins our Physics Board.
 
Jonathan predicted the low frequency asymptotic spectrum of the emitted radiation and the occurrence of radio and visible “afterglows” to gamma-ray bursts.
Patrick Tucker, senior editor of The Futurist, an international consumer magazine about social and technological trends, available on newsstands coast to coast, joins our Futurists Board.
Listen to our Philippe Van Nedervelde on The Future and You!
Thanks to Athena Andreadis, our about page is now also in Greek.
Watch the video Nokia Morph Concept. Morph is a concept demonstrating some of the possibilities nanotechnologies might enable in future communication devices. Morph can sense its environment, is energy harvesting, and self cleaning. Morph is a flexible two-piece device that can adapt its shape to different use modes. Nanotechnology enables us to have adaptive materials yet rigid forms on demand.
 
It is also featured in the MoMA online exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind”. It has been a collaboration project of the Nokia Research Center and Cambridge Nanoscience Center.
Read Netherwood. This interesting science fiction novel is based on a hard takeoff singularity.
Bill Erickson, who has launched BIL: An Open, Self-Organizing Alternative to TED, joins our Media & Arts Board.
 
Also, check out our TED lineup!
Richard Satava, who helped develop the first surgical robot and the first virtual reality surgical simulators, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
During his 23 years of military surgery, Rick has been an active flight surgeon, an Army astronaut candidate, MASH surgeon for the Grenada Invasion, and hospital commander during Desert Storm, all the while continuing clinical surgical practice. While striving to practice the complete discipline of surgery, he is aggressively pursuing the leading edge of advanced technologies to formulate the architecture for the next generation of Medicine.
 
Rick is Senior Science Advisor at the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command in Fort Detrick, Maryland and was awarded the Smithsonian Laureate in Healthcare in 1997 and 1999.
Neil Rowe, Professor of Computer Science, Center for Information Security Research (CISR), U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, joins our Counterterrorism and Cybercrime/Malcode Boards.
 
Neil authored War Crimes from Cyberweapons and Finding Logically Consistent Resource-Deception Plans for Defense in Cyberspace.
 
Read the reaction of the U.S. Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group (SSG) to meeting with experts from the Lifeboat Foundation.
Jeffrey M. Karp, who developed a surgical bandage based on a gecko’s nanoscale pillars, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. This bandage is waterproof, biodegradable, and adheres much better than conventional sutures.
Ehud Ahissar, whose robot rat will lead the way in touch technology, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
 
Ehud says: “The use of touch in the design of artificial intelligence systems has been largely overlooked, until now.”
David Sancho, author of The Future of Bot Worms and Rootkits: The new wave of invisible malware is here, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board. David is Senior Antivirus Engineer at Trend Micro.
Simone Davalos, Owner of Combots LLC., joins our Education Board. Combots LLC seeks to provide an entertaining and educational experience in robotics and engineering for audiences of all ages.
Alex “Sandy” Pentland, whose “reality mining” technology was described by MIT Technology Review as one of the 10 technologies that they think are most likely to change the way we live, joins our Transparency vs. Privacy Board.
 
Sandy is a pioneer in mobile information systems, technology for developing countries, consumer health, and smart environments. One of the most-cited computer scientists in the world, with international awards in the Arts, Sciences and Engineering, he was chosen by Newsweek as one of the 100 Americans likely to shape this century.
Frederik Pohl joins our Futurists Board. He is a three time Nebula winner, including the “Grand Master” Nebula for lifetime contributions to the field, and a six time Hugo winner. He is the only person ever to have won the Hugo both as writer and as editor.
Listen to Giulio Prisco on The Future And You.
Long-time Lifeboat Foundation supporter Otto Valtakoski provides donations to both our A-PRIZE and NanoShield Fund.
New Lifeboat 500 member Tyrone Steels II says “All of humanity is in the same boat: Earth. And if that boat is threatened or starts to sink, we need to have a lifeboat. Plain and simple. To not plan is not a plan; it is a recipe for disaster. I’m proud to be a Lifeboat 500 member since it provides a priceless service to all of humanity.”
Paul R. Sanberg, who discovered that umbilical cord blood-derived stem cells given intravenously will reduce stroke damage, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Paul is the author of more than 400 scientific articles, has published thirteen books, and is an inventor on over twenty-five U.S. patents.
Sarah A. Hoyt, author of Draw One in the Dark and coeditor of Something Magic This Way Comes, joins our Futurists Board. Sarah was recently featured in five podcasts on The Future And You.
Nidal Hilal, who has developed a method to create clean water using bacteria and nanofilters, joins our Engineering Board.
Our Advisory Board members Chris Abani, Brian Cox, Jonathan Haidt, Joshua Klein, and Peter D. Ward will be speaking at TED2008 which will be held from February 27 to March 1, 2008 at the Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, California, USA.
 
TED started out as an annual conference in Monterey devoted to Technology, Entertainment and Design. The content has broadened in recent years, but this annual event is still the main engine that drives TED’s success, bringing together 1,000 of the world’s most remarkable people. The format is fast-paced, with 50+ speakers over four days (plus short talks, performances and evening events). In 2005, an additional conference, TEDGlobal, was inaugurated. It’s held every other year, in a different location, focusing on a different theme.
Jonathan Haidt, author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, joins our Ethics Board.
Peter D. Ward, author of Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future and Gorgon: The Monsters That Ruled the Planet Before Dinosaurs and How They Died in the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth’s History, and coauthor of Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe, joins our Sustainability Board.
Mobile, personal, and future technology specialist Joshua Klein joins our Futurists Board. He is Senior Technical Consultant for Premier Heart in New York, NY. Premier Heart has been developing leading-edge ECG analysis tools since 1998 and continues to push the boundaries of quality and accuracy in detecting hemodynamically relevant Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).
Chris Abani joins our Ethics Board. In 1985, this Nigerian writer was arrested and imprisoned on suspicion of masterminding a political coup. The evidence: his first novel, a political thriller written two years earlier, when he was just sixteen years old. Since then, he has been imprisoned twice more, sentenced to death, tortured by electric shock; he has also thwarted assassins, published books of poetry, novels, and won numerous literary awards.
Richard MacManus, one of the world’s most highly respected web technology and digital media analysts and strategists, joins our Futurists Board.
 
Richard’s ReadWriteWeb blog is one of the most widely read and influential web technology blogs on the web. In December 2007, ReadWriteWeb was ranked #15 in Technorati’s Top 20 blogs, and #5 on the Techmeme Leaderboard, putting it well above traditional news sources such as the BBC and the Wall Street Journal.
Phil Bowermaster joins our blog team with his first post.
Gia Milinovich, whose blog has been called “Britain’s answer to Wil Wheaton”, joins our Media & Arts Board. Gia authored End of the World Scenario, Apocalympics 2012, and The Presumptions of Idiots.
Our International Spokesperson Philippe Van Nedervelde will be on FastForward Radio on Feb 17, 2008 at 7:00 PM Pacific / 10:00 PM Eastern. This will be the second of a two-part series of shows on the subject of risk.
Yaakov Stern, who identified a brain network that may help prevent or slow Alzheimer’s, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Molecular biologist Athena Andreadis, author of To Seek Out New Life: The Biology of Star Trek, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Robert Robinson joins our [email protected] team.
 
Donate the unused CPU cycles on your computer(s) to help scientists to 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.
Brian Milch, named one of the “Ten to Watch” in AI by IEEE Intelligent Systems in 2008, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
 
Brian will be presenting Artificial General Intelligence through Large-Scale, Multimodal Bayesian Learning at AGI-08, becoming the 32nd person in our AGI-08 lineup.
Read End of the World Scenario.
Read issue #67 of Lifeboat News!
Angela Schwering, who will be presenting Learning from Inconsistencies in an Integrated Cognitive Architecture and Analogy as Integrating Framework for Human-Level Reasoning at AGI-08, joins our Robotics/AI Board. She is the 31st person to join our growing lineup at AGI-08!
Andres M. Lozano, who is improving patient’s memory with deep-brain stimulation, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Mark Gross, whose smart “Lego” conjures up its virtual 3D twin, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Jeffrey D. Janus, CEO of Lifeline Cell Technology, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Jeffrey was the first to create embryonic stem cells from unfertilized eggs.
Simon E. Fisher, who discovered the first language gene, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Jack McDevitt, winner of the Philip K. Dick Special Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and the Phoenix Award, joins our Futurists Board.
Three-time Nebula award winner Nancy Kress joins our Futurists Board. Her Probability Moon/ Probability Sun/ Probability Space trilogy concerns quantum physics, a space war, and the nature of reality.
Alan Dean Foster joins our Futurists Board. Alan is a prolific American writer of science fiction, fantasy novels, and movie novelizations. His published oeuvre includes more than 100 books and his work has been translated into more than fifty languages.
Our AGI-08 lineup continues to grow. We have added J. Storrs “Josh” Hall, who is a Session chair, Speaker, and is on the AGI-08 Program Committee; Nick Cassimatis and Włodzisław “Wlodek” Duch, who are Speakers and are on the AGI-08 Program Committee; Kenneth Livingston who is a Speaker; and Michael L. Anderson, Mark H. Bickhard, Marcus Hutter, Christian Lebiere, Bruce Maclennan, Matthias Scheutz, and Jürgen Schmidhuber, who are on the AGI-08 Program Committee.
Kenneth Livingston, coauthor of Four Paths to AI and Beyond the Definition Given: On the Growth of Connotation, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Karan Sharma, who will be presenting Designing Knowledge Based Systems as Complex Adaptive Systems at AGI-08, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Michael L. Anderson, author of Embodied Cognition: A Field Guide and Evolution, Embodiment and the Nature of the Mind, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Christian Lebiere, whose main project is ACT-R, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
 
ACT-R is a cognitive architecture: a theory for simulating and understanding human cognition. Researchers working on ACT-R strive to understand how people organize knowledge and produce intelligent behavior. As the research continues, ACT-R evolves ever closer into a system which can perform the full range of human cognitive tasks: capturing in great detail the way we perceive, think about, and act on the world.
Bruce Maclennan, founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation, and author of Consciousness in Robots: The Hard Problem and Some Less Hard Problems, joins our Nanotechnology Board and Robotics/AI Board.
Peter Voss, Founder and CEO of Adaptive Artificial Intelligence Inc., joins our Robotics/AI Board. Peter is the author of Essentials of General Intelligence: The direct path to AGI.
Mark H. Bickhard, Henry R. Luce Professor of Cognitive Robotics and the Philosophy of Knowledge at Lehigh University, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
 
Mark authored Representational Content in Humans and Machines and coauthored Foundational Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: Impasse and Solution.
Nick Cassimatis, who authored Polyscheme: a Cognitive Architecture for Integrating Multiple Representation and Inference Schemes and coauthored A Cognitive Substrate for Natural Language Understanding, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Read the reaction of the U.S. Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group (SSG) to meeting with top scientists from the Lifeboat Foundation.
Michael Dickey is now our LF Deputy Networking Director. Using the internet as his primary social-networking instrument, Michael is focused on expanding and strengthening Lifeboat Foundation’s global network of professional and personal contacts and the active welcoming of financial donations as well as donations in kind from this growing web of worldwide connections.
Włodzisław “Wlodek” Duch, who is organizing Cognitive Architectures: Towards Human-Level Intelligence, special session at WCCI 2008, Hong Kong with Ben Goertzel, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
J. Storrs “Josh” Hall, originator of the Utility Fog concept and author of Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine and Nanofuture: What’s Next For Nanotechnology, joins our Nanotechnology Board and Robotics/AI Board.
Chris Haley becomes our Blog Webmaster. His main task will be to manage spam — to remove spam that gets past our spam filters, and more importantly, to save legitimate messages that our spam filters thought were spam.
 
Activity in our blog is growing and Chris’s help will be appreciated!
Serafim Batzoglou, whose new gene prediction method capitalizes on multiple genomes, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Jeff Reed, Strategic Advisor for Novamente, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
 
Jeff currently holds the title of Chairman of the Board of Axis Facilities Services Corporation, where he oversees finance, legal and IT. Prior to that he was Chief Technology Officer for Logicalis USA, a London headquartered subsidiary of JSE-listed company Datatec Ltd. Logicalis has revenues in excess of $500M and employs more than 1,500 people located in Europe, USA, and South America. Logicalis USA has offices in 25 major cities and provides mission-critical computer hardware, software, application development, and hosting services to mid-market and Fortune 1000 companies.
Stephen Euin Cobb, author, futurist, and host of the award-winning podcast The Future And You, joins our Futurists Board and Media & Arts Board.
Joydeep “Joy” Bhattacharya, whose research indicates what happens in the brain when we’re faced with a dilemma, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Our AGI-08 lineup continues to grow. We have added Ari Heljakka and Peter Stone, who will be Speakers.
Stephen Gordon, coauthor of the Better All The Time series, joins our Futurists Board. Listen to the Better All The Time podcasts!
Phil Bowermaster, one of the brains behind The Speculist and coproducer of The FastForward Radio Show, joins our Futurists Board.
Ari Heljakka, who coauthored Probabilistic Logic Networks: A Comprehensive Framework for Uncertain Inference with Ben Goertzel, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Peter Stone, winner of the prestigious IJCAI 2007 Computers and Thought award and author of Layered Learning in Multiagent Systems: A Winning Approach to Robotic Soccer and coauthor of Autonomous Bidding Agents: Strategies and Lessons from the Trading Agent Competition, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Joscha Bach, author of Seven Principles of Synthetic Intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Our AGI-08 lineup continues to grow. We have added John E. Laird, Matthew Iklé, and Alexei V. Samsonovich, who will be Speakers and Stephen Reed, who will be a Session Chair.
Stephen Reed, author of Mapping Ontologies into Cyc (with Doug Lenat) and Semantic Annotation for Persistence, joins our Robotics/AI Board. Steve is also the principal developer at Texai.org, which is an open source project to create artificial intelligence. Their approach is to first construct a bootstrap English dialog system that will acquire linguistic and commonsense skills to improve its own performance.
John E. Laird, who along with Paul Rosenbloom and Allen Newell, created the Soar cognitive architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Tsvi Achler, who will be presenting Input Feedback Networks: Classification and Inference Based on Network Structure at AGI-08 with Eyal Amir, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Michael Graham Richard, editor-in-chief of TreeHugger, joins our Sustainability Board. TreeHugger is the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream.
Michael Graham Richard joins our blog team with his first post.
Alexei V. Samsonovich, author of Universal Learner as an Embryo of Computational Consciousness, and coauthor of Designing A Self-Aware Neuromorphic Hybrid and Pricing the “Free Lunch” of Meta-Evolution, joins our Information Sciences Board and Robotics/AI Board.
Matthew Iklé, coauthor of Probabilistic Logic Networks: A Comprehensive Conceptual, Mathematical and Computational Framework for Uncertain Inference with Ben Goertzel, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Michael Graham Richard activates our [email protected] team.
 
