Harnessing big data and videogames to deliver personalized cognitive training

By SharpBrains | November 20, 2014

Har­ness­ing big data and videogames to deliv­er per­son­al­ized cog­ni­tive train­ing from Sharp­Brains Enjoy this great ses­sion held at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit, fea­tur­ing: Dr. Joe Hardy, ?VP of R&D at Lumos Labs Mark Bax­ter, Head of Prod­uct (Fit­Brains) at Roset­ta Stone Ita­mar Lesu­isse, CEO of Peak Aki Niko­laidis, NSF Fel­low at the Uni­ver­sity of Illi­nois Cham­paign Urbana Chair:…

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New Summit Speakers: Thomas Insel (NIMH), Catherine Madison (CPMC), Rajiv Pant (NYT), and Mark Baxter (Rosetta Stone)

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 7, 2014

We are proud to announce four excel­lent addi­tions to the quite stel­lar Speak­er ros­ter at the upcom­ing 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th): Dr. Thomas Insel, Direc­tor of the Nation­al Insti­tute for Men­tal Health, will share his vision for a bet­ter brain health &  men­tal health sys­tem, and issue a call to action and inno­va­tion to get there Dr. Catherine…

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Itamar Lesuisse at Peak: Let’s integrate brain training with the quantified self

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 22, 2014

What is your cur­rent job title and orga­ni­za­tion, and what excites you the most about work­ing there? I am the CEO at Peak, a mobile brain-train­ing app that helps users to enjoy becom­ing bet­ter every day. My cofounders and I want­ed to start a com­pa­ny where tech­nol­o­gy, sci­ence, edu­ca­tion and gam­ing blend togeth­er to cre­ate a…

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How to harness videogames and big data to personalize cognitive training

By SharpBrains | September 8, 2014

— That will be the focus of the sec­ond ses­sion at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th, 2014). We hope you can join us! How to har­ness videogames and big data to deliv­er per­son­al­ized cog­ni­tive train­ing Dr. Joe Hardy, ?VP of R&D at Lumos Labs Dr. Daphne Bave­lier, Head of the Bave­lier Brain & Learn­ing Lab at the University…

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Sneak peak into the Preliminary Agenda @ 2014 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By SharpBrains | August 14, 2014

Heads-up: If you want to join 20+ con­firmed world-class speak­ers and 100+ pro­fes­sion­als at the fore­front of brain health and applied neu­ro­science, please Reg­is­ter now and help us final­ize the fas­ci­nat­ing Sum­mit Agen­da: Tues­day, Octo­ber 28, 2014 8:15–9:45am. The State of the Brain Fit­ness Move­ment: demo­graphic, sci­en­tific, and mar­ket trends, explained 10:00–11:30am. Inno­v­a­tive part­ner­ships to improve lifelong…

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