EPFLFeb 4

Neural interfaces are the winners of the 2026 Queen Elisabeth Prize for Engineering. Nine scientists are honoured, including Jocelyne Bloch and Grégoire Courtine, from EPFL and UNIL/CHUV, recognised for their development of electronic spinal stimulation technology, which reactivates neural circuits controlling locomotion.

➡️ https://actu.epfl.ch/news/neurosciences-get-a-royal-reward/

#EPFL #NeuralInterfaces #Prize

Neurosciences get a royal reward

Neural interfaces are the winners of the 2026 Queen Elisabeth Prize for Engineering. Nine scientists are honoured, including Jocelyne Bloch and Grégoire Courtine, from EPFL and UNIL/CHUV, recognised for their development of electronic spinal stimulation technology, which reactivates neural circuits controlling locomotion.

AnthonyJan 8, 2025
Brain scanning, HCI, and neural implants hyped as the "future of work", improving efficiency, and so on: resist all of it with every fiber of your being, because if we don't we won't have any beings left to speak of.

These technologies are none of those things. They are, instead, an attempt to enclose the psyche, one of the last large wellsprings of unexploited value left. See, for instance, https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-enclosure-of-the-human-psyche

Think through what that'd look like: in order to be paid a living wage--in other words, in order to live--you would be forced to surrender all your private thought to a corporation, and by extension one or more governments. At that point you'd cease to be an individual person: psychologically, private space is necessary to develop fully as a human being. You would instead become some sort of appendage, as independent of your company and government as your fingernail is from you. Is that really worth having cooler video games or whatever kind of cookies such tech might bring?

#tech #dev #FutureOfWork #HCI #NeuralInterfaces
The Enclosure of the Human Psyche

The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 13

The Convivial Society
JIPFeb 23, 2023

Happy to announce that my #ERCStG project ECHOES will be funded. The project will use motor neuron activity to infer CNS signals. Thanks to the
ERC for their support. We will soon be looking for PhDs & postdocs. DM if interested in #motor #neurosci #neurophys #neuralinterfaces

Soon + info. Big thanks to people who I admire & have been lucky to learn from over these past years (especially D Farina, JC Rothwell, SN Baker, C Mehring, L Rocchi,
AD Vecchio, R Hannah, S Muceli, D Barsakcioglu)

Antonio LozanoDec 27, 2022

My first mastodon post!

Interested in #neuralinterfaces #deeplearning and #brainimplants for the blind? Sharing our latest 🔥PRE-PRINT🔥"Biologically plausible phosphene simulation for
the differentiable optimization of visual cortical
prostheses" w Maureen van der Grinten,
@deRuyterJaap
et al. 1/