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DEAN KAMEN - FIRST® LEGO® League Announces Biomedical Engineering Theme for 2010 Robotics Season

xprize — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:12:42 +0000

FIRST : ® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen : to inspire young people’s interest and participation in science and technology, and The LEGO Group today revealed the FIRST ® LEGO ® League : (FLL) 2010 season Challenge: “Body Forward ™ .”

RICHARD GARRIOTT - Austin American Statesman - At home with Richard Garriott, the talk is all about space

xprize — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:27:04 +0000

One year ago, Richard Garriott was in Russia, having just returned from a trip to the International Space Station that fulfilled the ambition of a lifetime. These days, Garriott identifies himself as a "private astronaut" as well as a game developer, the pursuit that made him famous and wealthy.

SERGEY BRIN - New York Times - Billionaire Aids Charity That Aided Him

xprize — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:23:54 +0000

Thirty years ago today, Sergey Brin, a 6-year-old Soviet boy facing an uncertain future, arrived in the United States with the help of the society. Now Mr. Brin, the billionaire co-founder of Google, is giving $1 million to the society, widely known as HIAS, which helped his family escape anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union and establish itself here.

SERGEY BRIN and LARRY PAGE - Fortune - 40 under 40

xprize — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:22:45 +0000

Yes, they're still under 40 -- and worth some $14 billion each. But this year has brought fresh challenges for the Mountain View monolith: antitrust investigations, growing concern over privacy and copyright issues, and a decline in ad revenue that led it to lay off hundreds of Googlers and thousands of contract workers.

RAY KURZWEIL - Forbes.com - The Transhumanists Arrive

xprize — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:04:32 +0000

Technology futurists love to talk about the Singularity as the point in time when technology progresses so rapidly that machine intelligence melds with and surpasses human intelligence. In early October, more than 800 technology- and future-focused attendees gathered at the historic 92nd Street YMCA in New York City for the fourth annual Singularity Summit. For $498 (the cost of a weekend ticket) the audience wrapped its mental arms around presentations by well-known tech soothsayers, including author and programmer Ray Kurzweil; Steve Wolfram, the founder of the novel search engine Alpha; Aubrey de Grey, an expert on anti-aging science; Australian philosopher David Chalmers, who advised the Matrix film series; and Pay-Pal co-founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who has donated more than $100,000 to the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI), the organization putting on the event.

ELON MUSK - Toronto Star - Tesla CEO following in Henry Ford's tracks

xprize — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:01:54 +0000

Tesla Motors Inc. will take a serious look at Ontario when it comes time to mass-manufacture a sub-$30,000 (U.S.) version of its all-electric car, chief executive Elon Musk told the Star in an exclusive interview.

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON - The Guardian - The queen of the digital water cooler

xprize — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:53:22 +0000

A s far back as she can remember, Arianna Huffington says, she has liked to "bring people together". Round the table in her mother's one-room apartment in Athens, on hikes around her home in LA, at the ritziest election parties in Washington. When she was a student at Cambridge, she was fined for having surplus men in her room after hours. "They fined me a shilling per man." They were talking about politics.

SERGEY BRIN - New York Times - Op-Ed Contributor - A Library to Last Forever

xprize — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:02:41 +0000

“THE fundamental reasons why the electric car has not attained the popularity it deserves are (1) The failure of the manufacturers to properly educate the general public regarding the wonderful utility of the electric; (2) The failure of [power companies] to make it easy to own and operate the electric by an adequate distribution of charging and boosting stations. The early electrics of limited speed, range and utility produced popular impressions which still exist.”

DEAN KAMEN - BusinessWeek - Dean Kamen Reinvents Coke's Soda Fountain

xprize — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:10:53 +0000

On Sept. 29, Dean Kamen—the maverick inventor behind the Segway and the first wearable insulin pump for diabetics, and the multimillionaire founder of DEKA Research & Development—stood before a small audience at the AMC Parkway Pointe theater in Atlanta to speak publicly for the first time about a recent collaboration. And it was a surprising one: The man known for developing life-saving medical devices had teamed up with Coca-Cola (KO) on the beverage giant's much-touted, next-generation soda fountain: the Freestyle.

SERGEY BRIN - Washington Post - A Conversation with Sergey Brin

xprize — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:08:43 +0000

Sergey Brin is holding an audience this morning with a roomful of journalists in New York City. Below are my live notes.

ELON MUSK - Time - Electric-Car Makers Tesla and Fisker: The U.S. Bets Big

xprize — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:05:46 +0000

Don't think the billions in government subsidies for automobiles are all flowing to Detroit. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is ready to loan nearly $1 billion to Tesla Motors and Fisker Automotive, two fledgling automakers with deep roots in Silicon Valley and Southern California.

WILL WRIGHT - Los Angeles Times - Will Wright, creator of The Sims, talks toys

xprize — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:43:23 +0000

Will Wright is still messing around. The 49-year-old creator of The Sims, Sim City and Spore quit Electronic Arts in April, but he continues to "build things that people would want to play with."

RAY KURZWEIL - Computerworld - Nanotech could make humans immortal by 2040, futurist says

xprize — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:23:14 +0000

In 30 or 40 years, we'll have microscopic machines traveling through our bodies, repairing damaged cells and organs, effectively wiping out diseases. The nanotechnology will also be used to back up our memories and personalities. In an interview with Computerworld, author and futurist Ray Kurzweil said that anyone alive come 2040 or 2050 could be close to immortal. The quickening advance of nanotechnology means that the human condition will shift into more of a collaboration of man and machine, as nanobots flow through human blood streams and eventually even replace biological blood, he added.

RAY KURZWEIL - ABC News - Will computers soon think for us?

xprize — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:43:19 +0000

Will computers soon think like us? Will computers soon think for us? Share The social networking site made more money than expected in the last quarter.My hunch is that the latter will arrive long before the former.

J. CRAIG VENTER - Examiner - J. Craig Venter, Ph.D. to Receive National Medal of Science From President Obama

xprize — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:41:32 +0000

ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., founder, president and chairman of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), has been named a recipient of this year's National Medal of Science. Dr. Venter will be awarded the Medal from President Obama on October 7 at a White House ceremony.