• Case study:

    Neural control of a game

    Neural control of a game

    When the SensoriMotor Research Group at Arizona State University wanted to study the basal ganglia’s involvement in primate motor control they turned to Mention LLC to build the software for a new intra-cortical neural interface. The goal of the new interface was to grant a non-human primate neural control of a simple computer game.

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  • Microblogs

    Why Weibo is winning

    Why Weibo is winning

    With 140 million users at the end of the first quarter of 2011, and still growing rapidly, Weibo cannot be discarded as a mere clone anymore. Sina’s microblog is a phenomenom that deserves our attention, and that even Twitter could learn a lot from. Weibo did not become what it is today through mere cloning, but through evolution. Weibo is faster, stronger and extremely well-adapted to its own environment. This is the face of Chinese innovation.

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  • Game On

    Mention acquires Pixel Factory

    Mention acquires Pixel Factory

    The independent game developer Pixel Factory was acquired by the international consulting agency Mention LLC today as part of a campaign to increase the brand’s reach. Pixel Factory founder Trey Baugher will be joining Mention LLC as a partner.

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  • Genetic

    Genetic Algorithms in the Cloud

    Genetic Algorithms in the Cloud

    In 1975, John Holland introduced a new way to solve problems with computers: genetic algorithms (GAs)[1]. By encoding the rules of evolution by natural selection into a computer program, Holland liberated the computer from the human designer. With GAs, humans need not explicitly specify how to solve a given problem; computers can leverage evolution to develop their own solutions. These evolved solutions are unrestricted by the human imagination.

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