Thank You
We'd like to sincerely thank all those who've made this summit possible, beginning with our presenters for their time and dedication to these important issues: Ray Kurzweil, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Nick Bostrom, Sebastian Thrun, Cory Doctorow, K. Eric Drexler, Max More, Christine L. Peterson, John Smart, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, Bill McKibben, Steve Jurvetson, Tyler Emerson, and Peter Thiel; and our host and co-sponsoring organizations for their generous support: Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford, Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Clarium Capital Management, KurzweilAI.net, MINE, The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, The Stanford Transhumanist Association, and United Therapeutics.
This unique event wouldn't have been possible without the amazing energy and dedication of: Elaine Enos and David Cappelloni at Stanford Events, Renee Blodgett of Blodgett Communications, Dawn Levy of Stanford News Service, Nancy Howe of the Stanford Student Union, Darin Evans and Mike Godinez of Stanford Event and Labor Services, Todd Davies, Socoro Relova, Sharmila Mani, Nikhila Pai, Ivan Sag, and Chris Manning of the Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford, the Computer Science Department, and CSLI. Also, Michael Jin and Yonah Berwaldt of the Stanford Transhumanist Association, Martine Rothblatt of United Therapeutics, Christopher Simmons and Tim Belonax of MINE, Peter Thiel of Clarium Capital Management, Tyler Emerson, Jeff Medina, and Carolyn L Burke of The Singularity Institute, and the wonderful people from KurzweilAI Network, Ray Kurzweil, Amara D. Angelica, Nanda Barker-Hook, Emily Brown, Neil Reynolds, Laksman Frank, Ken Linde, Aaron Kleiner, Denise Scutellaro, Celia Black, and Kathryn Myronuk.
Special thanks to our exceptional volunteers who helped with promotion, logistics and execution:
Stanford Graduates and Undergraduates:
- David Arnold
- Diego Azurdia
- Richard Barton
- Mike Belyaev
- Jeff Campbell
- Ben Galin
- Emil Gilliam
- Siobhan Greatorex-Voith
- Marcello Herreshoff
- Jeff Holman
- Jane Huang
- Boyko Kakaradov
- Ryna Karnik
- Scott Lanum
- Tina Y. Lin
- Dan Meyer
- Mike Mintz
- Richard Norte
- Brendan O'Connor
- Jennifer Ong
- Jason Prado
- Gabriel Recchia
- Arty Rivera
- Anna Schapiro
- Krishanu Sengupta
- Vladimir Tenev
- Kalvin Wang
- David Willcox
Stanford Staff, Associates, and Others:
- Michael Ames
- Michael Anissimov
- Ariel Berwaldt
- Cathy Berwaldt
- Elad Berwaldt
- Peter Chang
- Max Comess
- Sean Daken
- Troy Gardner
- Mary Haggerty
- Peter Herreshoff
- Lia Hidalgo
- Raymond Keller
- Richard Kowalski
- Marium Lange
- Dylan Meyers
- Timothy Moenk
- Manuel Moertelmaier
- Stanley Pecavar
- Carl Shulman
- John Sleeman
- Val Spitkovsky
- Henry Strickland
- Melanie Swan
- Jeff Thompson
- Rob Zinkov
Surplus food from the summit was donated to St. Anthony's Church on Middlefield in Redwood City through the generous assistance of Stanford Events and Labor Services and Stanford Catering.