19.559 Ubiquity 7.1 (or, only a little longer...)

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         Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:29:47 +0000
         From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
         Subject: Ubiquity 7.1

This Week in Ubiquity:

Volume 7, Issue 1
(January 11 - January 17, 2006

UBIQUITY ALERT: AN INTERVIEW WITH RAY KURZWEIL

RAY KURZWEIL SAYS THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR
Ray Kurzweil, one of the world's leading inventors, thinkers, futurists, and
Artificial Intelligence experts, talks with Ubiquity about his best-selling
new book "The Singularity is Near." Kurzweil: "We'll have sufficient
hardware to recreate human intelligence pretty soon. We'll have it in a
supercomputer by 2010. A thousand dollars of computation will equal the
10,000 trillion calculations per second that I estimate is necessary to
emulate the human brain by 2020. The software side will take a little
longer."

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