Singularity University will launch this summer. An interdisciplinary institution, it 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.
Based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley, SU organizers hope to stimulate groundbreaking, disruptive thinking and solutions through bio, nano, info, AI, and other advancing technologies. Noted faculty work through programs that focus on graduate study and executive advancement.
Programs include:
1. Future Studies and Forecasting
2. Networks and Computing Systems
3. Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
4. Nanotechnology
5. Medicine, Neuroscience and Human Enhancement
6. AI, Robotics, and Cognitive Computing
7. Energy and Ecological Systems
8. Space and Physical Sciences
9. Policy, Law and Ethics
10. Finance and Entrepreneurship
This school advances the meaning of teacher leaders and venture educators into a new realm with a higher threshold than most people in public life discuss.
It gives the best science educators an opening for contributing massively to social advancement that few people have.
It continues a redefinition of the content of science K20 schools must offer in order to assist their students to understand and contribute to the development of advancing technologies to solve human problems.
The rest of us will watch for announcements from SU with growing anticipation and monitor the university’s blog.