What shamans and psychonauts have known for eons … if only we could filter out the noisy side effects, something powerfully positive for humanity is locked away in these plants.
These and other secrets will doubtlessly be revealed, debunked, endorsed, and descried at the Foresight Personalized Life Extension Conference, October 9-10, …

On Thursday, November 12, 2009, sponsored by The Rock Center for Corporate Governance and Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology, Legal Challenges in an Age of Robotics:
Once relegated to factories and fiction, robots are rapidly entering the mainstream. Advances in artificial intelligence translate into ever-broadening functionality and autonomy. Recent …

“We should welcome with open arms the rich possibilities of technologically enhancing our bodies,” reports Andy Miah in the Guardian this week, adding the important caveat, “just so long as we don’t all end up looking, and thinking, and acting the same.”
[Next month,] The European Parliament is set to debate …

Media X and SRI International invite you to join us in a very special event on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 from 1:00 to 5:30 p.m. at Stanford University’s Memorial Auditorium.
Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing: SRI’s Revolutionary 1968 Demo – A 40th Anniversary Celebration
On December 9, 1968, Dr. Douglas …

AIIDE is the definitive point of interaction between entertainment software developers interested in AI and academic and industrial AI researchers.
Founded in 1979, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI) (formerly the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence) is a nonprofit scientific society devoted to advancing
the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying …

Tomorrow – Wednesday, Oct. 1st at 12 noon
Dileep George, Numenta
Towards a cortical microcircuit model that integrates invariant recognition, temporal inference, and attention.
Wednesday, 1st of October 2008
12:00pm
508-20 Evans Hall
For more information: The Redwood Center Seminars.

SIAI Announces:
Singularity Summit 2008 has been scheduled officially for Saturday October 25th (changed from the week before). It will be held at the Montgomery Theater in San Jose.

Awesome fun from Avant Games That Give a Damn. My brain is exploding simply contemplating the multivariate experimental levels of interaction, cooperation, signaling, and I don’t even know what else yet … all taking place within the context of this alleged game. Something DANGEROUS is happening here, I don’t know …

While it is absurd to reduce such questions down to a single proof statement, I also think it’s fairly common for humans to light upon representative moments that both evoke such questions and justify their over simplified responses. Even if, in strictly empirical terms, we present a single anecdotal observation …

If you haven’t already found them elsewhere, you definitely do not want to miss the videos from AGI-08, the seminal AGI event of our time. Of course, no sooner did the inaugural conference end than the next steps of the journey begin:
Continuing the mission of the highly successful first AGI …

FightingAging reports:
Researcher Attila Chordash is back from last weekend’s Aging 2008 conference, and he’s posted his video of biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey’s presentation from a vantage point at the pre-conference public event.
And Reason puts it ever aptly:
[It's] the concert bootleg scene, except with scientists instead of musicians, and no …

“Understanding Aging: Biomedical and Bioengineering Approaches,” which will be held this weekend from June 27-29, 2008 at UCLA. This would be a great excuse to jump in the Cessna, Piper, or Cirrus for an impromptu weekend escape.
The conference includes a free symposium for the general public on June 27th focused …

At some point we realized we are all interesting people with worthwhile things to say, and it didn’t make sense to rely always on centrally organized ways for spreading ideas. There is a time and place for traditional conferences, TED is a great conference, but perhaps a little emergence and …