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...patterns. Or, if Ada wants to direct visitors' attention to something in particular, it can illuminate colored lamps in the floor that outline the route they should take to find the desired object. Ada, named after 19th century British programming pioneer Ada Lovelace, performs all these feats thanks to neural network technology, layers of computer circuits that work in ways analogous to the human brain. If its intelligent space architecture proves a success, Ada may help pave the way for the acceptance and development of commercially constructed "smart" rooms and buildings that can dynamically adapt themselves to the needs...
...determine how well rats understand incoming signals," he explains. "When we stimulated a region of the whiskers, they 'felt' a touch." Someday, says Mandayam Srinivasan, director of the M.I.T. Touch Lab, who helped show two years ago that monkeys could control robots by thought alone, "you could build a neural chip for paralyzed people, similar to a cochlear implant for deaf people, that uses brain signals to control prostheses...
Paradoxically, the very thing that is so terrible about autistic disorders--that they affect the very young--also suggests reason for hope. Since the neural connections of a child's brain are established through experience, well-targeted mental exercises have the potential to make a difference. One of the big unanswered questions, in fact, is why 25% of children with seemingly full-blown autism benefit enormously from intensive speech- and social-skills therapy--and why the other 75% do not. Is it because the brains of the latter are irreversibly damaged, wonders Geraldine Dawson, director of the University of Washington...
...photographs are taken in collaboration with nature. They are night-scapes where purely natural light punctuates the rich blacks of the night’s darkness. The stunning patterns of burning points of light, resembling unknown constellations or neural impulses, are radiant emanations generated solely by fireflies...
...Freehand system provides no tactile feedback for things like temperature, so users also have to be careful when handling hot objects such as cigarettes or coffee. To get around this problem, Thomas Sinkjaer and colleagues at the Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction at Denmark's Aalborg University are developing neural prosthetics that can actually feel the texture of objects and transmit this information back to the user...