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iLabs is a non-profit Milan-based organization pursuing multidisciplinary research on radical extension of human life-span. It was founded in 1977 by Gabriele Rossi and Antonella Canonico, who advocate the scenario known as “Semi-Immortality”, an elaborate vision of an era of quasi-immortal individuals (“intelligent systems”), that is philosophically linked to other instances of Transhumanism and futurists’ theories (such as Raymond Kurzweil’s). ''iLabs'' led the development of Artificial Intelligence tools in Italy: the first relational database (1984), a self-monitoring and self-modifying application for production planning (1985), programs for data compression (1980), visual recognition (1983), cryptography (1987). Starting with the publishing of ''Semi-Immortality''〔The English version of (Semi-Immortality ) is freely available under a CC license.〕 in November 2007, ''iLabs'' has also been devoting considerable resources to further improve the impact of the research program and raise the general awareness towards semi-immortality and related topics, resulting in a series of books, articles, interviews and events popular in the Italian transhumanist community and beyond.〔See (iLabs ) website.〕 On March 5, 2011 ''iLabs'' hosted the (iLabs Singularity Summit ), featuring speeches from Raymond Kurzweil and Aubrey De Grey. ==History== ''iLabs'' was founded in 1977 by two young Italian researchers, Antonella Canonico (psychologist) and Gabriele Rossi (computer scientist). The lab pursues a long-term research goal – the radical extension of human life-span – through the completion of mid-term projects in several fields. Throughout their history, ''iLabs'' has been pioneering the use of Artificial Intelligence and psychoneurophysiology (also known as Psychoneuroimmunology) in a variety of experimental and real-world settings.〔See for example the interview on (Newton ) (August 2010). (PDF )〕 In 1984 the ''iLabs'' department of Artificial Intelligence created the first Italian data-base, ''Sistema I'', the first of a series of projects in computer science: * in 1991, ''IAssist'', an expert system for customer care; * in 1993, ''i5'', an expert system for insurance risk management; * in 1994, ''BBS-RCAuto'', the first real-time comparison of insurance policies across the all Italian market; * in 1995, ''ZaZen'', an expert system for derivative market trading; * in 1996, ''iAssicur97'', a completely web-based software allowing natural language queries; * in 2010, ''iMaat'', a digital universe based on a proprietary reversible cellular automaton.〔Tutorial, papers and simulations are available on the book (website ).〕 The department of Psychoneurophysiology was one of the first institution in the country promoting the field through innovative proposals in psychology, stress management and bio-statistics: * in 1996, the creation of a free web-service for psychological assistance; * in 2002, ''Buddhamam'', a wellness center specialized in stress management; * in 2008, ''iMed'', a statistical estimator of biological age from blood samples. The department started focusing on psycho-oncology in 2000, with hundreds of subjects successfully treated since then. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ILabs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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