Donate the unused CPU cycles on your computer(s) to help scientists to 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. (See Disease Related Research for more information). Read news and articles about Rosetta.
Our massive lineup at AGI-08 grows! Eyal Amir, Ben Goertzel, Moshe Looks, Cassio Pennachin, and Leslie Smith will be speaking at The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence at the FedEx Institute of Technology, University of Memphis in cooperation with AAAI, March 1–3, 2008.
 
Session chairs will include Eric Baum, Randal A. Koene, and Steve Omohundro. The organizing committee includes Ben Goertzel and Bruce Klein. The Outreach Director is Natasha Vita-More and Conference Management Software Hosting is by David Hart.
Randal A. Koene joins our Neuroscience Board. He runs the site MindUploading.org. This site addresses the specific issues that may arise when neural prostheses are customized to a specific patient, and when large scale neural prostheses lead to whole brain emulation: the emulation of a patient’s complete brain function in a prosthetic substrate. Site content is focused on neuroscience and computational research that is involved in an eventual progression from neural prostheses to the applied science of whole brain emulation.
 
Randal is also Research Assistant Professor, Computational Neurophysiology Laboratory, Boston University and Research Associate, Department of Experimental Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Stanislav Grof, author of Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy and When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-ordinary Reality, joins our Neuroscience Board. He recently received the prestigious VISION 97 award granted by the Foundation of Dagmar and Vaclav Havel in Prague.
Eiman Kanjo, who has developed a method for cyclists’ cellphones to be used to monitor air pollution, joins our Sustainability Board.
Mary Lou Jepsen, CEO/CTO of Pixel Qi, joins our Engineering Board. Pixel Qi is currently pursuing the $75 laptop, while also aiming to bring sunlight readable, low-cost, and low-power screens into mainstream laptops, cellphones, and digital cameras.
 
Mary Lou was previously the founding chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). Notably she invented the laptop’s sunlight-readable display technology and co-invented its ultra-low-power management system. Critically, she transformed these inventions into ready-to-ship hardware, integrated into the XO laptop — the lowest-cost laptop ever made and the most environmentally friendly laptop ever made.
Simon Davies, Founder and Director General of Privacy International, joins our Transparency vs. Privacy Board. The UK based Privacy International, now with members in more than 40 countries, was founded in 1990 and is a strong voice for privacy reform across the world.
Nick King, Executive Secretary of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), joins our Sustainability Board. GBIF is working at facilitating digitization and global dissemination of primary biodiversity data so that people from all countries can benefit from the use of this information. They plan on mobilizing 1 billion records by the end of the year.
Adrian Thrasher, who has developed the use of a “self-inactivating” retrovirus to create safer gene therapy, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. This “self-inactivating” retrovirus cannot make more copies of itself once it has stitched itself into the host genome.
Markus Frank, who demonstrated for the first time that targeting cancer stem cells can slow down the growth of a tumor, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Chris Haley joins our [email protected] team, working to help scientists understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases.
András Lörincz, who demonstrated that AI agents can successfully be taught how to strategize through reinforcement learning and win at Ms. Pac-Man, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Chi-Sang Poon, who discovered that the body’s innate ability to adapt to recurring stimuli could be leveraged to design more effective and less costly artificial respirators, joins our Neuroscience Board. Chi-Sang is Principal Research Scientist at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology.
The Speculist says “How about a story arc in which Sarah and John elicit the help of the Lifeboat Foundation in warding off the rise of the machines? I’d like to see a heavily armed paramilitary cell within the foundation all decked out in camouflage and talking trash about ‘tearing Skynet a new memory cache’ and the like.”
William Faloon, Director and Cofounder of the Life Extension Foundation, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. The Life Extension Foundation is a nonprofit organization, whose long-range goal is the radical extension of the healthy human lifespan. In seeking to control aging, their objective is to develop methods to enable us to live in health, youth, and vigor for unlimited periods of time.
Tyrone Steels II joins our LF 500 team bringing this important group to double digits. We now also have double digit Executive and Economy Class members.
 
Being thrifty, Tyrone cuts his cost in half as he says, “I work for Hewlett-Packard and they have added the Lifeboat Foundation into their preferred donation database. As a result, they match all contributions.” So HP will be paying half his costs!
Added information to our World News page about CIA Says Hackers Have Cut Power Grid: Several cities outside the U.S. have sustained attacks on utility systems and extortion demands.
 
Read our InternetShield program for solutions!
Waleed Abdulla, Founder and CEO of Ninua, the developer of Zooov, a social news and forum engine for niche communities, and Ziizo, an online bookmarking and productivity tool, joins our Futurists Board. He recently launched OnSingularity, a user submitted news and discussion portal for the Singularity community.
Doug Jacobson joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board. He is director of the Iowa State University Information Assurance Center, which has been recognized by the National Security Agency as a charter Center of Academic Excellence for Information Assurance Education. He is also director of the proposed NSF I/U CRC Center for Information Protection and the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE).
Peter Cassidy joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board. He is secretary general of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), the largest and most influential independent coalition combating Internet crime today, having cultivated the organization since 2004 into an internationally recognized authority on electronic crime with more than 3,000 members from more than 1,700 information technology companies, law enforcement agencies, government ministries, universities, and research institutions worldwide.
Catherine Asaro, author of the Nebula Award winning novel The Quantum Rose, joins our Physics Board. Catherine earned her PhD in Physics from Harvard and recently completed two terms as president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA).
Harald C. Ott, who created a beating heart in a laboratory, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Harald coauthored From cardiac repair to cardiac regeneration — ready to translate?
Harris Makatsoris, who is developing a computer language that could instruct nano-assemblers to work without human intervention, joins our Engineering Board.
Bruce Aronow, a biomedical research scientist whose job is to develop new computational approaches and analyses to help teams of biomedical investigators joins our Biotech/Medical Board. A recent accomplishment of a group with whom he is part of discovered the evolution of a network of genes in the human genome that act as “guardians” and gives humans unique protections from DNA damage. He was also part of the first team to map a gene that regulates bone marrow stem cells.
Watch the video Jesse Sullivan with the Bionic Arm.
Thanks to Matt McGuirl, we now have three Facebook causes. They are: A-PRIZE, NanoShield, and AIShield.
Benjamin Duranske (aka Benjamin Noble), editor and primary contributor of Virtually Blind: Legal Issues in Virtual Worlds and Multiuser Online Games, joins our Legal Board. Benjamin is author of Top Five Virtual Law Analysis Fumbles and founder of the Second Life Bar Association.
Jeska Dzwigalski (aka Jeska Linden), Community and Product Manager at Linden Lab, joins our Media & Arts Board. Linden Lab is the creator of the virtual world Second Life. Read An Interview with Jeska Linden about Nonprofits in Second Life and Interview: Lust for Second Life.
Our donor list can now also be sorted by membership type.
We have launched the AIShield Fund which will be used to turn our AIShield program into reality.
 
While we won’t be funding the purchase of massive supercomputers, ginormous teams of programmers, or research into quantum computers and other computing breakthroughs in the near future, we can do something today. Learn more!
Dan Berleant improves our AIShield program enabling us to upgrade it to a “current program”.
Watch the video DNA Molecular Biology Visualizations – Wrapping And Replication.
Tom Daniels, author of Reference models for the concealment and observation of origin identity in store-and-forward networks and A functional reference model of passive systems for tracing network traffic, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board. Tom was recently coeditor of the Information Systems Frontiers special issue on Secure Knowledge Management.
Humberto Castaneda becomes our first Patron level member. He says “Human survival has always been in mortal danger. It is only our slow perception of time that has given us the illusion of stability. Whether we call it luck, or by design, we have gotten to a point where through technology we may escape the risk horizon on Earth. Now we have to believe this is possible, and that we will do it, because whatever stance we take collectively will be self-fulfilling.”
Chris Haley who runs Nested Universe, a blog and podcast for artificial intelligence, singularity, cosmology, physics, robotics, nanotechnology, metaphysics, and philosophy joins our Robotics/AI Board. He is also author of Emergent Human Intelligence.
Watch the video Programming DNA: A 2-bit language for engineering biology.
Nathan Eagle, cofounder of the MIT/Harvard Large-Scale Network Analysis Project and author of Machine Perception and Learning of Complex Social Systems, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Jeffrey Youngblood, who has developed a new adaptive polymer coating which combines unusual chemical properties to help maintain a clear view, joins our Engineering Board. This polymer could be used to create self-cleaning, fog-free windshields among many possible uses.
Jeffrey Mogil, Associate Editor of Pain: The Journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain, author of the textbook The Genetics of Pain, and who discovered that mice are capable of empathy, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Jason Matheny, author of Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction and coauthor of Incentives for Biodefense Countermeasure Development, joins our Ethics Board.
Jin Zhang, who has developed a nanostructured thin film that shows promise for efficient solar energy conversion and is Senior Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry, joins our Chemistry and Nanotechnology Boards.
Carolyn L. Burke, CEO of Integrity Incorporated, joins our Robotics/AI Board. Integrity Incorporated provides governance, privacy, integrity, information security consulting services, and management solutions to help organizations achieve and maintain compliance and integrity.
Participate in the poll Top 10 Existential Risks!
Bruce Klein joins our blog team with his first post.
Read issue #66 of Lifeboat News!
Martine Rothblatt, American lawyer, author, and entrepreneur joins our Scientific Advisory Board, becoming our 500th member. She joins Ray Kurzweil, Nobel Laureates Sir Clive W.J. Granger, Eric S. Maskin, and Wole Soyinka, and many other luminaries, in our goal of “Safeguarding Humanity”.
 
Martine started United Therapeutics (NASDAQ: UTHR) in 1996 and has served as Chairman & CEO since its inception. Her company develops and/or commercializes unique analogs of natural molecules for cardiopulmonary disorders, novel monoclonal antibodies for certain cancers, small glycobiologicals for infectious diseases, telemedical services (including for International Space Station astronauts) and nutriceuticals. She has many, many, more accomplishments. Read more!
Evan Snyder joins our Biotech/Medical Board. He is regarded as one of the fathers of the stem cell field, having identified over 2 decades ago that cells that came to be called stem cells were a source of neural plasticity. He was the first to demonstrate that non-hematopoietic stem cells could mediate cell and gene replacement, home to injury, and perform protective, trophic, pro-regenerative, and anti-inflammatory actions. And he was the first to isolate human neural stem cells.
Jun Ni, Professor, Department of Physics and Key Laboratory of Atomic and Molecular Nanoscience, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, who has discovered that boron nanotubes could outperform carbon nanotubes, joins our Physics Board.
Chris Haley joins our blog team with his first post.
Michael Rowe, Manager of the 3D Internet and Intraverse Department at IBM’s Research Group, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Denise C. Park, T. Boone Pickens Distinguished Chair in Brain Science, University Regents’ Research Scholar, The Center for Brain Health, University of Texas at Dallas, joins our Neuroscience Board.
We have launched the NanoShield Fund which will be used to turn our NanoShield program into reality.
 
While we won’t be funding the development of massive utility fog curtains or orbiting laser platforms in the near future, we can do something today. Learn more!
Jacque Fresco, subject of the award-winning documentary Future by Design, joins our Futurists Board. Jacque is an industrial engineer, architectural designer, social engineer, and futurist who desires to create solutions that maximally benefit the greatest number of people.
Chris Haley joins our LF 500 team. We only need one more person for this important team to reach double digits!
John Perry Barlow, retired Wyoming cattle rancher, former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, joins our Transparency vs. Privacy Board.
Brian Cartmell, CEO of Spam Arrest and of MyPW, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Paul Root Wolpe joins our Ethics Board. He is first Chief of Bioethics for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), coeditor of the American Journal of Bioethics, and recent President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, the national professional organization for scholars in bioethics and the medical humanities.
Oliver Starr joins our blog team with his first post.
We have found it useful to have both Rubyred Labs and KurzweilAI.net provide us with hosting. Each provides us with different strengths and combined they improve our redundancy. If you would also like to provide us with free hosting, please email us with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Hosting”.
Paul Rabinow, coauthor of A Machine to Make a Future: Biotech Chronicles and author of French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Henry Daniell, who invented a method to produce 360 million doses of anthrax vaccine in one acre of plants and genetically modified lettuce heads to produce insulin, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
The lettuce heads could be transformed into time-release capsules for people with diabetes, to help them maintain blood-sugar levels without regular injections. His chloroplast genetic engineering technology is protected by more than ninety U.S. and international patents.
Paul Kurtz, the editor in chief of Free Inquiry magazine, founder and chairman of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSICOP) which publishes the Skeptical Inquirer, and founder and chairman of the Council for Secular Humanism, the Center for Inquiry, and Prometheus Books, joins our Ethics Board.
Richard Hendrick joins as an Executive Class member which brings us up to double digit Executive Class members. We now have both double digit Economy Class and Executive Class members! (And we only need two more people to join our LF 500 team for this important team to reach double digits!)
Pete Estep, Chairman of The InnerSpace Foundation (IF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and funding neuroengineering approaches for the dramatic enhancement of memory and learning, joins our Neuroscience Board. Pete is also an adviser to the Personal Genome Project, an “open-source” genome project based at Harvard Medical School.
Margaret Boden, author of The Age of Intelligent Machines: The Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Mind As Machine: A History of Cognitive Science Two-Volume Set, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Marshall Brain, founder of HowStuffWorks, an award-winning resource website that offers clear, objective and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world around us actually works, joins our Education Board. He is also author of The Day You Discard Your Body.
Andrew Pickering, author of The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science, Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics, and Producing Another World, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Merry Christmas! `Tis the season of giving. Remember that you have only 7 days left to give to Lifeboat Foundation to receive tax benefits for 2007.
Arthur Toga, who helped create the world’s first brain atlas, is director of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) at UCLA, and edited Brain Warping, joins our Neuroscience Board.
David Kliger, Professor of Chemistry and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who recently investigated why diving marine mammals resist brain damage from low oxygen, joins our Chemistry Board.
David Hart, Director of Open Source Projects at The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, VP Product Delivery and Support at Novamente, and Principal Consultant at Atlantis Blue, joins our Sustainability Board. David earned a MS in Environmental Science and has a long-term interest in environment, sustainability, and earth science issues.
Brian Wang joins our staff as our Director of Research.
Joshua Fox and Matt Bamberger launch our Robotics/AI Board Forum/Mailing List.
Evan Malone launches our Engineering Board Forum/Mailing List.
Jennifer Zhang, who reversed skin aging in mice by blocking the action of a single protein, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Danny Belkin launches our Biotech/Medical Board Forum/Mailing List.
Watch the video HIV Replication 3D Animation.
Joshua Fox joins our [email protected] team, working to help scientists understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases.
Glenn Reynolds, the voice of Instapundit, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee, and author of An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths joins our Legal Board.
David Yu Zhang, who has created a molecular “amplifier” that boosts DNA computing, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Mike Perry, author of Toward Self-Optimization of Machine Intelligence and Forever for All: Moral Philosophy, Cryonics, and the Scientific Prospects for Immortality, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Tad Hogg, whose patents include Self-reconfigurable robot, Nanometer scale devices, Distributed control system with global contraints for controlling object motion with smart matter, and Adaptive self-repairing processor array, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Dino Jaroszynski, who is working on a desktop synchrotron that will freeze molecular action, joins our Physics Board.
Matthew J. McMahon, who is working on superdense arrays of electrodes to bring us closer to an artificial retina that approximates normal vision, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Charles M. Higgins, who created a robot driven by a moth’s brain, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Yadong Wang, who has developed polymer scaffolds which may restore damaged nerves, joins our Chemistry Board.
David Koepsell, an author, philosopher, and attorney whose recent research focuses on the nexus of science, technology, ethics and public policy, joins our Ethics Board.
 
