Tan Le

Written on May 4, 2011 at 10:46 pm, by Carlos

Tan Le

USA,Technology Entrepreneur, Former Young Australian of the Year

Deep Conversation:
‘Super-connected world – marvel or myth?’ (November 16, 6.30 – 9.00pm)
Presentation:
‘The Future is Closer than You Think: A Headset that Reads Your Brainwaves’ (November 18, 1.30pm)

Tan Le is a technology entrepreneur. Tan is Founder and CEO of Emotiv Lifesciences, a bioinformatics company focused on identifying biomarkers in the brain for mental and other neurological conditions using electroencephalography (EEG). She is a technology entrepreneur, business executive and sought-after speaker.

Tan was named Young Australian of the Year in 1998 and was voted one of Australia’s 30 Most Successful Women Under 30 in that same year. Tan has been widely featured as a technology entrepreneur and named Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology (2010) and Forbes’ Names You Need to Know (2011). Tan has been honored by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader since 2009.

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Professor Daniel Dennett

Written on May 3, 2011 at 6:19 pm, by Carlos

Professor Daniel Dennett

USA, World leading philosopher and cognitive scientist

Deep Conversation:
‘Super-connected world – marvel or myth?’ (November 16, 6.30 – 9.00pm)
Presentation:
Prospective gains and losses from the information explosion (November 17, 9.45am)

Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (Simon & Schuster, 1995), is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He received his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard. He then went to Oxford to work with Gilbert Ryle, under whose supervision he completed the D.Phil. in philosophy in 1965. He taught at U.C. Irvine and in 1971 moved to Tufts, where he has taught ever since, aside from periods visiting at Harvard, Pittsburgh, Oxford, and the Ecole Normal Superieure in Paris.

His first book, Content and Consciousness, appeared in 1969, followed by Brainstorms (1978), Elbow Room (1984), The Intentional Stance (1987), Consciousness Explained (1991), Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (1995), and Kinds of Minds (1996). He co-edited The Mind’s I with Douglas Hofstadter in 1981. He is the author of over three hundred scholarly articles on various aspects on the mind, published in journals ranging from Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral and Brain Sciences to Poetics Today and the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. In 1998 he published Brainchildren: A Collection of Essays 1984-1996 (MIT Press and Penguin).

Freedom Evolves, was published by Penguin Books in 2003.  Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness, was published in 2005 by MIT Press. His most recent book, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon was published in 2006 by Viking Press.

He gave the John Locke Lectures at Oxford in 1983, the Gavin David Young Lectures at Adelaide, Australia, in 1985, and the Tanner Lecture at Michigan in 1986, among many others. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987.

He was the Co-founder and Co-director of the Curricular Software Studio at Tufts, and has helped to design museum exhibits on computers for the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Science in Boston, and the Computer Museum in Boston.

Daniel is also a sculptor.

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Raymond Kurzweil

Written on May 2, 2011 at 10:21 pm, by Carlos

Raymond Kurzweil

USA, World leading inventor and entrepreneur, Founder Singularity University

Session:
Deep Conversation: ‘Super-connected world – marvel or myth?’ (November 16, 6.30 – 9.00pm)
Presentation:
Exploiting the Emergent: Technology and the Future Date: (November 18, 11.00am)

Ray Kurzweil has been described as “the restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison,” and PBS included Ray as one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America,” along with other inventors of the past two centuries.

As one of the leading inventors of our time, Ray was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.

Among Ray’s many honors, he is the recipient of the $500,000 MIT-Lemelson Prize, the world’s largest for innovation. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Technology, the nation’s highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. And in 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame, established by the US Patent Office.

He has received nineteen honorary Doctorates and honors from three U.S. Presidents.

Ray has written four national best selling books. The Age of Spiritual Machines has been translated into 9 languages and was the #1 best selling book on Amazon in science. Ray’s latest book, The Singularity is Near, was a New York Times best seller, and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both science and philosophy.

See Ray featured in Time Magazine.

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