EEG Motor Imagery Classification in Node.js with BCI.js

By: Pierce Stegman

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) allow for the control of computers and other devices using only your thoughts. A popular way to achieve this is with motor imagery detected with electroencephalography (EEG). This tutorial will serve as an introduction to the detection and classification of motor imagery... Read More

I Did That with My Brain! High School Students Explore Physiological Computing

By: Ann-Claire Anderson

Advances in Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) are enabling the exploration of novel input techniques. Innovations in this area have resulted in technologies such as neuroprosthetics and brain-controlled wheelchairs. However, there is a lack of research investigating the design of technological tools that prepare the future workforce for this emerging technology... Read More

Connecting Your Thoughts

By: Devin Shah

Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku once said that with a 100 billion neurons, each neuron connecting to 10,000 other neurons, the human brain is the most complex object in the known universe. While the brain has baffled us for many centuries, we are now finally beginning to understand how it works… Read More

What's On Your Mind?

By: Devin Shah

When we were children, the world was new to us. We couldn’t understand it but we could see it, touch it, smell it, and much more with our sensory organs. Everything except interpretation. But as we grew older our teachers, parents, etc. taught us how society and the physical world functions, allowing us to eventually form new perspectives to understand the world around us. As the age of big data and ever-improving computational machines arrived, researchers started to think of machines the same way... Read More

Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?

By: David Berreby

A.I. developers are committing to end the injustices in how their technology is often made and used... Chris S. Crawford, a computer scientist at the University of Alabama. “I personally was in Silicon Valley when some of these technologies were being developed,” he said, and more than once, “I would sit down and they would test it on me, and it wouldn’t work. And I was like, You know why it’s not working, right?” Read Full Article

Want to Shed a Few Pounds? Researchers Test New Technology to Help

By: UA News

Psst! Hey, are you overweight? Touchy subject, I know, but it’s OK to admit. More than two-thirds of adults are said to be clinically overweight or obese. The National Institutes of Health has awarded a consortium of university researchers, led by The University of Alabama, a $2.5 million grant to further evaluate a wearable device designed to change eating behaviors. Read Full Article