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Archive for September, 2007

Online material from IIT and IISc Professors !!

Posted by Ankush Acharya on September 26, 07

Hey friends, a lot of you must not be a book worm but would definitely be an E-Book worm, like me ! Having a collection of e-books in your system…good work, but don’t you think…what if your system crashes !!!

Voila !! There is a remedy for the same…Check out http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/ where you get access to the best materials on any topic, a joint venture by seven IITs and IIsc. The materials being uploaded by eminent professors from the institutes.

Your part of work: Just register yourself and get access to the pool of knowledge… :)

Spread the word and help in enhancing the quality of education in INDIA……

What more to expect ???

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Cyborg(Cybernetic Organism): Part human, part machine

Posted by Ankush Acharya on September 24, 07

Meet Mr.Kevin Warwick , the first HUMAN CYBORG. Being a Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, England, he carries out research in artificial intelligence, control, robotics and biomedical engineering.

What makes him unique is that: He has been fitted with cyborg technology, enabling his nervous system to be linked to a computer. Surgeons have fitted a small silicon chip into his left wrist and its electrodes are connected to the median nerve. Connecting wires are implanted under the skin of the forearm and are fed to the computer through a small puncture on the wrist. The wires are linked to a transmitter/receiver device to relay nerve messages to a computer by radio signal. These signals, encoding movements like movement of fingers and feelings like shock and pain, will be transmitted to a computer and recorded for the first time.

Further Reading: His official website

Videos (Plays in Quick Time)

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