My first meeting is with Media Lab professor Rosalind Picard, an electrical engineer by training who develops ways to measure emotional response.

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Engineer Driss Houat, 69, told CNN Thursday he opposes the measure.

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"We are able to measure activities that originate deeper in the brain from the surface without penetrating the brain, " said materials engineer George Malliaras at the Microelectronics Center of Provence in France, who led the research team.

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