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Briefing
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- Six DARPA Research Contracts – DARPA awarded research contracts to six organizations, namely Brown University, Columbia University, Fondation Voir et Entendre (The Seeing and Hearing Foundation), John B. Pierce Laboratory, Paradromics Inc., and University of California, Berkeley as part of its Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) program
- High Resolution Brain Computer Interface – Build high resolution brain computer interface with biocompatible device no larger than one cubic centimeter (equivalent of two nickels stacked back to back)
- Neurotechnology Research and Therapies – Develop understanding how brain processes vision, speech and hearing, and could lead to therapies for blind, mute and deaf
- One Million Neuron Communication Goal – Aims to create communication channels with up to one million neurons, higher than current neural interfaces with only 100 channels that communicate with tens of thousands of neurons at a time
- Focused Research – Four teams will focus on vision, with some using optogenetics techniques, and two will center on speech and hearing
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Accelerator
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Market Disruption
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Sector
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Healthcare/Health Sciences, Information Technology
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Organization
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Brown University, Columbia University, DARPA, Fondation Voir et Entendre, Paradromics Inc., The John B. Pierce Laboratory, University of California - Berkeley
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Source
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Original Publication Date
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July 10, 2017
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