NASA and Google To Back New "Singularity University"

Slatterz and Keith Kleiner were among several readers to send in word of Singularity University, announced at TED today by Ray Kurzweil. He and X Prize founder Peter Diamandis began talking about creating the school last year, after Diamandis read Kurzweil's 2005 book The Singularity is Near. NASA and Google are both supporting the project, NASA with space and Google with cash. The school aims to foster "disruptive innovation." As envisioned, Singularity U. will sponsor 3-day and 10-day courses for executives year-round, and its main offering will be a single 9-week course of study over the summer for 120 students, each of which will pay $25,000 for the privilege. Announced faculty so far includes Nobel Prize winning physicist George Smoot, NASA Ames chief scientist Stephanie Langhoff, Vint Cerf, and Will Wright, creator of the video games Spore and The Sims.

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Re:TED conference

[Anonymous Coward]

Posting as AC to preserve moderation.

Seriously? You're surprised a megacorp like google isn't passing money around?

This whole plan isn't about learning, it's about ego stroking and milking money off of idiot nerds.

Re:here we go

[spun]

Haha, thanks for that. I love to piss off idiots like you. You can't argue for shit, your tiny little mind is only capable of hatred and frothing outrage, and you're dumb enough to admit it in public. Wow.