Professor Polk regularly collaborates with scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas and at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, where he is a frequent visiting scientist. Some of his major projects have investigated differences in the brains of smokers who quit compared with those who do not, changes in the brain as we age, and contributions of nature versus nurture to neural organization. Professor Polk's research combines functional imaging of the human brain with computational modeling and behavioral methods to investigate the neural architecture underlying cognition. He also received postdoctoral training in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. in Computer Science and Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. in Mathematics from the University of Virginia and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan.
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He wants her back? He'll have to work for it. If Logan expects her to roll over and beg like all his other puck bunnies, he can think again. She's not a charity case, and she's not the quiet butterfly she was when they first hooked up. A sexy encounter with freshman Grace Ivers is just the distraction he needs, but when a thoughtless mistake pushes her away, Logan plans to spend his final year proving to her that he's worth a second chance.Īfter a less than stellar freshman year, Grace is back at Briar University, older, wiser, and so over the arrogant hockey player she nearly handed her V-card to. For this hockey star, life is a parade of parties and hookups, but behind his killer grins and easygoing charm, he hides growing despair about the dead-end road he'll be forced to walk after graduation. College junior John Logan can get any girl he wants. Essentially this means programming robots as not only a sexual supplement to humans’ sex lives but also as an actual surrogate for an intimate bedfellow. Turkle begins her study with possibly the creepiest findings from her fieldwork: the ongoing development and acceptance of “sex robots,” and the zeal of the scientific community’s crackpots who’d like to exalt robots to equal relational status with human beings. As this dependency on technology for meaningful social interaction increases, writes the author, the more humans will lose their ability to have authentic and meaningful relationships with one another. Turkle (Social Studies of Science and Technology/MIT Simulation and Its Discontents, 2009, etc.) paints a bleak picture of a robotically enhanced future in which humans become increasingly emotionally dependent on technology. A clinical psychologist takes a critical and sometimes disturbing look at the psycho-social dangers of mixing technology and human intimacy. 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Nomura’s technology-focused M&A team is also undergoing changes. Euan Drysdale, head of EMEA metals and mining, Chris Carlisle, head of chemicals for EMEA and John Bigham, head of oil and gas investment banking, were all on the bank's database, but were not in when we called. Nomura's cuts don't appear to have extended to senior members of the team. Senior bankers have gone, but headhunters suggest that analysts who only joined in September have also been targeted. Sources say this was a new team, with most people joining within the last year. There were 17 people before the cuts last week just eight of whom reportedly now remain. At Nomura, natural resources means oil and gas, metals and mining and chemicals. Nomura’s natural resources team in particular has been slashed. In London, M&A has been impacted too and headhunters suggest that juniors have been particularly targeted. Nomura has not just been making deep cuts to its equities business. 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