Dr. Diane Whitmer, from Starlab, demonstrates Enobio®, a wearable, modular and wireless electro-physiology sensor system for the recording of EEG, ECG and EOG. You can learn more about enobio here

In collaboration with CompteLab, Starlab has created http://BarcelonaNeuroscience.com, which aims to become the reference neuroscience website in Barcelona and Catalunya.

What is a hunch? Or more importantly can they be trusted?

Some people trust their gut-instinct while others trust only those decisions that can be based on fact. In a research environment where the scientific method is king you are trained to carefully weigh the evidence before making a decision. But is this always the right way to go?

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The answer is Paris, France. And its popularity almost doubles the second of the list: Berlin.

This answer, which seems rather intuitive (how many times have we heard “la cité de l'amour”, “let's escape to Paris”, and similar?) can be proven using several methods. The one that I have tried here is using a quite popular approach these days: Application Programming Interfaces (API) and Mash-ups. Here is a summary of this small study:

The study of the world's oceans provides paramount information to understand global climate change through global  measurement  and modelling of  the ocean- atmosphere climate system. Monitoring of the seas is a vital resource for  scientists and policy makers in fields like oceanography, meteorology, ocean commerce, and disaster managing and mitigation.

These days I'm reading about concurrent programming, and I'm finding together Ada and VHDL.

Ada is a procedural language that supports concurrent programming. VHDL is a data flow language that allows the description of a concurrent system, but VHDL “is also originally” a fairly general-purpose language.

What do you think your ob jective is? I think this is a very interesting question, one  worth thinking about. Also, it is one that relates directly to the Starlab philosophy. Starlab’s day-to-day is the result of a clash of cultures: scientists and business people working together for our clients.

Indeed, Starlab is a company, which raises the interesting question of what companies are good for. What should the goal of a company be? This is a question that has recently gone under the spotlight, mostly due to the failure of our economy and financial system, and I think for good reason.

Interview by Leo Ruffini; published at the website of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). Photo by UOC.

Brian Lamb is a Project Coordinator with the Office of Learning Technology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) where he manages and consults on reusable media, personal publishing and social software initiatives on campus. However, he prefers to call himself a “discoordinator” because the technologies that interest him the most tend to be the ones that are fast, cheap and out of control. Given that he likes transgressive and non-mainstream ideas, he enjoys new media that offers the possibility to hear voices that we wouldn’t have heard a few years ago. This is why he named his blog “Abject Learning”.