Singularity Institute Announces 2008 Conference in San Jose

March 20 2008 / by memebox / In association with Future Blogger.net
Category: Information   Year: 2008   Rating: 6

Mark your calendars – you won’t want to miss this one. The 3rd Annual Singularity Summit will be taking place this October 25th at the Montgomery Theater in San Jose, CA. Hosted by the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the symposium brings together some of the world’s greatest visionaries to explore the future of human and machine cognition.

Last year’s speakers included Rodney Brooks of the iRobot Corp, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, and Jamais Cascio, co-founder of Worldchanging, to name a few. We can’t wait to see who shows up this year!

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September 16 2008 / by memebox / In association with Future Blogger.net
Category: Other   Year: 2008   Rating: 3

Hungry for some future memes? Here are some of the best future-focused conferences and events coming up this week!

Tuesday, Sept. 16

Web 2.0 Expo (Sept. 16 – 19) (New York)
NYTVF Digital After Dark (New York)

Wednesday, Sept. 17

Worlds in Motion Summit (Austin, TX)

Thursday, Sept. 18

Actionable access to information powered by the Semantic Web (New York)
NYC Bio Meetup (New York)
New Developments in Semantic Technology for the Enterprise (Washington DC)
The Robot Group Inc. Meetup (Austin, TX)
Transhumanists Meetup (Boston)

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September 23 2008 / by memebox / In association with Future Blogger.net
Category: Other   Year: 2008   Rating: 2

Hungry for some future memes? Here are some of the best future-focused conferences and events coming up this week!

Tuesday, Sept. 23

IEEE International Conference on Web Services, Beijing

NY Video 2.0, New York

SF Beta The San Francisco Web 2.0 Mixer, San Francisco

Web 2.0 Mapping and Social Networks Group, Mountain View, CA

Wednesday, Sept. 24

Who Owns Social Media? Durham, NC

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October 01 2008 / by memebox / In association with Future Blogger.net
Category: Other   Year: 2008   Rating: 2

Hungry for some future memes? Here are some of the best future-focused conferences and events coming up this week!

Wednesday, Oct. 1

From Cell Phones to Software & Services: One-on-One with Nokia’s CEO Santa Clara, CA

Lunch 2.0 @ Synaptics Santa Clara, CA

Thursday, Oct. 2

Billion Triple Store Mulgara New York

The Robot Group Inc. Meetup Austin, TX

Saturday, Oct. 4

New York Transhumanist Association New York

Metaverse Meetup New Jersey

Virtual Energy Forum: More Talk, Less Carbon

December 10 2008 / by joelg
Category: Metaverse   Year: 2008   Rating: 2

By Joel Greenberg

What's Happening?

As  cleantech businesses gathers speed, conferences abound. Instead of flying speakers and attendees around the country or the world to attend them, why not host them virtually?  That's what's happening today and tomorrow, 12/10 and 12/11, online at the Virtual Energy Forum. Open to the public, attendance is free.

Virtual Energy Forum Screenshot

Speakers include:

- Joseph Kelliher, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- James E. Rogers CEO, Duke Energy
- Paul P. Bollinger Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy and Partnerships, US Army
- Roland Risser, Director for Customer Energy Efficiency Pacific Gas and Electric
- Kathleen Hogan, Director, Climate Protection Partnerships Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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October 08 2008 / by memebox / In association with Future Blogger.net
Category: Other   Year: 2008   Rating: 1

Hungry for some future memes? Here are some of the best future-focused conferences and events coming up this week!

Wednesday, Oct. 8

International New Media Meetup New York

Thursday, Oct. 9

The Robot Group Inc. Meetup Austin, TX

Saturday, Oct. 11

Leonardo: 500 Years Into The Future San Jose, CA

Tuesday, Oct. 14

JHTC Event: Three Perspectives on Technology Evolution Mountain View, CA

Future of Gadgets Will Be Live-Blogging Robo Dev Tuesday

November 18 2008 / by John Heylin / In association with Future Blogger.net
Category: Technology   Year: 2008   Rating: 1

For those interested, Mielle Sullivan and I will be live-blogging the Robo Development Conference and Expo tomorrow (Tuesday) in Santa Clara. Check the site for latest breaking robotic news as well as photos and vids from the conference. Also check out our Twitter updates under usernames jheylin and mielle_s.

See you tomorrow!