Post by sunnydaze on May 12, 2009 18:47:50 GMT -5
Newly appointed president is Michael Vassar. His contact information is at the bottom.
www.singinst.org/blog/2009/05/12/press-release-on-vassar-appointment/
Press Release on Vassar Appointment
May 12th, 2009 – Joshua Fox
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SIAI Media Director Michael Anissimov has issued a formal press release from the SIAI on Michael Vassar’s appointment as President.
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Artificial Intelligence Research Institute Appoints Michael Vassar President
Mr. Vassar will manage research and outreach on the promise and peril of advanced AI for the Singularity Institute, including organizing the annual Singularity Summit event. The Singularity Institute is the only non-profit focused exclusively on the potential ramifications of advanced AI.
Sunnyvale, CA (PRWEB) May 11, 2009 — The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) has appointed Michael Vassar to the position of President. Previously, he was a Founder and Chief Strategist at SirGroovy.com, an online music licensing firm, and has held positions with with Aon, the Peace Corps, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In his new role with SIAI, Mr. Vassar will build the organization’s research capabilities and oversee the annual Singularity Summit.
Mr. Vassar has been writing and speaking on topics related to the safe development of disruptive technologies for over a decade. Most recently, he co-authored a paper on the risks of advanced nanotechnology with Robert Freitas, in addition to authoring a paper on the impact of advanced nanotechnology on business. Both papers can be found at Ray Kurzweil’s website, KurzweilAI.net. Mr. Vassar holds an M.B.A. from Drexel University and a B.S. in biochemistry from Penn State.
The Singularity Institute was founded in 2000 to analyze and confront the risk from advanced artificial intelligence. To that end, SIAI has held the annual Singularity Summit since 2006, an event which has drawn attendees including Peter Norvig, Google’s Director of Search Quality, Rodney Brooks, a robotics pioneer at MIT, and Ray Kurzweil, one of the world’s foremost inventors/futurists and a Director of SIAI. The SIAI also sponsors a small group of researchers performing mathematical and theoretical basic research on analytically comprehensible and therefore in-principle safe methods for building advanced decision systems.
“Michael has been a major contributor to SIAI and the futurist community in general for many years, and I’m pleased to see him stepping into this new role,” said Ben Goertzel, SIAI Director of Research. “His diverse business and technology experience give him a practical foundation in ‘getting things done’ which should be serve him in good stead as he leads SIAI onward in accordance with its mission.”
Link to Michael Vassar’s bio:
www.singinst.org/aboutus/team/#vassar
Link to a recent interview with Michael Vassar:
tinyurl.com/c56ca8
About SIAI:
The Singularity Institute is a non-profit devoted to basic research in the analysis and design of artificial intelligence and decision systems with mathematically rigorous underlying foundations. It also sponsors events such as the annual Singularity Summit, which provides an opportunity for thought leaders to come together and discuss the complex issues surrounding the Singularity and associated technologies such as AI, robotics, and nanotechnology.
Contact:
Michael Vassar
610.213.2487
email mvassar @ singinst.org
Sunnydaze
www.singinst.org/blog/2009/05/12/press-release-on-vassar-appointment/
Press Release on Vassar Appointment
May 12th, 2009 – Joshua Fox
Save it
SIAI Media Director Michael Anissimov has issued a formal press release from the SIAI on Michael Vassar’s appointment as President.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute Appoints Michael Vassar President
Mr. Vassar will manage research and outreach on the promise and peril of advanced AI for the Singularity Institute, including organizing the annual Singularity Summit event. The Singularity Institute is the only non-profit focused exclusively on the potential ramifications of advanced AI.
Sunnyvale, CA (PRWEB) May 11, 2009 — The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) has appointed Michael Vassar to the position of President. Previously, he was a Founder and Chief Strategist at SirGroovy.com, an online music licensing firm, and has held positions with with Aon, the Peace Corps, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In his new role with SIAI, Mr. Vassar will build the organization’s research capabilities and oversee the annual Singularity Summit.
Mr. Vassar has been writing and speaking on topics related to the safe development of disruptive technologies for over a decade. Most recently, he co-authored a paper on the risks of advanced nanotechnology with Robert Freitas, in addition to authoring a paper on the impact of advanced nanotechnology on business. Both papers can be found at Ray Kurzweil’s website, KurzweilAI.net. Mr. Vassar holds an M.B.A. from Drexel University and a B.S. in biochemistry from Penn State.
The Singularity Institute was founded in 2000 to analyze and confront the risk from advanced artificial intelligence. To that end, SIAI has held the annual Singularity Summit since 2006, an event which has drawn attendees including Peter Norvig, Google’s Director of Search Quality, Rodney Brooks, a robotics pioneer at MIT, and Ray Kurzweil, one of the world’s foremost inventors/futurists and a Director of SIAI. The SIAI also sponsors a small group of researchers performing mathematical and theoretical basic research on analytically comprehensible and therefore in-principle safe methods for building advanced decision systems.
“Michael has been a major contributor to SIAI and the futurist community in general for many years, and I’m pleased to see him stepping into this new role,” said Ben Goertzel, SIAI Director of Research. “His diverse business and technology experience give him a practical foundation in ‘getting things done’ which should be serve him in good stead as he leads SIAI onward in accordance with its mission.”
Link to Michael Vassar’s bio:
www.singinst.org/aboutus/team/#vassar
Link to a recent interview with Michael Vassar:
tinyurl.com/c56ca8
About SIAI:
The Singularity Institute is a non-profit devoted to basic research in the analysis and design of artificial intelligence and decision systems with mathematically rigorous underlying foundations. It also sponsors events such as the annual Singularity Summit, which provides an opportunity for thought leaders to come together and discuss the complex issues surrounding the Singularity and associated technologies such as AI, robotics, and nanotechnology.
Contact:
Michael Vassar
610.213.2487
email mvassar @ singinst.org
Sunnydaze