November 17, 2014
‘Building the Bionic Man’ lecture on campus this week
The latest in the Seattle Arts & Lectures SAL U series will look at technologies that could help repair a person’s cognitive or sensory-motor functions. “Brain-Computer Interfaces: Building the Bionic Man” is at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, in Kane Hall room 110.
The speaker is Rajesh Rao, a UW professor of computer science and engineering and director of the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering. Rao’s research involves understanding computational principles in the brain’s ability to learn, process and store information, then applying this to building adaptive robotic systems and brain-computer interfaces.
Rao and colleagues in psychology and the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences recently published a study in the journal PLOS ONE that showed successful direct brain-to-brain communication between pairs of people. The paper, along with the team’s initial demonstration a year ago, received widespread attention in the research community and news media.
This talk is co-presented by the UW Alumni Association and the graduate program in neuroscience. Tickets are $20 and available online. Students can buy tickets for $5 at the box office the evening of the event. Bring your student ID.
Check out more upcoming talks about technology and the brain by UW faculty.
