Washington, DC -- The University of Southern California (USC) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of the journal Science, will bring together some of the world's most innovative thinkers and futurists on 11 April to raise the nation's awareness of global challenges in science and innovation. The event, held as USC and the journal Science celebrate their 125th anniversaries, addresses potential changes in America's position of global leadership in scientific and technological competitiveness and innovation.

The one-day event, Global Horizons: America's Challenge in Science and Innovation, will take place on Tuesday, 11 April, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PDT, at the Davidson Conference Center on USC's University Park Campus. The event will include:

• Two panel discussions:
  -- Stem Cell Research: Are We Bystanders or Key Players?
  -- China and India: New Challengers or Partners?
• A keynote luncheon speech by Raymond Kurzweil, the inventor and futurist, whom Bill Gates calls "the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence;"
• A closing discussion moderated by Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews," that will push the limits of the panel's knowledge, from the biological and social sciences to education and technology to the environment, to help reveal the answers to the questions: Where is science leading us? Where will the next great innovations come from? Who will benefit?

Other featured participants include:

John Seely Brown, former chief scientist of Xerox Corp. and director of its Palo Alto Research Center; co-founder of the Institute for Research on Learning;

Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande, co-founder and chairman of Sycamore Networks, Inc., for whom the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT is named;

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3-Apr-2006


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