Ray Kurzweil 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." (Issue 1 - January 11 - 17, 2006) MICHAEL MORACHE, CEO OF PLATO LEARNING In this issue we present at interview with Michael Morache, who is CEO of PLATO Learning Inc. The company describes itself as "the leading provider of personalized instruction and standards-driven assessment and accountability. (Issue 3 - January 23 - January 30, 2006 RAJESH SETTY ON MANAGEMENT In a Ubiquity interview, Rajesh Setty, author of the new book "Beyond Code," notes that "everyone in his or her life will get several leadership moments, though these leadership moments won't come packaged as leadership moments. But he or she will have to be ready for this moment, because it's there to be recognized and grabbed and held on to. But because such moments do not come as clearly labeled packages, it's so easy to miss them. So always be ready for them and seize on them when you have the chance. Doing that will distinguish you from the crowd and make you into a recognized leader." (Issue 7 - February 21 - February 27, 2006 A NEW INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL SCHRAGE Michael Shrage is an internationally known author and consultant, co-director of the MIT Media Lab's E-Markets Initiative, and a senior adviser to MIT's Security Studies Program. He advises organizations on the economics of innovation through rapid experimentation, simulation and digital design. This is his second Ubiquity Interview. (Issue 8 - February 28 - March 6, 2006 AN INTERVIEW WITH DOUG KAYE Doug Kaye founded IT Conversations (www.conversationsnetwork.org) in May of 2003, 16 months before the first ³podcasts² came on the scene. He is the executive producer of IT Conversations and CEO of The Conversations Network (www.conversationsnetwork.org) a new international not-for-profit podcasting network capturing and producing spoken-word events on a wide variety of topics. (Issue 12 - March 28,2006 - April 3, 2006 UBIQUITY INTERVIEWS DAVID HANSON As CEO of Hanson Robotics, Inc, David Hanson creates robot faces that have been dubbed "among the most advanced in the world" by the BBC, and inspired Science to label Hanson "head of his class" in social robotics. After receiving a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and dabbling in AI programming at Brown, David Hanson worked at Walt Disney Imagineering, leading development of an autonomous walking robot and electro-active polymer (EAP) actuators. Later Hanson went on to work toward a PhD at the University of TX at Dallas, developing social robots affect naturalistic conversations with face tracking AI, speech recognition, and realistic expressions that use Hanson's patent-pending polymer materials.] (Issue 18 - May 9, 2006 - May 15, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: AN INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN COBB Stephen Cobb is a literature scholar, a prolific author, and a data security expert. Speaking of the bad guys he says, "I think the most significant aspect of bad guys today is that they are much badder than bad guys 10 or 15 years ago, when the primary motive for messing with computers was first of all curiosity, then some malice, whereas now a lot of it is the underground market in personal information for identity theft. I think the big problem now is that whatever interests are backing this activity are increasingly moneyed interests." (Issue 27 - July 18, 2006 - July 24, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: INTERVIEW WITH USC's ALICE PARKER Professor Alice Parker is a Professor in the electrical engineering department at the University of Southern California, where she has also served as Division Director for Computer Engineering, Dean of Graduate Studies, and Vice Provost for Research. Among numerous other honors, she has received an NSF Faculty Award for Women Scientists and Engineers and is a fellow of IEEE. In this interview with Ubiquity she talks about her current research and her distinguished career in higher education. (Issue 41 - October 24, 2006 - October 31, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT:INTERVIEW WITH NEUMONT'S GRAHAM DOXEY In interview with Ubiquity, Neumont University President Graham Doxey updates on the progress of his institution, a for-profit private university in Utah, Nevada, offering accelerated two-year Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, and MBA degrees in one- and two-year formats. The university is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools. (Issue 44 - November 14, 2006 - November 20, 2006 [Home]   [About Ubiquity]   [The Editors]   Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted ©2006 by the ACM and the individual authors.