Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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  Anind K. Dey, coauthor of Managing Personal Information Disclosure in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, Designer Support for Context Monitoring and Control, and SiteView: Tangibly Programming Active Environments with Predictive Visualization, joins our Information Sciences Board.

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  Rada Mihalcea, author of Using Wikipedia for Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation, and President of SIGLEX, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.

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  We now have a quote by Jeff Bezos on our Quotes page. Jeff is founder of Amazon and will soon be the richest person on the planet. (This is an important quote. Read it!)

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  The RPG Eclipse Phase includes the “Singularity Foundation” and “Lifeboat Institute” as player factions. Learn more about this game!

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  Dante S. Lauretta joins our Space Settlement Board.
   
  Dante is Principal Investigator of OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer), a NASA asteroid study and sample return mission.

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  Hanna Tuomisto, who coauthored Assessing the environmental impacts of contrasting farming systems, joins our Sustainability Board.

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  We now have quotes by Stephen Hawking on our Quotes page. Stephen was our Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award 2008 winner.

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  Our ScientificFreedomShield program strives to protect scientists from obstacles that would prevent latter day Max Plancks from completing their research.

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  The research paper Human Brain/Cloud Interface has been published by our Amara D. Angelica, Frank J. Boehm, Krishnan Chakravarthy, Robert A. Freitas Jr., Steven A. Garan, Tad Hogg, Mikhail A. Lebedev, Nuno R. B. Martins, Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld, Yuriy Svidinenko, and Melanie Swan.

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  Scott Borg, Director and Chief Economist of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a Department of Homeland Security advisory group, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.

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  Our InfoPreserver program is designed to preserve the information created by our civilization, including technology, art, and culture.
   
  This program is insurance against many of the threats we study and attempt to mitigate in other Lifeboat Foundation programs. If some threat should occur and we are not successful it preventing it, InfoPreserver may be a key to our civilization's rebound.

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  Steven J. Rose, who has discovered a method to turn light into matter, joins our Physics Board.

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  Lijie “Grace” Zhang, coauthor of The Role of Tissue Engineering in Articular Cartilage Repair and Regeneration and Carbon Nanofibers and Carbon Nanotubes in Regenerative Medicine, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

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  We would like your input on our InternetShield program. As the Internet grows in importance, an attack on it could cause physical as well as informational damage. An attack today on hospital systems or electric utilities could lead to deaths. In the future an attack could be used to alter the output that is produced by nanofactories worldwide leading to massive deaths.

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  Elaine Walker joins our Media & Arts Board and our Space Settlement Board. Watch Martians by ZIA.

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  We have launched a forum/mailing list to discuss your ideas for our programs and other suggestions for the Lifeboat Foundation. It is for Advisory Board members and Executive Class and greater members.