A 41-year-old Mexican male presented with a 5-month history of simple partial seizures that were initially treated with valproic acid. Upon admission to a hospital in Monterrey, Mexico, he experienced progressive deterioration in consciousness, intense headache, vomiting, and recurrent seizure episodes. His past medical history was unremarkable. A magnetic resonance imaging scan revealed a fron...

IO N The harvesting of energy from the environment dates back to the age of the windmill and the waterwheel. Their modern counterparts are hydro-power plants, wind farms, solar farms, and more recently, novel piezoelectric devices [ 1 ] for power generation from mechanical vibration. [ 2 ] Fully utilizing power sources such as light, [ 3–5 ] thermal, and mechanical energy is of great importance...

The goal of creating non-biological intelligence has been with us for a long time, predating the nominal 1956 establishment of the field of artificial intelligence by centuries or, under some definitions, even by millennia. For much of this history it was reasonable to recast the goal of “creating” intelligence as that of “designing” intelligence. For example, it would have been reasonable in t...