A tenured position is available for a full-time professor of stochastics at the Radboud university in Nijmegen, in the department of Mathematics.

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Applications are invited from outstanding graduates for a full-time, three-year PhD studentship, starting in October 2008. The project will be co-supervised by Dr Sandra Dudley & Prof Rodrigo Quian Quiroga at the University of Leicester, and David Barrie, Director of The Art Fund, the UK’s leading independent art charity.

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The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computations (ICNC) at the Hebrew University solicits applications for its Ph.D. Program in computational neuroscience. The Ph.D. Program exists since 1992, and currently has about 60 students, with 12-15 new admissions every year.

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STILL using a mouse, keyboard, joystick or motion sensor to control the action in a video game? It may be time to try brain power instead.
By ANNE EISENBERG
Published: NY Times, June 8, 2008
Jim Wilson/The New York Times
A new headset system picks up electrical activity from the brain, as well as from facial muscles and other spots, and translates it into on-screen commands. This lets players vanquish villains not with a click, but with a thought.
Put on the headset, made by Emotiv Systems in San Francisco, and when a giant boulder blocks the path in a game you are playing, you can levitate it — not by something as crude as a keystroke, but just by concentrating on raising it, said Tan Le, Emotiv’s president. The headset captures electrical signals when you concentrate; then the computer processes these signals and pairs a screen action with them, like lifting a stone or repairing a falling bridge.

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