Google, NASA, and Ray Kurzweil immantize the singularity.

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Google Inc. is teaming up with NASA and world-renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil to create a university designed to help people learn how to handle "humanity's grand challenges."

Singularity University (SU) will bring students together from around the world to study subjects like nanotechnology, biotechnology, human enhancements and artificial intelligence to see how the technologies can work together. SU's goals also include fostering professional networking and business creation.

The university, unveiled today at the annual TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) Conference in Long Beach, Calif., will offer nine-week graduate-level classes. It will be temporarily housed on the on the NASA Research Park campus.

Google is SU's first corporate founder. Kurzweil will service as chancellor and trustee of the university.

"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," said Kurzweil in a statement. "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."

I know just the place for the singularity; inside the Large Hadron Collider...

I thought they Immanitized the Eschatron...

What is immantize anyway? My dictionary doesn't have the word and if it is a spelling mistake I can't think which word it should be

What is immantize anyway? My dictionary doesn't have the word and if it is a spelling mistake I can't think which word it should be