Singularity University was created in 2009 based on best-selling author Ray Kurzweil's theory of "technological singularity" the school is at the NASA Ames base near Mountain view, california. The goal of the school is to improve the lives of a billion people.
Singularity University was created in 2009 based on best-selling author Ray Kurzweil's theory of "technological singularity" the school is at the NASA Ames base near Mountain view, california. The goal of the school is to improve the lives of a billion people.
Singularity University was created in 2009 based on best-selling author Ray Kurzweil's theory of "technological singularity" the school is at the NASA Ames base near Mountain view, california. The goal of the school is to improve the lives of a billion people.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (KGO) --There is an elite university in Silicon Valley that the best and brightest are fighting to get into. It isn't an accredited university, but many believe it will be the birthplace of future innovations.Robots that take your place at meetings? Plants that can light up a room? Leather grown in a laboratory? These are all ideas created by students at Singularity University, a school with one goal -to improve the lives of a billion people.
The school is the brain child of Google executive and best-selling author Ray Kurzweil, and X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis."We've actually created an institution we're extraordinarily proud about where a level of conversation is taking place unlike any other place in the world," said Diamandis.Kurzweil added, "When our brains evolved thousands of years ago things were linear - we didn't have technology, so people's intuition about what is possible is really governed by a linear expectation and there is a profound difference 40 steps linearly is 40, 40 steps exponentially is a trillion. " Singularity University was created in 2009 based on Kurzweil's theory of "technological singularity." He believes that emerging technologies like nanotechnology and biotechnology will massively increase human intelligence over the next two decades and fundamentally reshape the future of humanity.The school is at the NASA Ames base near Mountain View.
"Today we have about 1,300 hundred alumni in 85 countries, the best and brightest today can be found anywhere on the planet, so we actually cast a wide net," said Rob Nail, CEO and Associate founder of Singularity University.Singularity University hosts an executive training program like this one to help corporate leaders understand how quick changes in technology will impact tomorrow's businesses. It cost $12,000 a person - it always sells out.
The university uses that money to host a 10 week graduate studies program in the summer. Three-thousand people applied this year. Eighty were accepted. "That program is targeting the next generation of leaders in the world. These are post graduate students, the average age is around 31 - the range has been 18-58, so it's incredibly diverse," said Nail.Francesco Mosconi went to SU. He said, "You wake up 8, you study or take classes and activities from 9-7, and a little gap for dinner, and then you are back in activities until very, very late at night." "It really shaped the way I view the world , it really created my world view and going to class there was a multiple paradigm shift," said another Monica Ebert, another Singularity University alumni.
The students who attend the graduate program work together to form real companies. Twenty companies are currently up and running and another 10 are about to launch. East Bay native Ann Rogan also went to SU after working around the globe. She said, "you are learning first about technology that is moving, very, very fast and that's very cutting edge, and then you are learning to take that and apply it to solving health care in developing countries, or how to think about energy and environmental issues around the world, whether it is the U.S or elsewhere."The next class of Singularity University students will arrive next month. Written and Produced by Ken Miguel
Comprehension
1.What's the main goal of the Singularity University ?
2What are the technological perspectives for the future according to Kursweil ?
3.What are the features of Singularity's alumni and its executive program?
4.what kind of problems Singularity's students are trying to solve ?
Translation : H uma universidade de elite no Vale do Silcio que a melhor e mais brilhantes esto lutando para entrar. No uma universidade acreditada, mas muitos acreditam que ser o local de nascimento de innovations.Robots futuros que levam o seu lugar nas reunies? Plantas que podem iluminar uma sala? Couro cultivado em um laboratrio? Estas so todas as idias criadas por estudantes da Universidade Singularity, uma escola com um objetivo a melhorar a vida de um bilho de pessoas. A escola o crebro da Google, executivo e autor best-seller Ray Kurzweil, e X-Prize fundador Peter Diamandis. "Ns realmente criamos uma instituio que estamos extremamente orgulhosos de onde um nvel de conversao est ocorrendo ao contrrio de qualquer outro lugar no mundo ", disse Diamandis.Kurzweil acrescentou:" Quando o nosso crebro evoluiu milhares de anos atrs as coisas eram linear - ns no temos a tecnologia, ento a intuio das pessoas sobre o que possvel realmente governado por uma expectativa linear e h uma profunda diferena 40 etapas linearmente de 40, 40 passos de forma exponencial um trilho ". Singularity University foi criado em 2009 com base na teoria de Kurzweil "singularidade tecnolgica". Ele acredita que as tecnologias emergentes, como a nanotecnologia ea biotecnologia vai aumentar massivamente a inteligncia humana ao longo das prximas duas dcadas e fundamentalmente remodelar o futuro da escola humanity.The est na base da NASA Ames perto de Mountain View. "Hoje temos cerca de 1.300 cem alunos em 85 pases, o melhor e mais brilhante hoje pode ser encontrado em qualquer lugar do planeta, por isso, na verdade, lanar uma ampla rede", disse Rob Prego, CEO e fundador Associado da Singularity University University.Singularity hospeda um programa de formao de executivos como este para ajudar os lderes empresariais entender como as mudanas rpidas na tecnologia vai impactar os negcios de amanh. Custou US $ 12.000 por pessoa - que sempre vende para fora. A universidade usa esse dinheiro para sediar a 10 semanas de ps-graduao no vero. Trs mil pessoas se inscreveram este ano. Oitenta foram aceites. . "Esse programa tem como alvo a prxima gerao de lderes no mundo Estes so os alunos de ps-graduao, a idade mdia de cerca de 31 - a faixa foi 18-58, por isso extremamente diversificado", disse Nail.Francesco Mosconi foi para SU. Ele disse: "Voc acorda 8, voc estudar ou ter aulas e atividades 9-7, e um pequeno espao para o jantar, e ento voc est de volta em atividades at muito, muito tarde da noite." "Isso realmente moldaram a forma como eu vejo o mundo, ele realmente criou minha viso de mundo e ir para a aula, houve uma mudana de paradigma mltipla", disse outro Monica Ebert, outro ex-alunos da Universidade Singularity.
Os alunos que frequentam o programa de ps-graduao trabalham juntos para formar empresas reais. Vinte empresas esto atualmente em funcionamento e outros 10 esto prestes a lanar. East Bay nativa Ann Rogan tambm foi para SU, depois de trabalhar ao redor do globo. Ela disse: "voc est aprendendo pela primeira vez sobre a tecnologia que est em movimento, muito, muito rpido e isso muito de ponta, e, em seguida, voc est aprendendo a tomar isso e aplic-la a resolver os cuidados de sade nos pases em desenvolvimento, ou a forma de pensar sobre energia e questes ambientais em todo o mundo, se os EUA ou em outro lugar ". a prxima turma de alunos da Universidade Singularity vai chegar no prximo ms.
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