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33 #1 Fall 2008 Miscellany Resources Paul Allen's SpaceShipOne www.paulallen.com/Template.aspx?contentId=26 Allen Institute for Brain Science www.alleninstitute.org Jeff Beznos' Blue Origin public.blueorigin.com Bigelow Aerospace www.bigelowaerospace.com Virgin Galactic www.virgingalactic.com The Ellison Medical Foundation www.ellisonfoundation.org/index.jsp Google Lunar XPrize www.googlelunarxprize.org Kronos Longevity Research Institute www.kronosinstitute.org/about/whoweare/index.cfm Singularity Institute www.singinst.org Cynthia Kenyon kenyonlab.ucsf.edu Edgy projects Amounts Web Seti, Allen Telescope Array (ATA) 25 million http://www.seti.org/seti/projects/ata Sponsored SpaceShipOne, which won the Ansari X-Prize in 2004 30 million http://www.paulallen.com/Template. aspx?contentId=26 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for early detection 5 million http://www.fhcrc.org Allen Institute for Brain Science 100 million http://www.alleninstitute.org Blue Origin Refuses to disclose http://public.blueorigin.com billion Bigelow Aerospace 500 million http://www.bigelowaerospace.com Virgin Galactic in collaboration with the SpaceShipOne team 25 million investment http://www.virgingalactic.com Ellison Medical Foundation 42 million a year for basic biomedical research anti-aging research http://www.ellisonfoundation.org/index.jsp Harvard, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics 6.5 million http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu Funds R&D on AI Unclear One example: http://intelligenesiscorp.com/ agiriorg/path/acknowledgements.htm Google Lunar X Prize 30 million http://www.googlelunarxprize.org Kronos 50 million for all anti-aging initiatives claimed in an '04 Wired article. http://www.kronoshealth.com http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.02/ immortal_pr.html Kronos Longevity Research Institute (founded 1999) 6.3 million in '06 from Sperling's Aurora Foundation, usually 1.5 million per year according to Kronos spokesperson, but the extra funding is for the Keepstudy http://www.kronosinstitute.org/ http://www.guidestar. orgFinDocuments/2006/860/873/2006- 860873239-03778e30-F.pdf Genetic Savings and Clone Created first cloned cat Went out of business in 2006 Via Gen Livestock cloning and gene banking http://www.viagen.com/ Methuselah Foundation 3.5 million http://www.methuselahfoundation.org/ Singularity Institute 500,000 http://www.singinst.org/ Cynthia Kenyon at UCSF $150,000 http://kenyonlab.ucsf.edu/