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Scientists Develop Cyborg Interface Algorithm
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.'"
I actually stopped watching it because it was often just so tedious. Was this some sort of Borg origin story?
Dude, don't worry 'bout the mods. Monty Python is never off topic.
Okay, it was funny the first 90,000 times, but it's getting a bit old... who the heck is continuing to mod these as funny? Is there some cult of the "i for one welcome our new " that I'm not aware of?
Consider yourself spoken to.