Visioneer: The Peter Diamandis Story Director: Nick Nanton Dicks + Nanton Productions DNA Films 53 minutes $14.97 to $29.97 (Download & DVD) If you are a fan of Peter Diamandis, this worshipful 53-minute promotional video is for you. It follows Peter D. through the triumph of the Ansari X Prize, skips ahead to the SpaceShipTwo crash a decade later, and then discusses his work with Singularity University and exponential technology. […]
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X PRIZE Founder Peter Diamandis is attempting to raise $200 million for a new venture capital fund that will target exponential technology companies, according to a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Diamandis is co-founder of the Singularity University, which focuses on exponential technology development. The filing for Bold Capital Partners, L.P., lists three other executives involved in the limited partnership. They include: Teymour Boutros-Ghali, co-founder and […]
Pete Worden
NASA Ames Center Director Pete Worden has announced he is leaving the space agency at the end of March to pursue opportunities in the private sector. He was appointed Ames center director in May 2006 after retiring from a 29-year career in the U.S. Air Force.
Worden has been seen as a maverick within a relatively conservative space agency, pursuing innovative initiatives such as phonesats and synthetic biology while forging close ties with Silicon Valley companies such as Google. NASA Ames hosted an International Space University summer session; its research park is home to the Singularity University and Made in Space.
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An update on the Singularity University’s synthetic biology effort via the Singularity Hub:
Synthetic biology is poised to become one of the big technologies of the 21st Century – a game changing area of science that could alter everything we know about health, energy, and humanity. But if the synthetic biology revolution ever wants to get off the ground, it’s going to need a new wave of entrepreneurs to develop companies and establish the [infrastructure] and industry. Singularity University is looking for those entrepreneurs…and it’s going to help them succeed. The Synbio Startup Launchpad is SU’s latest effort to empower the next generation of business leaders with the disruptive influence of accelerating technologies. Using software incubators as a model, the Synbio Startup Launchpad will give top tier startups up to $50k in funds, supplies, and lab services. […]
Mountain View, CA (October 12, 2011) — Singularity University (SU) has announced the appointment of Rob Nail, a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur and an associate founder of SU, as Chief Executive Officer.
Most recently Rob has been serving as SU’s Director of the Graduate Studies Program. He succeeds Neil Jacobstein, who will continue to co-chair SU’s Artificial Intelligence and Robotics education track and take on the role of Director of Executive Academics.
A profile of my good friend, Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom. Emeline has been at the heart of a number of groundbreaking organizations, including the International Space University, Space Adventures and Singularity University. She is the quiet center who helps keep these organizations from spinning off into random orbits. It’s great to see her get the public credit she deserves. Read the article.
An overview of the Singularity University student space projects from the school’s closing ceremony last Friday.
I just came from the Singularity University over at NASA Ames. Students presented their business proposals this afternoon for how to open up space over the next decade so that it positively affects a billion people. A total of 24 students — a third of the class — were involved in developing space projects. They will be forming companies to pursue their ideas.
There were five ventures presented:
- Cheap Access to Space – Beamed propulsion for sending satellites into orbit
- SWARM – An Iridium-on-steroids constellation of 300 multipurpose LEO satellites
- Made in Space – In-space manufacturing that negates the need to ship things up from Earth
- SpaceBio Labs – Cheap and reliable access for bio-tech research
- AI Labs – Using artificial intelligence and virtual environments to explore and experience space.
NASA PRESS RELEASE
After nine weeks of intense lessons, robotic and rocket competitions and rubbing elbows with NASA scientists, industry experts and entrepreneurs, students at International Space University (ISU) Space Studies Program (SSP) 2009 and Singularity University (SU) shared their final evening together and participated in their university’s closing ceremonies on Friday, Aug. 28, 2009 at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
ISU and the Singularity University will close out their sessions at NASA Ames on Friday. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is listed on the ISU schedule. However, his appearance is reportedly contingent on NASA launching the space shuttle Discovery in time for him to travel to the West Coast.
NASA PRESS RELEASE
Students at the International Space University (ISU) Space Studies Program (SSP) 2009 and Singularity University (SU) will share their last evening together at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., at their universities’ closing ceremonies on Friday, Aug. 28, 2009.
The closing ceremonies for the 22nd annual ISU SSP, the inaugural class of SU are by invitation only.