Student Maps Brain to Image Search

StonyandCher writes to mention that a University of Ottawa grad student is creating a search engine for visual images that will be powered by a system mapped from the human brain. "Woodbeck said he has already created a prototype of the search engine based on his patent, which apes the way the brain processes visual information and tries to take advantage of currently-available graphics processing capabilities in PCs. 'The brain is very parallel. There's lots of things going on at once,' he said. 'Graphics processors are also very parallel, so it's a case of almost mapping the brain onto graphics processors, getting them to process visual information more effectively.'"

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What about if you were Alex

[Therapist of Slashdo]

You know, rather than just watching the movie. You could actually experience the Traumatic Images. Now that would be really frightening, perhaps even drive you to jump from a high window. Now where's Julian, I need him to change the record, it's driving me nuts.