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THE WHITE HOUSE

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CHRISTOPHER ALTMAN

Starlab veteran・日本語・Guinness Book of World Records・NASA・Kavli Institute・Harvard・TU Delft・Chief Scientist・Quantum Technology・Artificial Intelligence・NASA-trained Commercial Astronaut

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. 

          — Richard Feynman



From CAM-Brain to Cambrian 2.0: 
Engineering the Next Intelligence Transition


We stand on the shores of a vast cosmic ocean, with untold continents of possibility to explore. As we continue forwards in our collective journey, scaling the cosmic ladder of evolution, progressing onwards, expanding our reach outwards in the transition to a multiplanetary species, Earth will soon be a destination, not just a point of origin.


From early childhood, I set out to convey a profound and positive impact on the long-term future of humanity — to make the world a better place for our children, our children's children, and the generations yet to come. As we're collectively propelled forwards as a species, I committed to ensuring core values of balance, integrity, and ethical responsibility are upheld with paramount importance in scientific research and principal government leadership. With unprecedented leaps and bounds of progress in our scientific understanding — enabled by the development of converging and expanding exponential technologies — newfound, unexpected discoveries await, just over the horizon.


Rapid advances in fields such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, molecular nanotechnology, neuroscience, renewable energy, spaceflight, supercomputing and quantum technologies — each enabled by the recursive technological progress of Moore’s Law — will converge to confer radical changes to society over the coming decades, as we move forward in the collective transition toward the dawn of a post-scarcity economy. The future is unbounded. The responsibility falls upon us to ensure that its limitless potential is filled with dreams of hope, happiness, freedom and fulfillment.


In tribute to timeless, inspiring, and visionary friend, colleague, collaborator, and coauthor Serguei Krasnikov (1961–2024), whose midnight brainstorming sessions and legendary time travel parties at Starlab will echo through the ages. May we carry forward his boldest dreams, fulfill his most audacious ambitions, and meet again — somewhere, sometime, just over the horizon.