David’s publications include Robots Bowling Alone: Evolving Post-Technological Humans and The Ontology of Cyberspace: Philosophy, Law, and the Future of Intellectual Property.
Damian Gregory Allis, who coauthored Design and Analysis of a Molecular Tool for Carbon Transfer in Mechanosynthesis with Eric Drexler, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Luis P. Villarreal, author of Can Viruses Make Us Human? and Director of the Center for Virus Research and of the Viral Vector Facility, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Henry C. Harpending, who has discovered genetic evidence that human evolution is speeding up, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Lee Cronin, coauthor of The imitation game — computational chemical approach to recognizing life, joins our Chemistry Board which he also founded.
The following correction was made to issue 65 of Lifeboat News: “Terrestrial Peoples, Extraterrestrial Persons” by Charles Tandy. The paper’s most important idea is that he suggests two new Concerts (one Terrestrial, one Extraterrestrial) and that “implementing both proposals in concert would have a synergistic effect”. (Concert 1: The political structure of Earth, which is neither a Law of Peoples nor a Law of Persons, is unworkable. But at this unique point in history it is both desirable and feasible to establish a Terrestrial Law of Peoples along the lines of Kant; Rawls; and, Daalder and Lindsay.) (Concert 2: The political structure of Space, which is neither a Law of Peoples nor a Law of Persons, is unworkable. But at this unique point in history it is both desirable and feasible to establish an Extraterrestrial Law of Persons along the lines indicated herein.) Contrary to what you may have heard, the paper does NOT suggest termination or replacement of the UN. You may want to read the paper for yourself; this paper by Charles Tandy may be found in an anthology edited by him: Death And Anti-Death, Volume 5 (Palo Alto: Ria University Press, forthcoming 2007).
Bruce Klein is now our LF Networking Director. Using the internet as his primary social-networking instrument, Bruce Klein is focused on expanding and strengthening Lifeboat Foundation’s global network of professional and personal contacts and the active welcoming of financial donations as well as donations in kind from this growing web of worldwide connections.
Bruce Klein activates our ImmInst Lifeboat Foundation Team Forum.
Read issue #65 of Lifeboat News which includes U.S. Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group (SSG) meeting coverage.
An employee of Hewlett-Packard recently suggested to CreateHope that the Lifeboat Foundation be included in the campaigns of CreateHope, so we are now included in their employee giving programs to some of the nation’s largest corporations. We thank this employee whoever he/she is!
 
Related news: Learn how you can get your employer (even if you have retired from them) to match donations to the Lifeboat Foundation.
Adrian-Bogdan (Adi) Moruţ joins our [email protected] team, becoming the second person to join in the past three days.
Alysson Muotri joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Alysson codiscovered with Fred Gage that a long interspersed nuclear element (LINE) alters developing brain cells, creating far more diversity than the genome itself codes for. (The L1 sequence has been found to alter 80% of all neurons in the human brain!)
Adriano Cavalcanti, CEO of CAN Center for Automation in Nanobiotech, joins our Scientific Advisory Board. CAN’s key development areas are biosensor, nanobioelectronics, and nanorobotics for in vivo nanomedicine application in diabetes, cancer, cardiology, and brain aneurysm.
Bijan Shirinzadeh, who has developed virtual 3D nanorobots which could lead to real cancer-fighting technology, joins our Nanotechnology and Robotics/AI Boards.
Mike Snead, author of Aerospaceplanes and Space Solar Power and American Needs to Become Spacefaring, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Mathematical biologist Iain D. Couzin, based at Princeton University and the University of Oxford, joins our Complex Systems Board. Iain is also author of Collective Minds.
Jianyu Rao, who used atomic-force microscopy to determine that cancer cells are less stiff than healthy cells, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Thanks to Jack Halpern we now have an Esperanto version of our about page. Jack has raised our total to 11 languages!
Jingkuang Chen, who has created an ultrasound probe about the size of a grain of rice that offers panoramic views from inside the human body, joins our Engineering Board.
Costas Efthimiou, author of Quantum group symmetry for the Φ12-perturbed and Φ21-perturbed minimal models of conformal field theory, joins our Physics and Particle Physics Board. Oh, he also coauthored Cinema fiction vs. physics reality: ghosts, vampires, and zombies: two physicists examine certain features of popular myths regarding ghosts, vampires.
Dudley Lynch, president of Brain Technologies Corporation and author of The Mother of All Minds: Leaping Free of an Outdated Human Nature and Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, joins our Education Board.
Craig Tovey, who used the swarm intelligence of honeybees to improve the efficiency of Internet servers, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Steven A. Curley, who killed cancer cells by heating embedded nanotubes with radio waves, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Mario Beauregard, coauthor of The Spiritual Brain, and whose work was recently covered in the Scientific American article Searching for God in the Brain, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Bindeshwar Pathak, the great humanist and social reformer of contemporary India, joins our Sustainability Board. After Gandhi, Dr. Pathak is the man, more than any other in India, who has championed sanitation and upliftment of the untouchables as the mission of his life. For the last three decades he has been working relentlessly to keep the ecosystem clean and bring the marginalized sections of society in the mainstream.
Florin Popescu joins our Neuroscience Board. He is the leader of the Brain2Robot project at Fraunhofer Institute FIRST in Berlin, whose goal is to partially restore arm function in severely paralyzed people by detecting thought commands via EEG (electrodes which touch the scalp), and along with direction of gaze, control a robotic arm.
M. Ellen Mitchell, who coedited Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Seth Horowitz, coauthor of Demonstrations of simple and complex auditory psychophysics for multiple platforms and environments, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Itamar Elhanany, who is on the Program Committee for the Workshop on the Sociocultural, Ethical and Futurological Implications of Artificial General Intelligence, A Post-Conference Workshop for AGI-08, the First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, and is Principal Investigator for the Machine Intelligence Lab & Networking Research Group at The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Michael King, who has invented a device that filters the blood for cancer and stem cells, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. When the device captures cancer cells, it kills them. When it captures stem cells, it harvests them for later use in tissue engineering, bone marrow transplants, and other applications that treat human disease and improve health.
Vladimir A. Mironov, who is developing methods to print living complex tissues or even entire organs, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Fredrik Linaker, project leader of the Pocket Supercomputer at Accenture Technology Labs, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Moshe Looks, Software Designer and Researcher at Google where he conducts research in program induction and artificial general intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Liangchi Zhang, Director of the Research Laboratory for Precision and Nano Processing Technology and who is developing a nanotech bullet proof armor that bounces away the bullets so the wearer is neither bruised or harmed, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
James Kuffner is organizing the Humanoids 2007 conference November 29 to December 1 in Pittsburgh. He is also presenting two talks at the conference.
Eric Baum joins our Robotics/AI Board. Eric is an American computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher and author. He is known for his materialist and evolutionist theories of intelligence and consciousness, set forth in his book What is Thought?
Neva Ciftcioglu, codiscoverer of Nanobacteria, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Read EcoTripping: 25 Vacations for Green Travelers.
We now have a Facebook group thanks to Michael Anissimov.
Sarah Jane Pell joins our Media & Arts Board. She is Director/Founder of Aquabatics Australia, Adjunct Lecturer, School of Anatomy & Human Biology, University of Western Australia, and Delegate to the Space Generation Advisory Council, Hyderabad, India.
Joseph P. Jackson III joins our blog team with his first post.
Guido Núñez-Mujica, winner of the 2006 World Transhumanist Association’s J.B.S. Haldane Award for Best Undergraduate Transhumanist Paper advancing transhumanist thought, and winner of the 2006 Sowing the Future Award of the World Future Society Venezuela, joins our Futurists Board.
Gregory Stock, biophysicist, best-selling author, biotech entrepreneur, and director of the Program on Medicine, Technology and Society at UCLA’s School of Medicine, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Doug Kaye, Founder and Producer of IT Conversations where he and his team offer thousands of podcasts of tech-oriented discussion, conference sessions, and other tech topics, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Vadim Fraifeld, who coauthored Mitochondrial Genome Anatomy and Species-Specific Lifespan, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Brian Pasley, coauthor of Transcranial magnetic stimulation elicits coupled neural and hemodynamic consequences and Subcortical discrimination of unperceived objects during binocular rivalry, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Read issue #64 of Lifeboat News!
Thanks to Jack Halpern we now have a Chinese, French, Hebrew, Korean, and a Romanian version of our about page. Jack has raised our total to 10 languages!
Ben Goertzel will be speaking at The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence at the FedEx Institute of Technology, University of Memphis in cooperation with AAAI, March 1–3, 2008.
Gary S. Mezo, CEO of NanoBiotech, and discoverer of nanobacteria along with Nobel Prize Nominees Neva Ciftcioglu and Olavi Kajander, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Glenn Reynolds becomes our 100th donor with a $100 donation. Our donor list is now in the triple digits! Glenn is Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee and is best known for his blog Instapundit, one of the most widely read American political blogs.
Colby Thomson, Associate Director of Strategy at the Singularity Institute, joins our Finance Board. He is also CEO of Allied Strategy and Tri-Chair of the 2015 Vision Group: University R&D; Corridor.
 
To celebrate so many SIAI folks joining our SAB recently, we have now improved the name of our UFAI-Shield to AIShield as we prepare to put more effort into this program.
Rudi Hoffman, CEO of Hoffman Planning and previous Regional Vice President of Primerica and Senior Vice President of Amerishare Investors, joins our Finance Board.
Pejman Makhfi, Director of Venture Development at the Singularity Institute and Managing Director of Venture Choice, a private angel group, joins our Finance Board.
Read Distraught Participants Riot at the Foresight Unconference.
Evan Malone, co-creator of the [email protected] project, which promotes the advancement of personal automated fabrication technology by freely distributing designs and software which allow anyone to build and operate their own open-architecture, multi-material desktop SFF system, joins our Engineering Board.
James D. Miller, author of A Thousand Chinese Einsteins Every Year, The Singular Sensation, and Should We Fear “Cosmetic Neurology”, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Jan Vijg, who helped develop the MutaMouse™, the first transgenic animal engineered to detect gene mutations in a living organism, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Martin Westwell, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Future of the Mind which is part of the James Martin 21st Century School at Oxford University, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Susan Fonseca-Klein who is President of Fonseca LLC, Chief Administration Officer for The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, cofounder of the Immortality Institute, and who was a participant in the Moot Court Hearing On The Petition Of A Conscious Computer, joins our Legal Board.
Rob Jacob, who is developing a computer-human interface that allows the computer to read the human’s mind and determine if the human is overloaded, joins our Robotics/AI Board. Such a system would wisely assign the next incoming plane to another controller when it knew an air traffic controller’s brain was overloaded.
Oren Froy, author of The relationship between calorie restriction and the biological clock: lessons from long-lived transgenic mice, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Ruth Itzhaki, coauthor of Alzheimer’s disease, the neuroimmune axis, and viral infection and Inflammatory consequences: benevolent, or virulent?, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Alexei Turchin, author of The Structure of Global Catastrophe and Observer Fate, joins our Futurists Board.
Ben Goertzel, who is SIAI Director of Research, CEO of Novamente, a software company aimed at creating applications in the area of natural language question-answering, and chair of the Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Read Synthesizing Bioterror: Are mail order pandemics in your future?.
Anthony Waller, the director of the upcoming movie The Singularity is Near, becomes our 94th donor.
Watch Visions of the Future on the BBC starting November 5th.
Nobel Laureate Eric S. Maskin joins our Scientific Advisory Board. We congratulate him on his 2007 Nobel win!
James Martin named 2007 Guardian Award winner. The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
 
