Hello guys:). I've transferred this blog to 52brian.com( a brain science community). Unfortunately, contents from now on will be only written in English.
See you there:).
If gfw in China unblocks Google Blogger, I'd be back.
2010年10月2日星期六
2010年7月11日星期日
Robot suit-one form of cyborg
Robot suit is a suit with mechanical devices which can assist people's daily work especially for the disabled.
Person who devotes himself to the industry of robot suit should has a deep understanding of electrical engineering and automation（电气工程与自动化）as opposed to electrical and information engineering(电子信息工程）which mainly focuses computer hardware. The latter could build nano scale robots（with automation tech) called Nano-Electromechanical System, NEMS, 纳机电系统).
One commercialized product of robot suit is called "Hybrid Assistive Limb"(HAL). It has 3 forms - the upper part(the body), the lower part(the leg), and the whole body. Different form could be used for specific purposes like weight carrying and walk assistance.
If the price could be lowered, HAL and robot suit will be popular like today's computer. I guess it needs 20-30 years for this day to come.
Person who devotes himself to the industry of robot suit should has a deep understanding of electrical engineering and automation（电气工程与自动化）as opposed to electrical and information engineering(电子信息工程）which mainly focuses computer hardware. The latter could build nano scale robots（with automation tech) called Nano-Electromechanical System, NEMS, 纳机电系统).
One commercialized product of robot suit is called "Hybrid Assistive Limb"(HAL). It has 3 forms - the upper part(the body), the lower part(the leg), and the whole body. Different form could be used for specific purposes like weight carrying and walk assistance.
If the price could be lowered, HAL and robot suit will be popular like today's computer. I guess it needs 20-30 years for this day to come.
Narco Analysis, Compusense and BPS certification
1.Narco Analysis
In criminal psychology, these exists one area which uses so-called truth drug to elicit true answer from criminals. And administration of such drugs are called narco analysis( narco analysis method of interrogation, in chinese it's called"
麻醉分析讯问法"）
. For more info, go to wikipedia.
2.Compusense sense labratory solution
According to one job description at 51job, Compusense is a commercial software needed while establishing labratories of taste. In google scholar, I've found no psychological researcher with compusense specialty. Interesting.
3.BPS certification
British Psychological Society may be as large as the renowned American Psychological Association. It has a variety of certifications of psychological assessments(level A, level B).Among psychological best practices, SHL specialises psychological assessment. In fact, SHL is a UK-based company. So this fact tells me that if you want to join SHL, you must first get certification from BPS. It's the same to engineering psychology and user centered design. Human Factors International(HFI) is a best practice in this field and it business is mainly focused on certification and training.
In criminal psychology, these exists one area which uses so-called truth drug to elicit true answer from criminals. And administration of such drugs are called narco analysis( narco analysis method of interrogation, in chinese it's called"
麻醉分析讯问法"）
. For more info, go to wikipedia.
2.Compusense sense labratory solution
According to one job description at 51job, Compusense is a commercial software needed while establishing labratories of taste. In google scholar, I've found no psychological researcher with compusense specialty. Interesting.
3.BPS certification
British Psychological Society may be as large as the renowned American Psychological Association. It has a variety of certifications of psychological assessments(level A, level B).Among psychological best practices, SHL specialises psychological assessment. In fact, SHL is a UK-based company. So this fact tells me that if you want to join SHL, you must first get certification from BPS. It's the same to engineering psychology and user centered design. Human Factors International(HFI) is a best practice in this field and it business is mainly focused on certification and training.
2010年5月17日星期一
Google's Adsense and Psycholinguistics
Adsense is one of google's profitable tools. Its tech is based on Applied Semantics acquired（Chinese：收购） by Google in 2003. Applied Semantics uses a tech called CIRCA(patented information maybe seen at here and here). In its tech's introduction, it tells it's based on Cognitive Psychologist George Miller's Wordnet. This person may be called the founder or key role in modern cognitive perspective to human psy. His main contribution is in language and semantics(psycholinguistics, which uses cognitive perspective to study language).
