CRNR mindtel（CRNR mindtel）.doc

CRNR CENTER FOR REALLY NEAT RESEARCH, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY The CRNR houses an ongoing interdisciplinary effort to conceptually and technologically escalate the work of both the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center (NPAC) and the Institute for Interventional Informatics (I3). The Northeast Parallel Architectures Center (NPAC) is an advanced computing center at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. Directed by Geoffrey Fox, NPAC specializes in High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), parallel processing, distributed computing, computational science, education, and technology transfer through the InfoMall program. The Institute for Interventional Informatics (I3) is a non-profit organization committed to the pro-social utilization of information technologies to improve quality of life. I3 Director Dr. David Warner graduated from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in June 1995. Also a Ph.D candidate in neurophysiology and medical informatics, Dr. Warner has been centrally concerned with human expression. In particular, how does/may the mind manifest itself through its body’s biological systems. Neural, ocular and muscular tissue all generate electrical fields. These dynamic fields are controlled willfuly through our physical and/or cognitive movements. In medical school, Dr. Warner noticed the potential for measuring these electro-physiological events and simultaneously using them as computer inputs: “Its a new kind of thinking-you can use your biological system as the controller.” An “interventional informatic,” then, is an informational mechanism inserted into a human system’s existent set of coping strategies which bolsters a persons power over their own life. Appropriately, the human system with which I3’s work into physiological human-computer interfaces was initiated was the quadreplegic. Unable to access an informatic system through conventional methods (i.e., mouse, keyboard), I3’s solution of the problem caused a paradigm