Senior study author Viviana Gradinaru, an assistant professor at Caltech, focuses on the neuroscience applications of such technology.
Other applications of such technology include responsive automotive systems and medical instrumentation, "smart" highways, wearable computing, and various forms of interactive media.
As of now, most of the military's practical applications of such technology involve performing enormous calculations beyond the reach of human patience, like predicting how to route supplies.
But Atkins along with several other closely watched contemporary artists, Jordan Wolfson, Ed Fornieles, and Petra Cortright among them is less interested in the practical applications of such technology than in the emotional fallout, identity confusion, and potential for moral ambiguity that it might generate.
In a world where the headlines are dominated by conflict (ISIS, Iraq, Syria) and disease (Ebola in Liberia and re-emerging polio in Pakistan), it's not surprising that the potential applications of such technology are immense, far beyond the business world where the software vendors publicly look for customers.
With the emergence of metaheuristic techniques, attention has been gradually shifted to applications of such technology-based approaches to handle the complexity involved in real world problems.
Also doubtlessly, there won't be many civilian applications of such technology (lasers, after all, have been around for a long time now).
Although clinical applications of such technology are still under debate, a few multifunctional probes for PET/MRI systems have already been developed for future diagnostic applications.
Applications of such technology are wide, often with broader and less tangible value than simply preventing hospital admissions or reducing mortality/morbidity.
