Neuroprosthetics Essays

Within the Deaf Culture movement, there is ongoing controversy on whether or not a child should have their “deafness” surgically removed. Cochlear implant surgery is an ever progressing technological advancement, and while many parents of Deaf children oppose this surgery, there is talk of sueing those parents who deny cochlear implants for children that are appropriate candidates for the surgery. Throughout Adam B. Zimmerman’s “Do You Hear the People Sing? Balancing Parental Authority and a Child’s

Alexis Kleinman’s article Siri Gets Taken Down By Google Now In Intelligence Battle focuses on the results of voice-controlled search engines. This study was conducted by Stone Temple, a consulting group. They were interested in figuring out whether Google Voice (featured on Android), Cortana (Microsoft phones), or Siri (iPhones) will give accurate responses when asked a question. This study is consisted of more than three thousand queries, and credit was only given to the voice-controlled search