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Company » Updates 03-2008 Novamente is a co-sponsor and Ben Goertzel presents the opening talk - "AI and AGI: Past, Present and Future" - for The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08) at the FedEx Institute of Technology, U. of Memphis, Mar 1, 2008. 01-2008 With John McCarthy, Daniel Dennett, Noam Chomsky and others, Novamente's Ben Goertzel contributes a chapter, "Human-level Artificial General Intelligence and the Possibility of a Technological Singularity," to the Dec-2007 issue of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier Science Publishers). 11-2007 Wlodek Duch and Ben Goertzel co-organize a Special Session on Cognitive Architectures: Towards Human-Level Intelligence for WCCI-2008 in Hong Kong. 11-2007 Goertzel presents AGI Meets the Metaverse at Foresight Institute's 2007 Vision Weekend at Yahoo Headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. 10-2007 Goertzel publishes KurzweilAI article, "Virtual Worlds as the Catalyst for an AI Renaissance." 09-2007 With Google's Peter Norvig, MIT's Rodney Brooks and others, Goertzel presents [audio-mp3] at Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco. 07-2007 During Transvision 2007, Novamente's Ben Goertzel speaks on a panel w/ Marvin Minsky and Second Life’s Philip Rosedale. 06-2007 Goertzel presents at Google, "Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time". 05-2007 Novamente collaborates with Electric Sheep Company.
03-2007 Novamente shifts business focus to intelligent agents for virtual worlds. 03-2007 Novamente LLC donates 1% of its stock to the Methuselah Foundation, a non-profit promoting research to extend the healthy human lifespan. 02-2007 David Gobel, pioneer of 3-D virtual environments, joins Novamente's Advisory Board. 02-2007 Ben Goertzel presents at Uplift Academy's Good Ancestor Principle Workshop with Vernor Vinge and David Brin. 01-2007 Novamente sponsors the first AGI Conference to be hosted at the University of Memphis in 2008. 11-2006 Jeff Reed, with experience in both start-ups and established national/international businesses, joins Novamente's Advisory Board. 11-2006 Stan Franklin, W. Harry Feinstone Interdisciplinary Research Professor at the University of Memphis, joins Novamente's Advisory Board. 09-2006 Novamente sponsors third AGIRI workshop on Artificial General Intelligence in Costa Mesa, CA. 08-2006 Novamente sponsors second AGIRI workshop on Artificial General Intelligence in Palo Alto, CA. 07-2006 Ben Goertzel serves as a panelist in a discussion on A Roadmap to Human-Level Intelligence at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence in Vancouver. 06-2006 Ben Goertzel co-organizes the BioNLP workshop on biomedical natural language processing at the HTL-NAACL Computational Linguistics Conference in New York. 06-2006 Hugo de Garis, father of Evolutionary Engineering and Evolvable Hardware, joins Novamente's Advisory Board. 06-2006 Pei Wang, designer of NARS, a general-purpose intelligent system, joins Novamente's Advisory Board. 05-2006 Novamente sponsors the first AGIRI workshop on transitioning from Narrow AI to Artificial General Intelligence in North Bethesda, MD. 03-2006 Ben Goertzel and Moshe Looks present at AAAI symposium entitled, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Cognitive Science Principles Meet AI-Hard Problems. 11-2005 Ben Goertzel presents at the Immortality Institute conference in Atlanta, GA. Immortalizing Brains, Mind & Selves [VIDEO] 09-2005 Ben Goertzel presents at Accelerating Change Conference in Palo Alto, CA - An Integrative Approach to Embodied Artificial General Intelligence. 08-2004 Ben Goertzel and Moshe Looks present at the AAAI Symposium on Achieving Human-Level Intelligence through Integrated Systems and Research. |
