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Conference Schedule

September 12 - 14, 2003

FRIDAY, September 12
Time Activity
6:00 PM+

Registration (Friday Details)

7:00 - 9:00 PM

Reception (Mixer - Passions, Questions and Problems)

9:30 PM+

Optional No-Host Dinners Off Campus


SATURDAY, September 13
Time Speaker/Activity
8:00 AM+ Registration (late arrivals)
9:00 - 9:25 AM Sonia Arrison, John Smart, Steve JurvetsonIntroduction
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. GardnerSpeculation 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 BostromSpeculations 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

SUNDAY, September 14
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

 

 

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