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.