Peter's Laws

Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, is considered a key figure in the development of the personal spaceflight industry, having created many space-related businesses or organizations. He is the Founder and Chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation, an educational non-profit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. Diamandis is also the CEO and co-founder of Zero Gravity Corporation, which offers parabolic weightless flights to the general public. He is also the co-Founder and a Director of Space Adventures, Ltd, the company that has flown eight private citizens on Soyuz to the International Space Station. Co-founded and is chairman of the Singularity University.

Watson - The Next Grand Challenge (IBM)

Using advanced computing and emerging technology, IBM is building a natural language processing computer code-named Watson to compete in the game show Jeopardy.

1) What is Watson?


2) How Watson works?

23andMe

23andMe is a privately held personal genomics and biotechnology company based in Mountain View, California. that claims to be developing new methods and technologies that will enable consumers to understand their own genetic information. The company is named for the 23 pairs of chromosomes in a normal human cell.

The 23andMe website is currently split into four categories: Health and Traits, Ancestry, Sharing and Community, and Research. They currently test or are researching over 100 diseases, conditions, and traits.

What is the Ushahidi Platform?

More information: http://www.ushahidi.com/

A summer at Singularity University (By Matt Kern)

Singularity University is an academic institution in Silicon Valley whose stated aim is to "assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges."

Preparing humanity for accelerating technological cheange.

How would we improve the lives of a billion people?

Living with Robots

Whats behind our collective obsession with robots? Join us as we ponder life with robots alongside science-fiction screenwriters, professors, philosophers, engineers and other thinkers. By Honda.

My Robot is better than your Robot

The animation "Le café" (The coffee)

CSAIL's Bakebot!

Why Knot? Seth Goldstein's tie-tying robot

We All Use Math Every Day

• To forecast weather
• To handle money
• We also use math to analyze crime
• To reveal patterns
• To predict behavior...

What else can we do?...

By Texas Instruments