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The Singularity Summit 2010 is almost here! The full schedule has been posted on the website. Here it is:

Day 1: The Future of Human Evolution

8:00 AM - 9:00 Registration starts. Breakfast served outside the hotel by Boudin
9:00 - 9:05 Sean McCabe: Introduction
9:05 - 9:40 Michael Vassar: The Darwinian Method
9:45 - 10:25 Gregory Stock: Evolution of Post-Human Intelligence
10:25 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Ray Kurzweil: The Mind and How to Build One
12:05PM - 12:40 Ben Goertzel: AI Against Aging
12:40 - 2:10 Lunch: Served by Boudin Outside the Hotel
2:10 - 2:45 Steven Mann: Extending Ourselves with Technology
2:50 - 3:20 Mandayam Srinivasan: Replacing Our Bodies
3:25 - 4:10 Brian Litt: The Past, Present and Future of Brain Machine Interface
4:15 - 4:45 Demis Hassabis: Machine Learning is Rapidly Discovering How the Brain Works
4:50 - 5:15 Coffee Break
5:20 - 5:45 Terry Sejnowski: Reverse-Engineering Brains is Within Reach
5:50 - 6:15 Dennis Bray: What Cells Can Do That Robots Can’t
6:15 - 7:00 Sejnowski/Bray Debate: Will We Soon Realistically Emulate Biological Systems?
7:00 PM Closing

Day 2: Why and How We Should Solve the World’s Problems

9:00AM - 9:35 Eliezer Yudkowsky: Simplified Humanism and Positive Futurism
9:40 - 10:15 Ramez Naam: The Digital Biome
10:15 - 10:40 Coffee & Bagels served by Boudin (see directions and map)
10:40 - 11:10 Lance Becker: Modifying the Boundary Between Life and Death
11:15 - 11:45 Ellen Heber-Katz: The MRL Mouse - How It Regenerates and How We Might Do the Same
11:50 - 12:35 Anita Goel: Rapid Diagnostics and Sensing with Nanofluidics
12:35PM - 2:00 Lunch Served by Boudin outside the hotel (see the map)
2:00 - 2:35 Shane Legg: Universal Measures of Intelligence
2:40 - 3:15 John Tooby: General Intelligence and Narrowly Intelligent Modules
3:20 - 4:00 Tooby, Goertzel, Yudkowsky & Legg panel: “Narrow and General Intelligence”
4:00 - 4:25 Break
4:25 - 4:55 David Hanson: Emotionally Intelligent Machines
5:00 - 5:30 Joseph Tsien: Deciphering Memory Code in the Brain
5:35 - 6:10 Irene Pepperberg: Nonhuman Intelligence: Where We Are and Where We’re Headed
6:15 - 7:00PM James Randi: Is There Such Thing as Scientific Consensus?