semantic system and James V. Hardt, Biocybernaut Institute have decided for co-operation in neuro-feedback R&D (see Take your brain to the gym). Both parties evaluate the possibility in the integration of the two neural analysis approaches for enhanced functionally in both technologies.

About James V. Hardt, Biocybernaut Institute

Dr. James V. Hardt is a physicist, psychologist and psychophysiologist with over thirty years of research and clinical practice in neuro-feedback. The Biocybernaut Institute offers intensive training programs using custom advanced technology in the field of neuro-feedback.

Neuro-feedback, – also known as EEG biofeedback – is an approach used to train brain activity. Neuro-feedback can literally change the way our brains work even acquire peak performances.

In neuro-feedback, therapists attach electrodes to a patient’s scalp. Through these electrodes, a device measures electrical impulses in the brain, amplifies them and then records them. These impulses are divided into different types of brain waves. So, in order to concentrate on a task, parts of the brain must produce more high-frequency beta waves. To relax, the brain must produce more low-frequency theta waves. For example, the patient is rewarded when he or she makes more of the theta waves.

According to a study conducted in Germany in 2009 it could be concluded that Neurofeedback can indeed be considered an Evidence-Based treatment for ADHD.

You can read about the benefits of neuro-feedback:

What is Neurofeedback? (eeginfo.com)

NEUROTHERAPY: Give grey matter some sparkle (businessday.co.za)

Study may show whether neurofeedback helps people with ADHD and other disorders (washingtonpost.com)

Alpha EEG Feedback: Closer Parallel with Zen than with Yoga by James V. Hardt, Biocybernaut Institute

semantic system has been short listed as a finalist for Red Herring’s Global 100 2009 Award, which recognizes the year’s most promising private technology ventures from around the world based on their technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health.

The 200 finalists for the 2009 edition of the Red Herring Global 100 Award have been selected from a pool of 1200 regional recipients or finalists of the Red Herring 100 Awards in 2007, 2008, or 2009, ranging from Asia, Europe, and North America. The nominees were evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.

To view the entire press release please click here: RHG09 Finalist Press Release.

Zurich, Switzerland/La Jolla, USA December 16 – CENDOO and Semantic System have entered into an OEM contract to use Semantic’s ai-one™ in CENDOO’s Butler product.

Ever felt overwhelmed by too much information and communication? CENDOO and Semantic System are working on a totally new approach to tackle one of the biggest challenges for users of information technology:  information overload (see “Drowning in Information? You’re Not Alone“ of Huffington Post). While search engines are getting ever more powerful and provide more and more features, this is also bad news.  Users are swamped with huge amounts of information and the user has to go through the results to find what is of interest and relevant.  This process has to be repeated and refined, sometimes with multiple search engines, until he or she has found the right answers. Search engines available aren’t providing the essential feature: personalized semantic search.

Running on your PC as a virtual twin, CENDOO’s Butler knows your focus and preferences,  ”reading” and classifying search results and documents until it can deliver exactly and precisely what you need. The Butler will be available in 2010. Learn more: www.cendoo.com

To view the entire press release please click here: PR-20091216-Cendoo-finalizes-contract.

Researchers have created an “aware” cell phone that learns the user’s behaviour pattern. The phone could provide a better service, for example how to better manage the video download when the user is about to leave the 3G network range.

The phone uses the built-in accelerometer and a neural network software to predict what happens next and act accordingly. Would you like such a gadget?

(via newscientist.com)

Engineers at Northwestern University have created with “News At Seven” an entire newsroom operation that uses artificial intelligence to collect stories, produce graphics and even anchor broadcasts via avatars. Check out the NSF video (with a text version).

Research shows that animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent. Honeybees for example can count and categorise similar objects like human faces, traits that scientist previously thought were limited to larger animals. So, what are big(ger) brains for?

(via sciencedaily.com)

Remember how Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain project claimed in summer that an “artificial brain is 10 years away” (see Reverse-engineer the brain to build it)? The same boffin now dismissed last weeks news of IBM simulating a cat’s brain as a “hoax”. Still, the paper on the cat cortex simulation was awarded the ACM Gordon Bell Prize and IBM is one of the Blue Brain project’s technology partner. So, what do you think?(Via theregister.co.uk)

Almost a year ago we blogged that IBM is trying to create electronic circuits that mimic brains. Now the scientists at IBM have announced that they have made indeed succeeded in simulating a cat-sized cerebral cortex and are now moving towards creating a computer system that will simulate and emulate the human brain for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition. In their press release they also claimed that the system rivals the brain’s low power and energy consumption.

Slot Consulting commercializes Brainup, ai-one™ powered business intelligence solutionSemantic system ag announced  today that it signed an exclusive agreement with Slot Consulting that will allow Slot Consulting the rights to develop, use, and market Brainup, a business intelligence solution that is based on semantic system’s ai-one™ technology.

Brainup provides valuable insight into business data. Brainup turns legacy, archived and current data on pc’s, workstations, in the intranet, databases or file systems into a knowledge base.

About Slot Consulting

Slot Consulting (website in german) is consulting firm focusing on business and management consulting.

To view the entire press release please click here: Press Release November 11 2009 – Turn your legacy into active and valuable information