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Company » Updates 03-2009 Novamente sponsors AGI-09, the 2nd Conference on Artificial General Intelligence in Washington, DC, with Ben Goertzel as Chair and Jürgen Schmidhuber as Keynote. 10-2008 Novamente CEO, Ben Goertzel joins Justin Rattner (Intel), Peter Diamandis (XPrize), Ray Kurzweil (Kurzweil Tech) and other speakers for the 2008 Singulairty Summit in San Jose CA. 09-2008 Powered by Novamente's artificial intelligence technology to analyze news-influenced "sentiment" expressed toward stocks, StockMood.com wins the Thomson Reuters Award at TechCrunch50. 08-2008 With financial support from the Singularity Institute and Google, Novamente contributes code and manpower toward OpenCog, an open source project to accelerate progress toward safe, beneficial artificial general intelligence. 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. |
