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IAP 2010 Activity


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
Sponsor: Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
Cosponsor: MIT Entrepreneurship Center
Latest update: 07-Jan-2010


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