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Downton Bellevue, Washington with Mt. Rainier

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Caitlin Cory
Date
October 1, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Events

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Artificial Intelligence, COSM 2021, Gurdeep Pall, Microsoft, Skype for Business, speech recognition software}

Meet Gurdeep Pall, Microsoft Executive and COSM 2021 Speaker

_{Pall has flourished as a developer and a leader in the world of artificial intelligence and speech recognition} _{Caitlin Cory
October 1, 2021

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“I believe the world is ready for autonomous systems,” says Gurdeep Singh Pall, a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft. Pall will be joining the impressive lineup of speakers at COSM 2021 this November. Pall has been with Microsoft since 1990 – a long and fruitful thirty-one years in which he rose from a software design engineer to the Corporate VP for the Information Platform and Experience team. In that time, he has worked on several noteworthy projects, including Windows NT 3.1, Windows XP, Skype for Business (now Teams), and many others. Pall was born in Chandigarh, India. In later adolescence, he considered following in his Brigadier father’s footsteps by joining the Indian army. “There was something inside me that kept Read More ›

Silicon Valley and Green Hills at Dusk. Monument Peak, Ed R. Levin County Park, Milpitas, California, USA.

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Caitlin Cory
Date
September 28, 2021

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Events

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COSM 2021, Walter Meyers III}

Is Silicon Valley Doomed? Hear Walter Myers III at COSM 2021

_{His experience and knowledge ranges from philosophy to biology to state policy} _{Caitlin Cory
September 28, 2021

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Is it the end for Silicon Valley? That's the question Walter Myers III will be addressing this November at COSM 2021 – an exclusive national summit in Bellevue, Washington. Read More ›

creativity imagination and dreams concept.

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Caitlin Cory
Date
September 22, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Creativity, Events

Tagged
3D rendering, computer graphics, COSM 2021, Jules Urbach, OTOY}

Jules Urbach, Founder of OTOY, to Speak at COSM 2021

_{George Gilder has called him "ingenious" and "the most inventive software engineer" he has ever met} _{Caitlin Cory
September 22, 2021

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Business and Finance, Creativity, Events}

Dozens of brilliant minds in technology will be flocking to Bellevue, Washington this November for the exclusive national summit known as COSM. Among them will be founder and CEO of OTOY and Lightstage, Jules Urbach. Philosopher of technology George Gilder has called him “ingenious” and “the most inventive software engineer” he has ever met. Gilder holds a a 20-year investment in OTOY. What has earned Urbach such high praise? Urbach has been a bold pioneer in computer graphics from a young age. At eighteen years old, he created one of the first CD-ROM games ever created, Hell Cab. Six years later, he founded Groove Alliance, which went on to produce Real Pool, the first 3D game available on Shockwave.com. In Read More ›

Viking Longships Approaching at Sunset - illustration

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News
Date
September 21, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Events, Military

Tagged
Arthur Herman, COSM 2021}

Expert in Defense and Technology To Speak at COSM

_{By looking to the past, historian Arthur Herman charts a hopeful path into the future} _{News
September 21, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Events, Military}

This November, historian Arthur Herman will be addressing the use of artificial intelligence in military preparedness at COSM 2021, an exclusive national summit exploring the myriad ways in which technology is shaping the world around us. Herman received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in history and classics. Since then, he has written nine books, including New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World, Pulitzer Prize finalist Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, and Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II, which was named one of the Economist’s Best Books of 2012. Herman is now a senior Read More ›

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News
Date
September 16, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Events, Machine Learning, Media

Tagged
Abundant World Institute, COSM 2021, Featured, John Schroeter, Moonshots (book), Popular Electronics (magazine), TechnicaCuriosa}

Publisher of Popular Electronics To Speak at COSM 2021

_{Futurist John Schroeter is an author as well as a publisher and developer} _{News
September 16, 2021

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Business and Finance, Events, Machine Learning, Media}

John Schroeter has many accomplishments as a futurist but also as an author, publisher, and developer: ➤ He is Executive Director at Abundant World Institute, a think tank for leading technologists, futurists and entrepreneurs seeking to create more abundance in the world: Their foundational book, Moonshots—Creating a World of Abundance, won the 2019 Gold Medal by Axiom Business Book Awards, and was recognized by Kirkus Reviews as a “Best Book of 2018.” After Shock (2020) marks the 50-year anniversary of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock. ➤ He is also the publisher, at TechnicaCuriosa, of iconic mags such as Popular Electronics and Popular Astronomy. “Our iconic titles have literally changed the world. Take Popular Electronics for example. Just one landmark issue was Read More ›

Senior couple watering seedlings in their garden

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Caitlin Cory
Date
September 3, 2021

Categorized
Economics, Events

Tagged
COSM 2021, Gale Pooley, Julian Simon, Scarcity, Simon Abundance Index}

Scarcity? We have the same resources as Neanderthal Man!

