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Less-Invasive Brain Interfaces
Using neural activity recorded from a sheet of electrodes laid directly on the surface of a patient's brain, scientists can predict the movement of fingers, as well as which of several sounds the patient is imagining. Eventually, researchers hope to use the findings to develop intuitive neural ...
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g-speak overview. Minority report user interface in action.
radically condensed demonstration of oblong's g-speak spatial operating environment The most amazing technology demonstration I have seen in awhile. User interface of the Minority Report demonstrated in practice...
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Hunting for a Brainy Computer - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a $4.9 million grant to five universities and IBM Research for the first phase of an ambitious research venture in cognitive computing. The leader of IBM's cognitive computing program, Dharmendra Modha, describes the research as "the ...
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Personalised cancer treatment on the way - health - 19 November 2008 - New Scientist
University of Chicago scientists have discovered a genetic signature that predicts whether a variety of cancers will respond to the most common treatments: they found that many cancers show abnormalities in 49 specific genes, collectively known as the IFN-related DNA damage resistance signature (IRDS)....
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Massive EU online library looks to compete with Google
Inspired by ancient Alexandria's attempt to collect the world's knowledge, the EU launches Thursday its Europeana digital library, an online digest of Europe's cultural heritage.
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Sharism: A Mind Revolution - Freesouls
Comment added by wildcat on 11/19/2008brilliant view! accurate and well written, thanks for this -
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Thinking Space: The Golden Time of World Wide Web is coming
Comment added by Kurt Laitner on 11/17/2008every crisis is an opportunity - I look at this crisis as a huge opportunity to pivot people's worldviews to a more sustainable one, and as you and clay shirkey have put it, harness the cognitive surplus to amplify that change of worldview, ultimately changing the fundamental structures the ... -
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Thinking Space: The Golden Time of World Wide Web is coming
Comment added by wildcat on 11/17/2008important point, makes all the difference in the world, thanks -
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The Future of Information
Comment added by Kurt Laitner on 11/16/2008"Despite the current explosion of information, we are less informed." So let's start a website
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