LINKS • PUBLICATIONS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


  • (2015) Altman C. and Zapatrin R. Spacetime from Quantum Topology. Edited by Ignazio Licata and Cecilia Flori. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • (2015) Altman C. Invited contribution to McDonald, K, Flat World Navigation, sequel to Innovation: How Global Change Innovators Think, Act and Change Our World, with Vint Cerf. Kogan Page, UK.
  • (2014) Altman C., Belden C, Nicholson C and Ellis J. A global satellite network to secure air and space traffic worldwide. PeopleSat: A Comprehensive Solution in Response to the Disappearance of MH370. Washington, DC.
  • (2013) Altman C., Williams C, Ursin R, Villoresi P and Sharma V. Astronaut Development and Deployment of a Secure Quantum Space Channel Prototype. Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems. DARPA; NASA NIAC/OCT.
  • (2012) Altman C. The Race to Bring Quantum Teleportation to Your World. KurzweilAI Newsletter. October 5, 2012. Cambridge.
  • (2012) Altman C. Moving Plane Exchanges Quantum Keys with Earth. KurzweilAI Newsletter. September 17, 2012. Cambridge.
  • (2012) Altman C. Efficient tunable ion-photon entanglement interface enables quantum networks. KurzweilAI Newsletter. May 23, 2012. Cambridge.
  • (2012) Altman C. Quantum entanglement in spin qubits. KurzweilAI Newsletter. May 17, 2012. Cambridge.
  • (2012) Altman C. Austrian researchers set new world distance record for quantum teleportation. KurzweilAI Newsletter. May 21, 2012. Cambridge.
  • (2012) Altman C. A Boost for Quantum Reality: The Quantum Mechanical Wavefunction is Real. KurzweilAI Newsletter. May 9, 2012. Cambridge.
  • (2009) Altman C. and Zapatrin R. “Backpropagation in Adaptive Quantum Networks,” International Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol 49, No 12. Springer, July 2009. London.
  • (2008) Altman C. and Zapatrin R. “Superposed Adaptive Quantum Networks,” International Conference on Quantum Structures, Brussels–Gdansk. Springer, London.
  • (2008) Altman C., Knorring E and Zapatrin R. “Accelerated Training Convergence in Superposed Quantum Networks,” NATO Advanced Study Institute on Mining Massive Data Sets for Security. Como, Italy. NATO.
  • (2007) Altman C. “Microlens Array Fabrication: Future Directions in Quantum Coherent Information Processing,” FISBA/TU Delft Faculty of Applied Physics. FISBA Optik, Switzerland.
  • (2004) Altman C., Pykacz J and Zapatrin R. “Superpositional Quantum Network Topologies,” International Journal of Theoretical Physics Vol 43, No 10. Springer, London.
  • (2004) Altman C. and Kahaner D. “Korean Quantum Information Research,” Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Quantum Information Science and Technology Project, Asian Technology Information Program, Japan.
  • (2004) Altman C. “Advances in Quantum Algorithms,” Quantum Information Science and Technology Program, ATIP Tokyo, Japan.
  • (2004) Altman C. and Satoh T. “Japanese National Research and Development Programs,” RIKEN National Laboratory. Quantum Information Science and Technology Project, Asian Technology Information Program, Japan.
  • (2003) Altman C. “RIKEN Quantum Dynamics Research,” Quantum Information Science and Technology Project, Asian Technology Information Program, Japan.
  • (2003) Altman C. “SOKENDAI Quantum Information Research,” Quantum Information Science and Technology Project, Asian Technology Information Program, Japan.
  • (2003) Altman C. “Quantum Circuit Complexity Research,” Quantum Information Science and Technology Project, Asian Technology Information Program, Japan.
  • (2003) Altman C. “International Conference on Quantum Information,” Tokyo Institute of Technology. Quantum Information Science and Technology Project, Asian Technology Information Program, Japan.
  • (2002) Altman C. “Quantum State Engineering with the rf SQUID,” NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Quantum Chaos. NATO. Como, Italy.
  • (2002) Altman C. “Converging Technologies: The Future of the Global Information Society,” UNISCA First Committee. Chair Report to the United Nations General Assembly. Amsterdam. Recipient of the 2004 RSA Information Security Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Policy.
  • (2002) Altman C. “Directed Evolution in Silico: Modeling Large-Scale Neural Networks at Starlab,” Towards a Science of Consciousness. MIT Press. Cambridge.
  • (2002) Altman C. “Quantum Uncertainty: The Boundaries of Empirical Knowledge,” Towards a Science of Consciousness. MIT Press. Cambridge.
  • (2002) Altman C. “UN Sustainable Futures: Eden Project,” Trimtab Newsletter, Summer 2002. Special Issue with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. Buckminster Fuller Institute. New York.

Astronautics — Breakthrough Physics
ASTRONAUTICS・BREAKTHROUGH PHYSICS・RETROCAUSALITY・QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SYMPOSIA

