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Google, NASA Launch Singularity University

  • FT.com, Tuesday, February 3, 2009 1:45 PM
Google and NASA have partnered to back a new school for futurists dubbed "Singularity University." Ray Kurzweil, "whose predictions about the exponential pace of technological change have made him a controversial figure in technology circles," will run the school, writes David Gelles. The school will sit at the Ames Research Center near Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., and offer courses on biotechnology, nano-technology and artificial intelligence.

No mention of how the curriculum would tie into search marketing or search engine optimization, but AI certainly has its place in SEM and SEO on the Web. The school is backed by Larry Page, Google co-founder, and Peter Diamandis, chief executive of X-Prize, an organization that provides grants to support technological change, Gelles explains.

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