http://celest.bu.edu/news/media-publicity CELEST Media Publicity en-us 2012 celest.bu.edu Wed, 16 May 2012 16:16:02 EDT Wed, 16 May 2012 16:16:02 EDT http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss celest.bu.edu Website RSS Generator celest@cns.bu.edu celest@cns.bu.edu http://celest.bu.edu/news/media-publicity celest@cns.bu.edu In response to Basilis Zikopoulos and Helen Barbas' featured paper in This Week in the Journal of Neuroscience, Science News writer Laura Sanders wrote the article, "Why emotions are attention-getters Strong, direct wiring in brain connects feelings with focus." For the full article please see the Science ... April 26, 2012 http://celest.bu.edu/news/media-publicity celest@cns.bu.edu The CELEST affiliated Neuromorphics Lab has an IEEE cover page featured article in the January/February issue of IEEE Pulse. The NL press release states, "the February edition of IEEE Pulse will be devoted to Neuroscience and DARPA, with a collection of cutting-edge work sponsored by the agency. Our work has been selected, and featured on the cover page, with an article titled 'The Animat'." For the complete press release and a PDF link of the full article please see the March 2, 2012 http://celest.bu.edu/news/media-publicity celest@cns.bu.edu A Science for the Public visit to the Neural Prosthesis Lab of Frank Guenther at Boston University. Dr. Guenther, Co-Director Jon Brumberg, and other members explain the significance of their research on speech production processes and the great advances underway in making communication possible for people who are unable to speak: victims of stroke, ALS and locked-in syndrome, for example. Dr. Guenther and his colleagues demonstrate the now-famous Brain-Computer-Interface device. Additionally, ... February 13, 2012 http://celest.bu.edu/news/media-publicity celest@cns.bu.edu Three CELEST members are featured in the Boston University Research 2011 Magazine. Max Versace's CELEST research on neuromorphic technology is the lead story in the section "Building Smarter Machines." Two more articles follow highlighting the research by CELEST members Michael Hasselmo and Barbara Shinn-Cunningham. December 20, 2011 http://celest.bu.edu/news/media-publicity celest@cns.bu.edu In BU's Neuromorphics Lab, an interdisciplinary team of neuroscientists, biologists, engineers, computer scientists, and mathematicians are developing robots modeled on the human brain that can learn on their own, make decisions, and adapt to their environments. Learn more on the Neuromorphics Lab Website, including links to both print and online versions ... November 3, 2011 http://celest.bu.edu/news/media-publicity celest@cns.bu.edu The work of Frank Guenther's Speech Lab gained the attention of the NSF-funded news magazine Science Nation. In addition to a full length article on their research, Guenther and his lab are the focus of the video episode, "Mind Reading Computer System May Help People With Locked-in Syndrome." Watch the full episode and read the article on the Science ... October 20, 2011 http://celest.bu.edu/news/media-publicity celest@cns.bu.edu CELEST members Professor Ajay Joshi, Dr. Massimiliano Versace, Dr. Florian Raudies, graduate student Mahmoud Zangeneh and graduate student Schuyler Eldridge are featured in the BU Electrical and Computer Engineering's Research Spotlight. The spotlight covers the team's work in "Plastic Neuromorphic Hardware for Autonomous Navigation in Mobile Robots". October 7, 2011 http://celest.bu.edu/news/media-publicity celest@cns.bu.edu It starts off as unformed as any other infant, but this virtual rat's knack for learning could take it a long way – perhaps all the way to Mars In January, Max Versace and Heather Ames were busy with two newborns: their son Gabriel and Animat, a virtual rat. Like all babies, when Gabriel was born his brain allowed him to do only simple things like grasp, suck and see blurry images of his parents. The rest was up to him. From the first day his body experienced the world, ... August 28, 2011 http://celest.bu.edu/news/media-publicity celest@cns.bu.edu In an engaging feature in the New Scientist, Virginia Hughes tells the story of Animat, a virtual rat created as a guinea pig (if you’ll excused the mixed-animal metaphors) for artificial intelligence. Creating robots that can learn from their environments has proved frustrating... August 26, 2011 http://celest.bu.edu/news/media-publicity celest@cns.bu.edu The Neuromorphics Lab is researching innovative robot learning-algorithms. Imagine having a cleaning robot that did what no other cleaning robot is currently able to do: learn. It could learn the one place in your house where your dog always loves to wipe his grubby little paws when he comes inside. It could learn that Tuesdays are softball practice, which means a certain trail of dirt leading up to your room. The keyword here, obviously, is learning. The problem with the conventional ... July 27, 2011