DARPA wants to create cheap, mass-produced mind-reading device. We knew it was only a matter of time.
The research into the human brain has been advancing so rapidly in recent months that eventually the military woul have to look into the subject. After all, if gamers are being given the opportunity to overclock their brains, then chances are that the Department of Defense will find some use for the same sort of tech. As it turns out, the military is less interested in frying people’s brainsand more interested in reading their thoughts. A newly-unearthed DARPA grant competition from this spring shows the military construct’s goal: the development of a cheap mind-reading headset which can feed EEG data from its wearer to a smartphone app. EEG readings are the basis for a number of consumer products which allow users to control objects with their minds. Read Full Article. DARPA Launches Brain Analysis Tech R&D Program. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking a technology to analyze and measure brain systems for a program to develop therapies for neuropsychological illnesses among veterans and active soldiers.
DARPA wants to evaluate medical hardware, human neural system models, clinical neurology and animal researches for the Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies program, the agency said Friday. That program’s goal is to consolidate recording, analysis and stimulation technologies based on a deep brain stimulation approach in order to investigate neural systems and treat neuropsychological illnesses of service crews. “We’re talking about a whole systems approach to the brain, not a disease-by-disease examination of a single process or a subset of processes,” said Justin Sanchez, DARPA program manager. DARPA intends to investigate the causes of post-traumatic stress disorder, major depression, borderline personality disorder and general anxiety disorder. Pentagon's DARPA works on reading brains in real time comments, page 2. Crave Ep. 144: DARPA wants to put an implant in your brain.
DARPA developing implant to monitor brain in real time. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a US$70 million project to develop an implant to monitor neuronal activity in a bid to improve the mental health of soldiers and veterans.
There is a high incidence of mental illness among soldiers compared with the general population — in fact, one in nine medical discharges is because of mental illness. This is not surprising — if you ask people to do and see horrific things, it's going to mess with their heads in pretty significant ways. DARPA is seeking to understand more about how the brain works in the hope of developing effective therapies for troops and veterans. It has announced a new project called the Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies (SUBNETS).
DARPA wants to use real time whole brain monitoring of the brain to drive precise neural therapies. Darpa Introduces Injectable Foam To Stop Internal Bleeding. It’s almost inevitable for a soldier to assume he may be severely injured one day during their tour of duty as danger can be found nearly anywhere.
When a soldier receives internal injuries, stabilizing them for transportation is vital to their survival, but very difficult to accomplish in the middle of a battlefield. Darpa has introduced its Wound Stasis System that uses an injectable foam to stop internal bleeding. The foam can be administered to the injured soldier by way of an injection that combines two liquids. When the liquids combine, it produces a foam that expands 30 times its original volume and solidifies to stop the internal bleeding in order to move the soldier to receive proper medical care.
Once the solider is safe and can be taken care of, surgeons can remove the foam in less than a minute with very few fragments left behind. We’re curious to find out what the survival rate would be if Darpa’s foam was administered into our bodies after a paper cut. DARPA moves ahead with program to unify imaging and other battlefield intelligence sensors. DARPA seeking surveillance technology to predict future behavior.
DARPA has teamed up with scientists from Carnegie Mellon University to create an artificial intelligence system that can watch and predict what a person will “likely” do in the future, using specially programmed software designed to analyze various real-time video surveillance feeds; the system can automatically identify and notify officials if it recognized that an action is not permitted, detecting what is described as anomalous behaviorsThe Army’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has teamed up with scientists from Carnegie Mellon University to create “an artificial intelligence system that can watch and predict what a person will ‘likely’ do in the future using specially programmed software designed to analyze various real-time video surveillance feeds.
The system can automatically identify and notify officials if it recognized that an action is not permitted, detecting what is described as anomalous behaviors.” [link to blog.mktgeist.com] DARPA Plans Deep Brain Dive to Understand PTSD, TBI. $4 million DARPA grant to reveal backdoors and other hidden malicious functionality in commercial information technology devices — PSU CSE. Penn State Department of Computer Science and Engineering faculty member is co-principal investigator on a $4 million DARPA grant.
A team of Penn State and Carnegie Mellon University researchers has received a $4 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant to develop a program to expose backdoors and hidden malicious functionality on information technology devices. The four-year grant is for "Vetting Whole COTS Systems for Safety against Malicious Functionality. " Trent Jaeger, professor of computer science and engineering, is co-principal investigator and lead of the Penn State effort. As part of the grant, the University will receive $970,000 to focus on examining missing and misplaced authorization checks in commercial off-the-shelf software, or COTS.
The DARPA grant is part of the agency's Vetting Commodity IT Software and Firmware (VET) program designed to address the threat of malicious code. DARPA's Police Robot. DARPA Mind Control Project.