| Time |
Speaker/Activity |
| 8:00
AM+ |
Registration
(late arrivals) |
| 9:00
- 9:25 AM |
Sonia
Arrison, John Smart, Steve
Jurvetson – Introduction |
| 9:25
- 10:00 |
Ray
Kurzweil (via 3D Telepresence Lectern) – Analysis
Keynote
Accelerating Technology in the 21st Century |
| 10:10
- 11:45 |
Ray
Kurzweil, Michael Denton, and Ilkka Tuomi
– Analysis Debate
Why Organisms Are Not Machines (Denton)
Moore's Law and Kurzweil's Hypothesis (Tuomi)
Debate 'Evaluating Kurzweil's
'Law of Accelerating Returns' |
| 11:50 -
1:00 |
LUNCH |
| 1:00
- 2:00 |
ANALYSIS
BREAKOUTS |
K.
Eric Drexler
Nanotechnology: Toward the Feynman Vision |
John
R. Koza
Biologically Inspired Computing for Automating Innovations |
| 2:00
- 3:00 |
ANALYSIS
BREAKOUTS |
Keith
Devlin
Interface, Information, Communication |
Ben
Goertzel
Artificial General Intelligence |
| 3:00
- 4:00 |
James
N. Gardner – Speculation
Keynote
The Selfish Biocosm Hypothesis |
| 4:00 -
4:45 |
William
A. Dembski and Nick Bostrom
Infinite Universe or Intelligent Design? (Dembski)
Observation Selection Theory (Bostrom) |
| 4:45
- 5:15 |
James
N. Gardner, William A. Dembski, and
Nick Bostrom – Speculations
Debate
An Anthropic Universe: Replication, 'Intelligent Design,' or
Ensemble? |
| 5:30
- 6:30 |
SPECULATION
BREAKOUTS |
Greg
Papadopoulos
Network Entropy: A Driver of Change |
William
H. Calvin
Faster than What? The Nimble and the Ponderous |
| 6:30
- 8:45 |
COLLECTIVE
INTELLIGENCE DINNER |
| 8:45
- 10:00 |
Howard
Bloom (via video and teleconference) –
Plenary
"An Infinity of Singularities": From Big Bang to the
23rd Century |
| 10:00
PM + |
Night Owl Session with John Smart
Development and the Singularity: Understanding Accelerating
Change |
| Time |
Speaker/Activity |
| 9:00
- 10:00 AM |
Steve
Jurvetson – Action
Keynote
Venture Capital in a World of Accelerating Change |
| 10:00
- 11:00 |
Robert
Wright –
Plenary
Technology and Interdependence: Nonzero Sumness as the Arc of
History |
| 11:10
- 11:40 |
Mark
Finnern – Corporate Sponsor Session
SAP Enables Accelerating Change
Marcos
Guillen – Corporate Sponsor Session
Artificial Development, Inc. and CCortex: Human Neural
Network Simulation |
| 11:50 -
1:15 |
LUNCH
|
| 1:15
- 2:15 |
ACTION
BREAKOUTS |
James
M. Crawford
Autonomy, Robotics & World-Modeling |
Matt
Lennig
The Linguistic User Interface |
| 2:15
- 3:15 |
ACTION
BREAKOUTS |
Tim
O'Reilly
Diffusion of New Memes in the Media |
Christine
Peterson
Shaping the Next Technological Revolution |
| 3:15-
4:15 |
ACTION
BREAKOUTS |
Scott
A. Hunt
Accelerating Change and World Peace |
Ross
Mayfield
Social Software Solutions |
| 4:15
- 4:30 |
Closing
Comments |
| 4:30
PM + |
Lounge,
Optional No-Host Dinners Off Campus at 6pm |
