Information Technology Industry Report Brown University

Information Technology Industry Report

Brown University

ADSP Lab 余 渊 善 2012.05.30

Content

About the previous report Brain-Computer Interface Technology (BCI)

Related industriesWhat companies or products will Benefit from

BCIBusiness model

About Brown UniversityFounded in 1764

Private university

One of the Ivy League

Ranks 15th in US (2012)

Alumni

Computer Science Dept. (CS)Founded in 1979Undergraduate and graduate levelsOne of the best facultiesRanks 20th in CS (2012)

Research areas Graphics Linguistic Information Processing (BLLIP) Data Management Brain Science Artificial Intelligence Programming Languages Visualization Research Lab Theory and Algorithm Visualization Research Lab Center for Vision Research Center for Computational Molecular Biology Software Engineering… For more information, please visit http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/areas.html

The top 3 areas (just my view) Graphics

The top 3 areas Linguistic Information Processing (BLLIP) Brain Science

Three researchers Robert C. Zeleznik

Computer Graphics Group MathPaper project

Enrich handwritten mathematics writer-independent math recognition Real-time recognition Students, teachers and professionals

Three researchers Andy van Dam

Computer Graphics Hypermedia systems Educational software One of the Computer Science Dept.'s co-founders

and its first chairman He has been working for over four decades on

systems for creating and reading electronicbooks with interactive illustrations for usein teaching and research

More information about Van Dam:http://cs.brown.edu/people/avd/

Three researchers James Hays

Computer graphics, Computer vision, and Computational photography

Focus on using “Internet-scale” data andcrowd-sourcing to improve scene understanding and allow smarter image synthesis and manipulation

An empirical study of context in object detection

Scene completion using millions of photographs

Estimating geographic

information from a single image

Paper“SUN Attribute Database: Discovering, Annotating, and Recognizing Scene Attributes” ——James Hays 2012.

Classifier Scene understanding and recognition

Paper Highlight

Image classification based on scene attributes Average precision reaches about 95%

Difficulty Attribute extraction significantly How to obtain high precision in large-scale sense

condition Value

Building a “SUN Attribute Database” Scene understanding Scene recognition

Brain-Computer Interface

AVATAR

How far the AVATAR

age is away from us?

Brain-Computer Interface Combine Computer Science with Biological Science Mind control machine

BCI is a method of communication based on neural activity generated by the brain

Brain-Computer Interface

Paralyzed in arms 15 years Drink water First human control

machine in the world

Brown’s BCI

Related industries Health care industry

Hospital Medical equipment company

Precision instrument Artificial limb Robot Material industry

Information Technology Hardware Software

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Benefit to… Large-scale hospital

Peking University Shenzhen Hospital Robot companies

The iRobot (US) Shenzhen Dateer Robot Corporation

Apple Inc.  No keyboard, no mouse Not only speech, but also mind control

Intel (chip development) Microsoft (software) Google

What is the customer want most ?

What should I do ? Experimental research stage  Orientation

Application software development

For the disabled in hospital

Family service robots

Future Research and Imagination Electrode, even wireless connection

Instead of implanting with a chip The whole cerebral cortex Computer and  the Brain communicate with each other

The storage of our brain

may be 100T or more?

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