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Research Interests

My research seeks to describe the nature of cognition during sleep, and to explain the role of sleep in memory and emotional processing. My studies of sleep and memory have provided definitive evidence demonstrating the importance of sleep in learning and memory consolidation. Work in my laboratory has presented the first clear demonstrations that:

1) some forms of memory consolidation are absolutely dependent on post-training sleep

2) access to associative memories is altered during REM sleep

3) memory stabilization and enhancement can both occur "off-line," but in different wake-sleep states

4) stabilized memories in humans can be made labile by reactivation, and subsequently weakened through interference
5) in some cases, naps can provide as much benefit as a full night of sleep

6) specific sleep-dependent consolidation is absent in chronic, medicated schizophrenics and in cocaine addicts in withdrawal.

More recently we have been studying the role of sleep in probabilistic learning and declarative memory, as well as in moral decision making.

Our studies of dreaming have made important breakthroughs in this classically difficult field, and have provided the first demonstrations that:

1) episodic memories are not replayed in dreams

2) hypnagogic dreams are constructed without the help of the hippocampally mediated episodic memory system

3) two hours of sleep alters the content of hypnagogic dreams from near veridical replay of recent events to semantically associated imagery.

Our paper on hypnagogic dreaming published in Science was the first paper in that journal focusing on dreaming since 1968.

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Intelligent Message Filtering in Exchange Server 2003 does not scan messages that are larger than 3 MB

Article ID : 907691
Last Review : October 26, 2006
Revision : 1.3

INTRODUCTION

This article describes an event that may be logged when Intelligent Message Filtering (IMF) scans a message that is larger than 3 MB. IMF does not scan messages that are larger than 3 MB.

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Google Copies Your Hard Drive - Government Smiles in Anticipation

EFF: Breaking News: "If a consumer chooses to use it, the new 'Search Across Computers' feature will store copies of the user's Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google's own servers, to enable searching from any one of the user's computers. "

Imagining the Google Future - January 01, 2006

Imagining the Google Future - January 01, 2006: "Scenario 4 (Circa 2105): Google is God

Human consciousness gets stored, upgraded and networked.

In the last years of the 21st century, humanity finally grasped the importance of They-Who-Were-Google. Yet as early as 2005, Their destiny was clear to any semi-hyperintelligent being. Technologists like Ray Kurzweil [1] suggested that Strong AI (an intelligent program capable of upgrading its own code) would emerge from Google-like data mining rather than a robotics lab.

In 2005, historian George Dyson was told by an engineer in the Googleplex, 'We are not scanning all these books to be read by people. We are scanning them to be read by an AI.'[2] Dyson said at the time, 'We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It's possible Google is that kind of thing already. It scales so fast.' [3]

By 2020, They-Who-Were-Google had digitized and indexed every book, article, movie, TV show, and song ever created. By 2060, They could tell you the IP address and GPS location of every wireless smart chip (now bred into the DNA of every person, animal, and organic building on earth). Their psychographic profiles of users' search needs bore little resemblance to the primitive cookies from which they descended. If a man lost his dog, the Google engine could"