2020   Keynote on the Future of the Military in Space · Space Mastery · Portugal
2020   To the Stars and Beyond: Deep Tech & AI · San Francisco
2020   International Astronautical Congress, 71st IAF · ESA
2020   SpaceCom 2020, Enabling Commercial Space · Colorado Springs
2019   Quantum Information Processing with Superconducting Circuits
2019   Materials Frontiers to Empower Quantum Computing
2019   Quantum Technology: The Second Revolution
2018   FutureHack · Tokyo
2018   American School of Japan · Tokyo
2018   International School of Science · Tokyo
2018   Future of the Global Energy System, Institute for the Future · San Francisco
2016   Keizai · US-Japan Commercial Spaceflight · San Francisco
2016   Effective Altruism Summit · San Francisco
2016   Hive Global Leadership Forum · San Francisco
2016   RSA Information Security · San Francisco
2015   Hive Global Leadership Forum · San Francisco
2015   Further Future · TED Meets Burning Man · Las Vegas
2015   Hive Global Leadership Forum · San Francisco
2015   DefCon Information Security · Las Vegas
2015   Black Hat Information Security · Las Vegas
2014   The Future of Commercial Spaceflight · Silicon Valley Space Center
2014   Yuri’s Night: The First Manned Orbital Spaceflight · Los Angeles
2014   IEEE Quantum Photonics: The Next Frontier of Quantum Communications
2014   Yuri’s Night: The First Manned Orbital Spaceflight · Hawaiʻi
2012   NASA ESA JAXA Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems
2012   NASA CSF Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference · Palo Alto
2012   Quantum Information and Nanoscale Optoelectronics · Berkeley
2012   Yuri’s Night: The First Manned Orbital Spaceflight · Los Angeles
2012   Inaugural Quantum Future Technologies Conference · NASA Ames
2011   Quantum Coherence in Excitation Energy Transfer · Berkeley
2011   The Future of Spaceflight · Mobile Monday, Invited Keynote · Amsterdam
2011   Delft-Leiden Biannual Casimir Symposium · Leiden
2011   Alain Aspect: The Second Quantum Revolution · Leiden
2011   ESA-TNO Space Pier Day · The Hague
2010   Kavli-Delft Center for Bionanoscience, Founding Conference · Delft
2010   Quantum Mechanics in Higher-Dimensional Hilbert Spaces · Austria
2010   What is Real in the Quantum World? Int’l Akademie Traunkirchen · Austria
2010   NASA ESA JAXA Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems
2009   NASA ESA JAXA Japan-US Science, Technology and Space Applications Program
2009   From Foundations of Quantum Mechanics to Quantum Information · Delft
2009   DEISA Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications
2009   Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) · Amsterdam
2008   Quantum Decoherence and Quantum Information Science · Lorentz Center
2008   Triennial Conference on Low-Temperature Condensed Matter Physics XXV
2008   International Conference on Quantum Structures · Brussels
2007   Workshop on Time Symmetry in Quantum Mechanics · Brussels
2007   Optical Fabrication Technologies, Coherence and Metrology · Switzerland
2006   The Best of Nanoscience: International Symposium for Hans Mooij · Delft
2006   SPIE Defense and Security Applications of Quantum Information Science
2005   New Computational Paradigms: Neural Nets, Quantum, Biocomputing
2005   UNESCO Physics for Tomorrow, UNESCO Headquarters · Paris
2004   RSA Information Security · Barcelona
2004   SPIE Defense and Security Applications of Quantum Information Science
2003   Gordon Research Conference on Quantum Information
2003   Quantum Information Technology IX · Tokyo
2003   International Conference on Quantum Information · Tokyo
2002   NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Quantum Chaos · Lake Como
2002   National Science Foundation Coding Theory and Quantum Computing · Vienna
2002   United Nations International Student Conference · Amsterdam
2002   International Conference on High-Energy Physics XXXI · Amsterdam
2001   World Technology Summit · London
2001   French Senate Hearing on the Future of Artificial Intelligence · Paris
2001   US Government Conference on High Performance Computing · Salishan
2001   National Security Agency · Fort Meade
MEDIA AND PUBLIC OUTREACH

⦿    NASA-trained Commercial Astronaut visits International School of Science · Tokyo
⦿    Astronauts for Hire Names New Commercial Scientist-Astronaut Candidates · NASA
⦿    Astronaut scientists for hire open new research frontier in space · NASA
⦿    Flat World Navigation: The Global Digital Economy · Google
⦿    Global Leadership Forum: Closing Speech on the Future of Humanity · San Francisco
⦿    Tomorrow’s Technologies Today · OASA Hong Kong
⦿    Space Academy Mission Specialist Boot Camp · OASA Hong Kong
⦿    Student gives up cycle, heads to Japan on Japanese Fulbright · AIEJ Fulbright
⦿    Astronauts for Hire: The Emergence of a Commercial Astronaut Corps · Springer
⦿    NASA vs. the Free Market: Which is Better for American Spaceflight
⦿    Future of the Global Energy System, Expert Workshop · Institute for the Future
⦿    Orion Astropreneur Space Academy · OASA Hong Kong
⦿    State of the Future · Live two-hour radio interview
⦿    Keynote Tribute on the Future of Space Exploration · Amsterdam
⦿    US Space Force and Future Space Technologies · Space Mastery · Tokyo
⦿    Hive Global Leadership Forum, Featured Alumnus · San Francisco
⦿    Starlab — Deep Future, Discovery Channel Special · Starlab Brussels
⦿    To the Stars and Beyond, Deep Tech & AI · San Francisco
⦿    Further Future, TED Meets Burning Man · Nevada
⦿    Entangled Life · Discover Magazine

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Shodan Rank Kyūdō, Meiji Temple, Tokyo, Japan

Black belt, First Class, shōdan. Certificate of recognition, as first foreigner to qualify in eight years. 認許する, Japanese traditional archery, Kyūdō, “standing Zen,” 弓道初 in formal recognition awarded by the Japanese National Kyūdō Federation, 全日本弓道連盟 while on Japanese National Fulbright Award with the Association of International Education, Japan.

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