Darpa mind-machine summary

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Date: Sat May 17 2003 - 05:10:42 MDT

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    Darpa Article from Technology Review, courtesy Clifford Pickover

    <<"Mind-Machine Merger"
    Technology Review (05/03) Vol. 106, No. 4, P. 38; Huang, Gregory T.

    The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding a half-
    dozen brain-machine interface projects for $24 million over two
    years, and program manager Alan Rudolph says these technologies could
    both restore and enhance cognitive functions, and
    have "transformational consequences for defense and society." A Duke
    University team led by Miguel Nicolelis is attempting to develop real-
    time, two-way mind-machine communication so that animals and later
    humans can perform sophisticated operations, while University of
    Michigan researchers guided by Daryl Kipke are implanting electrodes
    into rodent and primate brains and teaching the test animals to
    control six-legged robots via the interface. Such research could one
    day yield interfaces that allow people to control machines by thought
    while simultaneously receiving multisensory feedback. Meanwhile, Ted
    Berger of the University of Southern California is trying to build a
    computer chip that could be used to bring a damaged hippocampus back
    to full functionality, as well as augment memory in a healthy brain.
    Wake Forest University's Sam Deadwyler, a collaborator on Berger's
    project, believes that such technology could enable people to retain
    memories longer or remember more and more information. Tomaso Poggio
    and James DiCarlo of MIT are testing ways to tweak the sending,
    receiving, and processing of sensory input to enhance a person's
    communicative and perceptive faculties, perhaps to the point where
    one brain will be able to wirelessly communicate with another. A key
    challenge in brain-machine interface research is physically
    integrating electronics and brain cells in a sustainable way,
    according to John Chapin of the State University of New York
    Downstate Medical Center. Wide acceptance of such breakthroughs will
    depend on whether researchers can find a noninvasive technique to
    connect brain to machine.

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