Mark Gasson
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Gasson in May 2009
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| Born | Mark N. Gasson West Sussex, England |
| Nationality | British |
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| Alma mater | University of Reading (BSc, PhD) |
| Thesis | Extending human interaction via invasive neural implants (2005) |
| Doctoral advisor | Kevin Warwick |
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Mark N. Gasson is a British scientist and visiting research fellow at the Cybernetics Research Group,University of Reading, UK. He pioneered developments in direct neural interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, has developed brain–computer interfaces and is active in the research fields of human microchip implants, medical devices and digital identity. He is widely known for his experiments transmitting a computer virus into a human implant, and is credited with being the first human infected with a computer virus.
Gasson has featured on television documentaries including Through the wormhole with Morgan Freeman, international television and radio news programs, and has delivered public lectures discussing his work including at TEDx. In 2010 Gasson was the General chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society 2010 (ISTAS'10) and in 2014 he was entered into the Guinness Book of Records for his experimental work on implantable microchips.
He is currently based in Los Angeles, California.
Gasson was educated at the University of Reading where he was awarded a PhD in 2005.
Gasson is a proponent of human enhancement using technology implanted into the body, and argues that advanced medical device technology will inevitably drift to non-medical augmentation applications in humans. He also strongly argues that with technology implanted in humans, the separation between man and machine can become theoretical because the technology can be perceived by the human as being a part of their body. Because of this he reasons that, as the boundaries of the human body (the human experience of the body’s delimitation) become increasingly unclear, it should be accepted that the technology augmentation is a part of the body.
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