DC Future Salon - Upcoming Meetings
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Upcoming Meetings To Be Announced DC Future Salon In conjunction with Acceleration Studies Foundation's Future Salons Network, AGIRI hosts this "Future Salon Meetings" forum in order to archive past and future speaker announcements and facilitate discussion.
Meetings are usually held on the first Wed of each month from 7 - 9 PM. There is no cost or registration required to attend the salon. Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center 4805 Edgemoor Lane Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Phone: 240-777-8200 Directions: http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgtmpl....BCC/Welcome.asp  Organizers -Ben Goertzel - http://www.goertzel.org -Melanie Swan - http://www.melanieswan.com - http://futurememes.blogspot.com Members -Harvey Newstrom - http://www.harveynewstrom.com -Jeff Medina - http://www.painfullyclear.com/ -Alan Grimes - http://users.rcn.com/alangrimes/ -Sibley Verbeck -Peter S Jenkins -Phil Goetz -DeLeo, James - http://www.nih-bcig.org More: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcfuture/members Archived Meetings Wed Sep 7, 2005 - Zero'th Meeting Around a dozen attend the first meeting at Mataba, a Japanese restaurant in Bethesda, MD. Wed Oct 5, 2005 - Bruce Klein Around 10 attend as the founder of the Immortality Institute, Bruce Klein, discussed immortalism and life extension. http://www.imminst.org/bruce Wed Nov 2, 2005 - Phil Goetz About a dozen attend as Phil Goetz, who works at the US Patent Office, talked about the patent process. Tue Dec 6, 2005 - Speaker: Ari Heljakka Ari, the leader of the Finnish Transhumanist Association and a member of the Novamente AI team, discussed instrumentalist philosophy and its implications for body modification, AI and other areas. Wed Feb 1, 2006 - Speaker: Ben Goertzel About a dozen attended as Ben Goertzel, founder of BioMind and Novamente, discussed the role of Artificial Intelligence and the future of biomedical research. http://www.goertzel.org http://www.biomind.com Wed Mar 1, 2006 - Speaker: Thomas Vander Wal About 2 dozen attended as Thomas gave a ppt presentation. Topic: Web 2.0, http://www.vanderwal.net/ Personal InfoCloud, http://www.personalinfocloud.com Podcast:  http://www.archive.org/details/DCFuture_Sa...nder_Wal_030106Wed Apr 12, 2006 - Speaker: Jeff Medina Seven people attended the lively discussion. Topic: Friendly AI, Jeff's homepage: http://www.painfullyclear.com/ Tue May 9, 2006 @ 7 PM - Speakers: Robert Hazen and Patrick Griffin from the Carnegie Institute About 14 people attended this interesting presentation. Topic: Astrobiology, complexity, the emergence of complexity in artificial life systems and Avida as a modeling tool http://hazen.gl.ciw.edu. Robert's Sept. 2005 book: "Gen-e-sis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins" Podcast: http://www.archive.org/details/DC_Future_Salon_Hazen_050906 Wed May 24, 2006 @ 7 PM - Speaker: Prof. Hugo de Garis Ten members joined Prof. de Garis for an intimate round-table discussion. Topic: THE ARTILECT WAR: Cosmists vs. Terrans, A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines Podcast: http://www.archive.org/details/DC_Future_S...de_Garis_052406Wed Sept 13, 2006 @ 7 PM - Speaker: Dr. Ben Goertzel Topic: Lojban++: A New, Improved Language for Human-Computer, Human-Human, and Computer-Computer Interaction http://www.goertzel.org/papers.lojbanplusplus.pdf Wed Dec 6, 2006 @ 7 PM - Speaker: Moshe Looks Topic: The Future of Automated Program Learning Wed Nov 8, 2006 @ 7 PM - Speakers: Sibley Verbeck, Jonah Gold, Chris Carella and Becky Carella from the Electric Sheep Company Topic: Metaverse Roadmap - Electric Sheep Company's role in envisioning and executing the 3D web |
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