Reviewing 10th ICCNS

Tenth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems:
http://cns-web.bu.edu/cns-meeting/2006conference.html
http://cns-web.bu.edu/cns-meeting/2006schedule.html

This review consists of 3 parts:
1) Plenary lecture: Ken Ford (Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition)
"Toward cognitive prostheses"
2) NSF Science of Learning Centers program and how its impact feels at the conference
3) Various results (mostly reviewed in my LJ already)

1) Eyeglasses as an example of a brilliant ocular prosthesis: human-centered, fit for a particular person, etc, etc. Ford wants to make systems that can be regarded as cognitive or perceptual prostheses..

1.1) OZ cockpit display (the starting example):

we can have this aircraft instrument panel

http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/08/30.html
instead of traditional aircraft instrument panels:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockpit

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