The Singularity Institute Blog

There only a week to register for our conference before the price goes up again — right now it is $485. Students get $100 off. For every non-student you refer who signs up, you get an additional $100 off, with no limit. How do referrals work? Get your friend to sign up, then email me, and I’ll send you a special discount code. There are also major discounts on hotel reservations, if you hurry — Hyatt rooms are available for the special rate of $139 — much less than the usual $199.

Why is the Singularity Summit important? I wrote up some longer thoughts on that at my personal blog, but the basic answer is that the Singularity Summit is truly a uniquely valuable conference — there isn’t anything else like it for science, technology, and futurism thinkers. Few conferences have top scientific experts from so many varying fields: Artificial Intelligence, robotics, computational neuroscience, brain-computer interfaces, nanobiotechnology, augmented reality, regenerative medicine, and a lot more. If you attend, you will find that this is the most intellectually stimulating conference you’ve attended all year, and with some of the best networking in one of the hottest innovation zones on the planet.

This year’s Singularity Summit will be held on August 14-15 at the San Francisco Hyatt Regency. Speakers include:

Ray Kurzweil, inventor, futurist, author of The Singularity is Near
James Randi, renowned skeptic and debunker, founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation
Dr. Anita Goel, a leader in the field of bionanotechnology, Founder & CEO, Nanobiosym, Inc.
Dr. Irene Pepperberg, leading investigator of animal intelligence, trainer of the African Grey Parrot “Alex”
Prof. Alan Snyder, Director, Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney, researcher in brain-computer interfaces
Prof. Steven Mann, augmented reality pioneer, professor at University of Toronto, “world’s first cyborg”
Dr. Gregory Stock, bioethicist and biotech entrepreneur, author of Engineering Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future
Dr. Ellen Haber-Katz, a professor at the Wistar Institute who studies rapid-regenerating mice
Joe Z. Tsien, scholar at the Medical College of Georgia, who created a strain of “Doogie Mouse” with twice the memory of average mice
Eliezer Yudkowsky, research fellow with the Singularity Institute
Michael Vassar, president of the Singularity Institute
David Hanson, CEO of Hanson Robotics, creator of the world’s most realistic humanoid robots
Demis Hassabis, research fellow at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at the University of London

…and many others. We hope to see you in San Francisco on August 14th!