Accelerating Change 2005: Artificial Intelligence & Intelligence Amplification (AI & IA)

Forty-five world-class speakers, two debates, 350 amazing attendees, great new technology demos, and many opportunities for networking and conversation with leading thinkers. Which people, ideas and innovations will fuel our next long boom? Come find out.

Speakers include:

* Vernor Vinge, Mathematician; Computer Scientist; Author, A Fire Upon the Deep

* Ray Kurzweil, CEO, Kurzweil Technologies; Award-Winning Inventor; Author, The Singularity is Near

* Moira Gunn, CEO, Tech Nation Group; Host, Tech Nation and BioTech Nation

* Blake Ross, Co-Creator, Mozilla Firefox; Open Source Entrepreneur

* Peter Norvig, Director of Search Quality, Google

* Jan Pedersen, Chief Scientist for Search and Marketplace, Yahoo!

* Peter Barret, Microsoft IPTV

* Tom Malone, Professor, MIT Sloan; Author, The Future of Work

* Esther Dyson, Founder, PC Forum; Editor, Release 1.0; Editor at Large, CNET Networks

* Peter Thiel, Co-founder and former CEO, PayPal; President, Clarium Capital

* Philip Rosedale, CEO, Linden Lab, creators of Second Life

* Terry Winograd, Computer Scientist, Stanford U; Author, Understanding Computers and Cognition

* David Fogel, CEO, Natural Selection; Editor, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computing

* Robert Hecht-Nielsen, Computational Neurobiologist; ECE Professor, UCSD; Founder, HNC Software.

* Harold Morowitz, Biophysicist, George Mason U; Author, The Emergence of Everything

Special Events include:

* Future Academy Tutorials Friday (http://accelerating.org/ac2005/tutorials.html)

* Tech Night reception and demo expo at SAP Labs, Palo Alto

* Collective Intelligence Dinner

Accelerating Change is your community for the most broad minded, foresighted, practical and passionate speakers and participants. Come to understand and make your own extraordinary future. Can you join us this year? Enter "AC2005-STANFORD" to receive a $100 discount.