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BIL Conference Was an Excellent Adventure

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Doug Messier
on March 6, 2013, at 7:03 pm
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Pacific sunset from the Santa Monica Pier. (Credit: Douglas Messier)

Pacific sunset from the Santa Monica Pier. (Credit: Douglas Messier)

By Douglas Messier
Parabolic Arc Managing Editor

I had the opportunity to escape from the Mojave last weekend to attend the BIL Conference down in Long Beach. It was a nice break. I got to see some cool talks, meet some new friends, and sit barefoot on a beach beside a vast ocean which I had all but forgotten even existed.

Not bad for two days.

I just wish I could have stayed longer. Returning to the High Desert was like traveling back in time: it felt like spring in LA, but it was still winter in the Mojave. Cold and windy.

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Film on Singularity Author Ray Kurzweil to Debut at Tribeca

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on March 11, 2009, at 10:49 am
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A new film, Transcendent Man, is about to be released on Ray Kurzweil, a leading futurist who is the author of The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. The documentary will be screened at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City in April.

Kurzweil is co-founder of the new Singularity University, which will begin operations at NASA Ames this summer. The new university is a collaboration of NASA Ames, the International Space University, and Google.

The full press release is below.

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