It sounds like a daunting task, but some researchers at Harvard and MIT have banded together to basically “reverse engineer” the human brain’s ability to process visual data into usable information. However, instead of testing one processing model at a time, they’re using a screening technique borrowed from molecular biology to test a range of thousands of models up against particular object recognition tasks. To get the computational juice to accomplish this feat, they’ve been relying heavily on GPUs, saying the off-the-shelf parallel computing setup they’ve got gives them hundred-fold speed improvements over conventional methods

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Researchers in Italy and Sweden have spent the last ten years developing what they call the “Smart Hand,” a prosthetic hand which enables feeling in its fingertips. The hand — which was recently wired up to a test patient through a surgical procedure — has four motors and forty sensors which are linked directly to the brain . In the surgery, the nerve endings of the patient were linked up to receptors in the hand, which allows for feeling in the fingertips of the hand, even though the hand is not really a part of his body

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