"The best way to describe the experience of being a student at SU is to say that it is an Ivy League university from the future: the admissions process is from the current year, but the curriculum is from the year 2020," said Dr Roman Yampolskiy, a student from Latvia.
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" The university gets its name from the theory of "singularity" written about by its co-founder Ray Kurzweil, a computer scientist - the inevitable moment when machines will surpass human intelligence.
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 ^Josie Ensor and her 3D-printed model (credit: Inna Shnayder) Its faculty is unparalleled.
 One of the partners, Mr Kurzweil, is a computer scientist, futurist, chief engineer at Google and author of a book on artificial intelligence called The Singularity is Near.
 In 1999 he made 108 predictions of where the world would be in 2009.
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 Another founder, Peter Diamandis, set up the X-Prize, which offers large cash awards for inventions that could benefit mankind, and the company Zero G, which enables wealthy passengers to experiencing weightlessness aboard a zero-gravity plane.
 Talking about why he started the university, Mr Diamandis said: "I realised there was no place on the planet where people can really learn about the fields that are in rapid exponential growth - artificial intelligence, robotics, biotechnology, quantum computing.
 Yet these are the things that together can be used to solve humanity's problems.