Archives > 2007-02

Via Future-Making Serious Games     Friday, February 23 2007 The Serious Games Institute will be based at Coventry University Technology Park and built on the West Midlands’ excellence in computer games to diversify into non-entertainment uses such as simulation, education and training. The centre is currently under construction and will be linked into satellite centres at Coventry University and the University of Warwick. The Serious Games Institute will be fully operational by the autumn of 2007 but it will be holding a series of events to raise awareness between now and...

  Via Medgadget    A company called Blink Twice is developing a speech-generating device that promises to improve the way differently-abled children communicate with their world:   The tango! is an amazing communication aid that accomplishes all the amazing things you've seen in the emulation. It contains phrases, words, and spelling, all in easier-to-understand,...

Via KurzweilAI.net  Researchers at Medtronic are developing an implantable device designed to electrically stimulate areas of the brain to control diseases such as Parkinson's disease,...

Re-blogged from KurzweilAI.net     Grand challenges proposed by the U.K. Computing Research Committee include a project to unify cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and robotics....

Via textually.org             Second Life Reuters reports that Comverse Technology has developed an application that runs Second Life on Java-enabled mobile...