Today, Wordnet has been used widely in Natural Language Processing(NLP). Other important resources for NLP(English) maybe British National Corpus. As for Chinese, it's Penn Treebank Project. Tks for Alex00zee at douban for directions.
This phenomenon is very surprising cauz google's horizon on science from several cutting edge and well flourished scientific disciplines. Why not to study the spread of science and decide your next M&A(merge and acquisition, in fact large companies often buys tech advanced small companies to keep their competence)?
Next phase, I will cover human 2.0 and one of google's geek ambition: technology singularity, transhumanism.
Indeed, with NBIC convergence and neuroengineering(neuroinformatics), I feel I've become a transhumanist. Maybe one day I'll join transhumanism.org.
Today, Wordnet has been used widely in Natural Language Processing(NLP). Other important resources for NLP(English) maybe British National Corpus. As for Chinese, it's Penn Treebank Project. Tks for Alex00zee at douban for directions.
This phenomenon is very surprising cauz google's horizon on science from several cutting edge and well flourished scientific disciplines. Why not to study the spread of science and decide your next M&A(merge and acquisition, in fact large companies often buys tech advanced small companies to keep their competence)?
Next phase, I will cover human 2.0 and one of google's geek ambition: technology singularity, transhumanism.
Indeed, with NBIC convergence and neuroengineering(neuroinformatics), I feel I've become a transhumanist. Maybe one day I'll join transhumanism.org.
2010年4月27日星期二
Long time no see friends:)
I'm coming back. Currently I've proposed a neuroengineering salon in Shanghai. Welcome to join.
Today we'll talked about two areas:
1.Psychoacoustic modeling:
Google.org.cn (in Chinese) has reported that some employees of G thought it was useful to let browser understand user's request verbally. So they used a technique called psychoacoustic modeling. It reminded me the important field of sensory psychology. Excluding vision science, there exists such scientific area which models acoustic phenomena. It's very exciting!!
2.Psychological Assessment Best Practice:
In business domain, a best practice may be refered to Fortune 500. And what dominates their personnel recruiting process is a service based on psychological testing. I've found some top consulting MNC(multinational company) and investment bank using performence test offered by a company called SHL. Interestingly, its scientific board director is former chair of one committee of British Psychological Society(BPS).
Mckinsey also uses top educational testing service called "Mckinsey Caselets" offered by ETS which creats God Red English(GRE, graduate record examination).It's interesting since I've never realised the popularity and high end application of psychological testing and assessment among top companies.
Today we'll talked about two areas:
1.Psychoacoustic modeling:
Google.org.cn (in Chinese) has reported that some employees of G thought it was useful to let browser understand user's request verbally. So they used a technique called psychoacoustic modeling. It reminded me the important field of sensory psychology. Excluding vision science, there exists such scientific area which models acoustic phenomena. It's very exciting!!
2.Psychological Assessment Best Practice:
In business domain, a best practice may be refered to Fortune 500. And what dominates their personnel recruiting process is a service based on psychological testing. I've found some top consulting MNC(multinational company) and investment bank using performence test offered by a company called SHL. Interestingly, its scientific board director is former chair of one committee of British Psychological Society(BPS).
Mckinsey also uses top educational testing service called "Mckinsey Caselets" offered by ETS which creats God Red English(GRE, graduate record examination).It's interesting since I've never realised the popularity and high end application of psychological testing and assessment among top companies.
2010年3月14日星期日
Robot solves puzzles with Nokia N95 camera
乐高机器人（乐高这个著名的模型制造商有可能是高端机械发烧友的主要供应商）、机器视觉（N95手机）、问题解决（人工智能）、还有一个莫名的ARM架构。
Robot solves puzzles with Nokia N95 camera.
Seems very interesting.
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ5NzQxODAw.html
Robot solves puzzles with Nokia N95 camera.
Seems very interesting.
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ5NzQxODAw.html
2010年3月6日星期六
About vocal DOD tech：A summary
Vocal DOD tech means using vocal analyser to analyse psychological factors of sound including tone, loudness, musical quality.
