Accel. Change AI & Intel Stanford Conf. 9/16-18

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Accelerating Change 2005
IA and AI - Intelligence Amplification and Artificial Intelligence
September 16-18, 2005 at Stanford University, CA

Sponsored by: Acceleration Studies Foundation
More info: http://accelerating.org/ac2005/index.html
Enter "AC2005-BAYSCI" to receive a $100 discount.
Date and Time: September 16, 2005. 9:00 AM.
Approximate duration of 48 hour(s).
Admission: $475 less $100 discount

Speakers: Keynote, Ray Kurzweil, Inventor, Futurist and CEO Kurzweil
Technologies, Inc.; Keynote, Vernor Vinge, Mathematician, Computer
Scientist; Presenter, George Gilder, Editor in Chief, Gilder
Technology Report

Artificial intelligence ("AI"), broadly defined, improves the
intelligence and autonomy of our technology. Intelligence
amplification ("IA") empowers human beings and their social,
political, and economic environments.

A collection of today's most broad-minded, multidisciplinary, and
practical change leaders will consider these twin trends from global,
national, business, social, and personal foresight perspectives.

Dialogs: We'll explore IA and AI within several future-important topic areas:
Big Picture Dialogs:
1. Forecasting Methods and Models of Accelerating Change
2. Future Scenarios and Systems Theory
Planetary Dialogs:
3. Science and Technology
4. Resources and Environment
National Dialogs:
5. Governance, Security, Peace, and Community Building
6. Business, Economy, and Careers
Social Dialogs:
7. Education and Journalism
8. Culture, Creativity, Arts, and Entertainment
Individual Dialogs:
9. Health, Medicine, Longevity, and Wellness
10. Consciousness, Psychology, Growth, and Spirituality

Speakers include:
* Vernor Vinge, Mathematician; Computer Scientist; Author, A Fire Upon the Deep
* Ray Kurzweil, CEO, Kurzweil Technologies; Award-Winning Inventor;
Author, The Singularity is Near
* Moira Gunn, CEO, Tech Nation Group; Host, Tech Nation and BioTech Nation
* Blake Ross, Co-Creator, Mozilla Firefox; Open Source Entrepreneur
* Peter Norvig, Director of Search Quality, Google
* Jan Pedersen, Chief Scientist for Search and Marketplace, Yahoo!
* Peter Barret, Microsoft IPTV
* Tom Malone, Professor, MIT Sloan; Author, The Future of Work
* Esther Dyson, Founder, PC Forum; Editor, Release 1.0; Editor at
Large, CNET Networks
* Peter Thiel, Co-founder and former CEO, PayPal; President, Clarium Capital
* Philip Rosedale, CEO, Linden Lab, creators of Second Life
* Terry Winograd, Computer Scientist, Stanford U; Author,
Understanding Computers and Cognition
* David Fogel, CEO, Natural Selection; Editor, IEEE Transactions on
Evolutionary Computing
* Robert Hecht-Nielsen, Computational Neurobiologist; ECE Professor,
UCSD; Founder, HNC Software.
* Harold Morowitz, Biophysicist, George Mason U; Author, The
Emergence of Everything

Special Events include:
* Future Academy Tutorials Friday
(http://accelerating.org/ac2005/tutorials.html)
* Tech Night reception and demo expo at SAP Labs, Palo Alto
* Collective Intelligence Dinner

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