_{What we do with our resources is different. Economics professor Gale Pooley has spent his career lifting our spirits about the state of the world} _{Caitlin Cory
September 3, 2021

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Economics, Events}

COSM 2021 is fast approaching. On the weekend of November 10-12, titans of the tech world will descend on Bellevue, Washington, to discuss the future of technology. Topics to be covered include blockchain, NFTs, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and Big Questions like “Is Technology Soaring or Slumping?” This year, COSM will include Discovery Institute’s own Gale Pooley, senior fellow at the Center on Wealth & Poverty. This isn’t Pooley’s first round at COSM. He addressed the COSM crowd in 2019 with a talk entitled, “Killing Thanos – Defeating the Ideology of Scarcity” (video posted at the end of this article). This November, Pooley’s topic is “The End of Inflation.” The economics professor has spent his career lifting our spirits about Read More ›

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Caitlin Cory
Date
September 1, 2021

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Events

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Babak Parviz, COSM 2021, Google Glass}

Babak Parviz, Inventor of Google Glass, Returns to COSM 2021

_{Parviz will be addressing the question, “Is It the End for Silicon Valley?”} _{Caitlin Cory
September 1, 2021

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Last time he appeared at COSM, he contributed to a panel discussion on Information Theory of Biotech. Now, Dr. Babak Parviz is returning to COSM this November to address the question, “Is It the End for Silicon Valley?” Parviz has an impressive history that spans engineering and health care issues, but he is perhaps most famous for his leadership in developing Google Glass. As described by the University of Michigan in 2014: Google Glass is compact, lightweight, and while resting on your nose, will guide you to your destination, allow you to have phone conversations, take photos and video, get information, and share your experiences with others in unprecedented ways. Glass is the first device that allows us to truly Read More ›

Business Leadership Attributes and Features in Literature

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News
Date
August 31, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Creativity, Economics, Events

Tagged
7 Powers of Business Strategy (book), Ben Horowitz, Bloodlands (book), COSM 2021, Featured, Hamilton Helmer, Hard Thing About Hard Things (book), Kevin Rooke, Peter Thiel (book recommendations), Timothy Snyder}

What Does Super-Investor Peter Thiel Think You Should Read?

_{Some books to consider include history as well as business strategy. The two cannot be separated} _{News
August 31, 2021

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Business and Finance, Creativity, Economics, Events}

Peter Thiel, whose name is practically synonymous with successful high-tech investing, will be speaking at COSM 2021. He has also offered some thoughts on books worth reading: Here are three of them, courtesy Kevin Rooke: ➤ The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz (Harper Business 2014): From Thiel: “Every management guide presumes that all great companies follow a formula. But successful startups don’t imitate; they build innovations that can’t be copied. Ben Horowitz knows no recipe guarantees success. He has written the first true guide for protecting a startup from self-sabotage.” ➤ Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder (Basic Books, 2010) From Thiel: “He tells how Read More ›

Silhouette of business people work together in office. Concept of teamwork and partnership. double exposure with light effects

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Caitlin Cory
Date
August 27, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Events

Tagged
Candy Crush, Clearwire, COSM 2021, Hope Cochran, King Digital, Madrona Venture Group, SkillsVillage}

CFO Extraordinaire Hope Cochran to Speak at COSM 2021

_{CFO, mother of three, and...opera singer? Yes, surviving backstage chaos was good training for technology ventures.} _{Caitlin Cory
August 27, 2021

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Business and Finance, Events}

Brilliant minds in technology and business will be converging in Seattle to take part in Discovery Institute’s COSM 2021 this November. Among those minds will be Hope Cochran, mother of three, CFO extraordinaire, the first female managing director of Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group, and former opera singer. Opera singer? Yes. In fact, Cochran is a classically trained vocalist. She earned a dual degree at Stanford in economics and music. At the start of her career, she would do “audit by day and opera by night” (as she told Armoire in 2019). “…I could not imagine, not taking music lessons,” Cochran explained in a podcast released earlier this year. “And if you joined on as a major, you got to take them for free. So, Read More ›

