Ray Kurzweil

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• Cambridge’s ProFORMA does 3D scanning with any stationary webcam

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  Via Engadget: Never mind that silly name: ProFORMA (which stands for ‘Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition’, if you must know) is some cool system that turns any ordinary webcam into a powerful 3D scanning tool. In fact, a camera is pretty much all you need for some “on-line” modeling ...
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• Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

  
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• HD Tour of the CERN LHC

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  This is a guided tour down to the CERN LHC ATLAS in Geneva Switzerland, filmed around the 7th of February, 2007
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• Looking Far, Far Ahead

  
  Up and Running — Authority: 465
  Steve Jurvetson, of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, one of the oldest and best-known venture capital firms, talks here about the Ray Kurzweil interpretation of Moore’s Law. From the intro: … which retroactively looks at the evolution of technology and the economy in terms of the numbers of possible calculations ...
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• What is the Google Chrome Operating System?

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  Here’s the Google explanation on YouTube - Click here for Five Reasons Google Chrome OS will Succeed per PC World. Click here for Five Reasons Google Chrome OS will Fail per PC World.
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• What if…Human Tissue Could Be Used to Make Objects?

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  Bone tissue cultivated outside a patient’s body will soon be used in reconstructive surgery. As the bioscience behind this application develops, the promise of the technology provokes curiosity and speculation about alternative uses. Biojewellery explores such an alternative, providing couples with a symbol of their ...
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• Computing rivaling human brain by 2019?

  
  PaulSpoerry.com — Authority: 451
  Ray Kurzweil has already thrown down the gauntlet and predicted that around 2020 a computer would pass the Turing Test and become the first “real” AI (artificial intelligence). It appears that once again he may be on track with his predictions. According to IBM, ‘BlueMatter, a new algorithm created by IBM ...
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• Pictures in Our Heads

  
  I, Cringely — Authority: 555
  We’re in the middle of a huge platform shift in computing and most of us don’t even know it.  The transition is from desktop to mobile and is as real as earlier transitions from mainframes to minicomputers to personal computers to networked computers with graphical interfaces.  And like those previous ...
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• Haptic Ring Lets You Feel Virtual Objects

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  Hat tip to Singularity Hub
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• Ray Kurzweil In 1965 With His Music-Composing Computer

  
  Synthtopia — Authority: 556
  Click here to view the embedded video. Inventor, author and futurist Ray Kurzweil appeared on I’ve Got a Secret in 1965, when he was 17 years old, demonstrating his music-composing computer.
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• The AlloSphere

  
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• Eyeborg: The Singularity Is Coming, Along With Hot, Calorie-Challenged Post-Humans

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 802
  If you want to become a cyborg, or post-human, the best way is to hardly eat anything and drink a lot of Pinot Noir. Basically what a Ralph Lauren model consumes. Read more about Ralph Lauren models and how they are calorie-challenged here . What does this have to do with cyborgs? Stay with me here for a sec. ...
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• Ray Kurzweil’s Opening Speech at Singularity University’s Inaugural Executive Program

  
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• Richard Dawkins: The Greatest Show on Earth

  
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• Singularity Is Near. Video Conferencing Is Too.

  
  Video over Enterprise — Authority: 108
  A few weeks ago I attended the World Innovation Summit , a very interesting conference on innovation and technology, held right here in Tel-Aviv. Multi-national companies, emerging companies and promising start-ups presented their pieces of innovation in various fields, such as mobile communication, cloud computing, ...
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• Ray Kurzweil On Speech Recognition, Music Synthesis, Virtual Reality & The Future

  
  Synthtopia — Authority: 556
  Click here to view the embedded video. This is a deep interview with a deep guy – Ray Kurzweil – about some deep ideas. In the early 80’s, Kurzweil developed the Kurzweil K250 digital synthesizer, which developed into one of the most influential digital synthesis platforms. Kurzweil sold his music ...
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• Genetically Enhanced Humans?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 144
  According to Oxford Today: The University Magazine , they’re coming: ‘There is a significant chance that my own children will live beyond the age of 120′, says Julian Savulescu, Director of Oxford’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. ‘Thereafter we could be looking at two- or three-fold increases in ...
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• Singularity University Kicks Off First Executive Program Tomorrow

  
  Singularity University — Authority: 416
  After a great inaugural Graduate Studies Program this summer, SU is readying to welcome the first Executive Program class on Friday. SU chancellor Ray Kurweil will set the stage for the program in his opening keynote tomorrow evening. With world-class faculty, a inter-disciplinary, 9-day curriculum, and a few ...
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• Deep Inside DARPA

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  Dr. James Hughes interviews Michael Belfiore on his book (The Department of Mad Scientists) about DARPA.
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