BRAIN Initiative
NIH approves high-priority research within BRAIN Initiative National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., today approved initial areas of high-priority brain research to guide...
View ArticlePentagon Wants Plutonium-Powered Radios by 2030
Networks of unmanned submarines. Subsonic cruise missiles with intercontinental range. Radios powered by decaying plutonium. Those are just a few of the technologies that the Pentagon‘s top scientific...
View ArticleConfronting Society’s Absurd Enthusiasm For DARPA’s Murdering ‘Mad Science’
For most of its history, DARPA was a shadow. Eisenhower signed the agency, then called ARPA, into being in 1958, in an America still trying to forget images of mustard and chlorine gas, one still...
View ArticleARPA – The Advanced Research Projects Agency
The Financial Backbone of U.S. Computer Research The single most influential agency in the history of computer development in the United States is the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). ARPA is...
View ArticleHacking the Brain with Neuropsychological Treatment
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has a number of programs that set out to hack biology. This is one of them. Would you: like to surf the Internet, make a phone call or send...
View ArticleDARPA: The Data Must Flow
DARPA Grant Will Help Stanford Dig Deep into the Big Data in Social Networks Backed by a $5.6 million grant from the U.S. ‘Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’ (DARPA)and a team at Stanford,...
View ArticleSociety for Neuroscience in San Diego and the Big Brain Projects in the EU...
The Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego clocked record attendance. The brain is hot! Despite dismay about the recent 16-day US government shutdown, the impact of automatic budget...
View ArticleDARPA Aims to Rebuild Brains
On April 2, 2013, President Obama announced the BRAIN initiative (BRAIN is actually an an acronym for Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies - too cute), a 100 million dollar...
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