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Caitlin Cory
Date
August 25, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Events

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, COSM 2021, Kai-Fu Lee, speech recognition software}

Kai-Fu Lee, Inventor of Speech Recognition, to Speak at COSM 2021

_{Lee is one of many technological geniuses appearing in Seattle this November} _{Caitlin Cory
August 25, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Events}

This November in Seattle, some of the most brilliant minds in technology will gather for COSM, an exclusive national summit on how technology is remaking the world as we know it. Among its many speakers will be Kai-Fu Lee, a computer scientist, businessman, and the inventor of speech recognition. Lee’s credentials are many and impressive. After his Ph.D. work at Carnegie Mellon (which produced continuous speech recognition), he has journeyed through the offices of Apple, SGI, Microsoft, and Google. In 2009, he launched Sinovation Ventures in an effort to financially support up-and-coming Chinese high-tech companies. In 2018, Lee gave a TED talk on how human beings can thrive in an era of AI. The video (posted below) is worth the Read More ›

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Heather Zeiger
Date
July 22, 2021

Categorized
Data Privacy, Events

Tagged
Antony Blinken, China, cybersecurity, hacking, Hafnium, Kellen Dwyer, Microsoft, Microsoft Exchange Server, NATO, Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends (book), U.S. Department of Justice, Wall Street Journal, zero-day hack}

U.S. and Allies Formally Accuse China of Exchange Server Hack

_{This isn’t the first time the Chinese-backed hacker group has infiltrated organizations} _{Heather Zeiger
July 22, 2021

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Data Privacy, Events}

On Monday, July 19, three cybersecurity announcements were made: In response to the massive Microsoft Exchange Server hack, the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Japan, the E.U., and NATO formally accused the Chinese government of engaging in harmful cyberactivity. The U.S. Department of Justice published its indictment of four Chinese hackers associated with the Chinese government, known as APT40. The FBI, CSIS, and the NSA published a cybersecurity advisory cataloging the fifty tactics, techniques, and procedures used by Chinese state-sponsored hackers. Then, on Tuesday, the CSIA and the FBI published a report on state-sponsored international hacking groups that included accusations that the Chinese state-backed hackers infiltrated thirteen oil and natural gas pipeline operators between 2011 and 2013. In Read More ›

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
June 14, 2021

Categorized
Events, Science

Tagged
Biology, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Engineering}

An Unlikely Collaboration to Elucidate Life’s Blueprints

_{Joining together the forces of biology and engineering to improve both fields} _{Jonathan Bartlett
June 14, 2021

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Events, Science}

What happens when you get sixty biologists and engineers together in a conference for three days? That’s the question asked by Steve Laufman, head of the Engineering Research Group at Discovery. In the recent “Conference on Engineering in Living Systems,” biologists and engineers of every stripe got together to see how the two disciplines could benefit each other. For biologists, learning how engineers examine, design, and plan projects was eye-opening. Traditionally, biologists focus on individual interactions, not whole-systems approaches. For engineers, discovering the details of cellular architecture and control mechanisms was especially enlightening. The conference had a diverse set of presentations, covering numerous areas of overlap between the two fields. One presentation discussed biologically-inspired robots, as well as how they can Read More ›

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News
Date
December 21, 2020

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Events

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Case for Killer Robots (book), COSM 2019 videos, COSM 2020 postponed, COVID-19, Donald Wunsch, Featured, For a Greater Purpose (book), Gaming AI (book), George Gilder, Mind Matters News, Mind Matters News podcast, Mystery of Life’s Origin (book), Robert J. Marks, Walter Bradley Center, Walter Breadley, William Dembski}

Walter Bradley Center: Year in Review 2020

_{Despite COVID-19, we had a very productive year} _{News
December 21, 2020

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Mind Matters News is sponsored by the non-profit Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Discovery Institute. Will you help Mind Matters News continue by supporting the work of the Bradley Center with an end-of-year donation? In a world awash with over-hyped claims (both pro and con) about artificial intelligence, the work of the Bradley Center couldn’t be more timely and important. People know at a fundamental level that they are not machines. But faulty thinking can cause people to adopt views that in their heart of hearts they know to be untrue. The Bradley Center seeks to help individuals—and our society at large—to realize that we are not machines, while at the same time helping to put Read More ›

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Robert J. Marks
Date
December 20, 2020

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Events

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Featured, For as Greater Purpose (book), Robert J. Marks, Walter Bradley, Walter Bradley Center, William Dembski}

We’re the Walter Bradley Center. But Who Is Walter Bradley?