This year’s award is in recognition of the achievements of James Martin’s Future of Humanity Institute in studying global catastrophic risks and impacts of future technologies.
James Kuffner, Professor at The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, joins our Robotics/AI Board. Watch his Animation Theatre piece on Behavior Planning!
Charles Gross, who overthrew a dogma nearly a century old by discovering that the adult brain continually adds new neurons, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Venu Govindaraju, whose seminal work in handwriting recognition was at the core of the first handwritten address interpretation system used by the US Postal Service, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
John T. Cacioppo, Director of the University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, joins our Neuroscience Board.
James Chartres who has designed a new space habitat that might one day allow astronauts on the Moon or Mars to be 90 to 95 per cent self-sufficient, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Renowned cognitive neuroscientist Stephen M. Kosslyn, who cofounded the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Rita Carter, author of the distinguished books Mapping the Mind, Exploring Consciousness, Mapping the Memory, and Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality, Identity, and the Self, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Vasant Honavar, Director of the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning, and Discovery, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Peter Eckersley, Staff Technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, joins our Transparency vs. Privacy Board.
Jesse Merriman, Programmer/Analyst for the Frontier Science Foundation, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Matt Bamberger, CEO and founder of the AI research company Intelligent Artifice, which is working on developing human-equivalent Artificial Intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Thanks to Harri Wolf, we now have a German version of our about page. Thanks to Jack Halpern and Sergio M.L. Tarrero, we now have a Spanish version of our about page.
Eric Bauswell joins our important LF 500 team!
David Brin provides support for our U.S. Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group (SSG) meeting.
Read issue #63 of Lifeboat News!
Learn more about our important U.S. Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group (SSG) meeting on November 6 in San Francisco and how you can support this meeting.
Thanks to Jack Halpern, we now have a Japanese version of our about page. Thanks to Alexei Turchin, we now have a Russian version of our about page. More language translations will be published shortly.
Vascular biology expert and endothelial cell specialist Patrizia d’Alessio, who founded AISA Therapeutics, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Matt Browne, author of The Future Happens Twice, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Read Fuel From the Fields: An alternative energy to reduce deforestation in Haiti: World Bank 2007 first prize winner.
Deborah Osborne joins the Board of Advisors for IxReveal, a business intelligence leader in text analytics for unstructured and structured data.
Lifeboat Foundation staff will be meeting with the U.S. Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group (SSG) on November 6 in San Francisco. Robb Wilcox, Science Advisor, Chief of Naval Operations, Strategic Studies Group, Naval War College, says “We are especially interested in how you identify and mitigate risks associated with future technological developments.”
Sergio M.L. Tarrero becomes our new top donor with $22,340 donated. Sergio is a man of action who is able to see the dangers that are coming and who does more than simply talk about these dangers.
Read Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs.
Dennis Hong, who has developed STriDER (Self-excited Tripedal Dynamic Experimental Robot) which has a graceful and acrobatic gait that sees its body flip 180 degrees with each step, joins our Robotics/AI Board. Dennis is also founder and director of the Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa).
Jud Ready, who has developed solar cells that feature an array of nano-towers — like microscopic blades of grass — that add surface area and trap more sunlight, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Manuela Veloso, who leads the CORAL research group at Carnegie Mellon University where she develops robots that Cooperate, Observe the world, Reason, Act, and Learn, joins our Robotics/AI board. Her robots have often been world champions in the RoboCup competitions including winning the world championship in the small-size robot category in 2007.
Read I am creating artificial life, declares US gene pioneer.
Renata Bushko, Founder and Director of the Future of Health Technology Institute (FHTI), joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Yong Zhang, Senior Scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) which is the USA’s primary laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development (R&D;), joins our Sustainability Board.
Lee Gutkind, author of Almost Human: Making Robots Think, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Watch RoboCup 2007 Final, Humanoid League.
Matthew L. McGuirl joins our staff as Advisory Board Forum/Mailing List Moderator.
Wei He, who codeveloped a technology to detect cancer by scanning surface veins, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
David L. Carroll, director of the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials at Wake Forest University, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Oussama Khatib, President of IFRR, the International Foundation of Robotics Research, joins our Robotics/AI board.
Named “Bill Gates’ Worst Nightmare” by the Financial Times, Shervin Pishevar is a visionary technology entrepreneur, published researcher and technology incubation expert, best known for helping usher in the on demand web computing era and the visionary behind the first web operating system with his first startup, WebOS. Shervin is President of Freewebs, the 2nd largest web publisher in the world with over 14 million members and adding 1 million members. And he is now a member of our Futurists Board as well!
Nicola Pugno, engineer and physicist at Polytechnic of Turin, Italy who has formulated a hierarchy of adhesive forces that will be strong enough to suspend a person’s full body weight against a wall or on a ceiling, while also being easy to detach, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Aaron Edsinger, cofounder of Meka Robotics and author of Robot Manipulation in Human Environments and A Gestural Language For A Humanoid Robot, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Stephen L. Macknik, coauthor of Windows of the Mind, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Menachem Elimelech, founder and director of Yale’s Environmental Engineering Program, joins our Sustainability Board.
Sankar Nair, who has learned to control the dimensions of metal oxide nanotubes, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Read issue #62 of Lifeboat News!
Our LinkedIn group for our Scientific Advisory Board members passed 100 members within 24 hours of its launch. Special thanks to Philippe Van Nedervelde for conceiving, organizing, and launching this effort!
Big day for Lifeboat-related online groups and teams today: fellow LF SAB member Philippe Van Nedervelde has created a Lifeboat Foundation team on [email protected] Our team has number 88682. Philippe invites any and all LFers to join our Lifeboat Foundation [email protected] team. Those owning a Playstation 3 know that they can use their PS3 for [email protected] Windows, Macintosh, and Linux users can also download the software as well.
 
Donate the unused CPU cycles on your computer(s)/PS3 to help scientists understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases. Current [email protected] projects include the search for cures of: Alzheimer’s Disease, Cancer, Huntington’s Disease, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, and Parkinson’s Disease. Your participation can help lead to a cure for these diseases, so donate computing cycles generously!
 
For any questions related to this, contact Philippe directly at [email protected].
We have launched a LinkedIn group for our Scientific Advisory Board members. The goal of this group is to help members:
  • Reach other members of the Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards.
  • Accelerate careers/business through referrals from Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards LinkedIn group members.
  • Know more than a name — view rich professional profiles from fellow Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards members.
Joseph Ayers, who is working on robot lobsters that will be able to collect marine-science data and patrol for pollution, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
We now have a “Website Redesign” category at https://lifeboat.com/ex/donations for those who wish to help pay for an upgrade of our site.
Neuroscientist Susana Martinez-Conde, director of the Martinez-Conde Laboratory, who was featured on the September 2007 cover of Scientific American and completed research with Nobel Laureate David Hubel, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Irene Pepperberg, founder and president of The Alex Foundation, and who was one of the first to try to extend work on language learning in animals other than humans (exemplified by the Washoe Project) to a bird species, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Sheryl Brahnam, whose research includes decision support systems, “smart embodiment” for embodied agents, face recognition (support vector machines, neural networks, and classifier ensembles), and theoretical discussions regarding human-like interfaces in cultural and business domains, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Liesl Capper, CEO of MyCyberTwin.com which allows you to create virtual personalities that can chat for you online, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Matt McGuirl joins our blog team with his first post.
We have now launched our LifeShield Bunkers program whose goal is the creation of fallback positions on Earth in case programs such as our BioShield and NanoShield fail globally or locally.
Read Lockheed Martin Developing “Maple Seed” Flying Cameras.
Watch PBS’s Nanotechnology Takes Off.
Read Why I’ve Donated Over $1,000 to the Lifeboat Foundation by Michael Anissimov.
Joseph P. Jackson III joins us and says “Today it is outrageous that the term existential risk is not even in the vocabulary of most policymakers, not to mention the public at large. The next decade is absolutely critical — either we get these issues recognized globally, from the highest levels of intergovernmental meetings, down to the lowest common denominator of popular culture — or — we abandon all hope of steering our future as it overcomes us”.
Read Aubrey de Grey’s much-anticipated book, Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime.
Jason Gaverick Matheny officially joins as a LF 500 member.
Read issue #61 of Lifeboat News!
SUPPORT TO COMBAT EXISTENTIAL RISKS
 
The Lifeboat Foundation, a leading organization combating existential risks, has gained the support from key leaders worried about our future.
 
Jaan Tallinn, who is based in Estonia and is cofounder of Skype, the only major IM client that both securely authenticates conversation participants and encrypts the communication, donated $10,000. Jack Halpern, who is based in Japan and is CEO of The CJK Dictionary Institute (CJKI) in Japan donated $12,000.
 
The Lifeboat Foundation has earmarked funds for participation in the X PRIZE Cup ‘07 from October 26 to October 28 at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico where it will demonstrate Electromagnetic (EM) launch technology. This technology will allow rockets to be launched with no fuel onboard. Since most of the power in a rocket is used to launch the fuel and not the payload, this is a significant development. It also helps avoid the danger of being launched on a large chemical bomb AND reduces pollution as well. Such technology will be critical if an existential risk eliminates life on this planet. Information on this technology is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_gun and http://www.magneticsmagazine.com/e-prints/UT.pdf
 
In addition, the Lifeboat Foundation is earmarking funds towards a nanodefense fund which will focus on funding Robert A. Freitas Jr.’s research on developing defenses against nanoweapons. Thanks to generous funding by Sergio M.L. Tarrero who is based in Spain and has donated nearly $10,000, the nanodefense fund will begin funding Robert Freitas in Fall ‘07. The Lifeboat Foundation is soliciting more funds for this purpose. Donations may be made at https://lifeboat.com/ex/donations (Select Thermal Censorship of Ecophagy Study.)
 
Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil who is based in the U.S. has donated over $10,000 to the Lifeboat Foundation. The Lifeboat Foundation recommends that you follow his wise example and safeguard humanity against our uncertain future.
 
Ray Kurzweil says “A self-replicating pathogen, whether biological or nanotechnology based, could destroy our civilization in a matter of days or weeks. We cannot rely on trial-and-error approaches to deal with existential risks and that is why I support the Lifeboat Foundation.”
 
The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements while 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.
 
Lifeboat Foundation is pursuing a variety of options, including helping to accelerate the development of technologies to defend humanity, including new methods to combat viruses (such as RNA interference and new vaccine methods), effective nanotechnological defensive strategies, and even self-sustaining space colonies in case the other defensive strategies fail.
 
With a fund of $241,919.80, 392 Scientific Advisory Board members involved in 26 subboards ranging from Particle Physics to Neuroscience, including Howard Bloom, Aubrey de Grey, Ray Kurzweil, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, Nobel Laureates, and many other prominent thinkers, 23 programs, and 40 reports, the Lifeboat Foundation is making steady progress towards this goal.
Keith A. Bauer, author of Wired Patients: Implantable Microchips and Biosensors in Patient Care, joins our Ethics Board.
Charles Annis said “To say that Amara Graps is an interesting scholar is to say that the Grand Canyon is an interesting walk.” Amara Graps, researcher with the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) and the Institute of Interplanetary Space Physics (IFSI), joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Jason Silva, Host and Producer on Current TV, the television channel cofounded by Al Gore and now the fastest growing cable network in TV history, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Jack Uldrich, president of The NanoVeritas Group — an international leadership and technology consultancy dedicated to helping business, government, and non-profit organizations prepare for and profit from the emerging field of nanotechnology, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Watch The Immortalists: A Short Film.
Matt McGuirl, co-developer of ipANGEL, the world’s only self-tuning Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), joins our Cybercrime/Malcode board. ipANGEL remains the only IPS to automatically integrate detailed information about the vulnerability state of the systems it protects.
Jon Newton, founder of p2pnet.net, the first Internet web page to carry daily, frequently updated news, stories, features and commentaries on digital media, distributed computing and associated technologies and events which haven’t been spun, filtered and pre-digested by vested corporate interests, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Wendell Wallach, chair of the working research group on Technology and Ethics at Yale University, joins our Ethics Board.
Jürgen Schmidhuber, who was evolving computer programs through genetic algorithms back in 1987, invented a neural method for nonlinear independent component analysis (ICA) called predictability minimization, and created the first learning algorithm for neural networks based on principles of the market economy, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Robert Birge, who is developing genetically engineered microbial protein for use as rewritable holographic memory, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Sorin Cotofana, who has developed a novel computing paradigm that allows tunneling electrons to perform mathematical division calculations, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Melanie Swan, principal of MS Futures Group, and author of Postmodern Physics and Manifold Destiny, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Mehdi Dastani, who is endowing a robot with a set of logical rules for emotions, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Nick Yee, creator of The Daedalus Project, whose survey of over 40,000 MMORPG players has been cited extensively by game scholars, game developers, and popular media, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Igor Alabugin, who developed light-activated molecules that kill cancer cells, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Randall Walker, president of Live Ink Reading Technologies, whose technology adds 10–15 percentile points on nationally standardized reading tests, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Injae Shin, who has developed an alternative to stem cells for treating chronic brain diseases, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
V.R. Manoj, founding member of the Indian chapter of the World Transhumanist Association (WTA) and Organizational Director for the Second Life chapter of the WTA, joins our Futurists Board.
Virgil Griffith, who authored the Wikipedia Scanner which offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Steve Omohundro, president of Self-Aware Systems where they are developing a new kind of intelligent technology that learns to understand and improve itself, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Tom McCabe joins our blog team with his first post.
InstaPundit links to Top Ten Transhumanist Technologies.
Read Top Ten Transhumanist Technologies by Michael Anissimov.
Anke Kamrath, director at the San Diego Computer Center (SDCS), joins our Supercomputing Board.
Yi Sun, in charge of the Sun Lab at UCLA where she produced functioning neurons from human embryonic stem cells, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Rada Mihalcea, author of Using Wikipedia for Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation, and President of SIGLEX, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Read Artificial Life Likely in 3 to 10 Years.
The Millennium Project of WFUNA (World Federation of UN Associations) posts a free ad for us.
Read Design for a Human Mission to a Near Earth Object by our Scientific Advisory Board member Bruce Damer.
Justin C. Sanchez, Director of the UF Neuroprosthetics Research Group and featured in The Future Of Medicine: Insert Chip, Cure Disease?, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Gianmarco Veruggio, President of Scuola di Robotica (School of Robotics), who coined the term “roboethics” and organized the First International Symposium on Roboethics, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Andrey Rzhetsky, principal investigator for GeneWays: a system for automatically extracting, analyzing, visualizing and integrating molecular pathway data from research literature, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Allan Collins, coinventor of the OCC (Ortony, Clore, & Collins, 1988) model which has established itself as the standard model for emotion synthesis, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Read Considering Military and Ethical Implications of Nanofactory Level Nanotechnology by Brian Wang.
Saroj Nayak, whose key discovery could help advance the role of graphene as a possible heir to copper and silicon in nanoelectronics, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Read Technical Critique of NASA’s Report to Congress and associated of Near-Earth Object Survey and Deflection Study: Final Report” by Russell L. Schweickart, Chairman, B612 Foundation and Chairman, Association of Space Explorers Committee on NEOs.
Brad Dickerson, Principal Investigator of the Dickerson Neuroimaging Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Victor L. Pushparaj, who is creating artificial muscle using carbon nanotubes, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Ian H. Robertson, author of Mind Sculpture: Unlocking Your Brain’s Untapped Potential, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Read First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq.
 
