The following
are confirmed speakers for ACC2003. All of them
have contributed important work to understanding and guiding accelerating
change.
To see each
speaker's abstract and talk title, visit the Speaker
Abstracts page. To
see their personal or professional website, click the Web-linked
name next to the their photo. For detailed biographies, please visit
our Speaker
Biographies page. Finally, to see questions that our
presenters are asking themselves about accelerating change, see
the Speaker Questions
page.
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Steve
Jurvetson
Managing Director, Draper Fisher
Jurvetson, Founding VC investor in Hotmail, Interwoven,
and Kana |
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James
N. Gardner
Complexity Theorist, Author of Biocosm:
The New Scientific Theory of Evolution: Intelligent Life is
the Architect of the Universe |
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Howard
Bloom
(via teleconference)
Visiting Scholar, New York University, Author of The
Lucifer Principle and Global
Brain |
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Robert
Wright
Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
Author of Nonzero:
The Logic of Human Destiny and The
Moral Animal |
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K.
Eric Drexler
Founder and Chair, Foresight
Institute, Author of Engines
of Creation and Nanosystems |
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Greg
Papadopoulos
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Sun
Microsystems |
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Tim
O'Reilly
Founder and President, O'Reilly
& Associates, Leading Open Source activist, Creator
of The O'Reilly
Emerging Technology Conference |
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William
H. Calvin
Theoretical Neurobiologist, University of Washington in Seattle,
Author of 11 books, including The
River that Flows Uphill:
A Journey From the Big Bang to the Big Brain, and
A
Brain for All Seasons |
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Christine
Peterson
Co-Founder an President, Foresight
Institute, Co-Author of Unbounding
the Future: The Nanotechnology Revolution and Author
of Leaping
the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work |
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John
R. Koza
President, Genetic Programming, Author of four landmark books
on genetic programming, including Genetic
Programming IV: Routine Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence |
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Nick
Bostrom
Research Fellow, Oxford University, Author of Anthropic
Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy |
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William
A. Dembski
Associate Professor at the Institute for Faith and Learning,
Baylor University, Texas, Author of No
Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without
Intelligence |
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Michael
Denton
Senior Research Fellow in Human Genetics, University of Otago,
New Zealand, Author of Nature's
Destiny |
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Ilkka
Tuomi
Visiting Scientist at the European Commission's Joint Research
Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Seville,
Spain, Author of "The
Lives and Death of Moore's Law" |
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Ben
Goertzel
Founder and CEO, Biomind LLC, Author of Creating
Internet Intelligence and The
Path to Posthumanity
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Keith
Devlin
Executive Director, CSLI,
Stanford University, Author of 23 books, including Infosense,
The
Math Gene and The
Millennium Problems |
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Sonia
Arrison
Director, Technology Studies, Pacific
Research Institute (PRI)
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Scott
A. Hunt
Peace Scholar and Activist, Author of The
Future of Peace: On the Front Lines with the World's Great Peacemakers |
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Ross
Mayfield
Founder and CEO, Socialtext,
Key participant in the emerging Social Software movement |
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James
M. Crawford
Area Lead, Autonomy
and Robotics, NASA Ames Research Center |
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Matt
Lennig
Senior Vice President of Engineering, Nuance
speech software solutions |
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Alex
Lightman
CEO, Charmed Technology,
Chair, North American IPv6
Summits; Author, Brave
New Unwired World |
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Melanie
Swan
Research
Director of Telecom Economics, RHK,
Inc. |
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Mark
Finnern
Collaboration Manager, SAP Developer
Network, Founder and Host of the Bay
Area Futurists Salon, Director of the Acceleration Studies Foundation, blogger for the O'Reilly
Network
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John
Smart
Founder and President, Acceleration Studies Foundation, Founder of the Los
Angeles Futurists Salon, Author of SingularityWatch.com |
For
more information on our speakers, please visit
the Speaker
Biographies, Speaker
Abstracts, and Speaker
Questions pages.
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