_{A new biography, For a Greater Purpose, discusses Bradley’s life and legacy} _{Robert J. Marks
December 20, 2020

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Mind Matters News is published by the Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence. And a natural question is, who is this guy, Walter Bradley? Find out in a new biography authored by design theorist William Dembski and myself, For a Greater Purpose. The Foreword is written by the extraordinary philosopher J. P. Moreland. From the book, here’s what others are saying about Walter Bradley: ● “Walter Bradley is one of the most extraordinary men I have ever known. I am in awe of him.” —William Lane Craig, PhD, DTh, ReasonableFaith.org ● “One of the great blessings God has granted me in my life is the opportunity to have co-ministered with [Walter Bradley] among faculty and students on university Read More ›

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News
Date
July 17, 2019

Categorized
Business and Finance, Events, Global Technology

Tagged
Bill Dembski, COSM, cryptocurrencies, Ed Moy, Steve Forbes, Tim Draper}

Will Money Be “Real” in an Information Society?

_{Now that Facebook is proposing Libra, a cryptocurrency, this might be a good time to ask} _{News
July 17, 2019

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Business and Finance, Events, Global Technology}

Many of us know cryptocurrencies only from passing headline news. Yet thoughtful people argue that such currencies will help shape an information society. Why?

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News
Date
July 12, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Events

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, COSM, cryptocurrency, Featured, George Gilder, Life after Google (book)}

COSM: George Gilder Hosts Top Tech Guys, To Ask, Where Is All This Going?

_{Are machines replacing or helping us and how will we know the difference?} _{News
July 12, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Events}

The October 23-25 conference is aimed at CEOs, CTOs, and CIOs, investors, researchers, technologists, and anyone for whom the $950 Early Adopter Rate (before July 23) would be a good investment in their future.

George Gilder, Jay Richards, and Robert J. Marks at Dallas Launch of Walter Bradley Center

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News
Date
April 9, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Events

Tagged
Dallas launch, Robert J. Marks}

Robert J. Marks: Are There Things About Human Beings That You Cannot Write Code For?

_{Bradley Center director Marks asks that question, relating the Center’s goals to human aspirations} _{News
April 9, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Events}

“I think the most interesting and the most testable thing humans can do that you can't write code for is creativity,” Dr. Marks told the gathering. Understanding AI properly should lead to celebration rather than fear.

Baylor University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering Walter Bradley recalled for the audience at the Dallas launch, November 4, 2018

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News
Date
April 2, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Events, Social Factors

Tagged
Dallas launch, Featured, Walter Bradley, Walter Bradley Center}

Walter Bradley: Tell People about AI, not Sci-Fi

_{His struggle to bring reality to“sci-fi” origin of life research is the Center’s inspiration} _{News
April 2, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Events, Social Factors}

The Bradley Center hopes to have a similar effect by promoting more general knowledge of fundamental issues around “thinking computers and the real effects of technology on human well-being.

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News
Date
February 13, 2019

Categorized
Events

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The Human Advantage – An Eastside Symposium

_{Will Artificial Intelligence Supersede Human Intelligence?} _{News
February 13, 2019

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Show Up | Enjoy a Free Brew | Join the Conversation Will Artificial Intelligence Supersede Human Intelligence? Avoid the hype and hone your understanding of the nature and future of AI. Join us as we converse with: Robert J. Marks, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Baylor University and Director of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence Jay Richards, analytic philosopher at Catholic University of America and author of the new book, The Human Advantage. Monday, March 116:30-9:00PM Location Christ Church112 Medina StreetAustin, TX Contact Annie Crawfordcrawfordal (at) hbu.edu Text “Human311” to 555888 to RSVP

Attendees listening to talk at conference

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
January 21, 2019

Categorized
Events

Tagged
AI Conferences, AI Nextcon, AWS re:Invent, IBM Think, TechCrunch Robotics+AI, The O'Reilly AI Conference}

Boost Your AI Knowledge and Skills at 2019’s Most Promising Conferences

_{Are you a software developer or business leader? Here’s where you want to be this year} _{Jonathan Bartlett
January 21, 2019

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Do you ever feel frustrated when you hear about significant AI developments and you can’t be sure how — or whether — they relate to your organization? Are you missing out? Will a competitor “get it” ahead of your firm? The best strategy is to take a bit of time to get to know the technology, the companies, the people, and the ideas personally. Read More ›