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Ed Boyden on minding your brain

A conversation between Ed Boyden and Tyler Cowen on optogenetics and expansion microscopy to storytelling and the nature of consciousness.
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Cognimates: Collaborative creative learning with embodied intelligent agents

Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they lea…
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Lighting the path

Luminaries in computing and cognition discuss their journeys and share their insights.
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e-markets
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Future Storytelling
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Consumer Electronics Laboratory
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Masque

 When the body senses itself internally and localizes its actions, it provides the basis for a material sense of self-existence. At th…
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How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the user's
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FaceSense: Affective-Cognitive State Inference from Facial Video

People express and communicate their mental states–such as emotions, thoughts, and desires–through facial expressions, vocal nuances, gestu…
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Making new (robot) friends: Further reading

For the interested reader:If you'd like to learn more about the topics covered in my post,  Making new (robot) friends: Understanding …
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Electronic Publishing

How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
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Making new (robot) friends

Understanding children's relationships with social robots
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Some amazing facts about your unbelievable brain

Why was Einstein’s brain so good at some things and not others? Why is yours?
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Mindful Photons: Context-Aware Lighting

Light enables our visual perception. It is the most common medium for displaying digital information. Light regulates our circadian rhythms…
How people and objects can tell tales of their experience and learn from others as they navigate through the vast media fabric made up of intertwining storied threads.
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How everything from interface agents to toys can be designed to respond with human-like, full-body linguistic and social competencies.
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eRationality

How we can understand human behavior (rationality, semi-rationality, bounded rationality, and just plain irrationality) in day-to-day behaviors, and in particular in electronic environments.
How to give computers human-like intuition so they can better understand us.
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How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.
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How to enhance understanding, enable creativity, and ease our interactions with the technological environment.
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How various phenomena of mind emerge from the interactions among many kinds of highly evolved brain mechanisms.
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Future of Learning

How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.
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Physics and Media

How to bring the programmability of the digital world to the physical world.

How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
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How to improve mobility with higher-quality and lower-power-consumption display technology.
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Spatial Imaging
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How artists and engineers can refigure technology for the full range of human experience.
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SIMPLICITY
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Nanoscale Sensing

How to detect the activity of biological molecules with micro- and nanofabricated devices.
How to design machines that use what we do, where we are, and how we feel to add to our social, educational, and functional success.
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How to give computers "common sense"�the ability to think about the everyday world as people do.
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How simplifying the basic tools for digital expression will lead to a new creative digital economy. For more Physical Language Workshop projects, see Henry Holtzman.
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How to create seamless and pervasive connections between our physical environments and information resources.
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quanta

How we can construct information technology and intelligence from the fundamental building blocks of physical media: atoms and molecules.
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