Lifeboat Foundation

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  Bindeshwar Pathak, the great humanist and social reformer of contemporary India, joins our Sustainability Board. After Gandhi, Dr. Pathak is the man, more than any other in India, who has championed sanitation and upliftment of the untouchables as the mission of his life. For the last three decades he has been working relentlessly to keep the ecosystem clean and bring the marginalized sections of society in the mainstream.

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  Our Scientific Advisory Board completes our NanoShield program which provides solutions to ecophages and nonreplicating nanoweapons.

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  Antonietta Gatti, coauthor of Nanopathology: The Health Impact of Nanoparticles, joins our Nanotechnology Board.

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  Our World News page has information about CIA Says Hackers Have Cut Power Grid: Several cities outside the U.S. have sustained attacks on utility systems and extortion demands.
   
  Read our InternetShield program for solutions!

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  Sonia Arrison, an author and policy analyst who has studied the impact of new technologies on society for the better part of a decade, joins our Futurists Board. A frequent media contributor and guest, her work has appeared in many publications including CBS MarketWatch, CNN, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.

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  Andrzej Bartke, winner of the first Methuselah Mouse Prize, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.

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  Read 10 Futuristic Materials by Michael Anissimov.

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  Our AIShield program is designed to protect against unfriendly AI (Artificial Intelligence).
   
  Why the first AGI is unlikely to be Friendly AI: Even if it was somehow possible with our primitive tools to design self-awareness into an AI, it is worth noting that the vast majority of AI under development is not being designed to be Friendly AI so we need to be prepared for the first AGI to not be inherently “friendly”.

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  Shannon Vyff, author of 21st Century Kids, joins our Education Board.

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  Catherine Asaro, author of the Nebula Award winning novel The Quantum Rose, joins our Physics Board. Catherine earned her PhD in Physics from Harvard and recently completed two terms as president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA).

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  We have College classroom tested coursework available which was developed by Gary Scott Danford, Ph.D., University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

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  IBM, Microsoft, and Sun employees — learn how you can get your membership fees and donations to Lifeboat Foundation matched by your employer! (This includes retired IBM employees as well!)

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  The Lifeboat Foundation presented the Lifeboat to the Stars award to Kevin J. Anderson and Steven Savile for their collaborative book Tau Ceti. The authors split the $1,000 prize, and each received a handsome trophy in an hourglass design.
   
  This award honors the best work of science fiction of any length contributing to an understanding of the benefits, means, and difficulties of interstellar travel.
   
  Coordinating judge was Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Award-winning science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer, and the other judges were Catherine Asaro, Jason Batt, Sherry E. Bell, Kevin M. Berry, Brenda Cooper, Niklas Järvstråt, Jim Karkanias, Rouslan Krechetnikov, Eva-Jane Lark, Mike E. McCulloch, George Perry, John K. Strickland Jr., and Allen G. Taylor.