Traveling to Boston for the week
Monday, September 24th, 2007Agenda fairly full (some slots still free, shout if you are around), but the places are all close to each other View Larger Map
Archive for September, 2007
Agenda fairly full (some slots still free, shout if you are around), but the places are all close to each other View Larger Map
“Evolving Useful Objects” - slideshow, slidecast, podcast, and transcript of my talk at Life2.0 summit
Monday, September 24th, 2007On Friday I held a talk at CMP's Life 2.0 Summit in Second Life, entitled "Evolving Useful Objects - An Evolutionary Approach to Maximizing Object Utility". The talk went very well, and I want to thank John Jainschigg, Director of New Business at CMP for his invaluable help, and coordination, without ...
Speaking at Life 2.0 Conference in Second Life
Friday, September 14th, 2007I will be speaking about "An Evolutionary Approach to Maximizing Object Utility" at the forthcoming Life 2.0 Summit organized by CMP's Dr. Dobbs, in Second Life. My slot is at 1.30 SLT/PST on Sept 21. Life 2.0 Summit, produced by CMP Technology/Dr. Dobb's Journal, is a quarterly conference on metaverse technology ...
Liveblogging the Singularity Summit 2007 - Day Two - afternoon
Sunday, September 9th, 2007During the lunch R.U. Sirius interviewed Kevin Kelly. I am looking forward to listen to that podcast soon. 13.06 Michael Lindsay X-Prize Foundation shows a video on the X Prize Foundation, which funded the prize for private space travel won by Burt Rutan's SpaceShip One team. The foundation is expanding in ...
Liveblogging the Singularity Summit 2007 - Day Two - morning
Sunday, September 9th, 2007I arrived a few minutes late, as I miscalculated my appetite at the breakfast place, which being also popular put our orders in the queue. :) The keynote by Peter Norvig has already started, and as I entered the Palace of Fine Arts Theater, he was saying "So now back ...
Liveblogging the Singularity Summit 2007 - Day One - afternoon
Saturday, September 8th, 200715.00 Jamais Cascio - The Metaverse (is being skipped?! or maybe speaking later?) Actually looking through the Google Blogsearch links I myself provided in the previous post, I saw that Jamais has already posted the full text of his speech. I guess I will list just a few sentences here and ...
Liveblogging the Singularity Summit 2007 - Day One - morning
Saturday, September 8th, 2007We got the power supply issues solved, and the wifi is also now working well thanks to the great help from the organizers. 09.40 Peter Thiel, Clarium Capital introducing the Summit: "The 21st Century is going to be far more greater, and/or far more terrible then the 20th Century. We are here ...
Liveblogging the Singularity Summit 2007?
Saturday, September 8th, 2007The Singularity Summit 2007 is about to start at the Palace of Fine Arts Theather in San Francisco. Already at 7.45 about a hundred people were waiting in front of the gates ready to enter. (Update: we were just told to unplug our laptops, so it is unlikely that it will ...
Singularity on the front page
Friday, September 7th, 2007The 'San Francisco Chronicle' has a front page article dedicated to the Singularity Summit, entitled "When Machines Think". Is it a good thing when a meme enters the mainstream? Is the meme of Singularity ready for the exposure?
Busy week in the US, but free for two breakfasts
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007I will be in New York on Monday and Tuesday, in San Diego on Wednesday, and in San Francisco until Monday. The week is pretty full, but if you are around New York on the 4th, or in San Francisco on the 7th, and want to have breakfast, let me ...
