MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. - After nine weeks of intense lessons, robotic and rocket competitions and rubbing elbows with NASA scientists, industry experts and entrepreneurs, students at International Space University (ISU) Space Studies Program (SSP) 2009 and Singularity University (SU) shared their final evening together and participated in their university’s closing ceremonies on Friday, Aug. 28, 2009 at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.

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This documentation is one of the 10 Introductory Publications listed on the Singularity Summit website.

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Chatter about ensuing plans permeates any graduation, though it’s not common for the talk to surround which class projects will receive venture capital funding…

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This student’s name is Simon Daniel.

Click here for his thoughts which are documented in an article titled “My summer at the Woodstock for technologists”.

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The Conversational Interface is the Biggest Single Social-Technological Change We Adults Are Likely to See in Our Lifetime.

This essay outlines a prediction for the near-term (2012 to 2019) emergence of a Conversational Interface (CI) on the global web, via computer hardware and software platforms called Spoken Dialog Systems (SDS). The CI has also been called the Conversational User Interface (CUI), Linguistic User Interface (LUI), Universal Linguistic Interface (ULI), Voice User Interface (VUI), Natural User Interface (NUI) and other terms. For a few recent technical books on the topic, see Spoken Dialog Technology: Toward the Conversational User Interface, Michael McTear, 2004, and Practical Spoken Dialog Systems, Deborah Dahl (Ed), 2005.

Click here for the entire essay by John Smart on the Acceleration Watch website.

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Following an intensive nine-week graduate-level interdisciplinary program, Singularity University (SU) today announced that several Graduate Studies Program (GSP) student team projects will spin off into new business ventures.

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Click here for the information written by Steve M. Omohundro.

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Fantasists ponder a future of superlongevity, superintelligence, and superabundance—as if wishing will make it happen. Meanwhile, people are dying.

Click here for an interesting article by Mike Treder, Managing Director of The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET), and former Executive Director of the non-profit Center for Responsible Nanotechnology.

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The U.S. military is racing to master the mind…

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Click here for the overview article found on the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) website.

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But here at Singularity University, things are a little different. This group project…

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Peter Diamandis, Singularity University Vice-Chancellor and Chairman, describes the Singularity University Executive Program -

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Click here for some singularity commentary from the BBC.

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Technologist and futurist Bill Joy talks about several big worries for humanity — and several big hopes in the fields of health, education and future tech at the February 2006 TED Conference.

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Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species.

Click here to read Bill Joy’s still frequently referenced article which appeared in Wired Magazine back in the year 2000.

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