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Dan Farber is vice-president of editorial at CNET Networks and editor in chief of ZDNet. Dan has more than 20 years of experience as an editor and journalist covering technology. He joined ZDNet in 1996, and led the development of ZDNet's worldwide network of more than 70 technology-focused...- more about Dan Farber »
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- Singularity Summit 2007: Computers--they kill me
- It's day two at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. Today's topics include the risks of artificial general intelligence AGI and what preparations are necessary to stack the odds in favor of humans. Our extensive day one coverage from myself and guest poster...
- Tags: Google Inc., Mr., Computer, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- Singularity Summit 2007: How to be a Singular boy scout
- It's day two at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. Today's topics include the risks of artificial general intelligence AGI and what preparations are necessary to stack the odds in favor of humans. Our extensive day one coverage from myself and guest poster...
- Tags: Robot, Chris Matyszczyk, Thiel, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- Singularity Summit 2007: Memories
- Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...
- Tags: Memory, Humanity, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Singularity Summit 2007: The view from never, never land
- Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...
- Tags: Mr., Church, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Singularity Summit 2007: Open source Singularity
- "If the singularity is in fact near, the fundamental tools of information, collaboration and access will be our best hope for making it happen in a way that spreads its benefits and minimizes its dangers -- in short, making it happen in a way that lets us be good ancestors.,"...
- Tags: Software, Scenario, Open Source, System, Benefit, Google Earth, Technology, Tool, Democracy, Singularity Summit 2007, AR World, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Singularity Summit 2007: On the machinations of the beautiful mind
- Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...
- Tags: Machine, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Singularity Summit 2007: How the artificial intelligensia thinks ahead
- Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...
- Tags: Face, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Singularity Summit 2007: A change is gonna come
- Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...
- Tags: Robot, Poland, Banker, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Singularity Summit 2007: The Pell iCan brief
- Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...
- Tags: Brain, Robot, Mr., Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Singularity Summit 2007: Dancing with Dr. Doom
- Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...
- Tags: Air Traffic Control, Computer, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Singularity Summit 2007: iPod of the future
- Rodney Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT and CTO of iRobot. From 1997 - 2003 and from 2003 - 2007, respectively, he was Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He knows a lot about robots, AI...
- Tags: Professor, Apple iPod, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Rodney Brooks, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Steve Omohundro: Building self-aware AI systems
- Steve Omohundro is president of Self-Aware Systems, which has a goal of developing an AI systems that understand their own behavior and work to improve themselves. He will be speaking at the Singularity Summit 2007 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on September 8-9. ...
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Steve Omohundro, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Coming up: Office 2.0, Singularity, Dreamforce, TechCrunch 40, Demo
- This week we get back into the tech conference season after the August hiatus, starting with the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco on Thursday and Friday. I will be moderating a panel on enterprise collaboration, which includes Scott Dietzen, president and CTO, Zimbra; Etay Gafni, director of the Technology...
- Tags: TechCrunch, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Agenda, Conference, Office 2.0, Director, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Singularity: Technology, spirituality and the close box
- Ray Kurzweil responded to various critiques and questions, and stuck to his PowerPoint slides of datapoints that convey his Singularity theory. He emphasized that because of the accelerating pace of change, technology will be able to solve all problems, from the practical problems of climate change and energy efficiency to...
- Tags: Kurzweil, Singularity
- Blog posts 2006-05-13
- The great Singularity debate
- Saturday morning at the Singularity Summit at Stanford University. All 12 panelists for the day are seated in order of their scheduled presentations, with an audience of at least a thousand seated in the Memorial Auditorium on campus. Very orderly and probably not very comfortable for the panelists who don't...
- Tags: Kurzweil, Singularity
- Blog posts 2006-05-13
- Microsoft researchers outline a 'dependable' OS
- Microsoft Research recently published a paper that outlines an operating system that is built from the ground up to be dependable--more reliable, secure and capable. The operating system, called Singularity, focuses on advances in programming languages and tools to replace the current complex, less than reliable architectures and operating systems...
- Tags: Singularity
- Blog posts 2005-11-03
Additional Resources
- Hyperic CloudStatus adds Google App Engine monitoring
- There are many factors that could be seen as impediments to the adoption of "cloud computing" architectures. One of them is the assumption by some suppliers that organizations are going to leap with both feet into running important applications offsite somewhere in the cloud. These folks haven't learned from what...
- Tags: Google Inc., Performance, Monitoring, CloudStatus, Hyperic Inc., Google App Engine, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- News to know: Apple sued; IDF; Adobe hijack; Microsoft-Novell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch? Techmeme IDF wrap: Christopher Dawson: New touch screen Classmates unveiled today...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Novell Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Business Structures, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Sun release claims Sun Ray shipments nearly double
- Sun just issued a press release claiming that its shipments of Sun Ray "thin client" systems nearly doubled. The most exciting part of the announcement was that the document was sent not as a text message, not as an HTML formatted document, but as a Sun Staroffice document. I'm sure...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Sun Ray Unit Shipment, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- News to know: IDF; Windows 7 wishes; IE 8; Salesforce.com
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers Ed Bott: My Windows 7 wish list ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Jason O'Grady, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Intel Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
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