Singularity Summit at Stanford May 13

Stanford is hosting an event that will feature such visionaries as Ray Kurzweil and Douglas Hofstadter speaking about the future of human intelligence--and superintelligence. Expect lots of big thinking, grandiose vision-making, mind-bending futurism, and at least one attempt to have someone appear remotely via a life-size holographic display.

The Singularity Summit at Stanford: "The Stanford University Symbolic Systems Program and the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence announced today the Singularity Summit at Stanford, a one-day event free to the public, to be held Saturday, May 13, 2006 at Stanford Memorial Auditorium, Stanford, California.

The event will bring together leading futurists and others to examine the implications of the 'Singularity' -- a hypothesized creation of superintelligence as technology accelerates over the coming decades -- to address the profound implications of this radical and controversial scenario."