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Goal: To generate creative pathways and natural interfaces between human and physical systems that will revolutionize the development of novel anticipatory and adaptive systems.

Description and Scientific Rationale: Beneath the “skins” of modern machines, robots, or computational systems lies an electro-mechanical nervous system sporting a complex network of sensors, relays, wires, fiber optics, wireless communications, and other devices. The parallels and synergies between machine and human nervous and sensory systems are striking and are of great scientific and practical interest. The human brain, neural-sensory, and neural-muscular systems are, however, far more adaptive, anticipatory, resilient, and versatile than any electro-mechanical system, and our recent progress in probing their secrets has been potentially transformative. We are only just beginning to see the application of these new and transformational neuroscience discoveries to the development of engineered systems, especially at the human-machine interface. New applications, technologies, and products resulting from the convergence of human and physical systems have already demonstrated enormous economic potential (e.g., artificial retinas and cochlea, assistive devices, advanced diagnostic instrumentation and probes, electronic language translators, smart PDAs). Adaptive Systems Technology (AST), an environment that encourages and supports innovative research at the convergence of many
disciplines, will better tap this enormous potential....계속