As I noted in my Oct. 7, 2014 posting, I changed up the order of the classes. Last night (Oct. 20, 2014)), I presented the Week 5 material for the last class  of Bioelectronics, Medical Imaging and Our Bodies (at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada). So, here’s a description of what I presented in this course’s last class,

Week 5 6: Reverse Engineering the Brain and Neuromorphic Engineering

New computer algorithms exploit supercomputing architectures in order to measure the connections between cortical and sub-cortical locations in the human body. While brain repair is one desired outcome, there is also a major interest in developing artificial brains. The boundary between machine and human is breaking down.

I also presented information about the ‘brain in a dish’ mentioned in the session on Growing Human Organs.

Here’s the final week’s slide deck,

Week 5_Reverse & Neuromorphic Engineering

As usual, here are my ‘notes’ for last night’s class consisting largely of brief heads designed to remind me of the content to be found by clicking the link directly after the head.

Week 5 Neuromorphic engineering and brain

Happy Reading! and one final note, I will be teaching a new six-week course at Simon Fraser University : Nanotechnology: The Next Big Idea.  It starts this week on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014.