Brian Wang

a long time futurist (he won second place in the Honeywell University Futurist contest). Listed as a big Thinker on the KurzweilAI site Member of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology taskforce. Advisor to the Nanoethics Group. Director of Research for the Lifeboat Foundation.


http://nextbigfuture.com
http://www.aboutsf.com/speakers/speakerinfo.php?speakerID=147
http://www.kurzweilai.net/bios/frame.html?main=/bios/bio0261.html?

Another AI milestone - computers starting to beat human poker champions
The Second Man-Machine Poker Competition has computers from the University of Alberta playing some of the biggest names in the online poker world: Nick "stoxtrader" Grudzien, Matt "Hoss_TBF" Hawrilenko, and IJay "doughnutz" Palansky. Polaris won 2 levels, drew one and lost one.
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New completely nonnatural DNA created in Japan
To those who don't believe in a Tech Singularity - really ? behind schedule ? no progress ? I have to specify which artificial DNA. Stable artificial DNA (double and triple strand) that could be used to improve genetic engineering and molecular computers and memory. Different from the recent creation of GNA and two new base letters.
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Cheap $5 test for drug resistant tuberculosis: could save 1.5 million lives per year
A molecular test developed by Hain Lifescience and Innogenetics (INNX.BR) represents a big breakthrough in the fight against tuberculosis, a contagious respiratory ailment that kills 1.5 million people a year. The WHO is deploying to a dozen countries and has efforts to make second-line antibiotics more affordable, should increase to 15% the proportion of patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis who are diagnosed and treated appropriately. (now 2%.) TB #2 infectious disease. Aids #1.
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Abstracts for the Anti-aging conference this weekend
Some of the abstracts for the 30 talks and 20 posters at the understanding aging conference at UCLA this weekend. Links go to pages with all of the abstracts.
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Researchers develop a neural implant that can learn to be more effective
a paradigm shift from the one way communication of existing neural implants and a step toward transhuman and singularity implant systems
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Achieving a mundane technological singularity
Examine how some of the primary Singularity and Transhuman goals can be achieved even without Molecular Nanotechnology or greater than human intelligence AGI.
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supercomputer simulates human visual cortex
Based on the results of PetaVision's inaugural trials, Los Alamos researchers believe they can study in real time the entire human visual cortex--arguably a human being's most important sensory apparatus.
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Seeds of a manufacturing revolution
Rapid Automated manufacturing of everything buildings, bridges, roads. Rapid printing manufacturing of cars, electronics, computers. Could speed up manufacturing and construction by 100-1000 times. GDP growth could go into the 10-20% range even before nanofactories
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You are probably in a Singularity when
the less subtle signs that you are in a world experiencing a Technological singularity
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Many business plans that need fewer people will displace future jobs, only some require better robots and AI
Continuing trends in automation, process re-engineering and re-invention like open source and web 2.0 are recreating businesses to need fewer people. The good news is that people will be freed up to be involved in new businesses that grow the economy.
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Another review of the IEEE spectrum singularity special report
Those who dismiss the singularity or nanomedicine or cell repair have to explain more current technological developments. Not just simple chart projections.
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Plasma focus fusion, a promising nuclear fusion contender, received $10 million in funding
Plasma focus fusion would revolutionize energy production costs sometime around 2012 if it works out. Now it is pretty much fully funded for its attempt
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A reproducible cold fusion experiment could open up the controversial potential energy source
Details from a 2003 research paper and pictures from the recent live demonstration by Japanese researcher Arata
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Breakthrough in wafer scale nanoassembly
The CHN (Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing at Northeastern University) has been able to develop a novel way to assemble nanoelements (nanotubes, nanoparticles, etc.) into nanostructures and devices that enable the mass production of atomic-scale structures and will lead to the production of devices such as biosensors, batteries, memory devices and flexible electronics very quickly and efficiently and with minimal errors.
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New nanorobot design, 3d simulation for nanomedicine
New nanorobot design and simulation. Block diagrams and analysis. New nanotube and molecular components are enabling the shrinking of transducers and other parts
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Limits to AGI, brain computer interfaces and nanomedicine cellular repair
It appears to me that the current capabilities in these areas are quite advanced and that there is no reason that singularity significant levels will not be reached in the 2012-2018 timeframes.
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Tracking progress to controlling light, life and matter
Towards room temperature superconductors, new forms of matter, finer slices of time and measurement with attosecond lasers
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HP lab's new memristor could help with pattern recognition and AI
Memristor will make computers more energy efficient and faster, but should also enable highly efficient pattern recognition and pattern memory in circuits. Retention/memory as a fundamental component. As computer designs get adjusted to take advantage of this over the next 5-9 years.
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Nanodiamonds 100 times cheaper, track cells in the body and deliver drugs and genes
Taiwanese scientists have found a way to slash the cost of making the diamond chips by around 100 times to $300 per 10 milligrams
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GNA: Glycerol nucleic acid, synthetic version of DNA a new nanotechnology building block
The first self-assembled nanostructures composed entirely of glycerol nucleic acid (GNA, —a synthetic analog of DNA)have been made. New structures from alternative to DNA able to take higher temperatures and other slightly different features
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