Comment by reader: I sincerely hope that these things constantly yell “EXTERMINATE… EXTERMINATE” while they are active.
Watch Nanotechnology vs. cancer!
Anthony Waller, director of the upcoming movie THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR – A True Story About the Future, based on the recent best seller by the celebrated inventor, author and futurist, Ray Kurzweil, joins our Media & Arts Board.
Get the 2007 State of the Future!
Deborah Osborne, author of Molecular Manufacturing and the Need for Crime Science, President of the Society of Police Futurists International (PFI), and member of the FBI/PFI Futures Working Group, joins our Counterterrorism Board.
Michael Silverton, architect of the world’s first all fiber optic Ethernet To The Home (ETTH) networks, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Read issue #60 of Lifeboat News!
Read The Trouble with Transhumanists: Boldly going where no man’s gone before — TransVision
Thanks to generous donors, we exceeded the goal for our EM Launch Competition by 20% and it will be featured at the X PRIZE Cup ‘07!
 
Electromagnetic (EM) launch technology will allow rockets to be launched with no fuel onboard. Since most of the power in a rocket is used to launch the fuel and not the payload, this is a significant development. It also helps avoid the danger of being launched on a large chemical bomb AND reduces pollution as well.
Our Scientific Advisory Board members Gary Marchant, Tihamer “Tee” Toth-Fejel, Mike Treder, and Brian Wang will be speaking at Challenges & Opportunities: The Future of Nano & Bio Technologies: an interdisciplinary conference organized by World Care and the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology from September 9 to September 13 at Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Updated information: The Coast to Coast AM with George Noory radio show on July 19 from 11 pm – 2 am PT will feature our Scientific Advisory Board members James Gardner, Barbara Marx Hubbard, James Hughes, Charlie Kam, Ray Kurzweil, and Philippe Van Nedervelde. 5 million listeners will learn about possible futures and solutions!
Lifeboat Foundation members are now eligible for a 33.33% discount off any books from Vera Verba, including A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, God Wants You Dead, A Second Look at Eden, Jesus – The New Testament, and Survive!. To get your discount code, send an email to [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Vera Verba Discount”.
Lori Marino joins our blog team with her first post.
Read Why the Moon? Human survival! by Robert Shapiro.
Read Safeguarding Humanity: Faced with the increasing threat of advanced technologies, the Lifeboat Foundation has a plan at Betterhumans.
Read Human Body Version 2.0 by Ray Kurzweil.
The Coast to Coast AM with George Noory radio show on July 19 from 11 pm – 2 am PT will feature our Scientific Advisory Board members Amara D. Angelica, James Hughes, Charlie Kam, Tihamer “Tee” Toth-Fejel, Philippe Van Nedervelde, and Shannon Vyff. 5 million listeners will learn about possible futures and solutions!
Mike DeMaio, who launched Motorola’s MicroTac, the first palm sized cell phone in history, joins our Media Board.
Mark A. Walker, founder and president of Permanent End International, a nonprofit organization devoted to ending hunger, illiteracy and environmental degradation, joins our Ethics Board.
Giorgio Gaviraghi, developer of pAstroHut, an extraterrestrial construction system for the assembly of space stations in other bodies utilizing local materials, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Arlan Andrews, Sr., founder of SIGMA, a think tank of science fiction authors which is working with the Homeland Security Department to prevent the next terrorist attack, joins our Engineering, Futurists, and Nanotechnology Boards.
Jordan Grafman, Chief of the Cognitive Neuroscience Section at the NINDS (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke), joins our Neuroscience Board.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researcher Abhishek Motayed, who developed tiny, highly efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from nanowires, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
David Lashmore, cofounder of Nanocomp Technologies, who invented the process to produce single wall carbon nanotube textiles and high strength carbon nanotube yarns, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Tanmay Vachaspati, who discovered that black holes may contain nothing, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
John Stone, lead developer of VMD, a high performance molecular visualization tool used by biophysicists and structural biologists all over the world, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Read issue #59 of Lifeboat News!
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Ed Lantz, Founder of The Harmony Channel and author of Virtual Reality and the Perfection of Consciousness, joins four of our Boards — giving us 21 speakers at Transvision 2007.
Michael Fleischmann, President/Founder of Intelligent Design Creations and Owner of Cosmos Computing, LLC, becomes our first First Class member. (Say that three times fast!)
Anders Sandberg becomes our 20th speaker at Transvision 2007. To celebrate, we have obtained a promotion code for 40% off the event. To get this promotion code from us, send an email with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation TV07 promotion code” to [email protected].
Dylan Evans, author of several popular science books, including Emotion: The Science of Sentiment and Placebo: The Belief Effect, and founder of the Utopia Experiment, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Harvard neuroscientist Joshua D. Greene, coauthor of An fMRI Investigation of Emotional Engagement in Moral Judgment, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Desmond John Tobin, Director of Medical Biosciences Research (School of Life Sciences) at the University of Bradford, England, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
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Michael Fleischmann, President/Founder of Intelligent Design Creations and Owner of Cosmos Computing, LLC, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
We now have offices in Hong Kong, China; London, UK; Los Angeles, USA; Minden, NV, USA; New York City, USA; San Francisco, USA; São Paulo, Brazil; Sydney, Australia; and Tokyo, Japan.
Microsoft’s brain-computer interface expert Desney S. Tan joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Tihamer “Tee” Toth-Fejel, author of LEGOs to the Stars: Kinetic Cellular Automata, and Parallel Nanomachines for Space Applications, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Hiroki Sayama, author of Self-replicating machines attempting to solve the unsolvable, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
IBM’s Metaverse Evangelist Roo Reynolds joins our Futurists Board and Media & Arts Board.
Jack Halpern, CEO of The CJK Dictionary Institute (CJKI) in Japan, donates $12,000 to Lifeboat Foundation. This puts him in 1st place with Ray Kurzweil close behind.
 
The CJK Dictionary Institute plays a leading role in helping the IT industry penetrate the lucrative East Asian market by providing software developers with high quality CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) and Arabic dictionary data and consulting services.
Xerox researcher Frédérique Segond, who helped develop an evolutionary search engine that analyzes the meaning of words and contexts and accepts queries in everyday language, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Anastasios John Hart, author of Chemical, Mechanical, and Thermal Control of Substrate-Bound Carbon Nanotube Growth, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Read Noise keeps spooks out of the loop. Learn how Laszlo Kish has developed a simple, cheap way of encrypting messages that is almost impossible to hack into.
Princeton cosmologist Tony Rothman, who authored Everything’s Relative and Other Fables From Science and Technology and Instant Physics, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
ETLD WebTV runs a free banner ad for us!
Added The Visible Man: An FBI Target Puts His Whole Life Online to our SecurityPreserver page.
Blaise Aguera y Arcas, the genius behind Microsoft’s Photosynth, a monumental piece of software capable of assembling static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Award winning filmmaker, electronic music producer, theatrical show director, and classically-trained violinist Kenji Williams joins our Art & Media Board.
Environmentalist and Actor Ed Begley, Jr. joins our Sustainability Board.
Read Neurocops: The Politics of Prohibition and the Future of Enforcing Social Policy from Inside the Body by Richard Glen Boire.
James Blodgett will speak about Global Risk Reduction on July 4th at the Annual Gathering of American Mensa.
James Blodgett, coordinator of the American Mensa Global Risk Reduction Special Interest Group, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Prolific software developer and researcher Aaron Davidson has posted a free banner on his site for us!
Our Scientific Advisory Board members James Gardner, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and Michael Weiner join our massive lineup of 16 speakers at Transvision 2007.
Plamen Dragozov, who developed a P2P framework for distributed scientific computing based on JXTA, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Added Larry Brilliant: TED Prize wish: Help stop the next pandemic to BioShield program.
Read issue #58 of Lifeboat News!
Transatlantic team lead by Colin McGuckin bring treating Type 1 Diabetes a step closer.
 
Human tissue producing insulin has been created from Cord Blood Stem Cells. The tissue, which is destroyed in Type 1 Diabetes was developed by the same transatlantic team that were the world’s first to discover “embryonic-like” cells in cord blood and also first to produce liver tissue from the same cells.
 
Newcastle coauthor in the study, Dr Nico Forraz, said “With over 120 million children born every year, cord blood stem cells will be the leader in developing stem cell therapy for patients across the world. Over 85 conditions can already be treated with cord blood. Today we are a step closer to adding Type 1 Diabetes to this list”.
David Brin announces that his next book will feature the Lifeboat Foundation.
Cassio Pennachin, CTO of Novamente LLC, cofounder of Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute (AGIRI), CTO of Biomind LLC, and coeditor of Artificial General Intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Added quote by Garry Kasparov to Quotes page.
Our Wikipedia entry needs some work. Help fix it!
Thanks to input from Kemal Akman, our InternetShield program has been upgraded and is now listed as one of our six current programs.
Our donor list is now sortable by name, date, and amount.
Prolific software developer and researcher Aaron Davidson joins our Robotics/AI board.
Jaan Tallinn, cofounder of Skype, the only major IM client that both securely authenticates conversation participants and encrypts the communication, donates $10,000 to Lifeboat Foundation. This currently puts him in 2nd place with Ray Kurzweil in the lead and Sergio M.L. Tarrero close behind.
Added Feds Target Nuke Phantom: Osama Henchman Named in JFK Plot to our Nuclear Terrorist page.
Parish Mozdzierz, Deputy Editor of Betterhumans.com, joins our Futurists Board.
Our MySpace page has been improved and expanded.
Jeffrey Herrlich, author of Existential Risk and Fermi’s Paradox, joins our Futurists Board.
Keith A. Hoyes, coauthor of Artificial General Intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI board.
Richard Leis, Jr., Operations Specialist for the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), joins our Space Settlement Board.
 
The HiRISE Camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is currently returning the highest resolution images of Mars ever captured from orbit.
Stanley Pecavar of Sun Microsystems joins our Robotics/AI board.
Sergio M.L. Tarrero donates $3,000 to the Lifeboat Foundation, bringing his donation total close to $10K.
Geneticist Andrew Hessel joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Sylvia Engdahl becomes our MySpace webmaster.
Thoughtware.TV sponsors the Lifeboat Foundation and joins our important LF-500 team.
Kemal Akman, Senior Developer and Security Architect for Public Key Infrastructure for Ciphire Labs AG, Germany/Switzerland, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
Joshua Fox, Ph.D. joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Charlie Kam, Conference Chairman of TransVision 2007, joins our Futurists Board.
Added information to our World News page about Russian caught trying to sell enough weapons-grade uranium for a bomb.
David Orban, CEO of Questar, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google and coauthor of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the leading textbook in the field, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
James Douma, cofounder and Chief Software Architect of Nitobi Software, a leading provider of AJAX technologies, joins our Information Sciences and Robotics/AI boards.
Added information to our World News page about Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia.
Zeresenay “Zeray” Alemseged, who discovered “Lucy’s baby” — the earliest baby in the human fossil record, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Shannon Vyff, author of 21st Century Kids, joins our Education Board.
Listen to the interview of our Michael Anissimov by RU Sirius.
Listen to the interview of our Michael Anissimov on Changesurfer Radio.
Read the Fortune article The smartest (or the nuttiest) futurist on Earth which covers our genius Ray Kurzweil.
05/07/07 Earthquake swarm strikes Yellowstone: Sixteen small earthquakes with magnitudes up to 2.7 shook Yellowstone National Park last week. This supervolcano last erupted 70,000 years ago.
05/07/07 Jack Halpern, CEO of The CJK Dictionary Institute (CJKI) in Japan, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
05/06/07 Read issue #57 of Lifeboat News!
05/05/07 Our Scientific Advisory Board members José Cordeiro, George Dvorsky, Aubrey de Grey, James Hughes, Ray Kurzweil, Michael LaTorra, Max More, Giulio Prisco, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking at Transvision 2007 – Transforming Humanity: Innerspace to Outerspace from July 23 to July 25 at Chicago, IL, USA. It will be wall-to-wall Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board members!
05/02/07 Watch a magnificent space compilation.
05/01/07 Kenneth P. Weiss, whose SecurID technology is used by the three branches of the United States government, including the Defense Department, Treasury, Senate and the White House, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
04/30/07 Kenneth P. Weiss joins as a LF-500 member, James Blodgett joins as an Executive Class member, and Glenn A. Miller joins as an Economy Class member.
04/28/07 Read Mouse brain simulated on computer which describes an achievement by Dharmendra S Modha and others in simulating half a mouse brain on a supercomputer.
04/24/07 Listen to the RU Sirius interview of Dr. Alan H. Goldstein that focuses on our A-PRIZE contest.
04/23/07 Read Create an Alien, Win A-Prize!
04/21/07 Read our interview with Robert A. Freitas Jr!
04/15/07 Jonathan Dotse and Jacques Lacansan join our [email protected] team, using the spare clock cycles on their computers to help discover new drugs that fight AIDS!
04/14/07 Duncan Steel, author of Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets: The Search for the Million Megaton Menace That Threatens Life on Earth, joins our Scientific Advisory Board. Duncan has been honored with a robot named after him in Arthur C. Clarke’s novel The Hammer of God, and asteroid 4713 Steel was named after him as well.
04/13/07 Moheb Costandi, author of Augmented cognition: Science fact or science fiction?, joins our NeuroScience Board.
04/06/07 Jaan Tallinn, whose Skype is the only major IM client that both securely authenticates conversation participants and encrypts the communication, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
04/05/07 Our InternetShield program has been upgraded. We welcome your comments on it!
04/03/07 Read issue #56 of Lifeboat News!
04/01/07 Google introduces its ground breaking TiSP: a revolutionary free in-home wireless broadband service.
03/31/07 If you would like to help with the move of a volunteer to Reno, Nevada, USA (lifting items, driving moving van), contact [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Move”. Money and other items are available in exchange for your help!
03/31/07 The next CRN Global Task Force Scenario Project will be on April 21 and 22.
 
