Ben Scarlato
Ben Scarlato
is Director of Outreach at the
Brain Preservation Foundation.
BPF has launched the
Brain Preservation Technology Prize, to promote
exploration of brain preservation technology in service of humanity. The
Prize, presently $106,000, will be awarded in two parts. Part 1, 25% of
the Prize purse, will be awarded to the first international team to
successfully preserve, with complete preservation of synaptic structure,
a whole mouse brain, via any technology. Part 2, 75% of the Prize purse,
will go to the first team to successfully preserve a whole large animal
brain in a manner that could also be adopted for humans in a hospital or
hospice setting immediately upon clinical death. Preservation quality
will be validated by careful EM imaging of samples taken from the entire
preserved brain.
Ben is a fourth year Computer Science student at Rochester Institute
of Technology. He is currently looking for co-op and intern opportunities.
His areas of interest within computer science include artificial
intelligence and security.
Ben authored
Deadlock: Thousand-Year Relationships,
Advance Directives and Transhumanism,
Caprica: Artificial Heavens,
Why We Need to Cheat Darwin,
The Policy Implications of Happiness Research,
True Blood & the Darker Side of Enhancement,
True Blood Season 3 and Morphological Freedom,
Nip/Tuck: Ethics and Beauty,
Caprica, Gamer, & Surrogates: Overlooked Benefits of Virtual
Worlds,
Terminator: Salvation and the Sarah Connor Chronicles,
Someone to Watch Over Me, and
No Exit.
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