slight mash up of presentation I like. the original preseantation is freely available on the web here:- http://redpoll.pharmacy.ualberta.ca/lab_talks/talks.html

1. Between Biological & Digital Memory David Wishart Depts. Biological Sciences & Computing Science National Institute for Nanotechnology University of Alberta

3. The Human Brain The world’s fastest and most portable computer

7. How Memories Are Formed Emotional Reinforcement

8. Mapping Sensory Memories

9. Evolution of Biological Sensors Decreasing Strength of the Memory 2 billion 530 million 150 million 750 million 450 million

10. Mapping The Sensory Experience Homunculus

11. Extending Our Senses 1 m 1 x 10 3 m 1x10 18 m 1x10 24 m Free $500 $5000 $500,000,000

12. Extending Our Memory Capacity 20,000 BP 5000 BP 500 BP 100 BP Today

13. Powering Memory (Biological vs. Digital) 10 Watts for the Human Brain 12 Watts for a Laptop

14. Different Types of Biological Memory Reflex Immunity Hippocampus Genetic 1 sec 10 years 100 years 1,000,000,000 years

15. Different Types of Digital Memory RAM Floppy Disk CD/DVD Flash Memory 1 sec 3 years 10 years 100 years?

16. Digital vs. Biological

17. How Digital Memory Works

18. Evolution of Digital Memory

27. Integrating Digital with Biological

28. Wearable Computing The CharmIT is a modular lightweight open-architecture wearable computer that's compact but fully featured, equipped with most everything you'd expect in a modern PC, from Charmed.com (SIGGRAF Fashion Show 2004)

29. Reaching Out 10m 100m 1000m 100km 10,000km bluetooth WiFi WalkieTalkie Cell phone Satellite

30. Shrinking Down

31. Shrinking Way Down Single Molecule Field Effect Transistor

32. Shrinking Way Down

34. Protein Memory Chips h  Low Energy High Energy N N S S

36. Art Imitates Life Engineers Imitate Life