Future technologies under one roof.

With the "Singularity University" in California to Internet gurus and space the biggest problems of mankind approach, supported by NASA and Google. The first 30 students to work from June to plans for a future in which machines surpass humanity.

 

The Silicon Valley currently knows grief and worry, but in the nineties, it was the place for the very hot ideas - and it should now be back. NASA (National Space Agency of the U.S.) and the Internet service provider Google in California contributed to a new university to start. It aims to provide a learning environment with top students and top professors - a unique university, the Singularity University.

Screenshot: Singularity-founder Peter Diamandis

Start, the new super-university in June, her boss is the pioneer of artificial intelligence and future researcher Raymond Kurzweil, 61 Teaching and research content at the Singularity University: genetics, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence, all under one roof so future technologies, where the salvation of humankind from disease and all other hardships believed.

This roof is first the Ames Research Center of NASA in Mountain View, California and in the neighborhood called the Googleplex headquarters of the Internet company Google in Silicon Valley, the Valley of the inventor.

Learning for the next stage of civilization

The college initially started with 30 students. Scholarships will help you, the $ 25,000 tuition fees for their only nine week-long graduate study berappen. In the coming year will be 120 students in the new campus inhabit, reported the online service, "Tech Crunch".

UNI-CHEF RAY KURZWEIL

Raymond Kurzweil, 61, is an entrepreneur and inventor and Others the first written language reader for the blind, the first text-speech synthesizer and the first CCD flatbed scanner. He has received the National Medal of Technology, is dreaming of himself improving machinery and wrote about in "The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology."

Two other programs provide a kind of Summer School for Topentscheider and scientists. Nanoscientists to be a geneticist, medical robotics experts to meet - and develop entirely new approaches to hunger and climate change in the years to come. Thus it describes Peter Diamandis, vice chancellor of the new university, the inventor of the X-Prize competition for the first private space flight and Co another private university: The International Space University in Strasbourg has been in existence since 1987 and is
Master's degree in space studies and from management.

In a press release of the Lifeboat Foundation, the University of the future chief Kurzweil belongs, says the involvement of NASA and Google proves that the theories of Raymond Kurzweil in the center of scientific discourse had arrived. Kurzweil predicts that before 2050, artificial intelligence surpass the human race and then a new era anbricht civilization. This development calls Kurzweil "technical singularity" - hence the name of the university.