NEWRON vol I issue VI (3-23-07)

Edited by: Natan Davidovics

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129889/article.html

Scientists Show Thought-Controlled Computer at Cebit

James Niccolai, IDG News Service, March 15, 2007

Forget speech-recognition software: How about typing a letter just by thinking it?

In a quiet corner of the Cebit trade show a small Austrian company is showing a "brain-computer interface," a technology that could one day transform how we use computers, play video games and even talk to each other.

http://www.nj.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-11/1173937313282210.xml&%20%20coll=1

A quiet death for bold project to map the mind

Thursday, March 15, 2007 BY KEVIN COUGHLIN

The military, it appears, is no match for the mind.

The Star-Ledger has learned the Pentagon quietly has killed a project to "reverse-engineer" the human brain, a goal one participant compared to inventing the atomic bomb or landing men on the moon.

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/about/news/1232

New Centre could make independent living a reality for the elderly

Pervasive computing technology which can monitor the welfare of the elderly will be made available within the next 18 months.




http://www.eetimes.eu/design/198001073;jsessionid=TGTEFM5QNXG44QSNDLSCKHA

U.K. researchers target atom chip devices

John Walko

EE Times Europe

03/15/2007

Researchers at the University of Southampton and Imperial College, London are set to make atom chip devices following a further grant of £1.2 million to extend their work on the devices that they say could bring quantum computing nearer to reality.

NEWRON vol I issue V (3-9-07)

Edited by: Natan Davidovics

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/03/05/mindreaders.ap/index.html

Mindreading scientists predict behavior

March 5, 2007

In the past, scientists had been able to detect decisions about making physical movements before those movements appeared. But researchers at Berlin's Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience claim they have now, for the first time, identified people's decisions about how they would later do a high-level mental activity -- in this case, adding versus subtracting.




http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/hawkins.html

The Thinking Machine

Wired, March 2007, Evan Ratliff

Jeff Hawkins created the Palm Pilot and the Treo. Now he says he's got the ultimate invention: software that mimics the human brain.




http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18254/

An Alternative to the Computer Mouse

March 02, 2007, Kate Greene

A user interface that tracks eye movement may provide an alternate way to use a computer.

NEWRON vol I issue IV (3-2-07)

Edited by: Natan Davidovics


http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/07/0221fish.html

Biologically inspired sensors can augment sonar, vision system in submarines

James E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor 2/21/07

To find prey and avoid being preyed upon, fish rely on a row of specialized sensory organs along the sides of their bodies, called the lateral line. Now, a research team led by Chang Liu at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has built an artificial lateral line that can provide the same functions in underwater vehicles.



http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&tax onomyId=19&articleId=9011945

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Scientists: Data-storing bacteria could last thousands of years

Lucas Mearian February 27, 2007 (Computerworld)

Keio University Institute for Advanced Biosciences and Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus announced the development of the new technology, which creates an artificial DNA that carries up to more than 100 bits of data within the genome sequence, according to the JCN Newswire.



http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/14763/14763.html

To Be Almost Human Or Not To Be, That Is The Question

Daniel Harris | ED Online ID #14763 | February 15, 2007

Researchers are developing robots that will assist the elderly and disabled, but the vote is split on how human-like they should become.