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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><h1 style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; ">MacTechGroup</h1><p style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 16px; ">The MacTechGroup holds meetings for Macintosh programmers on the first Wednesday of each month at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.</p><h3 style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 14px; text-align: center; ">Next Meeting:<br>Nov 7 2012 7:00 PM Building E51 Room 335 MIT Sloan School </h3><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; ">NOTE THAT OUR OFFICIAL ROOM IS 335 - but check the other rooms in that corridor!!!!!</div></span></h1></span></div></x-html><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; "><em style="font-weight: normal; ">Subject: </em></span><font color="#555555" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><i>Neurogames</i></span></font><div>Presenter: Praveen Aravamudham </div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; ">Praveen says he can use brain waves to control an iPad app, or make objects move, or bend spoons, or something like that. You'll have to come to find out for sure.</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">We haven't had a session since Alan Kay visited us in 1989 who talked about neurons that focuses on the brain, and Praveen has an app all about the brain just in time when the elections will be over. Praveen was here last year and gave a great talk on storyboards, which he has done for a couple of groups, getting international acclaim and bipartisan support. Anyway, here's his description of what he's going to talk about.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; "> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">The human brain is the most fascinating part of the human body - alas we</span></div><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">do not know much about it when compared to the heart, lungs, liver etc</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">etc. We have heard of heart transplants, liver transplants and other</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">medical surgeries but have not heard much about brain related surgeries</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">at least to the common individual. In my opinion part of the problem</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">lies in not understanding what makes the brain tick? Enter NueroGames -</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Games designed to help you relax and help you increase your attention</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">span by looking at your brain's EEG values. By using a headset that</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">gives us the raw EEG values of a brain, NueroGames calculates the</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">corresponding wave frequency of the raw EEG values (EEG wave frequency</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">can be alpha/beta/gamma/delta/theta/mu). </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">The next time someone asks you to relax and stay focused - use</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Neurogames - the app will scientifically make you relax and stay focused.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#272727"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 18px; ">The first half hour to hour, we have an open discussion session. </span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; ">Hope we will see you there!</span></font></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">************************</div><x-html><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: normal; "><div style="font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><div style="font-size: medium; font-family: Helvetica; ">You can get a map showing building E51 at<br><<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?oldstate=2&off.x=4620&off">http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?oldstate=2&off.x=4620&off</a>.<span></span>y=1640&hi=bldg_e51&zoom.x=89&zoom.y=38><br><br><br>The MacTechGrp always meets the first Wednesday of the month. (Sometimes I screw up the date of the notice, but it's always the first Wednesday)<br><br>You can get more information on the MacTechGrp and directions at <a href="http://www.mactechgroup.org/">http://www.mactechgroup.org</a>. We're also on <a href="http://Meetup.com">Meetup.com</a> now - check it out. Please sign up for our group on Meetup, and swell our ranks. It's free to sign up. I'm paying the bill.<br><br>To contact the unindicted co-conspirator irresponsible for this group,<br>email <a href="mailto:owen@clipboardinc.net">owen@clipboardinc.</a>com<br><br></div></font></div></span></h1></span></div>
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