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Lecture 7 – Deafness: Emerging Strategies for a Cure (Stefan Heller) Stefan Heller is trying to create inexpensive ear drops that can cure deafness. In this short talk, Heller describes how his team of researchers at Stanford University is transplanting stem cells into the ear to "regenerate" damaged hearing cells. Watch it on [...] Lecture 6 – Visualizing Desire (Brian Knutson) Stanford University’s Brian Knutson is unraveling the mysteries of human desire with state-of-the-art medical imaging. Knutson’s research sheds new light on how individuals make complex financial decisions, and offers new ways for alleviating schizophrenia. Watch it on Academic Earth Related posts Lecture: Yale: Paul Bloom: Evolution and Rationality [...] Lecture 5 – Googling the Brain on a Chip (Kwabena Boahen) Kwabena Boahen is using the human brain as the blueprint for designing radically more powerful and energy-efficient computers. In this short demo, Boahen describes how his Brains in Silicon lab at Stanford University has created computer chips with "synapses" and "neurons" — and how these [...] Lecture 4 – Controlling the Brain with Light (Karl Deisseroth) Karl Deisseroth is pioneering bold new treatments for depression and other psychiatric diseases. By sending pulses of light into the brain, Deisseroth can control neural activity with remarkable precision. In this short talk, Deisseroth gives an thoughtful and awe-inspiring overview of his Stanford University lab’s groundbreaking [...] Lecture 3 – Brain-Computer Interfaces Krishna Shenoy is creating "brain-computer interfaces" that will enable paralyzed patients to control prosthetic arms and computer cursors. In this short talk, Shenoy describes how his team of Stanford researchers has built a system that achieves typing at 15 words-per-minute, just by "thinking about it". Watch it on [...] Source: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs “The United States must change the way it produces and uses energy by shifting away from its dependence on imported oil and coal-fired electricity and by increasing the efficiency with which energy is extracted/captured, converted, and utilized if it is to meet the urgent challenges [...] Source: ZD Net – Zack Whittaker "With experience of hindsight, with a number of events which social networking from ordinary members of the public (”citizen journalism”) from the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the Hudson river plane crash and the death of Michael Jackson; Twitter especially has been a key point of communication. "Twitter is instant and is [...] From: The Futurist: Coming Soon: A Smarter Internet "Less Web searching, more Web finding." The founders of a new U.S. start-up called SemanticV have come up with a new weapon in the war against information overload: a search engine that actually learns the meaning of words for which it’s searching…. For example, the word tank could refer [...]
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