At the Singularity Summit in NYC

I am in NYC for the Singularity Summit, which starts tomorrow morning. This will be the first Summit I have attended; there are some interesting talks on. Here is the program for tomorrow:

9:00 am
Introduction
Michael Vassar, Singularity Institute

9:05 am
Shaping the Intelligence Explosion
Anna Salamon, Singularity Institute

9:35 am
Technical Roadmap for Whole Brain Emulation
Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute

10:00 am
The time is now: As a species and as individuals we need whole brain emulation
Randal Koene, Fatronik-Tecnalia Foundation

10:25 am
Technological Convergence Leading to Artificial General Intelligence
Itamar Arel, University of Tennessee

11:10 am
Pathways to Beneficial Artificial General Intelligence: Virtual Pets, Robot Children, Artificial Bioscientists, and Beyond
Ben Goertzel, Novamente

11:35 am
Neural Substrates of Consciousness and the 'Conscious Pilot' Model
Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona

11:55 am
Quantum Computing: What It Is, What It Is Not, What We Have Yet to Learn
Michael Nielsen

12:35 am
DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life
Ned Seeman, New York University

1:00 pm
Lunch

2:20 pm
Compression Progress: The Algorithmic Principle Behind Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Humor
Juergen Schmidhuber, IDSIA

3:00 pm
Conversation on the Singularity
Stephen Wolfram and Gregory Benford

3:30 pm
Simulation and the Singularity
David Chalmers, Australian National University

4:15 pm
Choice Machines, Causality, and Cooperation
Gary Drescher

4:45 pm
Coffee break

5:05 pm
Synthetic Neurobiology: Optically Engineering the Brain to Augment Its Function
Ed Boyden, MIT Media Lab

5:30 pm
Foundations of Intelligent Agents
Marcus Hutter, Australian National University

5:55 pm
Cognitive Ability: Past and Future Enhancements and Implications
William Dickens, Northeastern University

6:30 pm
The Ubiquity and Predictability of the Exponential Growth of Information Technology
Ray Kurzweil, Kurzweil Technologies

I hope to write summaries of these talks tomorrow, assuming some kind person lends me a laptop...