Singularity University
http://singularityu.org/
Elevator Pitch:
How will you improve the lives of a billion people?
Understand rapidly and advancing exponential technologies within and between science and technology fields, to address humanity’s biggest problems.
Founders:
Ray Kurzweil
Peter Diamandis
Key ideas:
SingularityUniversity is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies in order to address humanity’s grand challenges.
Founders Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis wanted to create an institution that not only taught the world about accelerating technologies, but found and shaped the talent that would use those technologies to improve the lives of everyone on the planet.
Singularity University is based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley.
Worth reading/watching:
Singularity University Overview (Singularity University)
The Future of the University Might Well Be Singularity University (TechCrunch, October 2011)
Singularity University - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (PBS News Hour, April 2012)