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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>TRANSHUMANIST TRACK SESSIONS TO BE HELD AT 2012 INTERNATIONAL SPACE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><br></span><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(Washington, DC -- April 27, 2012) Contact: <a href="mailto:kmermel@yahoo.com">kmermel@yahoo.com</a></span></em><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><br> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The National Space Society is holding, for the first time ever, track sessions on Transhumanism and Human Space Exploration at this year’s International Space Development Conference, which will be held over Memorial Day weekend, May 24-28, 2012. The scheduling of this track will be on Sunday, May 27<sup>th</sup> and you can register at <u><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Humanity/a7ea81e97f/d2a2d0808f/1a631211a8" target=out>ISDC 2012</a></u><br><br>Track Lead: Natasha Vita-More. <br> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br></span><strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>SPEAKERS INCLUDE</span></strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>:</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><strong>Dr. Ben Goertzel</strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> is Chief Scientist of the financial prediction firm, Aidyia Holdings; Chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC; Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society and the OpenCog Foundation; Vice Chairman of futurist nonprofit Humanity+; Scientific Advisor of biopharma firm Genescient Corp.; Advisor to the Singularity University and Singularity Institute; Research Professor in the Fujian Key Lab for Brain-Like Intelligent Systems at Xiamen University, China; and general Chair of the Artificial General Intelligence conference series. <br><br></span><strong>David Orban</strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> is an entrepreneur and visionary. Orban is a lecturer and advisor at <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Humanity/a7ea81e97f/d2a2d0808f/48afca04b3">Singularity University</a>, whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies that address humanity’s grand challenges. He is a former Director on the Board for <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Humanity/a7ea81e97f/d2a2d0808f/3db8ed29ac">Humanity+</a> (and a former Chair), an organization dedicated to promoting understanding and participation in fields of emerging innovation with a growing movement of people willing to work to benefit the human condition through a commitment to scientific advancement.<br><br></span><strong>Dr. Paul Werbos</strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> is a Fellow of IEEE and the International Neural Network Society (INNS), and a winner of the IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award and INNS Hebb Award. He is a field leader in Core ECCS areas, including Adaptive and Intelligent Systems (AIS), Quantum systems and device modeling (QMHP), and systems-level power grids (GRID). Dr. Werbos has also led a variety of other areas, such as fuel cell and electric vehicles, emerging technologies, cyber systems, and the sustainability part of IDR since he started at the National Science Foundation in 1988. Werbos is on the Board of NSS.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><hr size=2 width="25%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><strong>About The National Space Society (NSS):</strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> NSS is an independent, educational, grassroots, non-profit organization dedicated to the creation of a spacefaring civilization. NSS is widely acknowledged as the preeminent citizen's voice on space. To learn more about NSS visit <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Humanity/a7ea81e97f/d2a2d0808f/4fdc035f16">www.nss.org</a>.<br><br></span><strong>About ISDC:</strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> The International Space Development Conference is the annual conference of the National Space Society. <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Humanity/a7ea81e97f/d2a2d0808f/e1cc2efd7c" target=out>ISDC 2012</a> will take place at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, DC from May 24 through 28, 2012. (For more information: <u><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Humanity/a7ea81e97f/d2a2d0808f/92aa8621a0">http://isdc.nss.org/2012/schedule.shtml</a></u>)</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>