Many people with Lou Gehrig's disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), first start to lose the ability to move their arms and legs. That's not Pat Bennett. She can move just fine. She ...

As everyone knows who has played computer games that use avatars, avatars are agents controlled by the player. Human consciousness can be likened to be an avatar controlled by the brain and acting on ...

We often take speech for granted. In a few seconds or less, brain activity fires, vocal muscles contract, and words spill out. Scientists have long sought to replicate this flurry of activity with ...

Over the course of my career in this life I've collected an assortment of toys that work well atop my computer monitors and I've assembled quite a menagerie.<P>Primary Display: Gumby holding a Chinese ...

The new artificial intelligence computer test asks a patient a series of questions via the use of an interactive on-screen avatar. The system reviews the answers and then differentiates between people ...