The CRN GTF Scenario Project’s goal is to offer plausible, logical, understandable “stories” that illustrate the challenge of contending with the implications of advanced nanotechnology. What will that future look like? What can we learn from picturing it now that might help us to avoid the worst pitfalls and generate the greatest benefits?
 
Learn more and participate!
03/30/07 Read our blog post Rehearsing the Future.
03/28/07 We have launched a new program, the InternetShield. As the Internet grows in importance, it is increasingly likely that an attack on the Internet could cause physical deaths as well as informational damage. We would love your input on how to improve this new program!
03/27/07 Read our blog post China, Indonesia, India, Japan and the US most vulnerable to asteroids!
03/27/07 Premiering today PBS will start airing the HDTV program “Quest : Nanotechnology Takes Off”. The program takes a look at how the manipulation of particles at the atomic level may lead to cures for cancer and other diseases. The Airing schedule, including for standard definition broadcasts is now available.
 
The PBS show features several new HD animations commissioned from Philippe Van Nedervelde’s award-winning 3D animation & VR studio E-spaces / CG4TV.com. In particular, a 40 second animation will showcase a medical nanobot approaching and interfacing with a neuron and its dendrites with a view to replacing their function, illustrating one of the ways in which neuro-prosthetic surgery as well as gradual, non-destructive mind-uploading may be executed in the not-so-distant future.
03/26/07 Added video of the Z450 Full Color 3D Printer to videos page. (This real product makes three dimensional objects).
03/26/07 Dr. John H. Halpern, a Harvard Medical School Professor who is conducting a multi-year study investigating the neurocognitive consequences of ecstasy-abuse, joins our Neuroscience Board.
03/26/07 Darnell Clayton joins our blog team with his first post.
03/25/07 Benny Peiser, author of The Dangers of Consensus Science, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
03/23/07 A generous Lifeboat Foundation benefactor has offered to subsidize a volunteer’s living space to the tune of $300/month. So not only would you get an entertaining Lifeboat Foundation volunteer but you would make a few bucks as well. Money plus entertainment… What more could you ask for?
 
If you have space available for an entertaining Lifeboat Foundation volunteer, send a message to [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Space”.
 
The house the volunteer was receiving free housing in since May 2006 was just sold so we are trying to help out here!
03/22/07 Sergio M.L. Tarrero, BSc has now joined our Counterterrorism Board, Ethics Board, and Transparency vs. Privacy Board as well. *AND* he has already translated all the main sections of our site, including all the Programs, into Spanish. The Spanish version of this site will be online shortly. Sergio is a man on the move!
03/22/07 Dharmendra S. Modha is co-organizing Cognitive Computing 2007 at Berkeley Art Museum on May 2–3. Registration is free. Learn more!
03/22/07 Sergio M.L. Tarrero, BSc becomes our Lifeboat Foundation International Director of Audiovisual Communications and also joins our Media Board. A physicist by training, Sergio has focused professionally on the creative arts, particularly the worlds of music, film, television and advertising.
03/21/07 Read A Simpler Origin for Life: “The sudden appearance of a large self-copying molecule such as RNA was exceedingly improbable. Energy-driven networks of small molecules afford better odds as the initiators of life.” by Robert Shapiro.
03/20/07 Brian Cox, who is in charge of an international project to upgrade the giant ATLAS and CMS detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN’s new 27km-long machine, with tiny silicon detectors almost half a mile from where the particles in the LHC collide, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
03/17/07 Added information to our World News page about the simultaneous chemical weapon attacks by Al Qaeda in Fallujah, Iraq which left over 350 people killed or injured.
03/16/07 Listen to the archived interview with Philippe Van Nedervelde. Learn about this March 16th, 2007 broadcast.
03/16/07 Listen to Philippe Van Nedervelde on The Space Show live today from 9:30 to 11:30 AM PDT (5:30 to 7:30 PM GMT).
 
Listeners can talk to the guest or the host using toll free 1 (866) 687–7223, by sending e-mail during the program using [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or chatting on AOL/ICQ/CompuServe Chat using the screen name “spaceshowchat”.
03/16/07 Brooks Cole, the founder and creative force behind HoloCosmos, joins our Media Board.
03/15/07 Steven Palter joins our blog team with his first post.
03/14/07 Peter Pesti, author of Detailed Roadmap of the 21st Century, joins our Futurists Board. Watch his video!
03/13/07 Alea A. Mills, who discovered that the p63 gene is likely to play a fundamental biological role in aging-related processes in both humans and mice, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
03/13/07 Nate Lo, who discovered Midichloria mitochondrii, the first bacterium that infects mitochondria, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
03/12/07 Nickolaus E. Leggett, coauthor of Requirements and Opportunities for the Successful Development of Lunar and Martian Agricultural Systems, joins our Space Settlement Board.
03/11/07 Watch I am the very model of a Singularitarian.
03/10/07 Watch Might we all live 100 years longer? 1000? (Aubrey de Grey, Oxford 2005)
03/09/07 Watch some dancing robots (worth about $4 million in total).
03/08/07 Read Jurisprudence of Artilects: Blueprint for a Synthetic Citizen by Frank W. Sudia, JD.
03/06/07 A Lifeboat Foundation volunteer has been receiving free housing since May 2006. Unfortunately that house was just sold. If you have space available for an entertaining Lifeboat Foundation volunteer, send a message to [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Space”.
03/06/07 Watch Human Version 2.0.
03/05/07 Dr. Zenon Kulpa has posted a free banner on his site for us!
03/05/07 Olivier Michel, founder of Cyberbotics, the leading company in mobile robot prototyping and simulation software, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
03/04/07 Jaan Tallinn, the programmer widely celebrated for writing the peer-to-peer engines of Kazaa and Skype, joins our Futurists Board.
03/04/07 Read issue #55 of Lifeboat News!
03/03/07 Stéphane Magnenat, whose robot swarms “evolved” effective communication, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
03/03/07 Stefano Nolfi, coauthor of Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
03/02/07 Leading theoretical physicist Paul H. Frampton, who in 1974 was the author of the first ever book on string theory, and provided the first correct calculation for vacuum decay in 1976, and who has recently developed an alternative to the Big Bang theory, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
03/02/07 Javier Minguez, who is developing a wheelchair that reads your mind, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
03/02/07 Ian MacDonald, who discovered that the flavanols in chocolate could be used to treat vascular impairment, including dementia and strokes, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
03/01/07 Dario Floreano, one of the pioneers in evolutionary robotics — a research field in which robots are evolved using artificial evolution, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
03/01/07 Read our blog entry Lasers to detect and deflect asteroids.
02/28/07 Robotics expert Noel Sharkey joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
02/27/07 Check out our new videos page!
02/27/07 Bud Mishra, coauthor of Emergency Response Planning for a Potential Sarin Gas Attack in Manhattan using Agent-based Models, joins our Scientific Advisory Board which hits 300 members!
02/26/07 Watch A visual trip through the 21st Century.
02/26/07 Watch RNA interference in action.
02/26/07 Narration has now been added to Cellular Visions: The Inner Life of a Cell.
02/26/07 Watch How DNA transcription works.
02/25/07 Read our blog entry Open Source Terraforming.
02/24/07 Richard H. Eskow, author of Homo Futurus: How Radically Should We Remake Ourselves — Or Our Children? joins our Futurists Board.
02/23/07 Henry I. Smith, Director of the Nanostructures Laboratory at MIT, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
02/23/07 Ken Goldberg, who developed the first robot with a web interface, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
02/23/07 David C. Moffat, who has produced robots which experience fear, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
02/22/07 Read Single molecule transcription profiling with AFM coauthored by James K. Gimzewski.
02/21/07 Our blog entry “Doomsday” vault design unveiled is getting a lot of StumbleUpon traffic. Check it out!
02/20/07 Read Immortalist Utilitarianism by Michael Anissimov.
02/19/07 Bob Citron, Cofounder and Executive Director of the Foundation For the Future, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
02/18/07 Read AI and Sci-Fi: My, Oh, My! by Robert J. Sawyer.
02/18/07 Michael Silberstein, author of Deflating Quantum Mysteries via the Relational Blockworld, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
02/17/07 Our report Neurotechnology and Society (2010–2060) is getting a lot of StumbleUpon traffic.
02/17/07 Read Action plan for killer asteroids.
02/16/07 “It is the age of wonder, I wonder why we’re not dead. Why do we call them ‘leaders’ when we are misled?” Listen to our official song!
02/16/07 Watch Did you know? This video is also on our Law of Accelerating Returns page.
02/15/07 Watch Blue Beauty: Our Beautiful Earth on our Space Habitats page (PowerPoint presentation, click to go to next page).
02/14/07 Read The Strategic Brain by Natasha Vita-More.
02/13/07 Read Near-Earth asteroids could be “steppingstones to Mars”.
02/13/07 Iddo Genuth, founder and chief editor of the science and technology e-magazine The Future of Things (TFOT), joins our Futurists Board.
02/12/07 The Third Generation Web is Coming article has been upgraded.
02/11/07 Read “Doomsday” vault design unveiled.
02/10/07 Read Brave New World? A defense of paradise-engineering by David Pearce.
02/09/07 Read Space: A Moral Vacuum? by Jeff Krukin.
02/08/07 Ole Peter Galaasen joins our blog team with his first post!
02/08/07 Fark has covered Neurotechnology and Society (2010–2060). Digg (vote for) this article! Join our Digg Warriors.
02/08/07 Giulio Prisco, Executive Director of the World Transhumanist Association (WTA), joins our Futurists Board.
02/07/07 Read Neurotechnology and Society (2010–2060) by Zack Lynch.
02/06/07 Read Achieving Human Commitment to Space Colonization: Is Fear the Answer? by Sylvia Engdahl.
02/05/07 Read The Third Generation Web is Coming by Nova Spivack.
02/04/07 Watch Radical Islam: Terror in Its Own Words.
02/04/07 Scientology critic jailed in Arizona. Digg this story! Join our Digg Warriors.
02/04/07 Stevan Harnad joins our blog team with his first post.
02/04/07 Statistical semantics, artificial life, and artificial intelligence researcher Peter D. Turney, who authored the KurzweilAI.net article A Simple Model of Unbounded Evolutionary Versatility as a Largest-Scale Trend in Organismal Evolution, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
02/03/07 Excerpt from Wall Street Journal article: It was for that reason that a few individuals, myself included, started a group called the Alliance to Rescue Civilization (ARC) several years ago. Its purpose was to start an archive on the moon that would be a continuously updated international record of our civilization. That way, if a major catastrophe happens, the record would survive. Keeping a record on the moon (and perhaps at one of the poles on this planet) would be like backing up a computer’s hard drive. We would emerge from the chaos knowing who we are in the fullest sense of the term.
 
ARC has been absorbed by the Lifeboat Foundation, a group of likeminded people who are trying to make certain that we can survive a truly awful world-wide occurrence. They are emphatically not doomsday types. But they understand that while no skipper goes to sea thinking the boat will sink, they nonetheless carry life preservers and dinghies. That, after all, is only prudent. So is starting a self-sufficient colony on the moon.
02/02/07 Read Colonize the Moon by William E. Burrows (subscription required). We got a bit of Wall Street Journal coverage here.
02/02/07 Anne Corwin, a member of the WTA (World Transhumanism Association) Board of Directors and author of Choosing Who To Be: Robust Self-Concept In An Age of Transformative Technology, joins our Futurists Board.
02/01/07 Daniel C. Dennett, author of Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
01/31/07 Aurel Ymeti, who has developed a sensor for a handheld device that detects various viruses and measures their concentration within minutes, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
01/31/07 Read issue #54 of Lifeboat News!
01/30/07 G Gordon Worley III, author of Robot Oppression: Unethicality of the Three Laws, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
01/30/07 Neville Hogan, who has developed robots that help stroke victims recover, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
01/30/07 Read Astronaut Seeks Craft to Bump Asteroids.
01/30/07 Rob Enderle, President and Principal Analyst of the Enderle Group, joins our Futurists Board.
01/29/07 Evangelos Michelakis, who has developed a non-toxic treatment that fixes damage to mitochondria in cancer cells, enabling the cells to start acting normal again, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
01/29/07 Zhenqiang “Jack” Ma, who invented a way to make flexible computer chips, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
01/29/07 Omid Farokhzad, who has developed nanoparticles that target cancer and also have a reporter component allowing them to signal when they have delivered their therapeutic payload, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
01/29/07 Learn how you can win a free trip to space!
01/28/07 Joe Stewart, author of Wormsign: Predicting the Next Outbreak and DNS Cache Poisoning: The Next Generation, joins our new Cybercrime/Malcode Board which he also founded.
01/28/07 Michael Kraft, who used silicon “Lego bricks” to build 3D chips, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
01/27/07 PJ Manney, a member of the WTA (World Transhumanism Association) Board of Directors, joins our Futurists and Media Boards.
01/27/07 Read Top Ten Cybernetic Upgrades Everyone Will Want by Michael Anissimov.
01/26/07 Rick Wesson, internet security expert and CEO of Support Intelligence, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
01/26/07 Molecular cardiologist Stefanie Dimmeler, winner of the 1.55 million euro 2005 Leibniz Prize, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
01/26/07 Thanks to input by Sergio M.L. Tarrero and Neil deGrasse Tyson, our AsteroidShield report has been improved.
01/25/07 Security expert Gadi Evron, covered in the New York Times article Attack of the Zombie Computers is Growing Threat, joins our new Cybercrime/Malcode Board.
01/24/07 Andrzej Bartke, winner of the first Methuselah Mouse Prize, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
 
Andrzej altered a gene controlling a mouse’s response to growth hormone, which meant it had reduced levels of insulin and glucose in its blood. The change apparently protected its DNA from age-related decay, keeping it alive for almost five years — the equivalent of a human living for about 200 years.
01/24/07 Read With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Time for the synthetic biology community to acknowledge three responsibilities by Roger Brent.
01/23/07 Jamais Cascio joins our blog team with his first post!
01/23/07 Marcelo Kallmann, who is researching ways to enhance the artificial intelligence of computers to include mimicking human-like movements, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
01/23/07 James H. Oliver, in charge of the most realistic virtual reality room in the world, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
01/22/07 Behrokh “Berok” Khoshnevis, who developed a robot that will build the shell of a two-story house in 24 hours, joins our Scientific Advisory Board. Watch a miniature version of his house builder in action!
01/21/07 Brian Wang joins our blog team with his first post!
01/21/07 InstaPundit covers our blog!
01/21/07 Dr. Paris Smaragdis, whose goal is to make computational audition as mainstream as computer vision, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
01/21/07 Renat R. Letfullin, who developed laser-induced explosion of absorbing nanoparticles in selective nanophotothermolysis of cancer, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
01/20/07 The Lifeboat Foundation has now officially endorsed the blog Advanced Nanotechnology authored by our SAB member Brian Wang. An excellent blog!
01/20/07 Adrian Bowyer, leader of the RepRap (Replicating Rapid Prototyper) project, joins our Scientific Advisory Board. The goal of RepRap is to create a machine that can make copies of itself. This machine has already replicated parts of itself.
01/20/07 Listen to Michael Anissimov being interviewed by George Dvorsky.
01/20/07 Sergio M.L. Tarrero will match all donations for Freitas research up to $2,000. Robert A. Freitas Jr. has found preliminary evidence that diamond mechanosynthesis may not be reliable enough at ambient temperatures to sustain an existential risk from microscopic ecophagic replicators. Learn more details including how you can help fund his important research on this subject.
01/19/07 Douglas H. Smith is conceptualizing a cyborg.
 