According to wiki, vocal analyser DOD tech is named "Voice Stress Analysis" or specifically "Layered Voice Test"(also from wiki). It is mainly used in airports and some insurance companies to detect lying. However, Deception blog has lots of articles indicating it doesn't work.
Unfortunately, I haven't found any other test equipments so famous like polygraph to analyse sound's psychfactor and detect lies. But we do see Lock("Lie to Me") used unfamiliar device to decompose subject's voice. What's that? I guess it won't be voice stress analysis software "X13-VSA".
Anyway, consulting expert might be a better choice. I've found one in Chine. Her name is Cuiling Zhang and her book(in Chinese) has lots of details of vocal lie detection esp. in Chapter 2.
According to wiki, vocal analyser DOD tech is named "Voice Stress Analysis" or specifically "Layered Voice Test"(also from wiki). It is mainly used in airports and some insurance companies to detect lying. However, Deception blog has lots of articles indicating it doesn't work.
Unfortunately, I haven't found any other test equipments so famous like polygraph to analyse sound's psychfactor and detect lies. But we do see Lock("Lie to Me") used unfamiliar device to decompose subject's voice. What's that? I guess it won't be voice stress analysis software "X13-VSA".
Anyway, consulting expert might be a better choice. I've found one in Chine. Her name is Cuiling Zhang and her book(in Chinese) has lots of details of vocal lie detection esp. in Chapter 2.
2010年2月28日星期日
Quirkology: Fun and Elevator
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTI4MzQyMTQw.html
Detailed information is here.
http://www.thefuntheory.com/
2010年2月10日星期三
BCI X prize
X prize foundation is a non-profit organization which promote technology innovation including commercial space flight capsule.
Now it has established a Brain Computer Interface X prize to promote BCI and maybe larger distributive human machine interface.
More could be seen below.
http://singularityhub.com/2010/01/21/igniting-a-brain-computer-interface-revolution-bci-x-prize/
&
Igniting a Brain-Computer Interface Revolution – BCI X PRIZE
Now it has established a Brain Computer Interface X prize to promote BCI and maybe larger distributive human machine interface.
More could be seen below.
http://singularityhub.com/2010/01/21/igniting-a-brain-computer-interface-revolution-bci-x-prize/
&
Igniting a Brain-Computer Interface Revolution – BCI X PRIZE
2010年1月29日星期五
Barack Obama and Psychology
Honestly speaking Obama is a president full of different working styles when compared to former US presidents (at least I think so).
One I believe is his choice of psychology application to a lately established(? see below) government section called Consumer Financial Protection Agency( CFPA) to help US recover from 2009 great depression. Insterestingly I've not found it at US gov website. However, US Chamber of Commerce has established a website to tell mass "STOP the CFPA".
Whatever, this department has an origin deeply rooted in psychology with Nobel Laureate Kahneman's research at the intersection between psychology and economics. It's called behavioral economics in economics or decision making in experimental psychology. And thanks to Kahneman's collaborator Sunstein, a law professor once in Chicago with B. Obama, this field has been introduced to US government.
Further information could be read at websites listed below:
One I believe is his choice of psychology application to a lately established(? see below) government section called Consumer Financial Protection Agency( CFPA) to help US recover from 2009 great depression. Insterestingly I've not found it at US gov website. However, US Chamber of Commerce has established a website to tell mass "STOP the CFPA".
Whatever, this department has an origin deeply rooted in psychology with Nobel Laureate Kahneman's research at the intersection between psychology and economics. It's called behavioral economics in economics or decision making in experimental psychology. And thanks to Kahneman's collaborator Sunstein, a law professor once in Chicago with B. Obama, this field has been introduced to US government.
Further information could be read at websites listed below:
- http://www.douban.co
m/subject/3541320/ (the book "Nudge") - http://www.douban.co
m/subject/4022709/ (the book "Nudge" Chinese) - http://online.wsj.co
m/article/SB12454547 (WSJ)7468032915.html - http://chn.chosun.co
m/site/data/html_dir (Chinese introduction)/2009/06/24/20090624 000030.html
2010年1月26日星期二
Cold spring harbour asia conference center
Suzhou
Cold Spring Harbor Asia conferences will be held at Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center in Suzhou, China, sixty miles west of Shanghai and in easy reach of international and domestic airports. Suzhou is an ancient city known as the Venice of China, famous for its canals and private gardens and home to scholars for more than two millenia. Symposia, conferences and summer schools follow the Cold Spring Harbor tradition in showcasing merit-based scientific advances in an informal but intense atmosphere.
