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BusinessWeek November 8, 2004 Catherine Arnst |
Redefining Smart Jeff Hawkins tackles his greatest passion, the study of the brain, in his new book "On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines." |
InternetNews October 8, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Jeff Hawkins, Innovator Though he may not strive for the robotic capacity of I, Robot, the founder of Palm and Handspring offers a glimpse into the function of intelligence and how he wants to extend that to machines. |
Wired March 2007 Evan Ratliff |
The Thinking Machine Jeff Hawkins created the Palm Pilot and the Treo. Now he says he's got the ultimate invention: software that mimics the human brain. |
Technology Research News October 3, 2005 Eric Smally |
USC's Michael Arbib The Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science shares his views on trends in science and technology, his work, and the links between technology, neuroscience, and behavior. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2010 Versace & Chandler |
MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors DARPA's new memristor-based approach to Artificial Intelligence consists of a chip that mimics how neurons process information |
Reason July 2005 |
Letters The Death of Social Security... Homeschooling Alone... Are We Just Really Smart Robots?... |
Wired March 24, 2008 Mark Anderson |
Never Mind the Singularity, Here's the Science Many computer scientists take it on faith that one day machines will become conscious. |
Reason February 2003 Ronald Bailey |
The Battle for Your Brain Science is developing ways to boost intelligence, expand memory, and more. But will you be allowed to change your own mind? |
Psychology Today Sep/Oct 2006 Katherine Ellison |
Mastering Your Own Mind Distracted? Angry? Envious? There's growing evidence that attention, emotion regulation -- even love -- are skills that can be trained through the practice of meditation. Perhaps it's time for you to become a high-performance user of your own brain. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2008 Glenn Zorpette |
Waiting for the Rapture The singularity is supposed to begin shortly after engineers build the first computer with greater-than-human intelligence. |
PC Magazine May 4, 2005 John R. Quain |
Thinking Machines, Take Two Palm cofounder Jeff Hawkins has started a company, Numenta, to create computers that can think like humans and to inspire new work on computer intelligence. |
InternetNews March 24, 2005 Michael Singer |
Palm/Handspring Creators Venture Into The Brain Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky launch a new company in search of a computer memory system modeled after the human brain. |
Salon.com January 2, 2002 Suzy Hansen |
The emotional machine Steve Grand, designer of the artificial life program Creatures, talks about the stupidity of computers, the role of desire in intelligence and the coming revolution in what it means to be "alive." |
IEEE Spectrum March 2012 Jose M. Carmena |
How to Control a Prosthesis With Your Mind New brain-machine interfaces that exploit the plasticity of the brain may allow people to control prosthetic devices in a natural way. |
Popular Mechanics October 5, 2009 Glenn Derene |
What Does a Beer Taste Like After the Singularity? Even if we accepted that it was possible to digitize the broad, ever-evolving spectrum that is human intelligence, add your own consciousness to it and then accelerate the heck out of it, what would the point be, exactly? |
BusinessWeek November 8, 2004 |
Wizard of the Wireless Future Palm pioneer and author of the book, On Intelligence, Jeff Hawkins explains why one mobile device will soon do it all, how robots will evolve, and more. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2012 Steve Furber |
Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons A miniature, massively parallel computer, powered by a million ARM processors, could produce the best brain simulations yet |
Science News April 25, 2009 Bruce Bower |
Out Of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, And Other Lessons From The Biology Of Consciousness By Alva Noe In his new book, the University of California, Berkeley philosopher offers an often thought-provoking explanation of why neuroscientists won't make headway in understanding conscious experience until they drop their brain-a-centric attitudes. |
Wired August 2001 Jennifer Kahn |
Let's Make Your Head Interactive The Human Brain Project is combining wet anatomy with next-gen scanning, imaging, and networking to give neuroscience a revolutionary new tool -- the globally accessible online mind... |
Fast Company August 8, 2011 Adam L. Penenberg |
NeuroFocus Uses Neuromarketing To Hack Your Brain Intel, PayPal, Pepsi, Google, HP, Citi, and Microsoft are spending millions to plumb your mind. Here's how it's done. |
Fast Company Belle Beth Cooper |
The Secret To Creativity, Intelligence, And Scientific Thinking Lots of great writers, artists and scientists have talked about the importance of collecting ideas and bits of knowledge from the world around us, and making connections between those dots. |
Inc. September 1, 2002 Thea Singer |
The Innovation Factor: Your Brain on Innovation Want to know what makes a creative genius tick? Neuroscience gives us some clues. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2012 Mark Anderson |
This Is Your Brain on fMRI The science of mind reading is further along than you might think |
Wired March 23, 2009 Jonah Lehrer |
Scientists Map the Brain, Gene by Gene I'm in the dissection room of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, and the scientist next to me is in a hurry. |
Fast Company October 2008 Gregory Berns |
