Star Why you Shouldn't Write your Own Kernel Anymore
Linked by Emmanuel Marty on Thu 2nd Sep 2004 07:36 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes As a programmer and manager of embedded software products for a living, I think that operating system programming is so much fun that it will eventually be outlawed. I've previously published two articles on OSNews, So, you want to write an operating system and Climbing the kernel mountain, and tried to summarize my experience in designing operating system kernels as well as technical traps that can be easily avoided.
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@ DukeInLondon
by Emmanuel Marty on Thu 2nd Sep 2004 14:57 UTC

Actually, "mind-reading" user interfaces, or actually, Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMI) are an amazing topic of research at the moment. There have been recent amazing breakthroughs in understanding our brain's decision process, especially for moving our limbs.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/07/09/monkeymind/index.html

This is something that has REALLY new possibilites. Commercial ones (such as robotic limbs duplicating human limb movement in a human-hostile environment such as nuclear power plants). And more importantly, humanitary ones (allowing paralyzed people to use synthetic limbs).

I think that if I was given the opportunity to write software for this kind of project, I'd do it almost for free.