Home | News | A Light Switch for Neurons: Ed Boyden at TED2011 A Light Switch for Neurons: Ed Boyden at TED2011 Anne Trafton | March 3, 2011May 24, 2023 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email In this talk presented at the 2011 TED conference, Ed Boyden describes a radical new technology for controlling brain activity with light. MIT’s McGovern Institute and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences welcome new faculty member Sven Dorkenwald Feng Zhang elected to EMBO membership Researchers present bold ideas for AI at MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium kickoff event See all news