Good morning.  First of all, I'd like to welcome you, and thank you for enrolling in this course.  If you haven't signed up for the Doctoral Seminar in Digital Interface Theory and Applications, you're in the wrong classroom.  Everyone in the right place?  Great.  Let's get started.  My name is Meridith Martin, and I have a PhD. in Neurological Chemistry, And I'll be co-teaching this seminar with Dr. Addams, who will be with us later this morning.  Dr. Addams teaches Advanced Digital Theory, and Finite Mathematics in the Computer Sciences Department. 

I'll pass out a syllabus shortly, but first I wanted to just go over what exactly we'll be doing this semester, and answer any questions you might have.  I know there have been some rumors about the requirements, and I want to address some of those right off the bat.  There is a very minor medical procedure we will be asking you all to undergo.  It involves inserting a very very thin titanium alloy wire about three centimeters into the neocortex.  Actually, it's a twisted set of 12 strands, but it's about the size of a human hair.  This wire will be used to apply low micro-voltages to stimulate a small group of neurons in your brains.  I can ensure you that this procedure is safe and painless, and has been tested hundreds of times on animals.  Dr Addams and myself will also be participating. 

During the first week of class, we'll be using this electrical connection to flash the neurons within a two centimeter radius of the titanium barb.  Once the neurons are uniformly charged, they can be used as simple binary switches.  We should then be able to encode a very simple BIOS operating system onto the neural networks we've created.  In our second week, we'll be installing a simple math processor in your heads. 

Now we don't expect that you'll be mentally aware of the processing going on in your brains, but using the titanium wire, we should be able to detect and externally display the results of some pretty complex math problems.  That's all I'll tell you for now, but from there, it's going to get really interesting!  At the end of each class session, we'll be re-flashing the neurons to erase everything we've done.  Also, I know that many of you are programmers and computer science majors, but you should absolutely not be doing any experimentation outside of the classroom.  We don't want you guys hacking each others brains! 

Now, are there any questions?

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