Feb. 4, 2009
Contact: Patrick Lin
Ethics + Emerging Technologies Group
805-570-5651; palin@calpoly.edu
Cal Poly Faculty Member Named Advisor to New Singularity University
SAN LUIS OBISPO -- The Singularity University has invited Patrick Lin, technology ethicist in Cal Poly's Philosophy Department, to be one of its advisors.
Singularity University, led by acclaimed futurists Ray Kurzweil and X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis, “aims to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity's grand challenges,” according to its Web site.
Lin joins other notable advisors and faculty from leading organizations such as Google, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, UC San Diego and Carnegie Mellon.
For more information, go online to: http://singularityu.org. For more information on the Ethics + Emerging Technologies Group at Cal Poly go to: http://emergingethics.com or http://ethics.calpoly.edu.
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