Monday, June 29th 2009. TECHAFFAIR was fortunate to have been invited to the Singularity University’s “INAUGURAL SUMMER PROGRAM AT MOFFETT FIELD / SU Graduate Summer Program Launch” featuring 40 students chosen from more than 1,200 candidates.

Singularity University narrowed the final students from a pool of applications around the globe. Students are focused on addressing “Humanity’s Grand Challenges” through scientific and technological collaboration and innovation.

The SU curriculum provides a broad, interdisciplinary exposure to ten fields of study: future studies and forecasting; networks and computing systems; biotechnology and bioinformatics; nanotechnology; medicine, neuroscience and human enhancement; artificial intelligence, robotics, and cognitive computing; energy and ecological systems; space and physical sciences; policy, law and ethics; and finance and entrepreneurship.

Singularity University was founded Sept. 20, 2008 by a group of leaders, including Worden; Ray Kurzweil, author and futurist; Peter Diamandis, space entrepreneur and chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation; Robert Richards, co-founder of the International Space University; Michael Simpson, president of the International Space University; and a group of SU associate founders who have contributed time and capital.

The energy at Singularity University is absolutely electrifying. It’s difficult to get across in words alone. So, hopefully the following images taken by TECHAFFAIR staff will tell the story:

The Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (MVCPA)

NASA Ames Research Center located at Moffett Federal Airfield

Dr. Peter H. Diamandis (Vice-Chancellor & Chairman, Singularity University) & Friends

Tim Ferriss (Author of The Four Hour Work Week) and Troy Byrd

Susan Fonseca-Klein (VP of Operations, Singularity University) & Friends

Photography by Linda Poeng & Shaun Tai.

TECHAFFAIR would like to thank Bruce Klein and the entire Singularity University & NASA staff for allowing us access to this compelling event.

LinkedIn Tech Talk Series 6/05/2009 Panel Discussion: Going from SCALA to scale!

Martin Odersky – Creator of SCALA / Professor at EPFL.

Moderated by Arnold Goldberg – VP, Platform Engineering at LinkedIn.

Martin Odersky (born 5 September 1958) is a professor of programming methods at the EPFL. He specialises in code analysis and programming languages. Odersky designed the Scala programming language and Generic Java. Scala is a new programming language which fuses object-oriented and functional programming while staying completely interoperable with Java. Odersky was programme Chair of ECOOP 2004. In 2007 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Martin Odersky – Creator of SCALA / Professor at EPFL – Photo by Linda Poeng.

Nick Kallen – Systems Architect at Twitter – Photo by Linda Poeng.

David Pollak – Team lead for the LIFT Web Framework – Photo by Linda Poeng.

Some of the great team over at LinkedIn! – Photo by Linda Poeng.

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking. As of May 2009, it had more than 40 million registered users, spanning 170 industries.

TECHAFFAIR would like to thank Reid Hoffman, Arnold Goldberg, and Mario Sundar for allowing us access to this intriguing tech talk.

Video filmed and produced by Shaun Tai.