Fight Aging!

To go along with the upcoming Immortality Institute International Conference and TransVision 2010 over in Europe later this year, I should also note that the Singularity Summit 2010 will be held next month in San Francisco:

The first Singularity Summit was held at Stanford in 2006 to further understanding and discussion about the Singularity concept and the future of human technological progress. It was founded as a venue for leading thinkers to explore the subject, whether scientist, enthusiast, or skeptic. ... We invite you to join our extraordinary group of visionaries in business, science, technology, design, and the arts, as our community explores this exciting topic. Your participation offers a world of powerful ideas, a unique networking opportunity, and access to an exclusive directory of your peers.

We hope you will join us August 14-15th.

The development of Strong artificial intelligence, the neuroscience that may contribute to that goal, and its ultimate consequences form the main focus of the presentations - topics of only indirect interest to engineered longevity, I feel. Faster and more capably machines and faster and more capable minds will make advances in technology arrive more rapidly, but they aren't direct contributions to progress in longevity science. However, you'll also find Gregory Stock, who has written on the topic of radical life extension, and Ellen Heber-Katz, who has produced very interesting work on enhanced regeneration in mammals, speaking at the event. So there's a little of something for everyone.

You'll find coverage and videos from the Singularity Summits of past years at the conference website, as well as in a few posts back in the Fight Aging! archives:

• Coverage of Singularity Summit 2009
• Coverage of Singularity Summity 2006