Topics covered include living implants, memory fabrication, brain stimulation, dreams, and more. The day will also include demos and inspiration stations of lucid dream experiences, and other brain-computer interfaces.

Presentation schedule:

10:40 AM: Brain Augmentation
Professor Pattie Maes – MIT Media Lab; Media Arts and Sciences

11:40 AM: Writing to the Brain, Part 1 – Implanting Memories
Professor Elizabeth F. Loftus – UCI School of Social Ecology; Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science

12:30 PM Writing to the Brain, Part 2 – Erasing Memories while Sleeping
Dr. Nathan Whitmore – MIT Media Lab

2:00 PM: Brain Devices and Identity
Dr. Christine Kenneally, New Yorker

2:40 PM: Stimulating the Brain – Smell
Dr. Judith Amores, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research

3:40 PM: Towards future systems? Part 1 - Living Wires
Prof. Kacy Cullen, University of Pennsylvania

4:20 PM: Towards future systems? Part 2 – Holograms, Entertainment and Beyond
Steven Kane, producer, Halo

All sessions are open to the general public, free with museum admission and do not require pre-registration. However, you may choose to pre-register for the full day event and reception through the MIT Media Lab.

For more information, visit the event website.