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Scientists Develop Cyborg Interface Algorithm

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the universal-man-machine-interface dept.

StCredZero writes "A ZDNet article discusses advances in the translation of brain activity to electronic control being made at MIT. Their approach allows a paralyzed individual to manipulate a prosthetic - but that's not the important advance. 'Other scientists have already done that, and built prototypes for neural brain-to-machine devices that can work for animals or humans. But each team has taken a different approach to the problem, such as developing algorithms for measuring activity in a specific brain region, or measuring them through EEGs vs. optical imaging. MIT said that it has developed a unified algorithm that can work within the parameters of these different approaches. Lakshminarayan "Ram" Srinivasan, lead author of a paper on the subject, said MIT's new graphical models are applicable no matter what measurement technique is used. "We don't need to reinvent a new paradigm for each modality or brain region," he said in a statement.'"

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  1. Re:I for one... by AmaDaden · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...welcome our standardized future cyborg overlords.
    Fixed

  2. Computer Science Tenet by Mike+Morgan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anything is solvable with another layer of abstraction.

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    -USR1
    1. Re:Computer Science Tenet by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 3, Funny

      Anything is solvable with another layer of abstraction. That's it! We'll have virtual cyborg arms! We could try the whole thing a virtualization first, and then....but wait! Why stop there! We'll just make whole virtual cyborg bodies! After that, who needs real bodies! The brain'll be a sort of hypervisor ... you could be three people at once!

      What? Why is everyone looking at me like that?
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      My blog
  3. Re:don't we ever learn?! by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did no one watch Voyager?! No, no one.

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    My blog
  4. algorithm discovered by InlawBiker · · Score: 5, Funny

    10 FOR I = 1 TO 50 20 WALK 30 IF ROBOT = BUMPINTOSOMETHING THEN GOTO 50 40 NEXT I 50 PRINT "Ouch!"; 60 TURNAROUND 70 GOTO 10

    1. Re:algorithm discovered by djlosch · · Score: 3, Funny

      "what does your robot do?
      it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls"
      -- c/o bash.org