“We’re at a junction now of developing a new approach for a brain-machine interface,” says senior author Douglas H. Smith, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair at Penn. “The nervous system will certainly rebel if you place hard or sharp electrodes into it to record signals. However, the nervous system can be tricked to accept an interface letting it do what it likes — assimilating new nerve cells into its own network.”
01/18/07 Roger Entner, VP of Wireless Telecoms for Ovum, joins our Futurists Board.
01/17/07 Updated World News page with The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the hands of its Doomsday Clock to five minutes before midnight — the metaphorical marker of the end of humanity. The chief reason for the move is the dawn of a “second nuclear age”, in which far more countries can acquire nuclear technology.
01/16/07 Marco Dorigo, inventor of the Ant Colony Optimization metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization problems, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
 
Watch a sped up video of a team of his robots working together to map out a path from a red object to a blue target. (None of these bots can see far enough to work out the route between the object and its target for themselves.)
01/15/07 Read Must-know terms for the 21st Century Intellectual by George Dvorsky.
01/14/07 Daniel Berleant, author of Heuristic Perspectives for Making and Discussing Predictions, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
01/13/07 Who do you support for U.S. president? Rudy Giuliani? Hillary Rodham Clinton? Barack Obama? John McCain? Check our improved store and SEE who we support!
01/12/07 Read our interview with Alan H. Goldstein!
01/11/07 Read Doomsday Thoughts by our founder.
01/11/07 Thanks to a generous contribution by Sergio M.L. Tarrero, the A-PRIZE FUND is now at $26,300.
01/11/07 Check out Creating A Solar Civilization!
01/10/07 Our First-Stage Nanoproducts and Nanoweaponry report has been getting a lot of StumbleUpon activity recently. Check it out!
01/09/07 Read Iranian official: If threatened, we will use nuclear weapons on our blog!
01/08/07 America’s most ambitious student satellite is your canvas!
 
In 2010, a small unmanned research spacecraft designed by students will launch into Earth’s orbit. The science on board will help pave the way for humankind to explore our solar system. We invite you to participate in this landmark mission by uploading content to be printed on this spacecraft. Learn more!
01/08/07 Updated World News page with Attack of the Zombie Computers is growing threat.
01/07/07 KurzweilAI.net has linked to our Energy 2020: A Vision of the Future article. Digg (vote for) this article! Join the Digg Warriors! (Article was improved today with an upgraded overview section.)
01/06/07 Read our improved blog!
01/05/07 Read Molecular Manufacturing: Too Dangerous to Allow? by Robert A. Freitas Jr.. Read its Fark coverage! Digg (vote for) this article! Join the Digg Warriors!
01/05/07 Singularities and Nightmares: Extremes of Optimism and Pessimism About the Human Future by David Brin has become our most Digged article ever. Digg (vote for) this article! Join the Digg Warriors!
01/04/07 The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth has been upgraded!
01/03/07 Read A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality by Clifford A. Pickover.
01/02/07 Read the Reddit coverage of our Energy 2020: A Vision of the Future article.
01/01/07 InstaPundit has linked to our Energy 2020: A Vision of the Future article. Digg (vote for) this article! Join the Digg Warriors! (Article has been upgraded since being first published four days ago.)
01/01/07 We have now opened another office! The new office is in San Francisco, California, USA.
12/31/06 Dr. David M. Livingston, host of The Space Show — the USA’s only talk radio show focusing on increasing space commerce and developing space tourism, joins our Space Settlement Board.
12/30/06 Check out the new Wyoming educational and scientific charity, the Sovereigns of the High Frontier Society. They are raising funds to build libraries, observatories, classrooms, and labs all over Wyoming to advance the teaching of science, math, and especially those technologies needed to get people out onto the frontier.
12/29/06 The internet interview works on IE; it doesn’t seem to work on Firefox and possibly Safari. You can also CALL and TALK: 866–472–5795.
12/28/06 Read the del.icio.us coverage of Singularities and Nightmares: Extremes of Optimism and Pessimism About the Human Future.
12/28/06 Read Energy 2020: A Vision of the Future — A report retrieved from the year 2020 via a wormhole by José Luis Cordeiro.
12/27/06 There will be a nanotechnology dialogue with Lifeboat Foundation’s Philippe Van Nedervelde on Gabriel Cousens, M.D.’s internet radio show.
 
Philippe Van Nedervelde joins Gabriel Cousens, M.D. to discuss how nanotechnology’s advances can be implemented without causing great harm to humanity in the process. With the potential for nanotechnology to create self-replicating weapons that could “eat” our entire biosphere, or to create deadly nonreplicating weapons such as airborne toxin-carrying devices that are only 200 microns long, the dangers of nanotechnology are quite real.
 
The interview will be Friday, December 29, at 12pm Pacific/ 3 Eastern. Listen live! CALL and TALK: 866–472–5795.
12/26/06 InstaPundit has linked to Singularities and Nightmares: Extremes of Optimism and Pessimism About the Human Future.
 
InstaPundit said “It’s a must-read if you’re interested in this stuff. And you should be.” Digg (vote for) this article! Join the Digg Warriors! (Article has been upgraded since being first published two days ago.)
12/26/06 Read issue #53 of Lifeboat News!
12/26/06 Read Realization and Experimental Demonstration of the Kirchhoff-loop- Johnson(-like)-Noise Communicator for up to 200 km range coauthored by Laszlo Kish.
 
In this paper, he shows that his new method of secure communication is able to handle distances far greater than quantum communicators can handle.
12/25/06 Read Utopian Surgery: Early Arguments Against Anesthesia in Surgery, Dentistry, and Childbirth by David Pearce.
12/24/06 Read Singularities and Nightmares by David Brin.
12/23/06 Lori Marino, author of The Evolution of Intelligence: An Integral Part of SETI and Astrobiology, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
12/23/06 Ray Kurzweil’s three hour’s interview on C-SPAN2 is now available online.
 
This interview was for “Book TV”, for their monthly show “In Depth”. It features a two-part profile of Ray, an interview with him about his life, career, and ideas, and includes questions from Book TV viewers via telephone and email. Ray speaks about his inventions and books, including The Singularity is Near.
12/23/06 Read our new blog!
12/22/06 James Friend, who is developing micro-robots that will be able to swim through the human body, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
12/21/06 Andrew J. Davison, who developed an augmented-reality machine that works in real time, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
12/21/06 Marc J. Feldman, who coinvented the field of superconducting quantum computation, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
12/20/06 There will be a nanotechnology dialogue with Lifeboat Foundation’s Philippe Van Nedervelde on Internet Radio’s “Creating Peace by Being Peace”.
 
Philippe Van Nedervelde joins Gabriel Cousens, M.D. to discuss his role in the movement to responsibly use modern technology in a way that honors a deep understanding of what humanity is, our potential for consciousness and global harmony, and respect for health of all people and the planet.
 
The interview will be Friday, December 29, at 12pm Pacific/ 3 Eastern. Listen live! CALL and TALK: 866–472–5795.
12/19/06 Read Can a machine be conscious? How? by Stevan Harnad.
12/19/06 Read Some Limits to Global Ecophagy by Biovorous Nanoreplicators, with Public Policy Recommendations by Robert A. Freitas Jr.
12/18/06 Read the Reddit coverage of I, Nanobot.
12/17/06 Read the Slashdot coverage and del.icio.us coverage of I, Nanobot.
12/16/06 Read I, Nanobot by Alan H. Goldstein. Read the InstaPundit coverage of it. Digg (vote for) this article! Join the Digg Warriors!
12/15/06 Michael S. Strano, who invented a patent with Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
12/14/06 Defined the A-PRIZE taxonomic system.
12/14/06 Leading computer scientist and survivor of a Unabomber attack, David Gelernter, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
12/13/06 Steven F. Palter, who has invented a way to find invisible tumors, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
12/12/06 Added the following to our ParticleAcceleratorShield page: Lords of the Ring, The ATLAS Experiment Movie, ATLAS – Episode I: A New Hope, ATLAS – Episode II: The Particles Strike Back, Click on parts of the detector for their name and description, A simulated collision event which creates a mini-black hole, and Video clips.
12/11/06 Molecular biologist Andrea Townsend-Nicholson joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
12/10/06 Stem cell expert Nico Forraz joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
12/10/06 Rudolph E. Tanzi, who isolated the first familial Alzheimer’s disease (FAD) gene, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
12/09/06 Vineet N. KewalRamani, who combined pieces of HIV and another virus to create a deadly new hybrid Frankenstein virus for use in AIDS research, has joined our Scientific Advisory Board. Join our FightAIDS team!
12/06/06 Chuck Weir, who helped convince the EPA to regulate nanosilver, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
12/05/06 Colin P. McGuckin, who grew the world’s first artificial liver, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
12/04/06 Plausible Futures Newsletter: News and Analysis for Future Studies & Scenario Planning is running a free banner ad for us!
12/03/06 Read Tissue-Regeneration Matrix Could Be Spun from Cell-Size Nanothreads. Learn about Suwan Jayasinghe!
12/02/06 Longevity expert Natalia S. Gavrilova joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
12/01/06 Instapundit talks about our A-PRIZE. Digg (vote for) this story. Join our Digg Warriors!
12/01/06 Ole Peter Galaasen, editor of the Plausible Futures Newsletter, joins our Futurists Board.
11/30/06 Read issue #52 of Lifeboat News!
11/30/06 We have launched the A-PRIZE! This contest was developed by our Scientific Advisory Board member Alan H. Goldstein who coauthored the National Research Council’s triennial review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI).
 
This prize is awarded to the person or organization responsible for creating an Animat/Artificial life form with an emphasis on the safety of the researchers, public, and environment OR the person or organization who shows that an Animat/Artificial life form has been created. (The second case is to uncover unpublicized or unsafe projects.)
11/30/06 Michael Anissimov invites you to join the Lifeboat Foundation!
11/30/06 Updated World News page with 33,000 British Airways passengers may have been exposed to polonium 210 due to alleged KGB assassination in London. (Airplanes contaminated by transportation of polonium 210 from Moscow to London.)
11/26/06 Added quote by John Robert Marlow to Quotes page.
11/25/06 Updated World News page with KGB allegedly assassinates man in London using the deadliest poison known to man — polonium 210, a radioactive element used as a trigger in nuclear weapons. It is so powerful that a lethal dose can be passed on through the body in sweat or saliva.
11/23/06 Added information about today’s Al Qaeda attack in Iraq to our World News page.
11/23/06 Added quote by Chris Phoenix to Quotes page.
11/23/06 Added information about Israel’s “bionic hornet” to our SecurityPreserver report.
11/22/06 Read Risking Human Extinction by John Leslie.
11/21/06 Gianmarco Radice, the asteroid expert who is helping organize the upcoming 2007 Planetary Defense conference to be held in Washington DC in March, joins our Scientific Advisory board. The objective of this conference is to develop a white paper that assesses the current state of our ability to discover and track near earth objects (NEOs — objects that could possibly impact Earth) and our ability to successfully deflect a threatening object should one be detected.
11/20/06 InstaPundit has linked to our AsteroidShield report. Digg (vote for) this page! Join the Digg Warriors!
11/20/06 We are preparing to launch a peer-reviewed journal. Michael B. Fossel will be the Editor-in-Chief. Joseph M. Kaminski will be the Associate Editor. Michael Fossel is the founding Editor of Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine (now Rejuvenation Research), 2005 Impact Factor of 8.57, and served as its Editor-in-Chief for six years.
 
This multidisciplinary journal will cover biotechnology, cosmology, nanotechnology, and other major science areas and as a journal of the Lifeboat Foundation it will also include solutions to potential problems. It will be similar to Nature or Science but a little better defined, i.e. slightly more narrowed in scope. Double blind refereeing will be used to help eliminate political bias.
 
If you wish to join the Editorial Board or have suggestions for the focus of this journal, you can contact Michael B. Fossel at [email protected]. There will be no time commitment until this is assembled, and until we have a commitment from a leading publishing company.
11/19/06 Josh Bongard’s resilient robot, that will hobble along even if injured, is featured at Coast to Coast AM.
11/18/06 Claus C. Hilgetag, who debunked a prevailing theory that the nervous system should have mainly very short nerve fibre connections between nerve cells, or neurons, to function at its most effective, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/17/06 Josh Bongard, who developed a resilient robot that will hobble along even if injured, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/17/06 Asteroid expert Matthew Genge, who main belt asteroid 6626 Mattgenge was named after, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/16/06 David Dexter, Scientific Director of the UK Parkinson’s Disease Society Tissue Bank, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/16/06 Daniel Armel and Hao Le have qualified as contestants for our EM Launch Competition. Note that we would like to expand this competition!
11/16/06 Kris Stanek, who discovered that the universe may be older and larger than was thought, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/15/06 Larry Sanger, cofounder of Wikipedia and founder of the Citizendium project, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/15/06 Marcus Hutter, who runs the 50,000 € Hutter Prize for Compressing Human Knowledge, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/15/06 Dwayne W. Godwin, who discovered that nitric oxide is the key to the brain “booting up”, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/14/06 Joseph M. Kaminski, who has developed a gene therapy method that uses jumping genes instead of viruses, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/14/06 Edwin B. Cooper, who has pioneered a treatment which uses electrical stimulation to improve the condition of people with severe brain injuries, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/13/06 Angelo Cangelosi who developed virtual bots which teach each other using wordplay, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/13/06 Renowned cognitive scientist Stevan Harnad joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/12/06 Ray Kurzweil has received the IEEE Professional Communication Societies Goldsmith Award for 2006 for Distinguished Contributions to Engineering Communication.
 
