(2010-12-13) Singularity University

Vivek Wadhwa on Ray Kurzweil's Singularity University (Singularity). Singularity University was founded by futurist Ray Kurzweil and XPrize founder Peter Diamandis, in 2009. It has a who’s who of the scientific community on its board and notable backers like Google... It aims to solve the Grand Challenge-s that humanity faces—such as poverty, famine, disease, global warming, and dwindling energy supplies—by teaching select groups of business executives, technologists, and government leaders the advances that are occurring in “exponential technologies”. It challenges its students to think about radical new innovations that will affect the lives of a billion people within 10 years. “Exponential technologies” are those technologies that don’t grow gradually, but at light speeds—in fields like robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), computational neuroscience, and nanotech... The university runs a 10-week graduate studies program and shorter executive programs... The school has already inspired many. It had four team projects start companies last summer, and 15 this summer. (Start Up)


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