IEEE Spectrum June, 2008 - 1

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twO paths tO
the singUlarity

MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld [left] and technology futurist Ray Kurzweil have
long worked at the leading edge of physical science and computer science. Today
both believe that we are on the event horizon of a technological singularity.
David Dalrymple, a child prodigy who claims both these luminaries as mentors,
discovers that they came to this conclusion from two very different directions.

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caughT on Tape: author Vernor Vinge,
roboticist rodney Brooks, and neuroscientist
christof Koch expand on their ideas about
the singularity in exclusive video interviews with
IEEE Spectrum editors harry goldstein and
erico guizzo.

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mapping The body elecTric: human
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devices. View our three-dimensional model to
gauge progress toward the age of cyborgs.

Q&a with kam
and ray
the ieee annual election is right
around the corner, so The Institute
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candidates running for presidentelect, moshe Kam and pedro ray.
read about their most challenging
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