Comments on: SLCC 2009 Keynote Speaker – Ray Kurzweil

By: Valiant Westland

Valiant Westland — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:17:25 +0000

I’m looking forward to the day when the speaker panel looks like this: http://www.ad-tech.com/chicago/adtech_chicago.aspx

By: Louise Later

Louise Later — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:55:57 +0000

As part of the goal of having Second Life be accessible for everyone, I would like to see Speech to Text added to the Max Assistive Technology that is in the virtual guidedog that reads SL chat aloud. At Helen Keller Day, people who were deaf were left out when people spoke extemporaneously in voice and the transcriber was not there or could not keep up.

By: filthy fluno

filthy fluno — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:05:04 +0000

This sounds awesome!

By: Closer and Closer! « Dale Innis’s Weblog

Closer and Closer! « Dale Innis’s Weblog — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:28:36 +0000

[...] and Closer! Posted on 4 July 2009 by daleinnis With the announcement that Ray Kurzweil is giving the introductory keynote address at this year’s SLCC (Second Life Community Convention), there’s been some resurgence of [...]

By: Jeremy Kemp

Jeremy Kemp — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:18:20 +0000

Unclear here – is he avatar-only or personally on stage and broadcast into SL?

By: David Orban

David Orban — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:13:32 +0000

This is great news! Ray is a very fertile thinker AND creator, and his enthusiasm for immersive online environments is well known. It is great to see him also support SL.

Make also sure you don’t miss one of his latest initiatives, the Singularity Unviersity, which has just started its inaugural Graduate Studies Program course.
http://www.singularityu.org

(Full disclosure: I am Advisor & European Lead of the Singularity University)