Past Events

The Future of Computing
The Future of Computing
Thursday, October 31, 2019 For 50 years, Moore’s Law has driven revolutionary technological advances that have altered the way we live. We are now reaching the end of Moore’s Law, and with that, the end of conventional, scaling-based computing progress. Beyond conventional CMOS, Boolean logic, a...
The Future of Deep Space Exploration
The Future of Deep Space Exploration
Center for Enterprise, Exploration, and Defense in Space (CEEDS) presents: The Future of Deep Space Exploration The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies hosts a panel discussion on the exciting work being done in the exploration of deep space. The Institute’s Center for Enterprise, Exploration, a...
African Security Concerns: Challenges and Opportunities 2020 and Beyond
African Security Concerns: Challenges and Opportunities 2020 and Beyond
A Special Ambassador’s Forum: “African Security Concerns: Challenges and Opportunities 2020 and Beyond” In the face of African security challenges such as climate change, natural disasters, migration, terrorism, insurgencies, and wars, is diplomacy’s role shifting from its traditional state...
The Next Space Industry: Low Earth Orbit Commercialization
The Next Space Industry: Low Earth Orbit Commercialization
Friday June 21st, 2019 moderated by former NASA Administrator MajGen Charles F. Bolden Jr. As NASA continues to work towards a future in which it is one of many customers in a vibrant space economy, it is critical to understand both the markets that will drive that transition, and the role that gov...
Jerusalem and Washington: A Life in Politics and Diplomacy
Jerusalem and Washington: A Life in Politics and Diplomacy
Zalman Shoval is an Israeli politician and diplomat who was a 4-term member of the Knesset, first representing David Ben-Gurion's Rafi-State List and then the Likud and who served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States during the George H. W. Bush presidency and, later during the Clinton admi...
A Special Ambassador’s Forum: “The Role of Diplomacy in the World’s Future”
A Special Ambassador’s Forum: “The Role of Diplomacy in the World’s Future”
In the face of expanding national, regional, and global challenges such as climate change, natural disasters, outbreaks of endemic diseases, migration, terrorism, insurgencies, and wars, is diplomacy’s role shifting from its traditional statecraft to broader missions? A panel of distinguished U.S....

The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies’ Center for Neurotechnology Studies

Cordially Invites You to Attend the February CCNELSI Lecture
 
 
February 19, 2010
noon - 2 pm
 
On February 19, the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies will present a guest lecture by Michael Chorost, PhD, entitled "Cyborg Ear, Cyborg Mind."  Dr. Chorost is a science writer who has been deaf since 2001 and uses bilateral cochlear implants. He lectures extensively about cochlear implant technology and is the author of numerous articles about the technology and his own choice to use it, including "Confessions of a Bionic Man"  (Washington Post, April 13, 2008) and others.  In his lecture, Dr. Chorost will discuss his personal experiences and explore implications for future integration of technological devices into the human body. He will also demonstrate the audio effect of sound filtered through a cochlear implant, so hearing audience members can experience a simulation of the device's performance.
 
Lunch will be served and RSVP is requested. Please reply to this e-mail if you would like to attend.  The event will be held at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, 901 North Stuart Street, Suite 200, Arlington, VA, in the M level conference room. The event will also be webcast live on the Potomac Institute website.  Click here to access our Live Event page.
 
This program is supported in part by the Center for Neurotechnology Studies and Neurobioethics.org, and is presented by the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies in conjunction with the Capital Consortium for Neuroscience: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (www.ccnelsi.com).  CCNELSI is under the direction of James Giordano, PhD, director of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies’ Center for Neurotechnology Studies.  More information about CNS and Dr. Giordano may be found at www.potomacinstitute.org and www.neurobioethics.org.

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