Student Member Develops Device That Mimics Brain

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24 points·akulbansal··6 comments

These over-hyped stories are getting amusing. Next year I expect:

Headline

Nine year old African girl develops brain-enhancing neuroimplants with a set of toothpicks after watching a educational video on $25 laptop received from microfinancing initiative.

True story (not in linked post)

Kid watches stupid stunt on Youtube. Attempting same, stabs self in the eye and almost dies.

another news piece - http://engineering.stanford.edu/announcement/stanford-engine...

sections from the project web site - http://www.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/challenge.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/neurogrid.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/goals.html

see biot's comment for the paper - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4819775

The article reads like a fluff piece...doesn't describe how they achieved this in any detail at all.

What's with your obnoxious sense of entitlement? This is an announcement of their receipt of the fellowship and the level of detail provided is reflective of that. Next time, rather than whinging in public you could have done 2 minutes of research and unearthed the paper:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/documents/NEFo...

Thanks for the link and sorry about the offensive tone.

The real deal : http://discovermagazine.com/2009/oct/06-brain-like-chip-may-...

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