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We are now in the steep part of the exponential trajectory of information technologies in a broad variety of fields, including health, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence. It is only these accelerating technologies that have the scale to address the major challenges of humanity ranging from energy and the environment to disease and poverty. With its strong focus on interdisciplinary learning, Singularity University is poised to foster the leaders who will create a uniquely creative and productive future world.”

We are reaching out across the globe to gather the smartest and most passionate future leaders and arm them with the tools and network they need to wrestle with the Grand Challenges of our day. There is no existing program that will offer the breadth and intensity that SU will offer. During the year, between the Graduate Summer Programs, SU will offer a unique 3-day and 10-day program for CEOs and executives that will give them the forward looking radar they need to determine how these key technologies might transform their companies and industries in the next 5 – 10 years ahead.

The NASA Ames campus has a proud history of supporting ground-breaking innovation, and Singularity University fits into that tradition. We’re proud to help launch this unique graduate university program and are looking forward to the new ideas, technologies and social applications that result.

Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis have pulled together an extraordinary group of leaders across a broad spectrum of disciplines. The challenges facing our planet are profound. Creating a network of future world leaders across the range of exponentially growing technologies addressed by Singularity University will have profound implications. We need the best hearts and minds working together toward a common cause.

SU will produce a pipeline taking in brilliant graduate students from around the world and producing tomorrow’s leaders, across a broad range of disciplines with strong networking and breakthrough thinking patterns. I am anticipating that the SU courses will be an exciting and transformational experience, as rewarding to the lecturers as to the students, with long term implications.

The exponentially increasing power of computers and optical networks, when combined with developments in AI, nanotechnology, and other technologies, will create extraordinary opportunites. Singularity University is uniquely positioned to prepare students for these coming innovations.

Google is proud to be a founding Corporate Sponsor for the Singularity University. By focusing on exponentially growing technologies and their ability to address the world’s grand challenges, this interdisciplinary institution will fill a critical need.

The exponentially growing technologies studied at SU will be the basis for the billion-dollar companies of the next decade. It will be exciting to see what companies evolve out of the SU graduates. I expect the silicon valley venture community to pay very close attention.

I normally build extraordinary virtual environments that evolve with surprising results. Singularity University is going to be an extraordinary birthplace for ideas and breakthrough thinking. I am pleased to be a member of the faculty and look forward to an exciting inaugural year.