New school's mission: Solving the world's biggest problems

A new university is sprouting up in the San Francisco Bay Area this summer with quite an ambitious charter: solving the world's biggest problems.Singularity University, which will be housed on the NASA Ames base near Mountain View, Calif., and begin classes in June, is the brainchild of two world-renowned scientists, Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis. The school hopes to attract students from a cross section of emerging disciplines - including nanotechnology, biotechnology and information technology - to tackle huge issues facing humanity. To read The San Francisco Chronicle article, click here.