The award honors those “broadly involved in communication as related to engineering and scientific endeavors” and was announced at the 2006 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference in Saratoga Springs.
11/11/06 Read the improved version of SHOUTING AT THE COSMOS…Or How SETI has Taken a Worrisome Turn Into Dangerous Territory by David Brin. (The text has been improved and a new graphic has been added.)
11/11/06 Read the improved version of Minding the Planet: The Meaning and Future of the Semantic Web by Nova Spivack. (The text has been improved and a new graphic has been added.)
11/11/06 Richard Baraniuk, developer of a single-pixel digital camera which uses a digital micromirror device, joins our Scientific Advisory Board. Since its detector only has a single pixel, it can be as fancy as desired. It can even accommodate wavelengths currently unavailable to digital photography, such as X-rays, terahertz waves, even radar.
11/10/06 David Brin’s new and astonishingly broad “Interactive communication between a plurality of users” patent brings online many basic tricks that people have used in real-life conversation for ages. e.g. adjusting semantic content and presentation according to distance, orientation, reputation, time, and traits of the content itself.
11/10/06 Ray Kurzweil’s three hour interview on C-SPAN2 will be rebroadcast tomorrow (Nov 11) at 9 am ET.
 
This interview is on “Book TV”, for their monthly show “In Depth”. It features a two-part profile of Ray, an interview with him about his life, career, and ideas, and includes questions from Book TV viewers via telephone and email. Ray speaks about his inventions and books, including The Singularity is Near.
11/10/06 Philip Rhoades who is launching the first cryonics facility in Australia, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/09/06 Fabio Albertario has translated Vernor Vinge’s paper on the Technological Singularity, and the whole of Eric Drexler’s Engines of Creation into Italian. They are available on our Italian site.
11/09/06 Artificial Intelligence expert John A. Barnden joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/08/06 Federico Capasso, one of the inventors of the quantum cascade laser, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/08/06 James Fiske who is developing a huge “launch ring” to fling satellites into orbit, has joined our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/07/06 Gustavo Olague, who used virtual bees to help robots see in 3D, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/07/06 Read Minding the Planet: The Meaning and Future of the Semantic Web by Nova Spivack.
11/05/06 James Z. Wang who taught a computer to name images by “thinking”, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/05/06 Peter B. Lloyd, author of Glitches in the Matrix … and How to Fix Them, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/05/06 Cornelius “Pete” Peterson, Chief Executive Officer and one of the founders of Interactive Supercomputing, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/04/06 Professor Owen Holland who is building an “ultraswarm” of miniature Bluetooth-connected helicopters, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/04/06 Roboticist Max Lungarella from Tokyo University who worked with Olaf Sporns in testing a vision-body link in robot experiments, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/04/06 Jerry Glenn will be one of the speakers at the Global Cleantech 2006 conference co-chaired by Charles Ostman. It will be held Nov 17 at Palo Alto, California, at the conference facilities of its sponsor, Townsend, Townsend & Crew, LLP, a few blocks from the Stanford campus.
11/04/06 Space Quotes to Ponder puts up a free banner ad for us.
11/04/06 The NanoTechnology Group puts up a free banner ad for us.
11/04/06 Olaf Sporns, who is testing a vision-body link in robot experiments, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/03/06 Hugh Loebner, the philanthropist behind the Loebner Prize, an annual competition that awards prizes to the Chatterbot considered the most humanlike for that year, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
11/03/06 Read issue #51 of Lifeboat News!
11/02/06 Watch Cellular Visions: The Inner Life of a Cell, an eight-minute animation created in NewTek LightWave 3D and Adobe After Effects for Harvard biology students.
 
The animation shows a number of molecular machines — ribosomes, motors, and more — working to move molecules and structures around a cell, and even to create the structures. It also shows a lot of membrane events, and molecules working with and through membranes, and a few organelles. It shows the molecules in their real molecular structure — these are renderings of experimental data, not artists’ conceptions.
10/31/06 Read Screw Sustainability: The Age of the Tornado Tamers Busting the Bubble of Spaceship Earth by Howard Bloom.
10/31/06 Read The Ultimate Right to Life Debate: Synthetic biologists know the meaning of life, but do they know the meaning of synthetic biology? by Alan H. Goldstein.
10/30/06 We have launched an invitation-only mailing list for our new Human Trajectories Board.
 
The current human situation is unique and complex. What are the primary characteristics that define human culture? How did our “humanness” make us what we are today? And, most importantly, how will our collective past and present direct our advance towards the future?
 
Areas covered include technological innovation and adoption, resource shortage and change, human migration, competition and conflict.
 
This Board is already up to 34 members!
10/28/06 Science Fiction author Sylvia Engdahl joins our Scientific Advisory Board!
10/28/06 Ben Bova, author of more than 100 futuristic novels and nonfiction books, joins our Scientific Advisory Board!
10/28/06 KurzweilAI.net links to The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth: Chapter Eight by William E. Burrows.
10/27/06 Science Fiction author Sylvia Engdahl puts a free banner for us on her official site!
10/27/06 The free banner that Nanotechnology Now is running for us has generated 61,000+ impressions and 94 click-throughs to date. No wonder our traffic has increased 954% over the past three months!
10/26/06 Read The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth: Chapter Eight by William E. Burrows.
10/26/06 Upgraded ParticleAcceleratorShield program including adding two more 3D panoramas with sounds of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) under construction.
10/25/06 Read SHOUTING AT THE COSMOS…Or How SETI has Taken a Worrisome Turn Into Dangerous Territory by David Brin.
10/24/06 David Brin’s new History Channel show “The ArchiTechs” hits Prime Time: November 1 at 8 PM. (Wednesday!)
 
“Five geniuses are challenged: design better safety/rescue systems for skyscrapers… in 48 hours!”
 
Episode #1 culminates in startling ideas presented to NY Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen, hero of 9/11.
 
If ratings are good, this “Design A Team” (including David Brin) will tackle more “innovation makeover” challenges, from spaceflight to eco-power and “the next humvee”. Spread word about this smart new show!
10/24/06 We have launched a Human Trajectories Board!
 
The current human situation is unique and complex. What are the primary characteristics that define human culture? How did our “humanness” make us what we are today? And, most importantly, how will our collective past and present direct our advance towards the future?
 
Areas covered include technological innovation and adoption, resource shortage and change, human migration, competition and conflict.
10/23/06 Read Flexible Automated Manufacturing by Michael Vassar.
10/23/06 Read Dipping a Toe into the Sea of Space: Are we Columbus or Erikson? by Gregory Benford.
10/22/06 Read Getting Ready for the Coming Bio-Economy: An Advance Survey with Ten Practical Tips by Scott Borg.
10/21/06 Read Corporate Cornucopia: Examining the Special Implications of Commercial MNT Development by Michael Vassar.
10/19/06 Lowered GETAS level to Guarded. Reason: “The acutely high tensions over North Korea’s nuclear test have, for the moment, converted to a drawn out imbroglio which will probably not really heat up again until North Korea’s next nuclear arms test.”
10/19/06 Created What is RSS? definition page.
10/18/06 The InstaPundit article Warning Signs for Tomorrow has become our most Digged article ever! Digg (vote for) it! Join the Digg Warriors!
10/18/06 Read Welcome to the Age of Weapons Containment by George Dvorsky.
10/17/06 Nanotechnology Now, the world’s most in-depth online resource for nanotechnology, supports Lifeboat Foundation with a free banner ad!
10/16/06 Read Law of Accelerating Returns by Ray Kurzweil!
10/15/06 Read the InstaPundit article Warning Signs for Tomorrow and then Digg (vote for) it! Join the Digg Warriors!
10/14/06 Watch David Brin’s new History Channel Show: The ArchiTechs. First episode is “Skyscraper Firefighting and Escape” and plays Saturday, October 14 at 11:00 AM, Wednesday, November 1 at 08:00 PM (prime time), and Thursday, November 02 at 12:00 AM. Also read his report Want to Live Forever?
10/13/06 SAB member Stefan Immler holds a NASA press conference describing supernovae and discoveries of never-before-seen properties, some of which run counter to prevailing theories.
10/12/06 Read the reports Technological Evolution by José Luis Cordeiro and First-Stage Nanoproducts and Nanoweaponry by Michael Anissimov.
10/11/06 Read the article Robotics expert comes to the rescue by SAB member Blay Whitby.
10/10/06 Sergio M.L. Tarrero becomes our fifth Lifeboat 500 member!
10/09/06 We have raised the GETAS alert level from Guarded to Elevated. Reason: Brazen provocative nuclear test by North Korea causing high geopolitical tension in Asia and worldwide.
10/08/06 Michael Anissimov becomes the fourth person to join the Lifeboat 500!
10/07/06 SAB member Mike Treder completes a three week tour of Australia and New Zealand where he gave public lectures and held discussions on the subject of “Disruptive Abundance: Nanotechnology and Human Life”.
10/06/06 Read the InstaPundit article Military Nanotechnology which describes our NanoShield program.
10/05/06 Watch Michael Anissimov represent Lifeboat Foundation at the AGI Research Institute’s workshop in Palo Alto. He was on a panel discussing the risks of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence).
10/01/06 We have launched a forum/mailing list to discuss your ideas for our programs and other suggestions for the Lifeboat Foundation. It is for Advisory Board members and Executive Class and greater members.
09/28/06Updated AsteroidShield program with even more new material. Let us know your comments!
09/27/06 Our RSS feed has been activated.
09/27/06 The Lifeboat Foundation now has a new official song and a MySpace page! (You may also be cheered up by this song.)
09/26/06Updated AsteroidShield program with new material from Al Globus.
09/25/06 Updated Ark I program with new material from Al Globus.
09/24/06 2005 Guardian Award winner Ray Kurzweil moves into the lead with a total of $10,190.80 in donations!
09/24/06Updated Space Habitats program with a “Better Ways to get into Space” section by Michael Anissimov.
09/23/06Launched Digg Warriors page.
09/20/06Launched CommPreserver program page.
09/17/06Added quote by Ed Koch to Quotes page.
09/15/06 Launched Nuclear Terrorist page, with updates about the search for nuclear terrorist Adnan G. El Shukrijumah.
09/13/06 Robert A. Freitas Jr. has found preliminary evidence that diamond mechanosynthesis may not be reliable enough at ambient temperatures to sustain an existential risk from microscopic ecophagic replicators. Learn more details including how you can help fund his important research on this subject.
09/12/06Launched Counterterrorism page.
09/11/06Launched Media Board and separated Scientific Advisory Boards from Advisory Boards.
09/09/06Launched AntimatterShield and BlackHoleShield program pages.
09/04/06Renamed InfoShield program to SecurityPreserver program and also upgraded program text.
09/04/06Added quote by Edmund Burke to Quotes page.
09/03/06Added quote by Admiral David E. Jeremiah to Quotes page.
08/30/06 Added EnergyPreserver and LifePreserver programs.
08/28/06 Added link to main page to let readers know how they can submit contributions to the Lifeboat Foundation endorsed Journals of Personal Cyberconsciousness and Geoethical Nanotechnology.
08/28/06 Added hydrogen bomb test video to NuclearShield page and asteroid impact video to AsteroidShield page.
08/28/06 Launched SunShield program page.
08/27/06 Launched PersonalityPreserver program page and incorporated CryoPreserver program into it.
08/26/06 Renamed CryoShield program to CryoPreserver program. Added BioPreserver, InfoPreserver, PersonalityPreserver, and SeedPreserver programs. See Programs page for details.
08/25/06 Added NeuroethicsShield program.
08/22/06Added This Global Warming Fix Stinks to ClimateShield page.
08/19/06Added New Cosmic Defense Idea: Fight Asteroids with Asteroids to AsteroidShield page.
08/19/06Added information about Lifeboat Foundation Brochure grant to home page and donations page.
08/17/06Added quote by Michio Kaku to Quotes page.
08/16/06Added CryoShield page and renamed GlobalWarmingShield page to ClimateShield page.
08/13/06Added AsteroidShield, GammaRayShield, GlobalWarmingShield, and UFAI-Shield pages.
08/13/06Added NuclearShield and Space Habitats pages.
08/13/06Added Programs page which lists several of our programs to reduce existential risks. Most of the material from our old Research page was then moved into the relevant programs. What remained from the old Research page was moved to our new Resources page.
08/12/06Added Crash Test Cities by Wil McCarthy to Research page.
08/10/06Added two blogs plus Immortalist Utilitarianism by Michael Anissov to Research page.
08/10/06Added quote by John Reid to Quotes page.
08/10/06We now offer free Global Existential Threat Advisory System (GETAS) threat updates.
08/08/06Listed more qualified contestants on our EM Launch Competition page.
08/07/06Added icon and link for solution to border security AND the world’s energy needs on main page.
08/07/06Updated NanoShield page and mentioned KurzweilAI.net publication of it.
08/05/06Updated Ark I page.
08/03/06Added issue #47 to Lifeboat News archive.
08/02/06Added quote by Ken Wear to Quotes page.
08/02/06Mentioned on home page and NanoShield page that we have “officially endorsed” the Responsible Nanotechnology blog.
08/01/06Renamed Panoptic Smart Dust Sousveillance Report to InfoShield report including changing icon on main page.
07/31/06Added quote by Tara O’Toole to Quotes page.
07/30/06Updated NanoShield page.
07/28/06Added icon and link for Lifeboat 500 on main page.
07/28/06Added icon and link for offical Lifeboat Foundation blog on main page.
07/26/06Added Global Existential Threat Advisory System (GETAS) page and linked to it from Home and World News page.
07/25/06Updated title on Panoptic Smart Dust Sousveillance Report page.
07/25/06Updated NanoShield page.
07/25/06Updated EM Launch Competition page.
07/25/06Added icon and link for Panoptic Smart Dust Sousveillance Report on main page.
07/25/06Added icon and link for Lifeboat Foundation Store (selling Kurzweil Stamps) on main page.
07/25/06Changed format and content of What’s New page.

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