Singularity University Grads Plan to Help a Billion People in 10 Years
A Silicon Valley school backed by NASA and Google unveils grand plans to help humanity University grads everywhere may feel pressure to succeed, but the stakes ramp up when your school's co-founders include AI visionary Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis of the X Prize Foundation. Now recent grads of Singularity U have announced their strategies for using emerging technologies to help one billion people over the next 10 years. Four teams of grads proposed ideas ranging from a disaster response network to an intelligent transportation grid. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the 40 students of the Silicon Valley school include recent college grads and company CEOs, and that many have advanced degrees from the likes of Harvard, MIT and Stanford. One Global Voice envisions modular programming tools that anyone can use to create cell phone applications to boost education and commerce...