AI, futurism, philosophy of mind, bioinformatics,
surrealist fiction, a little personal info, etc.

Ben@wikipedia
Ben on video
How to Launch a Positive Singularity in Ten Years (video) (text)
Ben's 2009 Singularity Summit presentation

Blogs etc.

Research

Nonprofit Organizations

  • OpenCog: Software project I co-founded, focused on building an open-source thinking machine
  • Artificial General Intelligence conference series ... AGI-10 will be in Lugano in March 2010
  • Singularity Institute for AI: AI/ethics thinktank, where I'm Director of Research
  • H+: Humanity Plus, formerly the World Transhumanist Asociation ... a futurist advocacy group, of which I'm a Board member
  • AGIRI: Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute, a largely dormant website that still has some useful information on it

Commercial Ventures

  • Novamente LLC: AGI research; AI consulting and software development,  with special expertise in machine learning, language processing, and intelligent agents for games and virtual worlds
  • Biomind LLC: Advanced AI for bioinformatic data analysis, especially microarray and SNP data
  • VettaLabs: Consulting/R&D firm doing AI and other advanced software development, based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Artificial Brain Lab

  • The Artificial Brain Lab at Xiamen University in Xiamen, China, where I'm an External Research Faculty and was recently (together with Hugo de Garis) awarded a Chinese NSF grant for work involving OpenCog and a Nao humanoid robot

Literature and Music

  • Fiction: Some of my surrealistic fiction writings
  • Music: Some electronic keyboard compositions and noodling

Personal and Family Photos

Websites of my Offspring

Websites of my Parents