Brain-Computer Interfaces: Igniting a Revolution
Erika Wagner, Bruce Klein (Singularity University)
Thu Jan 7, Fri Jan 8, 09am-05:00pm, 4-349
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 28-Dec-2009
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Imagine a direct connection between the human brain and the world's most powerful computers...
Would you type with your thoughts?
...help the blind to see?
...give an amputee control over his bionic arm?
...super-charge your memory with digital RAM?
If you had $20 million to catalyze these sort of breakthroughs, what could the world achieve?
Join the X PRIZE Lab@MIT and Singularity University for this special interactive 2-day workshop.
Special guests include:
\\* Ed Boyden, Director of the MIT Synthetic Neurobiology Group
\\* Ray Kurzweil, Chancellor of Singularity University
\\* Gerwin Schalk, Director of BCI2000
\\* Peter Diamandis, CEO & Chairman of X PRIZE
EVENT IS FULL.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/xprize
Contact: Erika Wagner, 37-219, 253-0017, xprize@mit.edu
Cosponsor: MIT Entrepreneurship Center
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Ideas to Impact: Bringing Inventions to Market
Carol Sardo, Ed Canton
Wed Jan 27, 04-06:00pm, 4-270
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Please join us for a panel discussion and networking event focusing on MIT resources available to faculty, students, and collaborators who have great ideas and inventions, and a desire to bring them to the marketplace.
Panelists
Michael J. Cima
Sumitomo Electric Industries Professor of Engineering
Faculty Director, Lemelson-MIT Program
Deshpande Center grantee
Carl Dietrich, Ph.D.’06
CEO, Terrafugia
2006 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner
Lucinda Linde, ’82, SM ‘83
2008 Lobdell Award winner
Walnut Venture Associates
Ifat Rubin-Bejerano
Postdoctoral Associate, Whitehead Institute
Deshpande Center grantee (Professor Gerald Fink, PI)
Jack Turner, BSEE ‘66
Associate Director
MIT Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Carol Sardo, csardo@mit.edu, & Ed Canton, ecanton@mit.edu
Cosponsor: LEMELSON-MIT PROGRAM
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