Neuroengineering in Wired
Rewiring the Brain: Inside the New Science of Neuroengineering. Interviews Boyden and Deisseroth. Follow the link a video of an optogenetically controlled mouse.
View ArticleVS Ramachandran's TED Talk
Although I’ve been a longtime fan of Ramachandran’s excellent book Phantoms in the Brain, this TED talk is like a compressed summary of the highlight’s of his research. He’s a great speaker and he...
View ArticleIARPA and trust detection
Neurodudes reader Jason M. sent me some information about a funding agency, IARPA, or Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, that is funding neuroscience-related research. I had never heard...
View ArticleFrontiers in Neuroscience Journal
The journal, Frontiers in Neuroscience, edited by Idan Segev, has made it Volume 3, issue 1. Launching last year at the Society for Neuroscience conference, its probably the newest...
View ArticleRobust Systems
A great essay by Gerald Sussman, “Robust Systems”. In the first half or so (my favorite part) he describes architectural principals of biological systems that contribute to robustness. In the second...
View ArticleIBM Cat Brain Simulation Scuffle: Symbolic?
You’ve probably read by now about the announcement by IBM’s Cognitive Computing group that they had created a “computer system that simulates and emulates the brain’s abilities for sensation,...
View ArticleBayesian truth serum
Neville told me about this neat article from ’04. It presents a way to offer rewards to people taking a poll in such a way so as to motivate them to be honest, with no prior information about what the...
View ArticleNetwork design algorithm of a slime mold
[The slime mold Physarum polycephalum] “can find the shortest path through a maze (15–17) or connect different arrays of food sources in an efficient manner with low total length… yet short average...
View ArticleMemory-oriented computing and "From Micro-processors to Nanostores:...
I’ve only skimmed this article by Ranganathan, but I find it notable because of the discussion of memory-oriented computing, in which processors are colocated with storage (he uses the word...
View ArticleStochastic computing
One method of computing is to require that all numbers be real values between 0 and 1, and then instead of encoding these numbers into bit streams using binary, represent them with a long stream of...
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