Month: August 2016

Capture proof is the winner of the Singularity University Health Grand Challenge 2016 #gsummit

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Optimal Physical and Mental Health, including access to cost effective prevention, early diagnosis, and personalized therapy for individuals and communities Capture proof is the winner of the Singularity University Health Grand Challenge 2016 CaptureProof’s Smart Medical Camera™ uses advanced computer vision in the active camera and then automatically organizes images tracking progress. Doctors don’t run …

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Harvest is the winner of the 2016 Singularity University Food Grand Challenge Prize #gsummit

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Singularity University Grand challenge for Food end state goal – Consumption of sufficient, safe and nutritious food to maintain healthy and active lives for all people at all times Harvest is the winner of the 2016 Singularity University Food Grand Challenge Prize 475 million farmers have poor or no access to financial instruments like crop …

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Environment – SU Global Grand Challenge winner #gsummit

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SU Endgoal – Sustainable and Equitable Stewardship of Earth’s Ecosystems for optimal functioning both globally and locally. Winner of SU challenge – Using drones to plant trees Bio carbon Engineering will plant 1 Billion trees/year with drones to rebuild global ecosystems, fight climate change, and provide social uplift to millions of families. 6 Bn trees/yr …

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South Korea debating making a nuclear submarine in response to North Korea’s submarine launched nuclear missile

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South Korea has renewed calls to deploy nuclear-powered submarines on the battlefront, refueling debate about using the advanced weapons against North Korean ballistic missile threats. The communist state marked its first successful firing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile last week, undermining South Korea’s resolve to neutralize threats via land-based missile defense systems. “The SLBM launch …

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How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight #gsummit

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Peter Diamandis next book is a bio of his life and is written by Julian Guthrie The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflight Alone in a Spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a …

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IBM Watson AI Xprize #gsummit

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The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE is a $5 million competition, challenging teams globally, to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful AI technologies to tackle the world’s grand challenges. The prize aims to accelerate adoption of AI technologies, and spark creative, innovative and audacious demonstrations of the technology that are truly scalable and …

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Stephane Bancel – Exponential Health – Digital pharma #gsummit

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Stephane Bancel CEO, Moderna Theraputics Stéphane Bancel joined Moderna Therapeutics in 2011 after learning of their novel platform developing messenger RNA therapeutics™, leaving behind his position as CEO of leading diagnostics company, bioMérieux. Under Mr. Bancel’s leadership, Moderna Therapeutics has brought together a team of industry leaders and raised significant venture funding. Stéphane Bancel is …

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Graphene Quantum Dots in Quantum Computing

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Electrons reveal their quantum properties when they are confined to small spaces. Scientists from TU Wien (Vienna), Aachen and Manchester have created tiny quantum dots in Graphene. In a tiny quantum prison, electrons behave quite differently as compared to their counterparts in free space. They can only occupy discrete energy levels, much like the electrons …

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Exponential Organization – panel talk with John Hagel and Kalyan Kumar #gsummit

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There is a book Exponential Organization In his book Exponential Organizations, Salim Ismail has addressed the current business model of most organizations which is based upon incremental and linear growth. His thesis is that the alternative of exponential growth, as espoused by Singularity University, can be gained by organizations that use new techniques that can …

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Democracy Earth Governance Singularity Grand Challenge Winner #gsummit

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The Democracy Earth Foundation is a Y Combinator backed organization working with hackers, thinkers and makers. The internet transformed how we share culture, work together —and even fall in love— but governance has remained unchanged for over 200 years. With the rise of open source software and peer to peer networks, political intermediation is no …

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