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Scientists engineer dreams to understand the sleeping brain

Researchers in the Fluid Interfaces group and elsewhere are hoping to learn more about how and why dreams are generated, and their effects.
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SkipNorm

Skip Norm is a new and flexible building block for Deep Learning that serves as a skip connection and normalization block simultaneously. I…
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Synthetic Neurobiology

Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
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Tools for mapping the molecular architecture and wiring of the brain

Complex biological systems such as brain circuits are extended 3-D structures made out of nanoscale building blocks such as proteins, RNAs,…
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New Media Medicine

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
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Modeling Auditory Memory

When we form memories, not everything that we perceive is noticed; not everything that we notice is remembered. Humans are excellent at f…
How to build characters that have the everyday common sense, the ability to learn, and the sense of empathy that one finds in animals such a
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Digital Life
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Relational AI

Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots Many of our current projects explore the use of…
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CE 2.0

CE 2.0
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing
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Music, Mind and Machine

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
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Digital Synesthesia

Digital Synesthesia looks to evolve the idea of human-computer interfacing and give way for human-world interacting. It aims to find a way …
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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.
Communications Futures Program
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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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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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