Most anticipated sessions

I'd especially like to meet these guys and see them talk:

http://www.singularitysummit.com/bios/kurzweil
http://www.singularitysummit.com/bios/marcus
http://www.singularitysummit.com/bios/boyden
http://www.singularitysummit.com/bios/templeton
http://www.singularitysummit.com/bios/nielsen (Oct 4)
http://www.singularitysummit.com/bios/wolf
http://www.singularitysummit.com/bios/dickens
http://www.singularitysummit.com/bios/seeman
http://www.singularitysummit.com/bios/grey
http://www.singularitysummit.com/bios/sandberg

Video of Intel guy who talks about programmable matter

Video of Justin Rattner's keynote speech from last year's Summit:
http://www.viddler.com/explore/memvids/videos/12/

Note: Moore's Law, popularized by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, is the notion that the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years.

Conference sessions

I plan to attend as many as possible

Saturday

9:00 am Introduction
Michael Vassar, Singularity Institute

9:05 am Shaping the Intelligence Explosion (building the AI that will build the AI)
Anna Salamon, Singularity Institute

9:35 am Technical Roadmap for Whole Brain Emulation
Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute

10:00 am The time is now: As a species and as individuals we need whole brain emulation
Randal Koene, Fatronik-Tecnalia Foundation (former Prof. at the Center for Memory and Brain of Boston University,
and co-founder/owner of the Neural Engineering Corporation of
Massachusetts.)

10:25 am Technological Convergence Leading to Artificial General Intelligence
Itamar Arel, University of Tennessee

11:10 am Pathways to Beneficial Artificial General Intelligence: Virtual Pets, Robot Children, Artificial Bioscientists, and Beyond
Ben Goertzel, Novamente

11:35 am Neural Substrates of Consciousness and the 'Conscious Pilot' Model (gamma synchrony)
Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona

11:55 am Quantum Computing: What It Is, What It Is Not, What We Have Yet to Learn
Michael Nielsen

12:35 pm DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life (structural DNA nanotechnology)
Ned Seeman, New York University

1:00 pmLunch2:20 pm Compression Progress: The Algorithmic Principle Behind Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Humor
Juergen Schmidhuber, IDSIA


3:00 pm Conversation on the Singularity
Stephen Wolfram and Gregory Benford


3:30 pm Choice Machines, Causality, and Cooperation
Gary Drescher

4:00 pm Simulation and the Singularity
David Chalmers, Australian National University

5:05 pm Synthetic Neurobiology: Optically Engineering the Brain to Augment Its Function
Ed Boyden, MIT Media Lab

5:30 pm Foundations of Intelligent Agents
Marcus Hutter, Australian National University

5:55 pm Cognitive Ability: Past and Future Enhancements and Implications
William Dickens, Northeastern University

6:30 pm The Ubiquity and Predictability of the Exponential Growth of Information Technology
Ray Kurzweil, Kurzweil Technologies


Sunday


8:00 am More than Moore: Comparing Forecasts of Technological Progress
Bela Nagy, Santa Fe Institute

8:20 am The "Petaflop Macroscope"
Gary Wolf, Wired Magazine

8:40 am Collaborative Networks In Scientific Discovery
Michael Nielsen

9:00 am How Does Society Identify Experts and When Does It Work?
Robin Hanson, George Mason University

9:20 am Future of Scientific Method Panel: Gary Wolf, Michael Nielsen, Robin Hanson. Moderator: James Jorasch

10:15 am Artificial Biological Selection for Longevity
Gregory Benford, University of California- Irvine

10:40 am Critics of the Singularity
Ray Kurzweil, Kurzweil Technologies

11:10 am The Finger of AI: Automated Electrical Vehicles and Oil Independence
Brad Templeton, Electronic Frontier Foundation

1:15 pm The Fallibility and Improvability of the Human Mind
Gary Marcus, New York University

1:40 pm Macroeconomics and Singularity
Peter Thiel, Clarium Capital Management

2:20 pm Venture Capitalist Panel: Peter Thiel, David Rose, Mark Gorenberg. Moderator: Robert Pisani

3:15 pm The Singularity and the Methuselarity: Similarities and Differences
Aubrey De Grey, SENS Foundation

3:40 pm Cognitive Biases and Giant Risks
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Singularity Institute

4:10 pm Discussion: Eliezer Yudkowsky, Aubrey De Grey, Peter Thiel Moderator TBA

4:40 pm How much it matters to know what matters (safety & ethics of AI)
Anna Salamon, Singularity Institute

5:00 pm Summit ends

Wow, a real blog

Never had one of these before.  (But I was on usenet before you were).  Created this blog to post entries about the Singularity Summit conference I'm attending this weekend in NYC.