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==&nbsp;<span style="font-size:xx-large;">Overview</span> == <br/><span style="font-size:medium;">[http://singularityu.org Singularity Institute's] mission is&nbsp;to educate, inspire and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges.</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">They educate and inspire their students to make global impacts and be agents of change. They also have a vast international network making them a very powerful resource for driving international solutions.&nbsp; Singularity Institute is headquartered in Moffett Field, California.&nbsp;</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">They offer three main programs&nbsp;:</span><br/><span style="font-size:medium;">'''The Graduate Studies Program (GSP)'''&nbsp;– convenes future leaders, entrepreneurs, and technologists for 10 weeks to work on team-based technology solutions to widespread global challenges.</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">'''The Executive Program (EP)'''&nbsp;– dives into the tools that corporate specialists and entrepreneurs need to ride the wave of accelerating change.</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">'''Exponential Medicine'''&nbsp;– explores the future of medicine with its intimate week-long look at breakthrough innovations in healthcare.</span> = == &nbsp;<span style="font-size: xx-large;">Purpose</span> == <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-style: italic;">"Singularity University, where the world's brightest minds convene to attack the world's toughest challenges."</span></span>
<br/><span style="font-size:medium;">[http://singularityu.org Singularity Institute's] mission is&nbsp;to educate, inspire and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges.</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">They educate and inspire their students to make global impacts and be agents of change. They also have a vast international network making them a very powerful resource for driving international solutions.&nbsp; Singularity Institute is headquartered in Moffett Field, California.&nbsp;</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">They offer three main programs&nbsp;:</span><br/><span style="font-size:medium;">'''The Graduate Studies Program (GSP)'''&nbsp;– convenes future leaders, entrepreneurs, and technologists for 10 weeks to work on team-based technology solutions to widespread global challenges.</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">'''The Executive Program (EP)'''&nbsp;– dives into the tools that corporate specialists and entrepreneurs need to ride the wave of accelerating change.</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">'''Exponential Medicine'''&nbsp;– explores the future of medicine with its intimate week-long look at breakthrough innovations in healthcare.</span> =<br/><span style="font-size:xx-large;">==Purpose=</span> = <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-style: italic;">"Singularity University, where the world's brightest minds convene to attack the world's toughest challenges."</span></span>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="quote_author" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">—BloombergTV</span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; text-align: left;">The goal of Singularity University is to positively impact humanity by educating, inspiring and empowering leaders across the globe to harness the power of exponential technologies to improve the lives of billions of people.</span></span> <span style="color:#000000;">'''<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Distinct_Differences_From_Other_Offerings" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">Distinct Differences From Other Offerings</span></span>'''</span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; text-align: left;">Singularity University’s programs have a deep focus on accelerating technologies, their intersections, and ability to help solve grand challenges in a largely collaborative, international, and interdisciplinary forum. This combination creates a unique and intense educational experience that complements the existing graduate and post-graduate programs from which we select many of our participants.</span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;">The core of SU is thier people– from faculty working at the edges of science and technology to participants from around the world, jointly dedicated to challenging problems in research, industries, non-profits, and more. Through their faculty, staff, and participants, Singularity University is able to revisit the curriculum each year, continuously discussing and building on past breakthroughs and applications of the fastest moving technologies.</span>