Direct Neural Interface

Sf'nN approaching

2008-05-13T21:36:00.002-04:00

Don't forget to submit your abstracts by Thursday! I will be skipping the presentation thing this year, but I'll be there. A couple code bugs have kept me from pushing out some more MUA schtuffthz in...

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Uses for RSS

2008-05-11T17:45:00.002-04:00

I am still amazed by how few people in academia use RSS. Seriously, people, get with the program. The other day I was sitting in a meeting and the PI asks, "Hey, what's (one of those labs we always...

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Congrats Jodi!

2008-05-07T12:08:00.004-04:00

And another Brown kiddo has become Dr. Kiddo. Congrats to Jodi Gilman for successfully defending her thesis from the armies of ignorance a couple weeks back. I held off on the congrats to kill two...

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Free wheelin'

2008-05-06T16:17:00.003-04:00

Here are the articles related to wheelchairs that have been clogging the tubes... First, the laser guided docking wheelchair. Next, the NOA wheelchair. Discussed more here. The Pegasus...

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The missing link

2008-05-06T15:29:00.004-04:00

Behold, the memristor. Why is this not bigger news? Being touted as the fourth entry to holy trinity of electronics today (resistor, capacitor, inductor), the memristor retains information about its...

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Support!

2008-05-06T15:15:00.002-04:00

I know, no posts and then I post something utterly unrelated. But, if you are a part of net culture, you owe it to yourself to download the new Nine Inch Nails album, which is free. No, not as in...

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Soopur pay-per fry-day

2008-04-25T15:48:00.003-04:00

Computational Role of Large Receptive Fields in the Primary Somatosensory Cortex -- Foffani et al., 10.1152/jn.01015.2007 -- Journal of Neurophysiology. Available at:...

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Computing

2008-04-23T16:05:00.002-04:00

Couple quick items related to computers. First, has anyone gotten Neuroshare to work on a Mac in Leopard, or has everyone given up and decided to run it in VMWare or Parallels? Second, does...

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Wrap me in technica

2008-04-23T14:52:00.003-04:00

The logical step between models of virtual appendages and implanted muscle stimulators and FES systems is an exoskeleton. No surgery, easily removed, easily upgradeable, and more suited for...

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OMFG! She's a MFin' doctor!

2008-04-19T07:38:00.004-04:00

Congrats to Joci on her thesis defense. She defended it mightily, and vanquished the evil post presentation Committee of Doom. All she got was a quest item, [PhD Certificate], but it unlocked the...

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Scary flaming robot legs

2008-04-18T10:09:00.002-04:00

Another great catch by Natalia. Behold the Scary Walking Robot Legs of Doooooom! Info here.

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America: An Aside

2008-04-17T23:36:00.003-04:00

For those of you who don't understand some of the US mentality towards our military and general 'pride' (okay, our outright bragging about being the best country in the world), I strongly recommend...

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Evolve

2008-04-16T03:08:00.007-04:00

Continuing with the purging of links to interesting stories, file these under "Evolution" or "Rockin Darwin's Doodle". Awesome, awesome, awesome article on the complexity of evolution at Wired....

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List o' lists

2008-04-13T04:45:00.005-04:00

So, this week I'll point you to the best of the best of what others thought were list worthy. Good, bad, brain related, tech related, insanity related; they're all here. Enjoy! - Top viral videos of...

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Quicky

2008-04-12T19:17:00.002-04:00

Just noticing a bunch of deals for 1TB hard drives for <$200. If you're looking for one, you know what to do. SPF and TII (Tuesday's Interesting Item) will be up a little later tonight probably. How...

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Hoarding

2008-04-08T18:33:00.003-04:00

Random personal note. One of my friends here, a certain Icelandic diva, likes to joke about how I am an information hoarder. I have way more tech stuff than I actually need/can use, and that goes...

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Quick Note

2008-04-08T14:10:00.003-04:00

If you live by Providence, RI, you really should check out The Edge cafe. Wonderful place. (Pic of me having breakfast below)... Anyhoo... Okay, looking back, it looks like Tuesday link dumps...

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Multimedia mumbo jumbo

2008-04-07T19:56:00.004-04:00

An excellent catch by Mike over at Brain Stimulant - a BBC documentary called Human 2.0 can be found online. (Very nice blog, very regularly updated and more on-topic than mine!) Go give him some...

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Gi-normous Super Paper Friday

2008-04-04T14:28:00.003-04:00

Holy crap. Been a while. All caught up. Be happy. New format - I used Zotero, a Firefox add-on that can be used for reference storage, retrieval and navigation. Not too bad. Only negative is that...

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Ctrl+V

2008-04-04T03:59:00.002-04:00

Making a Code of Academic Integrity? Yeah, try not to copy it.

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I bow before my own computer

2008-04-04T03:35:00.004-04:00

As promised (trying to keep the file size down, so sorry about the somewhat the less than stellar pic)... Must go. Computer demands a sacrifice.

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I've got the POWAH! (Derrdeedeede Derderderdeedee)

2008-04-03T16:58:00.003-04:00

Power, electricity, the luminiferous aether, shocky-knife-in-wall-outlet-makes-ouchy. However you refer to it, one thing's for sure: you can never have enough in today's world. Doubly, so if you plan...

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RIAA doomed

2008-04-03T16:35:00.003-04:00

I know I'm getting off the BCI track a little, but this was too cool to not post. A new compression format for audio could compress music down the 1/1000th the size of current mp3s. That's not the...

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Robot overlords

2008-04-01T22:07:00.000-04:00

NASA has a sense of humor, too!

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Tech recommendation

2008-04-01T21:39:00.002-04:00

Hey! Have lots of Betamax tapes and love the dead formats? Well, keep cheering for the underdogs in HD, with this state of the art Betamax to HD-DVD converter! Awesome!

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