Neuroscience Sheds New Light on Creativity What neuroscience reveals about how to come up with new ideas. |
Popular Mechanics November 18, 2009 Douglas Fox |
IBM Reveals the Biggest Artificial Brain of All Time This computer simulation, as large as a cat's brain, blows away the previous record -- a simulated rat's brain with 55 million neurons -- built by the same team two years ago. |
PC Magazine July 4, 2008 Logan Kugler |
Understanding the Brain As much as we know about the human brain, there's just as much we don't know. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Madeline Drexler |
Mark Bear: Charting New Waters Bear has applied his discoveries in brain plasticity to understanding fragile X syndrome, an inherited form of mental impairment. |
Inc. May 2009 Leigh Buchanan |
Charles Jacobs Goes Inside the Entrepreneur's Brain Leading corporate consultant, Charles Jacobs discusses how brain structure can impact business management. |
Popular Mechanics July 7, 2008 Erik Sofge |
For Future of Mind Control, Robot-Monkey Trials Are Just a Start A study in the journal Nature this spring all but confirmed the latest evolution in the hard-charging, heady field of cybernetics: Monkeys can control machines with their brains. |
AskMen.com Ryan Murphy |
Hitting Your Peak: Mental Power Regardless of how much you use or abuse your noggin, you'll eventually hit a time in your life when your cognitive and creative powers are working at their optimal levels. |
AskMen.com Michael J. Gelb |
Brain Workout: Part I The author has helped millions improve their creativity, memory and problem solving with books including the international best-seller How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci. |
AskMen.com Jacob Franek |
The Brain-Training Software Industry Use it or lose it. These are guiding words of wisdom when it comes to keeping your wits sharp, and it's a slogan that has spawned a massive brain-training software industry |
AskMen.com Bernard Croisile |
5 Daily Brain Exercises Many men are devoted to exercise to bulk up their bodies, but the phrase "use it or lose it" also applies to the neural pathways and connections in our brains. |
Technology Research News February 25, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
Model keeps virtual eyes right Researchers have developed a computer simulation of the areas in the primate brain that perform initial visual processing. "This model shows that very basic neural feature detectors may actually explain a lot of how attention is directed to particular objects in scenes," |
HBS Working Knowledge February 11, 2013 Carmen Nobel |
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business Economists have been paying increasing attention to how the brain works. Christine Looser discusses her research on how the brain detects aliveness and the possible implications for organizations and advertisers. |
Outside November 2002 Neal Thompson |
Strengthen the Muscle Between Your Ears True fitness follows the adage "Use it or lose it." Turns out the brain follows the same rule. Here's a two-part approach to brain development -- physical and mental -- which you can effortlessly incorporate into your existing workout plan. |
Wired April 21, 2008 |
6 Intelligence Myths Exposed A realistic look at some popular myths regarding boosting your brain power. |
Wired May 19, 2008 Daniel Carlat |
Brain Scans as Mind Readers? Don't Believe the Hype Can Spect scans of the brain really show our mind in action, or are we allowing ourselves to be seduced by images that may actually tell us very little? |
AskMen.com Jonathan Harvey |
Improve Your Mind With Music Do you think it's possible to become smarter and think more clearly with music? Can someone become a more effective learner, reader and thinker without even breaking a sweat? |
CIO December 1, 2001 John Edwards |
Eyesight to the Blind A team of researchers from three universities is working on artificial vision technologies that could one day detect visual patterns as effectively as the human brain... |
Fast Company Chris Gayomali |
Do Brainpower Apps Really Make You Smarter? Along with Lumosity and CogniFit, Fit Brains Trainer is one of the key players in the market for cognitive-training platforms ostensibly designed to keep your mind sharp. |
Scientific American March 2009 Michelle Press |
Scientific American Reviews: Why You Are Not Your Brain Also: books on monks and monkeys and miraculous anticipation |
Financial Planning April 1, 2012 Allan S. Roth |
Prediction Addiction Some clients think planners are soothsayers, able to see the future. And while the desire to predict the future is inherently human, it's usually destructive - particularly when it comes to investing. |
Scientific American February 2009 Gary Stix |
"Lazy Eye" Treatments Provide New Insight on Brain Plasticity Studies show how adult brains can be rewired back to a younger state. |
InternetNews October 16, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
Point, Click, Save Your Brain New study suggests link between Internet activity and mental acuity. |
Wired October 2004 |
Trackback Can Money Buy Happiness?... What a VC Wants... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2013 Eliza Strickland |
A Wiring Diagram of the Brain Advances in medical imaging allow the Human Connectome Project to map neural connections |
AskMen.com Michael J Gelb |
Brain Workout: Part 2 The author shares elements from his upcoming book Brain Power: Improve Your Mind as You Age in our five-day Brain Workout series. Today's chapter is "Improve Memory and Learning Ability as You Age." |
Wired April 21, 2008 |
Get Smarter: 12 Hacks That Will Amp Up Your Brainpower This guide to better brainpower shows you how to boost your memory, sharpen your concentration skills, and even pop the right combination of drugs and supplements. |