Accelerating Future People Database

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listing 110 people in the database
  name  title birthdate 
Aaron Edsinger Post-Doctoral Researcher, MIT CSAIL
Alan Goldstein Fierer Chair of Molecular Cell Biology, Alfred University
Anders Sandberg James Martin research fellow, Future of Humanities Institute, Oxford
Anne Corwin Author, Existence is Wonderful
Ari Heljakka AI Engineer, Novamente LLC
Aschwin de Wolf Consultant, Suspended Animation, Inc.
Aubrey de Grey Chief Science Officer, Methuselah Foundation
Barney Pell Founder, Powerset
Ben Goertzel CEO, Novamente & Director of Research, SIAI
Ben Hyink Recipient, JBS Haldane Award
Brad Templeton Chairman of the Board, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Brian Wang Advisor, CRN & Lifeboat Foundation
Brian Wowk Senior Scientist, 21st Century Medicine
Bruce Klein President, Novamente & Director of Outreach, SIAI
Chana de Wolf Research Associate, Alcor
Chris Heward President, Kronos Science Laboratory
Chris Phoenix Co-Founder, Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
Christine Peterson Co-Founder, Foresight Nanotech Institute
Cory Doctorow Co-editor, Boing Boing
Craig Mello Professor, University of Massachusetts
Craig Venter Founder and President, J. Craig Venter Institute
Cynthia Breazeal Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
Damien Broderick Author, The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed By Rapidly Advancing Technologies
David Brin Author, The Transparent Society 05 Oct 1950
David Friedman Professor, Santa Clara University 02 Feb 1945
David Gobel Methuselah Foundation, Chief Executive Officer
David Hart Director of Open Source Projects, SIAI
David Pearce Co-Founder, World Transhumanist Association
Ed Regis Author, Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition
Eliezer Yudkowsky Co-Founder and Research Fellow, SIAI 11 Sep 1979
George Dvorsky Producer, Sentient Developments
Gordon Moore Founder, Intel 1929
Gregory Fahy Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, 21st Century Medicine
Gregory Stock CEO, Signum Biosciences
Hans Moravec Chief Scientist, Seegrid Corporation 30 Nov 1948
Helen Greiner Co-Founder, iRobot Corporation
Hugo de Garis Professor, Wuhan University
J Storrs Hall Author, Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine
Jamais Cascio Co-Founder, WorldChanging
James Clement Executive Direcor, World Transhumanist Association
James Hughes Executive Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
James Van Ehr Founder, Zyvex Corporation
Jennifer Chapman Chief Administrative Officer, Alcor
Jerome C Glenn Director, The Millenium Project
Jerry Leaf President, Cryovita, Inc.
John Smart Founder & President, Acceleration Studies Foundation
Jonas Lamis Executive Director, SciVestor Corporation
Jonathan Connell Staff Member, T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM
Joscha Bach Author, Principles of Synthetic Intelligence
Jose Cordeiro Co-Founder, Venezuelan Transhumanist Association 1962
Jurgen Schmidhuber Professor of Cognitive Robotics and Computer Science, TU Munich 1963
K Eric Drexler Chief Technical Advisor, Nanorex
Keith Henson Founder, L5 Society 1942
Kevin Kelly Senior Maverick, Wired Magazine
Marcus Hutter Associate Professor, Australian National University
Mark Finnern Founder and Host, Bay Area Future Salon
Mark Walker Research Associate, Trinity College, University of Toronto
Martin Rees Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, University of Cambridge
Martine Rothblatt Chairman & CEO, United Therapeutics Corp.
Marvin Minsky Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
Matt Bamberger Founder, Intelligent Artifice
Matt Francis Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Max More Chairman, Extropy Institute
Melanie Swan Principal, MS Futures Group
Michael Anissimov Fundraising Director North America, Lifeboat Foundation
Michael Vassar Advisor, Lifeboat Foundation
Michael West CEO of BioTime, Inc.
Mike LaTorra Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Mike Treder Executive Director, Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
Miron Cuperman CEO, FillZ
Monica Anderson Founder, Syntience Inc.
Natasha Vita More President, Extropy Institute
Neil Jacobstein Chairman and CEO, Teknowledge
Nick Bostrom Professor, Oxford Future of Humanity Institute 1973
Paul Saffo Professor, Stanford University
Pearl Chin President, Foresight Nanotech Institute
Pei Wang Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Science, Temple University
Pete Estep Founder and Chairman, InnerSpace Foundation
Peter Cheeseman Advisor, Singularity Institute
Peter Diamandis Chairman & Founder, X Prize Foundation
Peter Norvig Director of Research, Google
Peter Thiel Founder, Clarium Capital
Peter Voss Founder and CEO, Adaptive Artificial Intelligence Inc.
Phil Bowermaster Writer, The Speculist
Philip Rosedale Founder and CEO, Linden Lab
Philippe Van Nedervelde International Spokesperson, Lifeboat Foundation
Ralph Merkle Director, Alcor Foundation
Ramez Naam Author, More Than Human
Ray Kurzweil Chairman and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
Robert Ettinger Author, The Prospect of Immortality 04 Dec 1914
Robert Freitas Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
Robin Hanson Assistant Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Rodney Brooks Chief Technical Officer, iRobot Corp
Ronald Arkin Regents' Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
Ronald Bailey Science Correspondent, Reason Magazine
Rudi Hoffman CEO, Hoffman Planning
Sam Adams Distinguished Engineer, IBM Research Division
Sebastian Thrun Director, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Sonia Arrison Director of Technology Studies, Pacific Research Institute
Stan Franklin Interdisciplinary Research Professor, University of Memphis
Stephen Omohundro Founder and President, Self-Aware Systems
Stephen Van Sickle Executive Direcor, Alcor
Steve Jurvetson Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Susan Fonseca Klein Chief Administrative Officer, Singularity Institute
Tanya Jones Chief Operating Officer, Alcor
Tihamer Toth Fejel Senior Research Engineer, General Dynamics
Tyler Emerson Executive Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Vernor Vinge Author, The Coming Technological Singularity
Waleed Abdulla Founder, Zooov
Wendell Wallach Lecturer, Yale's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics