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Appendix A
National Ground Intelligence Center Workshop (NGIC)
September 28-29, 2004
Agenda
Held at James Madison University - College Center - Ballroom B and C
September 28th
9:00 a.m.

Registration/Light Refreshments

9:30 a.m.

Welcome/Introduction
Douglas T. Brown

10:00 a.m.

Materials for Soft and Hard Armor Systems
Ronald G. Kander - JMU

11:00 a.m.

Portable Power Systems
Jonathan J. Miles - JMU

12:00 noon

Lunch

1:00 p.m.

Sensors and Distributed Networks
Geoffrey Egekwu - JMU

2:00 p.m.

Biotechnology and Bio-Medical Therapeutics
Ron Raab - JMU
Robert McKown - JMU

3:00 p.m.

Nanotechnology and Nano-Materials Manufacturing
David Lawrence - JMU
Steven Wilson - Luna Innovations

4:00 p.m.

Panel Discussion

5:00 p.m.

Tour

6:00 p.m.

Reception

6:30 p.m.

Dinner / Key Note Speaker
General Paul J. Kern, Commanding General
U.S. Army Materiel Command

September 29th
8:00 a.m.

Breakfast

9:00 a.m.

Information and Knowledge Management
Julia Couto - JMU, Michael Deaton - JMU
Steven Frysinger - JMU, Joseph Marchal - JMU

10:00 a.m.

Smart Materials and Imbedded Intelligence
Donald J. Leo - VT

11:00 a.m.

Wearable Computer Technology
David Bernstein - JMU
R.E. Burnett - JMU

12:00 noon

Lunch

1:00 p.m.

Panel Discussion/Wrap-up Session
Jerry Benson - JMU

the empirical record of the interplay between humans, their technologies, and unexpected outcomes
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as presented to the 2007 Singularity Summit: Artificial Intelligence
and Humanity [13] - we find a

compelling reason in his analysis
that creates some intriguing "how"
questions that are specific utility
to the primary goal of answering
"should" questions. In his audience
were primarily computer scientists
and engineers thinking beyond
governments and Dr. Harper's
soliloquy on chemistry, weaponry,
humanity, and the costly record
of some failures in rational risk
assessment laid the logical groundwork for more science funding to
develop technologies that would
assist humans in producing more
wisdom knowledge.
Dr. Harper's assertion is that the
production of knowledge and technology to produce more wisdom
actually fits much more within a
rationalist framework than ever
before due to the advances in science and social science combined
with the move toward data and computational driven science discovery
technologies. The development of
this kind of knowledge, if realized
through his call for new research
and new technologies in wisdom
knowledge research, would be most
useful and most illuminating to the
field of genomic-informed therapies and corresponding weapons
of mass destruction. It is time to
pose Dr. Watson's logic - that ethics is meaningless and a waste of
time -squarely against that of Dr.
Harper's assertion that we should
turn the task of science to the production of wisdom knowledge.
Careful readers of our analysis
here, upon reaching this conclusion, importantly will ask why we
have failed to incorporate the obvious intellectual foundation and
contribution of Ray Kurzweil. So
much of what we have described
with regard to human-machine
symbiosis has been made possible
by his theoretical investigations
and their corresponding technological research and developments.
Kurzweil's popular writings (The
Age of Spiritual Machines and The
Singularity is Near) have also contributed, though Kurzweil's critics

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