Technology:
A short piece in the MIT Technology Review describes a new retinal implant designed to remain in place for long periods of time: In retinal diseases such as acute macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa, the light-sensing cells of the...
Posted on September 25, 2008 9:02 AM • 5 Comments •
Last week, the number of subscribers to this blog's RSS feed passed the 2,000 mark, after teetering just below that number for a couple of months. It's very gratifying to know that so many people enjoy my writing, and although...
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Posted on September 3, 2008 4:55 PM • 8 Comments •
Last week, I wote about the robot controlled by a "brain" in a culture dish, and in that post, I mentioned that several other groups, including members of the Neuroengineering Lab at Georgia Tech, have been doing similar work. Steve...
Posted on August 18, 2008 5:50 AM • 1 Comments •
Researchers from the Cybernetic Intelligence Research Group at the University of Reading have developed a robot whose movements are controlled by neurons growing in a culture dish.The robot's "brain" consists of several hundred thousand neurons isolated from embryonic rat neocortex....
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Posted on August 13, 2008 4:00 PM • 4 Comments •
The use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs, or roadside bombs) has led to an increase in the numbers of troops sustaining traumatic brain injury during military service in Afghanistan and Iraq. Such injuries are caused by the high pressure shock...
Posted on August 7, 2008 5:00 PM • 4 Comments •
While wandering around looking at the outreach activities at ESOF2008, I came across this interesting booth for the PS3GRID project, by members of the Multiscale Lab, which is located in the University of Pompeu Fabra's Computational Biochemistry and Biophysics Laboratory...
Posted on July 22, 2008 8:43 AM • 1 Comments •
Technology pundits speculate that mind control is the future of gaming. They envision that the movements of computer game characters will be controlled not with joysticks but with non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) which monitor the brain's electrical activity and transmit...
Posted on June 26, 2008 8:00 AM • 5 Comments •
This cartoon, found at Paleo-Future, accompanied a short article from the August 28th, 1949 edition of the San Antonio Light: CHICAGO, Aug. 27 - (AP) - Some day composers won't write music, and musicians won't play it - yet...
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Posted on June 19, 2008 5:33 AM • 2 Comments •
Designed and built by IBM, at a cost of some $130 million, Roadrunner is the world's fastest supercomputer. It contains 12,960 IBM PowerXCell 8i central processing units, 6,480 AMD dual-core processors, and occupies nearly 6,000 square feet at the...
Posted on June 16, 2008 5:46 AM • 2 Comments •
Click to enlarge From the August 1962 issue of Science and Mechanics: Artificial MIND--Next from Science COMPUTER experts keep reassuring us that Man and his mind will never be replaced by their electronic marvels. But a small, doughnut-shaped electronic...
Posted on June 13, 2008 4:55 AM • 2 Comments •
