My Work and Thoughts.
By dmodha
"Microsoft on Wednesday took the wraps off its first commercial operating system for robots, with hopes of paving the way for a broader robotics industry and taking a central role in its development. "
"The technology, called Microsoft Robotics Studio, is a Windows-based software platform designed to make it relatively simple to program robots–real or simulated."
By dmodha
"It is a brain map like no other, has been three years in the making, and promises a revolution in neuroscience: a genomic atlas of the mouse brain has been crafted."
"…the Allen Brain Atlas contains 85 million images, and enough data to fill 20,000 iPods. The atlas documents the activity of more than 21,000 genes across the entire mouse brain in such fine detail that it is possible pick out individual cells."
Also, Paul Allen was named this month to Scientific American 50 list.