Thursday, October 15th, 2009
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From the Wire: Tiny implants that connect to nerve cells could improve control prosthetic limbs, according to an article recently published by Technology ...
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
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Kevin Fu, a software engineer and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, wants to ensure that malicious hackers don’t turn medical devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators into killing machines. Though Fu acknowledges that it might seem paranoid to protect against such an attack, ...
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