It might take a second renaissance bringing polymaths across science to solve aging and enhance human mental capacity to groundbreaking heights. This week’s Longevity, Computing, and Cognition Research Hackathon at MIT tackles this initiative. From 10/25 to 10/27, Ekkolápto, Augmentation Lab, and Meditation Artifacts will unite interdisciplinary minds to explore how emerging computational paradigms can address the age-old inscrutability of aging and consciousness.
Building on MIT’s reputation as the global epicenter of innovation, this hackathon features special guest speakers:
- Michael Lustgarten PhD (Conquer Aging or Die Trying!)
- David Barzilai MD PhD (AgingDoc)
- Nick Norwitz PhD (Lean Mass Hyper Responders + Lipid Energy Model)
- Gil Blander PhD (InsideTracker)
- Kennedy Schaal (Rejuve.bio)
- Curt Jaimungal (Theories of Everything)
- Joscha Bach (LiquidAI)
Details:
- Win Prizes: Winners can walk away with free Apple Watches, AirPods, a Meta Quest VR Headset, a ticket to the 2024 Biomarkers of Aging Conference, and more!
- Networking: Participants and spectators will connect with leading researchers, industry professionals, and peers passionate about advancing longevity, cognitive augmentation, and computing.
Key Themes:
- Could the physics and computational properties of aging—such as information loss—inspire new ways of enhancing the human brain and building AI? Participants will delve into cutting-edge fields such as reservoir computing, optical computing, and biocomputing to develop solutions that could revolutionize our understanding of aging, consciousness, and the future of human-machine interfaces.
- Longevity Breakthroughs: solve aging through new biological paradigms (e.g., calorie restriction, senolytics, fasting, exercise, Free Radicals, How Life Works, Antagonistic Pleiotropy, Information Theory of Aging, etc.)
- Unconventional Computing: build innovations in computing methods (e.g., quantum computing, biological computing, chemputation, neuromorphic computing, planetary or mortal computation, etc.)
- Cognitive Breakthroughs: advance our understanding of cognition (e.g., Levin’s TAME, Friston’s FEP, The Book of Minds, memory sports, plant cognition, lucid dreaming, meditation, cessation, psychedelics, QRI’s Neural Annealing, Patterns in Nature, etc.).
Registration and Additional Information
Registration for the Longevity, Computing, and Cognitive Research Hackathon is now open. For more up-to-date details on registration, schedule, and speakers, please visit the official event website. If interested in speaking in-person or remotely, or in sponsoring this event, please contact us here!
About Ekkolápto: A research community of polymaths rigorously trying to understand and improve reality, building new foundations in cognition and aging through our polyMath conferences and cognitiveHackathons. Follow Ekkolápto on Instagram and X (Twitter).
About Augmentation Lab: A hacker collective dedicated to developing practices, systems, and technologies that augment our minds and bodies. We work trans disciplines and deeply integrate ethics into human engineering, building systems that encourage flourishing and protect people from malicious behavioral hijacking. Follow Augmentation Lab on Instagram and X (Twitter).
About Meditation Artifacts: Through his research, founder Luca Del Deo focuses on the cognitive and phenomenological science of meditation in American populations to innovate multicultural services for meditation learning. Find Luca on LinkedIn.
Special Thanks to James Hale from Lifespan.io and our friends Dr. Will Hahn, Misha Klopukh, and Michael Ostroff at the innovative Rubin Gruber Sandbox in Florida Atlantic University.