Current Event#1

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           This current event is a group of researchers that used cryptographic techniques to decode the activity of motor neurons. Cryptographic means the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods , and the like. The researchers goal allowed them to predict, from brain data, and with only generic knowledge of typical movements which direction monkeys will move their arms. The researchers are from the University of Pennsylvania, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Northwestern University have now accomplished a similar feat using cryptographic techniques to decode the activity of motors neurons. The same cryptographic techniques can or could eventually be used to decode complex patterns of muscle activation. The research was lead by Konrad Kording. Kording is a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with appointments in the Department of Neuroscience in Penn;s Perelman School of Medicine and in the Department of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. In addition Eva Dyer a postdoctoral researcher in Kording's labs and now an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. Professor Kording and assistant professor Dyer both collaborated with the group of Lee Miller, a professor of physiology at Northwestern University. The researchers published their study in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering. The work was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders.    
         I think that this is a cool thing that cryptographic techniques can decode the activity of motor neurons. Since the researchers have already decode the activity of motor neurons I wonder what they will decode next using the cryptographic techniques. Later, in the future there will be a people who will outsmarts the researcher in this generation.  

Sources: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171213124727.htm
               http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cryptography

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