Bruce Klein, President of Novamente LLC.

Bruce Jason Klein (born April 11, 1974) currently lives in San Francisco, California, and is the President of Novamente LLC, a privately held AI software company focused on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). He also directs the non-profit Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute (AGIRI) and helped organize the first AGI Workshop May 2006. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (606x974, 68 KB) This picture was taken by Bruce Klein on Oct 25, 2006 in San Francisco, California. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (606x974, 68 KB) This picture was taken by Bruce Klein on Oct 25, 2006 in San Francisco, California. ... Novamente is a software platform and hybrid symbolic/connectionist cognitive architecture for strong artificial general intelligence. ... April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Nickname: The City by the Bay; Fog City Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Area    - City 122 km²  (47 sq mi)  - Land 121. ... Novamente is a software platform and hybrid symbolic/connectionist cognitive architecture for strong artificial general intelligence. ... In the philosophy of artificial intelligence, strong AI is the supposition that some forms of artificial intelligence can truly reason and solve problems; strong AI supposes that it is possible for machines to become sapient, or self-aware, but may or may not exhibit human-like thought processes. ... 501C3 refers to section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code that exempts payment of federal income taxes for groups that are organized for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes. ... Founded in 2001, the Artificial General Intelligence Research Institutes (AGIRI) mission is to foster the creation of powerful and ethically positive Artificial General Intelligence. ...

Bruce holds a Finance degree from the University of Georgia (1996) and is co-founder (2002) of the non-profit Immortality Institute. He is editor of The Scientific Conquest of Death (2004), producer of the documentary film, Exploring Life Extension (2005), and has organized conferences for the Immortality Institute. Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses, and organizations raise, allocate, and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects. ... The University of Georgia (UGA) is the largest institution of higher learning and research in the State of Georgia. ... 501C3 refers to section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code that exempts payment of federal income taxes for groups that are organized for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes. ... // The Immortality Institute (sometimes abbreviated ImmInst) is a nonprofit 501(3)(c) organization with the mission to conquer the blight of involuntary death. ...

See also

• Ben Goertzel
• Hugo de Garis

Ben Goertzel is a computer scientist, mathematician, bioinformaticist, writer, philosopher and entrepreneur, formerly founder/CTO of Webmind Inc. ... Hugo de Garis (born 1947, Sydney, Australia) is an associate professor of computer science at Utah State University. ...

External links

• Bruce Klein's weblog
• Immortality Institute Film made by Bruce Klein, on Google Videos, free to watch
• Immortality Institute
• Novamente LLC
• Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute