Singularity University (SU) is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies in order to address humanity’s grand challenges. With the support of a broad range of leaders in academia, business and government, SU hopes to stimulate groundbreaking, disruptive thinking and solutions aimed at solving some of the planet’s most pressing challenges. SU is based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley.
However, Singularity University is no run-of-the-mill academic institution, and its students are not the usual breed of dreamers with good intentions. Founded by leading futurist and "The Singularity is Near" author Ray Kurzweil, X Prize chairman and CEO Peter Diamandis, and former Yahoo Brickhouse head Salim Ismail, the nine-week course examines exponentially growing technologies like biotechnology and bioinformatics, nanotechnology, AI, robotics, and cognitive computing as well as future studies and forecasting, and finance and entrepreneurship.
What's more? The chosen lucky students will have access to superstar teachers like George Smoot, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics; Dan Kammen, co-director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment and a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change team that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore; Vint Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist; and Stephanie Langhoff, NASA Ames' chief scientist. And speakers include PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Ethernet co-inventor Bob Metcalfe.
With the supports of Google, NASA, X-Prize, Zero Gravity Corp. and all the unusual ingenious lecturers, Singularity University is truly an astounding one of its kind to cultivate big brains and leaders to prepare humanity for the next stage of evolution. In the era of information explosions and uncertainties like this, we ought to prepare and enhance ourselves, physically and mentally, in order to keep up with the pace of the information and technological exponential growth for the future is not very far away from us and get ready for the radical change. The Singularity is near!
For those who are interested and can just dream of entering this prestigious university, you need not to worry about that, because they will post their lectures and study materials online for free like TED.com in the not too distant future. Thus, everyone will have the equal opportunity to learn from the top scholars. Embrace the future.
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