To encourage participation by significant international participation from throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas, the language of all programs will be English.
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And this place intends to cooperate with Shanghai neuroscience insitute, Chinese academy of sciences according to MumingPU at here（Chinese）
Cold Spring Harbor Asia conferences will be held at Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center in Suzhou, China, sixty miles west of Shanghai and in easy reach of international and domestic airports. Suzhou is an ancient city known as the Venice of China, famous for its canals and private gardens and home to scholars for more than two millenia. Symposia, conferences and summer schools follow the Cold Spring Harbor tradition in showcasing merit-based scientific advances in an informal but intense atmosphere.
To encourage participation by significant international participation from throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas, the language of all programs will be English.
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And this place intends to cooperate with Shanghai neuroscience insitute, Chinese academy of sciences according to MumingPU at here（Chinese）
2010年1月23日星期六
What's Neurotech?
I created this blog about 1 year ago, and today it's almost one year(01/31/09-01/23/10, GMT+8). Cauz this anniversary, I've recently read about IC(Intelligence Community)'s report on neurotech from emerging cognitive neuroscience(uploaded in Google group) and will tell readers briefly what neurotech will cover according to it.
The report offered a complete framework on cognitive neuroscience fields including:
-Detection of deception tech with the help of neuroimaging
-Neuroimaging systems with real time brain activity measurement and implications for coaching and mind control esp. for military purpose
-Neuropsychopharmacology and nanobiomedicine tech to develop enhancers like cognitive, affective and sensory
-Computational biological models and artificial intelligence which work hard to replicate "mind" outside human body
-Distributed human machine system
-Brain computer interface
-Cyborg which means part of human body (usually motor system) is replaced by machine
-Cognitive Cyborg which means part of human advanced brain function is replaced
-Intelligent robot assistant
And within those tech, drug enhancers and distributed human machine system are predicted to be closest to reality and maybe societal change.
The report offered a complete framework on cognitive neuroscience fields including:
-Detection of deception tech with the help of neuroimaging
-Neuroimaging systems with real time brain activity measurement and implications for coaching and mind control esp. for military purpose
-Neuropsychopharmacology and nanobiomedicine tech to develop enhancers like cognitive, affective and sensory
-Computational biological models and artificial intelligence which work hard to replicate "mind" outside human body
-Distributed human machine system
-Brain computer interface
-Cyborg which means part of human body (usually motor system) is replaced by machine
-Cognitive Cyborg which means part of human advanced brain function is replaced
-Intelligent robot assistant
And within those tech, drug enhancers and distributed human machine system are predicted to be closest to reality and maybe societal change.
2010年1月9日星期六
Neuroengineering institute in China
Neuroengineering is the subfield of biomedical engineering. It seems more related to NBIC and Psychology.
Here is the list without institute ranking information:
1.Tianjin Neural Engineering Research Center, TNERC
2.Institute of Neural Engineering, TsingHua University
3.Research Center of Neural Engineering, Shenzheng Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
4.Wuhan Insitute of Neuroscience & Neuroengineering, South Central University of Nationalities
5.Research Center of Neuroscience & Neuroengineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University Med-X Institute
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East China Normal University also has an institute named nbic.ecnu.edu.cn(only a mail server, but offers a lot).
Here is the list without institute ranking information:
1.Tianjin Neural Engineering Research Center, TNERC
2.Institute of Neural Engineering, TsingHua University
3.Research Center of Neural Engineering, Shenzheng Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
4.Wuhan Insitute of Neuroscience & Neuroengineering, South Central University of Nationalities
5.Research Center of Neuroscience & Neuroengineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University Med-X Institute
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East China Normal University also has an institute named nbic.ecnu.edu.cn(only a mail server, but offers a lot).
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