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...some cases these “Old Larry” qualities were desirable. Summers was and still is brilliant. In other cases it was neutral—like the disorganized lab partner that Neff remembers from high school, the Summers of today requires a rule that says you are “never to give Larry the only version of anything” lest it “disappear into the pile...
...food, the computer picked up the neural traffic and forwarded it to a robotic arm called the Phantom. When the monkey extended its arm, the Phantom, using the neural signals from the monkey, precisely mimicked the action. Nicolelis even transmitted the brain signals over the Internet to the Touch Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, so the monkey's neural commands operated another Phantom 965 km away...
...certainly works, which is more than can be said for a more ambitious speech recognition effort under way at an Intel research lab in Beijing. As a scientist reads from a Chinese newspaper into a microphone, the words appear magically on a computer screen. But when a friend sings the lyrics of a Chinese pop song, the technology fails miserably. Apparently the slang didn't fit its preprogrammed language bank. It gets even stickier when computers try to talk back to humans. Most speech recognition devices are "idiot savants," says William Weisel, an industry analyst based in southern California. "They...
...research centre, it is a real usability lab," said Jon Carter, the project manager for Orange at Home, an experiment in futuristic living led by British mobile phone operator Orange, in partnership with the Universities of Surrey and Portsmouth. (Orange is owned by France Telecom...
Researchers at Berkeley's robotics lab are also excited about what they call "Nintendo" surgery. This involves presenting surgeons with simulations of rare abnormalities. "Simulators give you a way to make things go wrong," says Jeff Ustin, a trained surgeon now studying electrical engineering at Berkeley. Further out on the edge is a research project at Yale that is looking at performing surgery in a virtual environment and storing it for future automated use. A team of medical technicians would pop the patient into a surgical machine, something like slotting in a piece of toast, taking him out when...